best animal friends

http://www.thecuteproject.com/images/items/1547.jpg

http://www.darkinthedark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dont-pelican-3815277_large.jpeg

Hahahaha.

That's not very friendly either, surely? Unless he's just trying to hug the cat.

We had to get rid of a rabbit that was trying to rape our (male) cat when I was little. Apparently this is because we were all rabid sodomites. Hurrah! (It's almost a shame that the Christwire site is a parody, it brought the actual LOLs imagining someone genuinely believing that.)

"...because we were all rabbit sodomites..."

I'm no cat behavior expert, but that's not going to stop me from acting like one on the internet. I think the cat/pelican interaction is friendly because the cat looks pretty chill. Her tail is down and not puffed up, she's not crouched, her ears are up rather than back on her head, her fur isn't puffed up, and she's tilting her head in the way cats tilt their heads when they like what you're doing to their faces. Pelicans aren't stealthy, so the cat should have had plenty of warning that this big old galoot was coming, so my guess is that the cat was rubbing her face on the pelican's beak, and the pelican opened her mouth and gave the cat's head a little friendly squeeze.

That cat is clearly cleaning fish guts and stuff from the pelican's beak.

Ah. I think Stan has it.

Cat's ears aren't back and his tail's not puffed out - I think they probably know each other.

Good call, Stan. My cat rubs her face all over tasty smelling things in a very similar fashion.

Sometimes I wish a [pelican] would eat me....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VczCuLsRCCw

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11020965

WE ARE IN HAWAIIIIII!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU

OK, that's awesome

http://i.imgur.com/EmBqa.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7gy4nXoOG1qah2gqo1_500.jpg

Sleeping together in a monochromatic real pile. I stared at that picture for about 5 minutes.

a.k.a. "the truce"

http://riotclitshave.com/2010.07/jfxftl.jpg

<3 the turtle and the cat, or the turtle and any other best animal friend(s) really.

(although that may actually be a tortoise. but I think all tortoises are turtles. not all turtles are tortoises.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/aug/25/bali-animals#/?picture=366113726&index=2

STAY AWAY

aw! i want a pet monkey that has a pet cat

Haha. We'll inject your blood into a cat and inject the cat's blood into a monkey, then inject the monkey's blood into a dog. We'll get to the bottom of this muff-up.

turcatmonkdogducken

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/8/25/1282748502844/A-long-tailed-macaque-mon-006.jpg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/aug/25/bali-animals#/?picture=366113722&index=0

Whoops, already linked :/

Gah they're so great.

Saw this a couple weeks ago when a friend put in on FB and meant to put it here but don't think I did. Also don't think it's been posted before but this thread is too long to go through now so sorry if it has. Anyway . . . BEST ANIMAL FRIENDS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0TjfOKnF-c

And yes, the reporter really just said that elephants "pack their derms".

TAKE A GOOD LOOK AMERICA! TAKE A GOOF LOOK WORLD!

gooD, obv.

http://bit.ly/b0MLfI

text balloon free version:

http://www.artificialeyes.tv/files/picdump_118_01.jpg

Hahaha - The text is essential. Anyone know what it says?

Saw this a couple weeks ago when a friend put in on FB and meant to put it here but don't think I did. Also don't think it's been posted before but this thread is too long to go through now so sorry if it has. Anyway . . . BEST ANIMAL FRIENDS:



And yes, the reporter really just said that elephants "pack their derms".

<3 tara and bella. except it makes me sad because elephants are pack animals and a lot of elephants in zoos are kept in solitary confinement.

I did not intentionally quote that post. Which isn't to say I didn't love it! But I think I did some weird iPhone Zing Touch crappola by accident up there. This post is real, however.

lol i was confused

You and me both, lady.

Who said they loved turtles? (change 0 to o to see and turn down your volume from about 1:00 )

http://www.yOutube.com/watch?v=q3zNYP9XmFo

also: probably not friends anymore after this video

http://i33.tinypic.com/e83ark.jpg

http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx108/spacecat42/pelican.jpg

I'm really surprised to see two photos of a pelican giving a cat a beaking in my lifetime.

fed a cat to a pelican

Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!
His bill holds more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week.
But I’m darned if I know how the helican.

http://parishofbengeo.com/images/httour/cliff10.jpg

'Pelican in her piety' in heraldry and symbolical art, is a representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her breast in order to nourish her young with her blood a practice fabulously attributed to the bird. The pelican cutting open its own breast represents Christ's death on the cross, and the shedding of his blood to revive us and therefore adopted as a symbol of the Redeemer and of charity. An explanation of this is that the pelican's bill has a crimson red tip and the contrast of this red tip against the white breast probably gave rise to the tradition that the bird tore her own breast to feed her young with her blood.

thread got weird.

Sorry, I just find pelicans odd. It was really off topic, I guess.