Best Of All The Animals

[carbonizedeyesockets]

i love horses (http://www.deagostini.co.uk/ilovehorses/)

Make sure your speakers are on 10....

[autorun]

whales

[Daddys Girl]

Most annoying advert on tv at the moment....

D_G ;o)

[pille'ocheoni]

i like racoons and cats. mancoons especially.

[carbonizedeyesockets]

I think 'best of all the mammals' would MAYBE be a more fitting description, as there are definately better fish than horses. Especially the best fish in the world, Brill.........

[Tomoki]

cats and sheep

[Me?]

I would have loved that I Love Horses mag when I was a kid, but the ad is bloody annoying.
The best animals are reptiles, they are clean they make no noise, you dont have to walk them and they are quite specialist and interesting to get into and study. Bearded Dragons are the finest most charasmatic creatures.

Also Birds of Prey are fantastic, if I ever get myself a place of my own with some land I will get into Harris Hawks and Buzzards. I used to work with Raptors and they are truelly amazing to take flying and bond with.

I also love Parrots and I am totally drawn to seals and sea lions.

Im fascinated by insects too, arachnids and Mantids mainly. If you ever want cheap low maintenance pet then Mantids are fantastic, they are so alien and they are the only insect that moves its head from side to side and thats the freakiest thing ever.

[jukka]

fishes are cool (pike, trout, zander, bass, carp...).
i also like bears......

[Lady E]

i want that jingle on vinyl.

however, im not a big horse fan. which can be read both ways because i am a fan of shetland ponies and baby horses.

[Orang Utan]

I've been singing that in the office all week to the confusion and disturbance of my colleagues - in fact I have been turning up the speakers on my PC and blasting them with the jingle everytime I want to annoy them - they're all singing it now.
If the IT department looked at my log, fuckknows what they would think of a 30-year-old man looking at little girls' sites about horses 5 times a day.

[Lady E]

my boyfriend told me last week that he had heard that atomic kitten's management are going to release a full length version of this due to its massive popularity. apparently its written by a duo who have done loads of brain capturing jingles and are in league with satan.

[goone]

my current fave animal is the cross of a shetland pony and a zebra
did you see him in the paper
he looks cool , they think hes the first of a kind

a shebra

[goone]

it was one of the rags from either yesterday or the day before i think
cant remember which we get them all free in work (mirror, sun ,star etc.)

[aleks]

polarbear

[bitconductor]

lol where dyu get a penchant for small horses that's excellent

me, i like birds

[bitconductor]

particularly ducks i wasn't being macho

[bitconductor]

god i just did the jingle

one of those species kids do love a load tho isn't it. unlike.. ducks i mean i loved them but i don't think a i love ducks magazine w/ accessories is gonna cut it out there

shame

[mlexicon]

koalas

[Paddy]

i fuckin love that advert!

[Goonie]

i love that advert too, best sung in a very high key the highest you can go

(I told you it would catch on FiST)

[Orang Utan]

I like otters - is there a mag called Ottering Monthly
Penguins are cool too - 'I love penguins, best of all the flightless birds, I love penguins, they're my friends'

[emef]

penguins are ace, my favourite is when they all huddle together to keep warm and take it in turns to be on the outside so everyone gets a turn at being warm, how sociable is that?
and i like it when they walk off the end of icebergs and fall into the sea like little black`n`white bobby davros

[V Knid esq]

There are urban otters in London now, though I have yet to see one.

[JcJr]

OMG!! u can buy the ringtone too!!! im gonna get it to annoy ppl on the street!! woohaaa!!!:)

[Orang Utan]

Originally posted by emef
penguins are ace, my favourite is when they all huddle together to keep warm and take it in turns to be on the outside so everyone gets a turn at being warm, how sociable is that?
and i like it when they walk off the end of icebergs and fall into the sea like little black`n`white bobby davros


I love seeing them racing the tide. They're great at shitting too, apparently - they can project it four feet out of their arses to avoid soiling their nests - not that they ever show it on the telly.

V Knid - London otters? I bet they live in the posh bit round Chiswick and Hampton Court.

[emef]

4 feet eh, stylish, cant believe attenborough hasn`t jumped all over that yet (so to speak)

i hope this isn`t gonna start a cute penguins photo thread, i`ve only just got over the kitten one :D

[carbonizedeyesockets]

http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol8/no10/babypenguinint.jpg

OH NOOoo IT'S STARTED!

[cut out]

ducks - accessible to all. love those crazy fuckers

[emef]

ducks are great to, i have a walk along the river i live near most days
and the local duck troupes can often be found indulging in synchronised feeding sessions, involving 4 or 5 ducks all having their arses up in the air at the same time.
i find this extremely funny.

[Espresso Fetish]

http://www.jonak.com/topics/stock/photos/monkey_face_cam_close_web.jpg


Must be one of Orang's cousins

[Orang Utan]

That's a Japanese Snow monkey innit?

You asked for it emef, here's a penguin in a sweater:
http://www.heyjo.com/collections/verycute/penguinjumper.jpg

[Orang Utan]

http://www.hedweb.com/fluffy.jpg

[Orang Utan]

He looked a bit nippy, so I helped him out:
http://www.starpixie.com/pix/refs/penguinSm.jpg

[Orang Utan]

And don't get me started on Pingu.

[bitconductor]

let's not go all gooey.
let's just admire them ducks, the crazy fuckers yes cut out.
majestic, some might say. plus there's millions of different ones with garishly coloured beaks. plus their feathers are so smooth. sometimes they follow you. you can easily translate their quacks into human. i have a big affinity to them.
here is a male mallard i think
http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0014-0302-2209-1321_SM.jpg

[Lady E]

has emef died of joy at that sweater / penguin combo?

[wheezer]

http://asianaquariums.com/jpg/brackish/Puffer%20Fish.jpg
http://www.eaostudio.com/images/me_boys/puffer.jpg

It's hard to find a good picture of the brackish water puffer fishes, but they are some personal favorites. They get about an inch long, and move about by furiously flapping their fins on the left & right of the body back and forth, effectively making them look like little underwater helicopters on prozac.

The best part is when you feed them, their bellies just totally bulge out to make room for the food.

Another perennial favorite would be the mudskipper, also a brackish water fish.

[wheezer]

Originally posted by mlexicon
koalas

they make the most evil sounds, like the grumpy drunk landlord I never had! Mindblowing!

[FiST]

excuse my ignorance, but what is brackish water wheezer?

[Me?]

Hey wheezer great choice, I have kept both puffers and mudskippers both are fantastic.
When I was a child my favourite puffer jumped out of his tank and I cried for days.
Mudskippers are buggers to keep as they eat flies which means keeping maggots or fruit fly larvae, hence tons of flies around the house is inevitable :) The Mudskippers didnt please my mother when I was a child.
When it comes to fish though you hard pushed to find a nicer one than the sea horse.

[wheezer]

haha my mom always wanted mudskippers, but I didn't feel like setting up and maintaining a tank with the proper environment for them though. puffers rock, I had two wee ones, and I think I'll set up a tank for them again sooner or later

Gobies, the saltwater relatives of mudskippers, are also pretty nifty pets, what with all the tunnel building and shrimp symbiosis going down...

@fist

brackish water is the water you find at river deltas and the like; half sweet- half saltwater basically. saltwater puffers tend to be a lot bigger.

[Me?]

If you love Puffers you will love these beauties....http://www.acay.com.au/~bewsher/Cow%20Fish%20One.jpg

[bitconductor]

can o' worms here but
i always thought keeping tropical fish a bit cruel. i mean, the ocean>>>a fish tank
's a bit of a prison innit.
tho they look nice and people say they're thick as, so maybe it doesn't matter.
i mean i don't mind about lizards but only because (sorry me? - that's me? the nofuture person not myself) i don't really care either way bout reptiles.
but fish.. i did some diving once in malaysia and 'samazing seeing different shoals of madly coloured fish all with their differnt styles of moving all around you, all free.......
i'd never keep a duck. would like to tho. walkies and everything

[emef]

Originally posted by emma
has emef died of joy at that sweater / penguin combo?

lol i did, that little fella was too cute.

[wheezer]

Well bitconductor, I don't totally disagree with you on some of the saltwater species, BUT most of the freshwater and brackish water fish kept in aquaria today are tank-bred. There's a lot going for tank-bred aquarium fishes, because they are a lot hardier than wild-caught fishes, having already adapted to the life in a tank.

The other point on "imprisonment" is that a lot of fishes have pretty small, well defined territories, heck certain fish species only live in specific caves / river branches. Most of the wildly colored fish you speak of were probably reef dwellers, and most of those have very small, neatly defined territories - clownfish for example pick one sea anemone and then live in that anemones immediate vincinity all their life.

Where some amount of cruelty sadly does come in is when people set up aquariums without reading anything on how to actually keep fish, as there are plenty of more common misconceptions like the ones you listed, some of which can be very detrimental for the fish being kept.

[bitconductor]

well it's certainly true you see fish in the wild just hangin out by their rock. in fact, just by their certain bit of the rock. all the time too. so yeah maybe it's not evil EVIL. perhaps it would be nicest to provide them with a kind of freize painting of just sea going for miles in all directions around their 'cages'.
imagine keeping a massive ray. flopping around the place.

[wheezer]

nice cowfish there me?, btw ;)

[wheezer]

yeah bitconductor if you read some guides on fishkeeping, you'll soon notice that different fishes have very different requirements on how to be kept, ranging from the water chemistry to what types of plants/rocks/driftwood/sediment, how many hiding places in the tank and what sort of tankmates, up to the period of lighting if you want to get pedantic.

I think it's a very valuable hobby because it teaches you to respect a ecosystem as a whole, as you will be the person that has to maintain the balance.

[bitconductor]

yeah it'd certainly be more of a bummer if they all died than just wrecking all your houseplants. which incidentally i don't do any more, though they do have fungal grubs, damn.
sort of like playing god too.