Friay Night Photos Feeling Horny Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 5:00pm

Just some critters with horns. What were you expecting to see here?
Post whatever you got.

Finally got some much needed rain on Monday and today. Mondays rain brought along thunder and lightning. That was the fourth time since mid July we have had a thunder storm. Normally we get one during the summer.

Nubian Soemmerring's Gazelle

Bontebok

Southern Gerenuk

Takin

Horned Lizard

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Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 6:42pm

I took a trip to San Antonio

and we stopped in for lunch at the famous Buckhorn Saloon. We had lunch in the hall of horns. We skipped on the museum of the Texas Rangers.
This is what we just had to buy from the gift shop.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 6:54pm

Great Tee shirt

@on the cusp
Better judgement tells me to refrain from commenting about a horny beaver.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 7:12pm

That's probably for the best . LOL!

@Socialprogressive My husband gets interesting looks and comments about that tee shirt. "Horny" just lends itself to interpretations, doesn't it?

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Submitted by ban nock on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 7:12pm

Africa has far more large fauna than any other continent

Some say, and I believe them, that the reason large animals weren't wiped out in Africa is that humans and the wildlife evolved together such that the wildlife learned how to not easily end up in the cooking pot.

When humans came to N America we already had many tools for hunting as well as dogs, and not too long afterwards the bow and arrow. Almost every large animal in N and S America was either hunted to extinction or died off in competition for prey with humans.

I'm not optimistic much African wildlife will make it past the next 100 years. Most current conservation is via hunters and African hunting is unsustainable. Fly half way around the world to shoot something for tens of thousands of dollars is nuts. And we can't expect local people to put up with dangerous animals like lions and elephants, nor can we expect them to give up land to wildlife that could be used to farm or ranch.

Extreme climate change will also drive many extinctions, and all tourism that involves air travel needs to end.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 7:45pm

Oops my bad

Wrong essay

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 7:56pm

Thanks for hosting again SP

Heard and saw a great horned owl once, sitting in our black walnut. That's about it as far as horned things go.

Here's a path into Mirkwood, taken on a trip to Middle Earth a few years ago.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 8:20pm

Let me know the next time you're going to middle earth, BR

@Bollox Ref
I'd love to come along.
I've heard the great horned owl a few times but have yet to see one.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sat, 10/09/2021 - 9:00pm

Eriador Airlines

@Socialprogressive

have very competitive prices....

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Gëzuar!!
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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 8:22pm

Hi Social

What amazing adornments horns are. Your sharp close ups feature them beautifully. They all seem to fit the face perfectly. Thank you.

Is this horny enough? ...

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 8:49pm

Evening, Janis

@janis b
Plenty horny enough. It reminds me of a cave painting from one of our artistic ancestors.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 8:53pm

Thanks Social for another vision of a still-life

@Socialprogressive

that has adorned a shelf for a couple years and still gives me pleasure to look at.

Submitted by Pricknick on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 10:14pm

Not mine but you set the tone

Horned tomato worm.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 11:04pm

Evening, Pricknick

@Pricknick
It's been a really long time since I've seen a tomato horn worm.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 11:00pm

GREAT pics SP!

Wonderful horns there SP! Great photos! I think those are indeed all horns... Maybe things have changed but the way zoology was taught at college level in 60-70's, the difference between horns and antlers is that antlers are shed annually, whereas horns are retained and not shed. So deer, elk, Caribou (which are reindeer), all shed their 'horns' so actually they are antlers. Velvet = antlers. Whereas Antelope, or cows, do not shed their horns and those are true horns. I have not kept up on mammalian things, but that is how and where the line was drawn and taught for decades on the issue of horns vs. antlers.

Bison

Blackbuck

Blackbuck

A blurrey bucko sticking his tongue out at me.

Hope everyone is well! And next time BR heads for middle earth he lets us know!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 10/08/2021 - 11:11pm

Evening, dystopian

Nice action shot of the blackbucks. That bison looks like it's got a serious case of mange going on.

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Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 10/09/2021 - 9:12am

normal annual shed?

@Socialprogressive Thanks SP. I am pretty sure the fur falling off is the annual shed or 'molt' whence the winter coat is lost and the new short summer coat grows in, which becomes the longer winter coat, in a few months, after summer. It is just real obvious on Bison, and looks pretty ratty.

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Submitted by jbob on Sat, 10/09/2021 - 5:13am

late entry

Photo of Buck looking at me in Yosemite earlier this week.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 10/09/2021 - 8:28am

Good morning, jbob

@jbob
Looks like you and the deer had the whole place to yourselves.

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Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 10/09/2021 - 9:15am

neat pic jbob

@jbob neat pic jbob, very nice. My what big ears you have deer... So I think that is a Mule Deer and not a White-tailed. Great shot!

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Submitted by orlbucfan on Sat, 10/09/2021 - 7:37am