turtle mules piglet

[urbpan]

I put the wood turtle out in a big enclosure full of water, leaves, and things to climb on. He mostly enjoyed being camouflaged, I think. I'm not sure how they know--he probably just knows that he's mostly covered up.


After a long wait, the mules finally got to do their job, pulling the hayride!


We have a new pig shed, and new piglets! This one ventured away from his brothers and mom to check out the outdoor part of the pen.

Comments

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a sentence. I was trying to figure out what "mules" meant as a verb.

[psongster.livejournal.com]

Me too!

But it's a good way to get curious sorts to click through :-).

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Me too! I was reading it, thoing, 'Well, it can't be 'mauls'. We have a mule at work - not the animal, the vehicle. So I thought, 'Is it going to be a picture of of a piglet in a mule with the turtle propped at the steering wheel?'

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

It's good to know I'm not the only one who thought that!

[cbustapeck.livejournal.com]

And I tried to read it as the piglet of turtle mule. I know, there should have been an apostrophe for that to be correct, but I'm not going to split hairs.

Also, turtles!

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Aw what a cute turtle...and mules are cute too!
OMG PIGLEEEETS!!! :) I wuv baby animals...;)

[alikander.livejournal.com]

Are the mules going to be doing all the hay rides now? Or only on special occaisions?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Probably only some of the time, like when the horses were there. On this day, they did hayrides for a couple hours, and then were given the rest of the day off.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

Awwdadubbadaaw (indecipherable cute animal noises made Re: piglet pic)

I swear, taking a zoology class in college just makes me think almost any animal is cute now, that wasn't cute before...

But yeah. PIGLET AAAW!

And that's a good question. How DO animals know if they're camoflauged or not- beyond just knowing they're covered up? If they have good vision, they can know what their surroundings look like- but do they have instinct to know what THEY THEMSELVES look like? Or do they just happen to camoflauge without thinking about it through pure niche-filling action- a species that evolves in leaf litter ends up looking brownish splotchy...

Hmmm. Wonder if animal behavior biologists have studied this.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Or do they just happen to camoflauge without thinking about it through pure niche-filling action- a species that evolves in leaf litter ends up looking brownish splotchy...

I think this is it, and yet they have to have some kind of behavior that causes them to seek out camouflage situations...