The Official Critter Thread

[cory]

Cheetahs swimming in flood

Cheetahs battle raging river in stunning photo. Did they survive?

The cheetah photo is a Wildlife Photographer of the Year entry.

www.livescience.com

 

[pantheraba]

Wow...I saw the picture when it came out but did not know the story. Great share.

 

[flushcut]

Does this count as a critter?

 

[stig]

Nope, we got a different thread for those.
Good thing, too.
Otherwise we would have effing cats all over the Mutts thread.

 

[flushcut]

My bad I apologise. But he is so damn cute I just wanna squeeze him.

 

[gf beranek]

Too bad they're such short lived. They beautiful.

 

[flushcut]

He's only 15 weeks so I'm hopeful he'll be around to judge my daughters would be suiters in high school. Or it's the chipper for them.

 

[flushcut]

Ok back on topic I hope. This lill thing is now the shop spider and has a web about half of a four soot square, if you follow. About an inche and half toe to toe. Lol The body is as big as my pinky nail.

 

[gf beranek]

Looks like an Orb Weaver. Common around here.

 

[cory]

Common perhaps, but oh so amazing a life form

 

[flushcut]

For agrument sake, he is pretty chill. My guy and I stood on opposite sides of the web and watched him spin up five flies in two minutes.

 

[cory]

Gangster

 

[Tree09]

They're everywhere here, and will actually cross paths in the woods. That was the worst part of hunting season lol, running into those as you come or go often in the dark

 

[lxskllr]

We get these guys...

They aren't everywhere, but if you're in a woods that has them, it seems like every two trees has one of their webs between them. Irritating as hell.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Ninja web dance.

 

[stikine]

We get these guys...

They aren't everywhere, but if you're in a woods that has them, it seems like every two trees has one of their webs between them. Irritating as hell.

Wow, what is that beast?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Our little buddies are out wandering, looking for love.

 

[treebogan]

I had a groundy this one time that had a actual Bird Eating Spider as a pet.
This guy managed to buy one over here despite them being illeagle,as it grew he fed it larger and larger meals.One day it escaped and he was to afraid to sleep in his own apartment incase it attacked him and he was staying at his moms.

What a dickhead,he never found it.

 

[Tree09]

Nope. Lol

 

[lxskllr]

Wow, what is that beast?

Micrathena gracilis

Spined micrathena - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They're really ugly, but pretty benign. The biggest thing is the damned webs. You have to walk through the woods waving a stick in front you. I'll follow my boss through the woods, while he leads waving a stick, and tell him "Well, at least I won't get any webs on my knees". He's short :^P

 

[Tree09]

The neighbors yard, we've got a flock of them living around here. Today when i got home they were crossing the street.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Got a herd like that on my driveways edge of late. Dogs are not all that happy about it.

 

[Mellow]

I believe a critter has died in my garage. Guess it's time to finally clean up and organize all the accumulated "stuff." I'll post up a pic if I find the stinky varmint.

 

[Nutball]

Micrathena gracilis

Spined micrathena - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They're really ugly, but pretty benign. The biggest thing is the damned webs. You have to walk through the woods waving a stick in front you. I'll follow my boss through the woods, while he leads waving a stick, and tell him "Well, at least I won't get any webs on my knees". He's short :^P

I saw one recently, it was bright yellow and red, and almost twice as big as the brown and white ones.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Edibles.