Honey pot Ants

Honey pot Ants

As their names suggest, honey-pot ants are like living pots of honey. After the rains, there is so much nectar from ephemeral plants, there is actually more than enough. Good food will not be wasted in the harsh living conditions of the desert. So the ants feed some particular ants in the colony with nectar until their whole abdomen swells up with honey.
They can be the size of grapes! Then, during the drought, when food is scarce, the other ants will feed on the honey, and the ants’ abdomens shrink back to its normal size. The honey-pot ants save food in this way. They are also a source of food supply for other desert animals, including humans.

Lucian Craita With his Pet Lion Richie - Romania

Craita With his Pet Lion Richie - Romania

27 -year-old Lucian Craita, from Romania, parted ways with his pet lion, Richie, after raising him in his backyard for over a year.
Lucian has always had always had a thing for lions and when he had the chance to buy one for a pet, from an animal market, he didn’t hesitate.Richie cost him just 1,000 euros and he never regretted spending the money.
Over a year and a half of living together, Lucian and Richie developed a truly special relationship, so you can imagine the young man’s grief when he had to hand his pet lion over to the Vier Pfoten animal association.Source
The Romanian gave up his friend voluntarily, after realizing he couldn’t offer it the life it deserved. Now Richie will be taken to Lion’s Rock Lion Reservation, in South Africa, where he can be with his own kind.
Because Richie spent so much time as a house pet, he will never be a real lion, but at least he’ll enjoy being free in the savanna.

Stretching Kittens: Yoga Cats Calendar 2010

Stretching Kittens: Yoga Cats Calendar 2010


To compete the yoga dogs some cats joined the team of professional photographer Dan Borris and his wife Alejandra and pose in various yoga style to create a stretching 2010 calendar that is sure to claw its way into the affections of animal lovers everywhere. Stretching into impossible poses these photogenic felines could be the most relaxed cats of all time. The poses were created using a mixture of real photographs and some Photoshop magic.

Beautiful Snow Leopard

Beautiful Snow Leopard

You Never See These Dogs Before

You Never See These Dogs Before

Unusual Spiny Animals

Unusual Spiny Animals


Some animals have developed a form of armor called spine which is a hard, thorny or needle-like structure which grow as a self-defense mechanism.

Animal Eyes

Animal Eyes