Mini Challenge #364 - Animals in Strange Poses

Cavalier

I was having a little problem coming up with something different for a Mini Challenge, so resorted to a topic that may be fun - at least fun for the viewers. So this Mini is about strange, different, or funny animal poses. I think most photographers that try to capture the animal kingdom invariably end up with some bloopers or shots that would make the funny pages. So any animal is fair game for the mini and the shots must be different or hopefully funny. Let's see those bloopers.
This mini will run until the end of the month - January 31, 2024.
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Some examples - I'm sure you can come up with better ones!

Synchronized Duck Butts

HALP!

Urinating Goat

jwear

Let me clean up before you take a shot

Cavalier

@jwear Thanks for starting off the entries with your neat-freak bird, Jeff. Love it!

olderwhiskey

1. Two young foxes playing outside the old barn

2. A raccoon sleeping in the trees

3. A squirrel in a tree using its tail as an umbrella during a rain storm

Olderwhiskey

https://www.habasecophotography.com

bfluegie

Another "outside my comfort zone" challenge, but count me in anyway!

1. Flexible Great Blue Heron
   
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2. Yoga Crane
   
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3. Pretend bird... er, hungry squirrel
   

kurzvorzwoelf

@bfluegie Squirrels can become really creative when it comes to getting food out of bird feeders, eh?

GSPeP

Found some:

1. Checking out the lady

2. Bad camouflage

3. Best friends

shawnc

Shaking out the hair doo.
White Egret

Do I have something in my teeth?
Anyone got a toothpick?
American White Pelican

Oh, There you are...
Great Blue Heron

This one in honor of the Peeing Goat example... Not as an entry
Relief on the fly
Brown Pelican

grandmaR

1. Balancing act
   
2. Ahh
   
3. Poking my horn in?
   

slpollett

I'm not sure I have any animal photos that are strange or funny poses, but I am looking.

1. Can You Hear Me NOW??!!?? This is an early pic of two of my cats that I sadly lost last year--Abby the calico momma cat and Cotton, her son. Abby was 17 and Cotton was 15 when I lost them. but in this pic, Cotton was about 4 months old and Abby would have been close to 2 years. I love Abby's expression in this one as it really looks like Cotton is yelling in her ear and she's just thinking "i'm so done with this kid..."
   

2. Moose at Grand Teton NP. This one reminds me somewhat of the adolescent who doesn't want their picture taken so they stick out their tongue.
   

3. Sugar -- It always cracks me up when the cats sit like this. Sugar sits like this frequently.
   

I'll keep looking. If I find any that are really unusual or funny, I will swap them out. At least I have something to enter.

Sherry P.

sapphire73

Fun to see the various entries! I found a few safari images that caught my eye. The last one is perfectly normal for a leopard, I guess, but seems like an interesting place to take a nap. This was on the last safari we took (2020), and we saw several leopards there.

1) Cheetah Brothers Wrestling

2) Giraffe at Water's Edge

3) Leopard Taking a Nap

Cavalier

the mini will be closing at 5pm PT today. I will post the results tomorrow. You've all made my job extremely hard and have posted some laugh-out-loud shots! Thanks for entering the mini!