A sadhu (wandering monk) playing with his puppies. India

 

 

 

Aquatic Life Wonders

The Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest 2019 selected and judged thoudands of entires from 78 countries and divided in 17 categories, including marine life behavior, portrait, conservation and reefscape.
Read more details about the contest on Colossal  and give a look to the contest site here 

(photo by Todd Lahman)

Psychedelic Jellies

A breathtaking Halitrephes maasi jellyfish found by the crew of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus in the deep waters at the Revillagigedo Archipelago off Baja California, Mexico.
Learn more here

Under the Sea

Colorful, psychedelic creatures that make you say "ooooh...wow!"

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Amazing Psychedelic Nature

Fauna and flora worlds are an explosion of forms and colors indeed. Sometimes they are very bizarre, sometimes scary and/or disgusting, sometimes decidely 'psychedelic' !
Find out a stunning photo gallery of the strangest creaturest on earth on Real Monstrosities

Catacanthus Incarnatus

Let's Change the Roles.....

Let's imagine for a while that animals were the dominant species and they treated us the same horrible way we usually use with them....A scary series of illustrations that should make us change our attitude and diet....
(See the complete gallery on Bored Panda )

The Wonderful Naturalistic Art of J.J. Audubon

"Birds of America" - a large, stunning color-plate book -  is the 'magnus opus' of the wll-known American, naturalist, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon (1785-1851) 
John James Audubon    

Snow Monkeys of Japan

" The Japanese macaque is a terrestrial Old World monkey species native to Japan. They are also sometimes known as the snow monkey because they live in areas where snow covers the ground for months each year. "
(from The Presurfer)

Seeing the Divine in Small Things

Albert Hofmann, the great Swiss chemist and father of LSD, wrote that if one observes nature with the right sensitivity and predisposition, she reveals herself as the miraculous book directly written by the finger of God. Effectively the Divine usually manifest himself in small things and animals are often a particularly evident example of that.........

Amazing Nature

Stunning slow-motion video of creepy crawling creatures edited by Roen Horn ( the song is Hello Tomorrow by Karen O )
(thanks ThisisColossal)

Aquatic Wildlife by Sandro Bocci

Breath-taking, highly psychedelic macro timelapses of marine life filmed under ultra violet light by Italian filmaker and documentarist Sandro Bocci. The video is a "premiere" of  Bocci's upcoming non-verbal film Prograve.
(Thanks Colossal)



...meanwhile... from Sandro Bocci on Vimeo.

Last Days

Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has created a film/PSA about the horrible illegal ivory trade.....Selling and buying ivory is a crime against nature and the extinction of the lovely elephants is sadly very near if no one (particularly in the high places) mobilizes....
Lastdaysofivory  

Meat is Murder

While very few people would have the gut and heart to personally take a lovely lamb and cut his throat or grab a little rabbit and break his neck, many are ready to titillate their papillas with every kind of meat...This is just a sad example of the many consciousless (and hypocrital) attitudes of modern human beings....Vegetarianism is the only way for a healthy, conscious, 'spiritually correct' and 'human' diet.....See here the Buddhist approach to vegetarianism and love for animals...
Dharma Voices for Animals