Backyard Critters

[JoeThePop]

I mean, you know, technically, yes.
🧐

Of course, by the same token, whales have pelvises (or is that pelves?).

View attachment 79598

EDIT: Not just baleen whales, either. No sir-ree bob! Toothed whales, too.

View attachment 79600

I feel oddly compelled* to add that the image above is borrowed from a National Geographic article titled The Erotic Endurance of Whale Hips.

The Erotic Endurance of Whale Hips

Buried deep within the body of a whale, underneath the heaps of muscles and tendons, lie some little, lonely bones. They are whale hips–and they are one of the stranger examples of evolution’s transforming power. Perhaps kinkier is a better word. Some 54 million years ago, the ancestors of...

www.nationalgeographic.com

________________
* In keeping with Hifihaven's tradition: subject? what subject?

And now because I agreed to give them my email address so that I could read about whale sex, I will be inundated with National Geographic emails. Fair trade.

 

[MrEd]

Do you suppose there ever was a male whale that ever thought of a female whale, "man, look those hips!"?

Or, as my late brother used to say "look at the shitter on that critter"

 

[JoeThePop]

I like the idea of a stoop keeping us elevated above the manure as pointed out in the wiki explanation. Can we insist our politicians supply stoops while they're  stumping?

While we were in Florence we learned about the Vasari Corridor. Built by the Medici for both security and to stay above the poopy streets so they could walk from their palace to offices in the city center above it all.

Ciaoflorence Tours & Travel

www.ciaoflorence.it

 

[mhardy6647]

And now because I agreed to give them my email address so that I could read about whale sex, I will be inundated with National Geographic emails. Fair trade.

Wait'll you see what Google does with that knowledge. 🙀
Full disclosure, I did not provide my email to them to read it. Perhaps I should've added to my post caveat emptor... or, umm... caveat clickor (or whatever would be appropriate Latinally speaking).



EDIT: Good gracious, I just noticed that my avatar is (still) the Whale Tails sculpture in Vermont!?! 😱
The algorithmic implications are staggering.

 

[mhardy6647]

Do you suppose there ever was a male whale that ever thought of a female whale, "man, look those hips!"?

Somehow this seems like a nigh-on ideal time to note that I have a copy of Joan Osborne's (quite good) Bob Dylan tribute album (on LP, three sides spread across two 12" disks), which she released on her own Womanly Hips label.

We saw her at the Lebanon (NH) Opera house back in the "before times" (as Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal is wont to say) and she was quite good.

 

[MrEd]

Somehow this seems like a nigh-on ideal time to note that I have a copy of Joan Osborne's (quite good) Bob Dylan tribute album (on LP, three sides spread across two 12" disks), which she released on her own Womanly Hips label.

We saw her at the Lebanon (NH) Opera house back in the "before times" (as Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal is wont to say) and she was quite good.
View attachment 79618

Just pulled this up on Quobuz...
Thanks

 

[mhardy6647]

Just pulled this up on Quobuz...
Thanks

de nada.
After all, that's what this thread is all about.


umm...

😎

 

[SPL db]

Didn't grab any pictures, but we've noticed two eagles in our area.

Been a little reluctant to let our small fur babies roam the backyard unsupervised.

 

[Pat McGinty]

Funny place to take a snooze. This place is lousy with chipmunks.

 

[JoeThePop]

Sure dude. Go ahead and bury your nut where I’m working on rock and stump removal. I’ll make sure not to disturb it.

 

[dfoulk]

View attachment 80177Sure dude. Go ahead and bury your nut where I’m working on rock and stump removal. I’ll make sure not to disturb it.

Make sure it is a nut and not an explosive device. They are smarter than they let on!

 

[JoeThePop]

More nuts ( or another explosive device) today.

 

[mfrench]

A week in Kittys backyard life,... all backyard critters.
We'll start with the small one,... this is her first of the day. The followup image, below, a Gopher, is her second of the same day (the same hour?)


Then, the mid-size model, a Gopher. This is number two for the morning (same hour?)


Then, yesterdays gift to us, presented at the rear patio door, a Rat. She loves us so much.

 

[mhardy6647]

Espied an interesting wee beastie tonight when bringing in the bird feeders. Long, long tail makes me think rat [EDIT: Well, it did, but it shows what a bad biologist I am -- mice have long tails per the internet, albeit usually with some fur on them 🤦‍♂️] , but the small size looks more murine than... umm... ratine. Note also the interesting two-tone color scheme.

 

[mfrench]

@mhardy6647
a Shrew?
Kitty dragged home a small mouse sized rodent (though smaller), with a long tail, and a long pointed snout. I know it was not a mouse, and, have found some images of a Shrew that is native here in Cali. So I'm going with a Shrew.
With the long tail on yours, I'm guessing the same?

 

[Rudy]

A shrewd observation?

 

[Rudy]

From several years ago, that time a family visited our backyard...

 

[mhardy6647]

speaking of families...







First doe & fawn we've seen in the yard this year.

 

[MrEd]

Saw this watchful eye on me whenI arrived at work...
The house behind our shop has a visitor

 

[JoeThePop]

Saw this watchful eye on me whenI arrived at work...
The house behind our shop has a visitor
View attachment 81193

That looks like one of my photos 😉