Check out these animals!!!

[ILoveMyAbbyGirl]

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Pelusa, a fourteen-year-old female polar bear, look through the bars of her cage at Mendoza's Zoo, some 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) west of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 22, 2003. Pelusa, normally white, turned violet after veterinarians administered a drug to treat a skin's infection. Veterinarians said she should turn to her normal color within a month. (AP Photo/Walter Moreno-Los Andes)


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Glowing mice : A fluorescent mouse family, provided by the Level Biotech, a transgenic company, is displayed inside a box during the Bio Taiwan 2003 at the World Trade Center in Taipei. The mice were implanted with the green fluorescent gene into the mice embryo combining genetic engineering and transplantion technology. (AFP/Sam Yeh)


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Swimming piglet : A miniature Potbelly pig keeps his snout out of the water during his swimming race at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL. (AFP/Jeff Haynes


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Polar backstroke : A polar bear cub slides on his back from a snow's hillock in Moscow's Zoo. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)


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Croc : A young saltwater crocodile enticed by meat lunges out of the murky waters of the Adelaide River, near Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. (AFP/Greg Wood)


Interesting...

[ChloeLove]

So cute! And that's so strange about the polar bear's fur! :confused:

[Airedalekisses]

They're all adorable even the croc!-Poor purple Polar bear! Personally, I think she looks great-wonder if she has to touch up her roots?

[wolfsoul]

Must...fight...urge...to...get...flourescent...rat ...!!!

[allanimalswelcome]

UH...I can't understand how a polar bear would have her fur turned voilet:confused:

While they look white polar bears have really have no pigment in their fur.

[bluekat]

Very interesting, especially the polar bear.:p The glowing mice are cute:D

[Kfamr]

The first two could have been easily photoshopped. Which I'm sure they were. How in the heck would the rats whole cage/surroundings glow? :rolleyes:

[Kfamr]

Scientests in Palm Harbor, Florida have discovered a glowing Simba. :rolleyes:
http://kay.unavoidable.net/glow.jpg

[allanimalswelcome]

Okay never mind I did a search on the polar bear and they were using a spray that apparently turned her fur purple...I think.

[Kfamr]

Why would they want to turn it purple?

Poor Polar Bear.:(

[Kfamr]

Ooo Nevermind, I did a search as well...


Like i said, poor poor bear.

[RedHedd]

It was an antibiotic spray to treat a skin condition and was not PhotoShopped. The chemicals reacted with her fur and turned her purple. Her caregivers have to keep her out of the water and isolated from her mate until the medication clears up her skin condition and then she'll be allowed be back with her mate. He's sulking at the separation right now - poor bear. Normal Polar Bear swimming and bathing and will make her lose her punk rock do. I saw this pic last week and thought it was an unfortunate side effect of nurturing an ailing animal.

[sheltielover]

Very cool pics!!!!

[apcrs5122]

Interesting pics, they were all cute:D

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by RedHedd
It was an antibiotic spray to treat a skin condition and was not PhotoShopped. The chemicals reacted with her fur and turned her purple. Her caregivers have to keep her out of the water and isolated from her mate until the medication clears up her skin condition and then she'll be allowed be back with her mate. He's sulking at the separation right now - poor bear. Normal Polar Bear swimming and bathing and will make her lose her punk rock do. I saw this pic last week and thought it was an unfortunate side effect of nurturing an ailing animal.

I know, as i said i searched and found the reasoning behind it.