Critters - Thematic Photography

I showed two local critters last week under the 'Summer' theme. Before I started today I had to check just what a critter was - a living creature I found out, a creature being an animal other than a human.That restricted me as I could not, I thought, consider birds and reptiles.

Giraffe in a Yorkshire wildlife park (c1970)

Foal - Norway (1980s)

He or she will be quite an age by now.

I wouldn't happy to be in the water with a beast like this.

Hippo (Detroit Zoo 2006)

I would however have been quite content to have a ride on these - 

Donkeys preparing for a days work (Whitby 2008)

But they said I was too old!

Lambs (Egglescliffe,  March 2006)

From the rear end of a donkey and that uncooperative lamb I'm left with a ewe that must be on Facebook.

Ewe and its lamb (June 2014)

But don't you just hate it when they show off they have been tagged.

Tagged and shorn (not Shaun)

For other contrary critters follow the links at Carmi's thematic-photographic-299.

Trunk Call - Sepia Saturday

They say an elephant never forgets. I'm sure the children in this week's picture will not forget their encounter with this elephant.

Elephant (calendar picture)

He looks as though he is searching for something in the tree tops. My memory is not so good as it used to be so I had to search my files from 2006.

Elephants - Detroit Zoo 2006

Belgium isn't a country that you would associate with elephants. However on the coast at De Panne you just might get a surprise.

Art from Andrias Botha for project Beaufort (2006)

(By Kattenfan - CC A-S A 3.0 unported license)

If all that sea and sand makes you thirsty beware of drinking too much alcohol, you just might start seeing:

Pink Elephant

(by Kjraesh  - CC A-S A 3.0 unported license - 'doctored' by He Who Laughs Last)

You may think that this post should be disposed of because its cost, in your time, is out of proportion to its worth - it's a white elephant in fact.

White Elephant - 1855

Watercolour with pen and ink of the “Lord White Elephant”, a rare and auspicious white elephant kept by the King at Amarapura.

Just to remind you that it's a jungle out there and other animals find elephants a bit of a yawn - here's a different fellow.

Hip - Hip - Hippo (Detroit Zoo 2006)

 But now I guess it's time for you all to march off:

 to take a look at other elephants at Sepia-saturday-133