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Portrait of a real-life bishounen: model Andrej Pejic

Guinea fowl chicks being raised by peahens at ZooBorns. (My experience with Guinea fowl has been primarily the flock raised by someone on the road I lived on in highschool, who were always escaping, but whose common sense can best be described "What's that loud, very fast metal object hurtling at me at 30 MPH? I better go out into the middle of this nice, flat, paved area to get a better look!")

Sugar water + food coloring = rainbow-colored ants

ETA: Audobon Magazine Photography Awards. Gorgeous pictures of birds.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Those ant pics are great.

[telophase]

Aren't they! I almost want a kitchen ant invasion to try it out. Almost.

(PS - added a link to the Audobon Magazine Photo Awards, if you're interested in stunning bird photography.)

[yhlee]

OMG rainbow ants!

[strigine.livejournal.com]

My parents have (had?) Guineas, and, yeah. I forget how many they started out with, but only three made it to adulthood because the others Lemminged themselves.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I love their feathers, and it was always disheartening to see that sad little clump of them in the middle of the road when one got too curious about cars for its own good.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Maybe the peahens will teach them some sense! My partner's mom gave up on guineas despite the feathers because they really are too dumb to survive, even in a rural enclosure.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I hope so!

[arinye.livejournal.com]

~read the Andrej Pejic article~ oh my gods. :O Gorgeous, smart, and sarcastically hilarious. Love~

[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

With acres and acres and acres of lovely greenland plus water features to hang out in at the Los Angeles Arboretum, what's the favorite place for the guinea fowl? - THE PARKING LOT.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That's so they can get a real good look at those large, noisy, fast things.