Cute small animal picture of the day

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A male leopard saunters through Inyati Game Lodge in the Sabi Sands nature reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa…

 

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An Australian wildlife conservancy ecologist examines an Eastern pygmy possum at Manly’s North Head sanctuary in Sydney…

 

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My Cocker Spaniel and best mate 'Salty' on being asked if he knew anything about how my wife's glasses came to be on the floor all chewed up. 'Moi?!?!'

 

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Iberian Lynx cub licking its lips at a waterhole in Peñalajo, Castilla La Mancha, Spain…

 

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A mountain gazelle is surrounded by common myna birds at the Gazelle Valley, an urban nature reserve in the heart of Jerusalem…

 

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A peacock is seen in the Sochi Arboretum, Russia…

 

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A common dormouse seen in the Morecambe Bay area…

 

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Quite mesmerising. A massive murmuration of budgies is turning central Australia green and gold…

 

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An Asian Barbet bird is seen in the Nagaon district of Assam…

 

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An oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster) tosses up its catch of a small fish at a lake in Putrajaya, Malaysia…

 

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A long-tailed macaque eats fruit during the annual Monkey Banquet festival at the Prang Sam Yod temple in Lopburi, Thailand…

 

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A woman rears silk worms, often an extra source of income for villagers in rural areas of Assam…

 

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Is that a dart on his back?

 

[trophywench]

Looks like it doesn't it? - the sort of anaesthetic ones they use in the wild, when an animal on a reserve etc has a problem that requires human intervention and because they wouldn't be able to approach the beast or help it, they have to knock em unconscious first.