ow. fern boy

Follow the Llama (by deskridge)

THERE’S A CALENDAR WITH PICTURES SPECIFICALLY OF GOATS IN TREES LOOK

fuckyeahungulates: Lesser Malay Chevrotain (Tragulus kanchil)

aka Malayan Mouse Deer

photo-of-the-week: “Only in our wildest dreams”

* Two Bengal Tiger cubs lick their chops as a huge Gaur bull crosses the trail.

The Sweatered Goats of Varanasi

(via Nilgai | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

This is why they’re my fave.. 

Young antelope sitatunga named Chang holds a stick next to his mother in Cologne zoo enclosure. by Oliver Berg

National Zoo’s New Baby Gazelle Runs Around the Yard

by Benjamin R. Freed

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo is showing off its newest specimen this week, and guess what? It’s freaking adorable. A female gazelle

calf that was born October 13 debuted to the public on Wednesday, and is already running around the yard with its siblings.

The calf, which does not yet have a name, joined the other gazelles in the mixed species exhibit at the zoo’s Cheetah Conservation Station. Along with gazelles, the exhibit also houses Ruppell’s griffon vultures and two male scimitar-horned oryx. The new gazelle’s mother is three-year-old Zafirah. It was sired by male gazelle Raul, who also fathered a male calf born September 4. Player.

Dama gazelles are one of the most critically endangered species, with fewer than 500 specimens remaining in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

And, oh yeah, as a bonus the zoo also has this video of the male calf running and stouting—a bouncy gait in which all four legs lift up from the ground—around the yard.

(via and see video at: The DCist)          (images: Smithsonian National Zoo)

This black and white spotted lamb seems to think he is a Dalmatian dog. The lamb was born at a dog breeder’s farm in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. After being rejected by his mother he was quickly adopted by dog Zoe and the pair are now inseparable. The dotty lamb follows her around the farm and even sleeps inside the dog kennel.

Picture: Media Mode Pty Ltd / Rex Features (via Pictures of the day: 15 August 2012 - Telegraph)

Wild Gaur - Indian Bison

The gaur is the largest species of wild cattle, bigger than the African buffalo, the extinct aurochs, and wild water buffalo. The domesticated form of the gaur, Bos frontalis, is called gayal or mithun. 

damn handsome ungulates

Saiga (Saiga tatarica)

what is your nose doing, saiga? goodness me.

Eastern Bongo Antelope by Rob Young on Flickr.

Dublin Zoo has a new arrival! Born early on Tuesday, June 5, this tiny male Tapir calf is off to a terrific start. This is mother Rio and father Marmaduke’s first calf together.

(read more and see more photos at the link)

Photo credits: Patrick Bolger Photography