Nature Trail { Listen to your Heart }

A great blue heron gets into a flap when an angry female mallard trys to protect her ducklings from the big bird in Romeo, Michigan, US

Sealed with a kiss. A young sea lion plays with his mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Munich, Germany.

They are a hybrid of a lion and a liger – which is itself a lion/tiger hybrid

They may look familiar but these big cats are extremely unique and rare.

This big cat mother recently gave birth to three adorable liliger cubs at a zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Although the mother and her cubs look like tigers, she is in fact a lion-tiger hybrid known as a liger – the biggest known cat in the world.

Bo the baby wombat. The orphaned youngster was discovered in the pouch of his mother who had been hit by a car in Victoria, Australia. He is now being taken care of by Healesville Sanctuary staff

A king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) perches on a tree trunk at the Zoo Summit outside Panama City

Night time is Beautiful….

Indian Cow

Man’s love of dog and dog’s love of man is a beautiful thing

Snails crawl on the face of a woman during a demonstration of a new beauty treatment at the beauty salon Ci:z.Labo in Tokyo. Slime from snails helps remove
old cells, heal the skin after sun burn and moisturise it, said Manami Takamura, one of beauty salon employees

HUMMINGBIRD LANE

This woman lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. She took
the little red dish, filled it with sugar water and this is the result.
The woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana – she has been studying them daily and one morning put the cup from the feeder, with water in it, in her hand; as they had gotten used to her standing by the feeder they came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather.

Wanting to escape from zoo

A tree frog in Jember, Indonesia, shelters from the rain under a leaf. The amphibian reportedly held the leaf for 30 minutes before the storm passed.

A weary-looking baboon finds a shady spot in its enclosure at Berlin Zoo.

Stags stand on their back legs and throw punches in a fight in Hampshire’s New Forest. The spontaneous brawl was randomly sparked when one of the stags awoke from a quick nap and stood up. His opponent was quick to respond by throwing a few jabs of his own – to the seemed bemusement of the other fallow deer.

The normally passive Lemurs at Longleat have been captured demonstrating some spectacular kung fu moves to resolve a family disagreement recentlyat
the Wiltshire safari park.

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. (Touch me Not)

Coyote pups learn to howl with mother at a wildlife reserve in Hinckley, Minnesota.

Night blow jasmine

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Fledgling swallows are photographed sitting on a telegraph wire as they are being fed in Corwen, North Wales*