Members Phait Posted May 30, 2009 Members Share Posted May 30, 2009 I've always liked tigers, dolphins and ravens but I've recently just come to love ring-tailed lemurs, just look at 'em - - - The Gang A Kiss Come Get Some! Baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members rasputin1963 Posted May 30, 2009 Members Share Posted May 30, 2009 Those lemurs are sure cute. Strange little marsupials, no? Phait, I would LOVE to see you do a cartoonized or stylized artistic version of a lemur!! Capturing their funny little postures and expressions? I confess, I like dogs, both domestic, and their wild cousins. I never cease to be amazed at how smart dogs are. With some of your smarter breeds, one has the distinct impression that there is nothing that goes on in their environment--- which they do not understand at some level. They process it as humans do, but just accord it different significances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Phait Posted May 30, 2009 Author Members Share Posted May 30, 2009 Well I was indeed thinking of doing a lemur illustration for my portfolio They are not marsupials though, but primates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted May 30, 2009 Members Share Posted May 30, 2009 I like birds Someone once asked me: 'Saul, what would you do if a bird shat on your car?' I replied: 'I wouldn't go out with her again' English humour (with a 'u'), you see? 'Bird' is a slang word (poetry too - you certainly get value for money with me!) for 'woman' in merrie England, where, incidentally, we all wear bowler hats and carry umbrellas - really, we do! It's not just a ruse to get Americans over here to spend their money - good heavens, no! Hence the joke (are you still with me?) I'm wasted here, I really am....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted May 30, 2009 Members Share Posted May 30, 2009 Regardless of their shortcomings, humans are my favorite animals. Eric Burden's old band wasn't band either. I've also really enjoyed sharing my home with dogs for years at a time Best, Geoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Cry Logic Posted May 30, 2009 Members Share Posted May 30, 2009 I've always liked tigers, dolphins and ravens but I've recently just come to love ring-tailed lemurs, just look at 'em My favorite Lemur is the Aye-Aye. You just gotta love a creature that looks like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 "...Bird' is a slang word.... for 'woman' in merrie England..." Hence the derivative "Chick" which has become so popular around the planet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 The Bird is the Word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 I remember reading a Desmond Morris book which listed animals from the whole animal kingdom.... and the degree to which they were favored and loved by humans. As you might expect, we are fondest of the animals which are humanoid. ie., which have facial features roughly like our own. So apes, dogs, cats and bears figure highly, as you might imagine. The less a creature reminds us of ourselves, the less we like him. So things like spiders, snakes, fish and insects do not win our hearts as easily. Indeed, it's thought that all humans, cross-culturally, are pre-wired with a revulsion towards snakes. Think about how a can of tunafish will proudly trumpet: OUR TUNAFISH IS DOLPHIN-SAFE! Kind of an odd proposition, no? The dolphin, who seems more humanoid, we seek to preserve. While the tunafish--- who looks less like us--- can just go to blazes, as far as we are concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 Botch, do you think a girl lanternfish looks pretty to a boy lanternfish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 I've always liked tigers, dolphins and ravens but I've recently just come to love ring-tailed lemurs, just look at 'em - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRqtYipA6a0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTgEP0SIVg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5lcbGPLSc The Gang A Kiss Come Get Some! Baby you forgot one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff Leites Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 I like squirrels. I stopped feeding them by hand ever since one of my little buddies confused my thumb for a peanut. That tenacious little sucker didn't want to let go either! My wife is a docent at the LA Zoo. She'll be showing and telling a group of school kids about some exotic animal, and inevitably one of the little tikes will point elsewhere towards the ground and say, "Look, a squirrel!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 Botch, do you think a girl lanternfish looks pretty to a boy lanternfish? Since we still have lanternfish, I guess so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted May 31, 2009 Moderators Share Posted May 31, 2009 Liger! I like dogs. I've got Pepper, the Pointer/Pit pooch and Pudgie, the the cute runt Boston Terrier. Pudgie is quite possibly the dumbest dog to ever live. Lovable though... and Pepper may be the smartest. Together, they make a very wonderful and important part of my family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted May 31, 2009 Members Share Posted May 31, 2009 I Am "The Bird Whisperer."I had a pet bird for 27 years, but now I have about 50 different varieties outside, that all think I'm pretty swell ... even wild Turkey's. RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 Liger! I like dogs. I've got Pepper, the Pointer/Pit pooch and Pudgie, the the cute runt Boston Terrier. Pudgie is quite possibly the dumbest dog to ever live. Lovable though... and Pepper may be the smartest. Together, they make a very wonderful and important part of my family. Lee, can you post photos of Pepper and Pudgie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Charles Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 I used to be married to a bird. She was so fantastic in USA and didn't morph into a horrorshow soul till we moved to South East London in the early/mid 90's. Speaking of birds, heard a Paul Mac interview where he said his song; 'Blackbird' was about black women. Made perfect sense after he said it but never dawned on me the bazillion times I'd heard that song before. Oh, animals, check my avatar, you can't see his tail or lack thereof, but I dig Manx cats and Norwegian Elkhounds. ps to Saul, working on getting wasted here me self! I like birds Someone once asked me: 'Saul, what would you do if a bird shat on your car?' I replied: 'I wouldn't go out with her again' English humour (with a 'u'), you see? 'Bird' is a slang word (poetry too - you certainly get value for money with me!) for 'woman' in merrie England, where, incidentally, we all wear bowler hats and carry umbrellas - really, we do! It's not just a ruse to get Americans over here to spend their money - good heavens, no! Hence the joke (are you still with me?) I'm wasted here, I really am....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed A. Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 I'm partial to platypuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 Chicken. By the way, some of youse guys have really strange diets, IMO. Whata kinda thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jimbroni Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 I always liked Camels. They just be chillin, like a bunch a stoners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff Leites Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 Chicken. We once had these employee motivation classes at work, and the favorite animal question came up. One of my co-workers said he liked cows, "because they taste good". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 Favorite Animals? much as I would like to say some exotic animal the favourite has to be humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted June 1, 2009 Members Share Posted June 1, 2009 Regardless of their shortcomings, humans are my favorite animals.Best,Geoff. Yes, especially the female species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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