Cute baby animals are just what the doctor ordered and part of my self-soothing programme. NB: when I say Alpine, I take it to mean any mountain range in Europe – Carpathians, Jura, Pyrenees etc.
Friday Fun: Alpine Babies
Cute baby animals are just what the doctor ordered and part of my self-soothing programme. NB: when I say Alpine, I take it to mean any mountain range in Europe – Carpathians, Jura, Pyrenees etc.
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Adorable! Just what my Friday needed 🙂
Thank you! I may well have to bookmark this page.
It is amazing how looking at baby animals can melt one’s heart. Thank you.
Lovely! See that lynx. Walking as if it is the king of the forest
That’s the most soothing post I’ve ever seen – the marmot is gorgeous, I want to be sitting sunning myself next to it!!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! I can’t possibly pick a favourite this week – they’ve all won my heart! I actually want to BE that Alpine Marmot…
Yes, I think we all want to be somewhere on a remote mountaintop, basking in the sun, just chilling out…
Oh, these are sooooo adorable, Marina Sofia!! Those lynxes and the wolf and cub are magnificent. But they’re all so very cute and lovely to see…… A real pick-me-up, for which thanks.
Love those little perky fluffy feathers on the falcon.
It’s the marmot for me followed by the lynx – those ears, those huge paws …
I may have a slight preference for lynx (and elephants when we’re talking about non-Alpine animals) myself, but all these baby animals just have the awwww factor.
Awww. Yes. Yes. I love them all.
I couldn’t choose between them either…
Aah! Aah! Aah! Especially wolves and lynxes. Sadly, I think life in London wouldn’t satisfy them. Especially if they were all introduced together. And there’s no way the bison could get through my cat flap if it wanted to take off for a quick forage. I had no idea, joking aside, that Romania had bison
Bison are practically the national animal, they appeared on the flag of Moldova in medieval times and still do on the Republic of Moldova’s flag. They live in nature reserves, as their number had gone down to about 12 in all of Europe. They are called ‘zimbri’ in Romanian and there is a rather famous poem entitled ‘Rezervatia de zimbri’ (The Bison Nature Refuge) by Adrian Paunescu. It was an excellent example of protest literature. You can listen to him reciting it (in Romanian, of course, so it doesn’t help much) here:
http://www.bestmusic.ro/adrian-paunescu/rezervatia-de-zimbri-722687.html
Well I did enjoy the rhythms of that, and nodded sagely, as if I understood, each time I heard the word zimbri with such energy
I’d like to be sitting in the sun on the rock next to the marmot please!
I’m quite taken with the marmot too. Is he in need of a home, I wonder?
I don’t think he will swap his sunny mountaintop home (OK, snowy in winter, but still…) for what passes for sun and snow over here!
Is there anything else to say than “So cute!!”