The Big Picture: World Animal Day

Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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This is something of a link and run; unfortunately, I wasn't the photographer. :p

But it is a spectacular collection from boston.com, which regularly updates its Big Picture with photo essays from around the world on different topics. I have bookmarked the site and check in regularly.

This one is from World Animal Day and shows an impressive array of the world's wildlife.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/world_animal_day.html
 
Some of them think the same looking at you.

snarlwolf.jpg
 
If you go to the main page and down to the set of pictures preceding World Animal Day, they have pictures of Fall, mostly harvest season-oriented, but ... check out the first few, for the hunters.
 
fantastic pics esav! Thanks for the link. It really makes one appreciate their passion.
 
I think out of all those pictures, the one with the puppy on the back of the gentleman after adoption is my favorite.
 
I went with my daughter recently to a pet shop to pick up a few items and they were holding a pet adoption on the sidewalk. People walking off to their cars with the new family members! The kids were delirious. Puppies flopping everywhere. :D

I do agree about that picture. Animals in the wild, or photographed in classic poses, are beautiful, but it's the interaction between us and them that will keep all of them alive, with people maintaining that personal closeness and understanding. And besides, the dog is happy! :p
 
WOW. Those are some cool ass pics!
 
The funniest picture there was the one with the lions' muzzles resting on the bars. I used to stop by the Central Park Zoo in New York. It has always been a very small zoo but used to have big animals. Very cramped. A whole Cat House, including lions -- who were always lying around half asleep. :D

You can tell the "animal people" when you watch who goes into these houses. Animal people smile and look at the animals. The others wrinkle their noses at the smell. It was generally the ones who wrinkled their noses at the smell that I couldn't stand for the smell of their cheap perfume ...
 
I just went back to the file and reading the heading, wondered about something: "World Animal Day was observed earlier this month - on October 4th. Started in Florence Italy in 1931 at a convention of ecologists, ..."

A guess and a quick search told me that October 4 is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. :)
 
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