Animals: Odd/Unique Creatures

[davi]

http://kirshner.org/pics/Fennec_072401.jpg

Fennec Fox

[MrSmith]

couple of funny ones:

hippo:
http://mrsmith.virtualave.net/hippo/

warthog:
http://mrsmith.virtualave.net/warthog/

wildebeest:
http://mrsmith.virtualave.net/wildebeest/

(edit by davi: OMG i have to post a picture of this, it's amazing!)
http://mrsmith.virtualave.net/wildebeest/Wildebeast__Warthog.jpg [/enddavi]

[davi]

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/pics/squirrel/mid/reachup1.jpg

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/gallery/Squirrels1997q1/sp97_010.jpg

[egerie]

I can hear the indiana jones theme on that last one davi :)

[Azazel]

I'm failry certain I saw that picture of the Squirrel in an episode of Banzai! where the object was to see how high they could get the Squirrel off the ground with a fishing rod. It is a very strange show.

[Coma]

ROTFL!

[MindCandyMan]

hahahahahahah that is hilarious

[JonnyDOH]

omg, the wildebeast/warthog pic is absolutely beautiful-- definitely gonna have to try something that captures that moment!

[Jezebel]

What is he doing?

Who the hell knows.

But he's definitely odd.

http://div.dyndns.org/EK/arbor23.jpg

[MindCandyMan]

hahahahahahahahahahahhah

[egerie]

as an accomplished stuntsquirrel, he's stretching of course ! You got to avoid injuries and torned muscles you know. Either that or this is a contestant for the next missSquirrel beauty pagent that struck a glamour pose when seeing a photographer.

:chug: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[daspetey]

heres a few i scanned a while ago from a super old animal encyclopedia. before i left l.a. i bought the whole set for $10. woohoo! all animals all the time.
-pete

http://www.daspetey.com/bigeyed marsupial.jpg

http://www.daspetey.com/cthulu beastie2.jpg

[Jens]

Put it out of it's misery, the most retarded animal in the world :D

http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Images/saiga/saiga.jpg
http://www.hedweb.com/animimag/saiga.jpg

[Waylon]

I have two pages of insect photos, may be useful to someone.

Dragonflies:
http://waylon-art.com/galleries/12/gallery12.html

Bees & Wasps:
http://www.waylon-art.com/galleries/15/

[behemot5]

a lot of different animals can be found in this site......
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/fauna/
http://www.g-o.de/kap4/bilder/tief8k.jpg
http://www.ifremer.fr/exploration/enjeux/vie/photo/index.htm

[Barti89]

Jens : Haha looked for this one on google :) .. found a line under the picture
"The saiga antelope. Surely one of the least beautiful of all the steppe animals."

[JoB]

Lots of useful references for creating weird creatures :

Weird Deep Sea Creatures (http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm)


/JoB

[fletchgirl]

Everyone should own "The Blue Planet" series by the Discovery Channel..... absolutely fricken amazing....

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/blueplanet/blueplanet.html

also, one of my fave animals, THE AYE-AYE! :D

http://www.animalinfo.org/image/mada6%20j%2018.jpg

http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/slidesets/taxonomy/gifs/22.gif

http://museum.univ-rennes1.fr/museo/Images/I-Musee-Zoo/DV014-sq-aye-aye.jpg

http://info.bio.sunysb.edu/rano.biodiv/Mammals/Daubentonia-madagascariensis/captive-aye-aye-hand.jpeg

i just found this one...
http://www.ville-angers.fr/museum/images/aye.gif
i've never seen one like this!!! :eek:

[Joeslucher]

http://www.wnbc.com/slideshow/2691965/detail.html?qs=;s=35;w=350

[steak-tron]

www.uglybug.org (http://www.uglybug.org)

has micrograph closeups of insect mugs' great for textures and such

[dakoscwash]

Thanks for that site steak, it's really useful.

[kyliegirl]

the tapir

http://www.math.duke.edu/~das/family/toronto-zoo/tapir.jpg
http://members.tripod.com/~animom/tapir.jpg

and okapi

http://www.tomheroes.com/images/okapi.gif
http://www.hedweb.com/animimag/okapi.jpg


2 of my fav animals :)

[twitch]

This spider lives between my garage and a big bananna tree; I've since found several more in my backyard and in the elephant ear bush.

Really cool but kinda tough to shoot.

Its maybe the size of a quarter dollar coin overall.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v349/meltingwomanstudios/silverback.jpg

Enjoy,
Twitch

[Rhaucan]

http://www.imageuploader.net/images/608945Insect.jpg

An umber hulk maybe :P, a flamey one at that

[twitch]

Nice Work :)

Is it a digital shot?

Twitch

[Dillo]

http://www.insectaculture.com

This site has some amazing professional photographs of strange insects, close-up, high quality, and in most cases no backgrounds. The only problem is that you can't save or print a some of the images. (Copyright protection.) Still a wonderful site to the the brain juices flowing!

[LaPalida]

You can save them - just press enter after the copyright dialog pops up and at almost the same time right click and you get the image ... yaaaargh! :pirate:

Sometimes when images are split into many parts just take a screenshot and edit it in photoshop ... it's longer but if you really must have it that's the way to go about it.

[LaPalida]

Hey I just remembered. I visited the Insectarium here in Montreal earlier this year and I took some ref pics of the bugz in there. I decided to zip them up and upload to my ftp. The pics aren't artistic so don't expect much, they are mostly snapshots of the bugs behind the glass so there is glare, reflection and general yellowish cast to all of them because it was pretty dark in the museum. They are still good reference shots as far as they go. The pics are mostly of moths, butterflies, long horn beetles, scarabs and tarantulas. The whole zip file is about 20 megs and the pics are at 640 by 480. They are all free to use (except the tarantula ones ... I didn't take them so I can't give permission), use them for ref or to create art whatever.

Have fun! (http://www.20mm.net/misc/bugz.zip)

[lyzisbitching]

i just found this one...
http://www.ville-angers.fr/museum/images/aye.gif
i've never seen one like this!!! :eek:

now i know where the person who created the gremlins movie got their inspiration.

[behemot5]

http://www.fossile.fr/infos/limules.htm

[artkitty]

Lots and lots of spiders-
http://www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au/spiderphotos.htm

and of course, the camel spider (http://www.nmpest.com/images/Jsalpuged.JPG)

[Allyson]

also, one of my fave animals, THE AYE-AYE! :D

http://www.animalinfo.org/image/mada6%20j%2018.jpg

http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/slidesets/taxonomy/gifs/22.gif

http://museum.univ-rennes1.fr/museo/Images/I-Musee-Zoo/DV014-sq-aye-aye.jpg

http://info.bio.sunysb.edu/rano.biodiv/Mammals/Daubentonia-madagascariensis/captive-aye-aye-hand.jpeg

i just found this one...
http://www.ville-angers.fr/museum/images/aye.gif
i've never seen one like this!!! :eek:


I think I would die of fright if I saw one of those things. They're creepy!

[Chrysophylax]

I hope this isn't a copyright-ed photo...

so... if you've seen Napoleon Dynamite you'll think this is absolutely frickin' hilarious... yes... it is a REAL live "Liger"

apparently at some zoo a lion and a tiger got so used to each other they actually mated (something that would NEVER happen in the wild). This was their cub... A lion body w/ tiger stripes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ChrysDives/Reference/liger.jpg

To my knowledge it is the ONLY one in existence

edit: So... I was wrong... there are other ligers too... apparently they are rather large creatures too... still, of all the pics I found... this one was the best.

[JAUrrutia9]

"It's pretty much my favorite animal."

haha, thats freakn' sweet!

[EVIL]

http://www.animalinfo.org/image/mada6%20j%2018.jpg

OMG, edward sizzorhands

[LaPalida]

Chrysophylax in case you were interested http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/hybrids.html

[Sofia Alexandra]

Here's (http://pishmo.com/macro/) some fabulous close-ups of various bugs (and a couple of frogs, for some reason). It's amazing how expressive praying mantids are. :)

[Pixel8]

Cave creatures, found on npr.org (http://www.npr.org)

A white cave crayfish:
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/oct/cave/crayfish300.jpg

A cave salamander:
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/oct/cave/salamander300.jpg

[Larzker]

These are cattle that have a gene that inhibits muscle growth blocked thereby making them double muscled.

Pics of the freaky cows:http://www.builtreport.com/bovine.html

http://www.builtreport.com/bovine/011.jpg

[Kronos]

i thought it might be better to attach these so they are here forever, lots of pics from previous posts have already dissapeared!

some of the photos aren't great but most of the animls are pretty weird

[LaPalida]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur

[Moai]

-Some pufferfish. You gotta love them googly eyes.
-A capybara and a cavy. Both are large South American rodents.
-A hyrax. This isn't a rodent, actually. Believe it or not, it's closest relatives are elephants.
-Some numbats. Marsupial termite-eaters.
-Golden moles and blind mole rats. Both species still have eyes, but those eyes are covered with skin and fur.
-Solenodons. They're basically large primitive shrews that live in the Caribbean.
-A pokemon-like tenrec.

[Moai]

Looking for creature reference on wikipedia, I discovered that there are a lot of really awesome chicken-like birds.

Nice colors, eh?

[Jake Kobrin]

Check this out! They're called pangolins and they're from Malaysia.
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20071110/capt.sge.tfw95.101107190152.photo00.photo.default-512x385.jpg?x=380&y=285&sig=36bbORG86zUnNErM5_DSUg--

[Kogut Drums]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1505679&posted=1#post1505679
U must find them