1. 🖼️ Absolute insanity (direct link) (👍1331 👎24)

from cats ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by ickplant

2. 🖼️ “Earl Grey, milord?” (direct link) (👍562 👎5)

from aww ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by Viking_Hippie

3. 🖼️ I’m more interested in the dog (direct link) (👍471 👎4)

from Dogs ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by LadyButterfly

4. 🖼️ Tanjie will take care of your pests (direct link) (👍264 👎2)

from Animals with Jobs ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by ickplant

5. 🖼️ Compact bat (direct link) (👍230 👎0)

from Bats ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by ickplant

6. 🖼️ The beautiful cross fox brings you luck and wishes you a wonderful week ahead (direct link) (👍228 👎6)

from Foxes ([email protected]) lemmy

More on cross foxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_fox

Posted by ickplant

7. 🖼️ I Think I’ve Found My Spirit Animal (direct link) (👍193 👎1)

from Superbowl ([email protected]) lemmy

From Paulette Donnellon

If Oscar the Grouch had kids…

Tis the season! Baby Burrowing Owls are popping out of burrows

Sonny Bono Salton Sea NWR

The tall one’s face… 🤣

Posted by anon6789

8. 🖼️ Basket case (direct link) (👍173 👎0)

from Opossums ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by ickplant

9. 🖼️ Triceratops Beetle (direct link) (👍148 👎0)

from Animals ([email protected]) lemmy

From Nick Volpe

WOWWWWW!!!🤯🪲

The TRICERATOPS Dung Beetle from the Amazon! 🌿

One of the best beetles in the WORLD, say hello to Oxysternon conspicillatum! 💚

Posted by anon6789

10. 🖼️ Borb On A Stick: Bluetit (direct link) (👍147 👎0)

from birding ([email protected]) lemmy

I began digital photography this year after decades away from film because of cost and time. It’s a journey of relearning old skills and mastering new tricks like editing. Here’s a Feb photo where the colors match what I see in my mind of a bluetit after remastering. 🖍🤖

Posted by tankplanker

11. 🖼️ Raccoons love this lady’s bird bath (direct link) (👍145 👎2)

from Raccoons ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by ickplant

12. 🖼️ screm (direct link) (👍136 👎0)

from cute dogs, cats, and other animals ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by sharkfucker420

13. 🖼️ Found this guy in my front yard (direct link) (👍131 👎0)

from Bun Alert System ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by bathroomconnoisseur

14. 🖼️ Squirrel squared (direct link) (👍113 👎1)

from Squirrels ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by ickplant

15. 🖼️ Arctic Lemming (direct link) (👍110 👎1)

from Tan Eggs ([email protected]) lemmy

Cute brown Arctic Lemming looking for food in the snow

Photo taken by Dorothee Ehrich

Posted by Fizz

16. 🖼️ An African bush elephant in Chobe National Park, Botswana (direct link) (👍100 👎0)

from Elephants ([email protected]) lemmy

Guest post from [email protected], @[email protected]. I speculated on this shot due to limited info; ‘Setting sun’ versions may color-shift the shot. Lovely new colors! African bush elephant, the largest land animal, weighs ~7 short tons. 🖍🤖

Posted by JohnnyEnzyme

17. 🖼️ First bee photo I’ve taken in 2026 (direct link) (👍95 👎0)

from BeeButts ([email protected]) lemmy

a bee gathering nectar from a lamb's ear

Hopefully this will be the first of many I take this season. Hopefully2 I’ll even take the time to break out my “real camera” at some point and go 🐝 hunting

Posted by IMALlama

18. 🖼️ The buns are sprouting (direct link) (👍93 👎2)

from bunnies ([email protected]) lemmy

Wild rabbit in a flower pot

Source

@[email protected]

Posted by silverchase

19. 🖼️ One bean, one braincell (direct link) (👍77 👎3)

from All Orange Cats Share One Brain Cell ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by lefty7283

20. 📰 Say hi to Noah😍😍 (direct link) (👍76 👎3)

from Cats ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by noahalcan

21. 🖼️ Bee fly (direct link) (👍73 👎0)

from Awwnverts ([email protected]) lemmy

Posted by pseudo

22. 🖼️ I think that I’ve found an ant mimic… (direct link) (👍50 👎1)

from Spiders ([email protected]) lemmy

Southern Wisconsin

Posted by Jerb322

23. 🖼️ Jumping spider hanging out on the fence (direct link) (👍44 👎0)

from Entomology ([email protected]) lemmy

Jumping spider on fence. @arachnology #spider #arachnid #photography #bigeyes #macro #iridescent #nature #year2026 #SonyA7rIII #laowa #neatobuilds Photographer @[email protected] 🖍🤖

Posted by cm0002

24. 🖼️ All over the place (direct link) (👍11 👎0)

from What’s this Bug? ([email protected]) lemmy

Just put down a bunch of manure few weeks ago and these bug’s appeared and are all over the place outside my lawn. What are they?

Posted by Xain52

Inactive communities 👻

These communities have had no posts in the last month:

  • Animals@stad lemmy
    • Pictures of animals, art incorporating animals, or anything fun.
  • IllegallySmolCats lemmy
    • Straight to jail.
  • MEOW_IRL lemmy
    • Memes for “cats of the soul”. Post relatable, weird, funny cats.
  • DogTraining lemmy
    • Welcome! This forum is about dog training and behavior. Here you’ll find content that will help you train your dogs. This community is geared towards modern, force-free, science based methods and recommendations.
  • ducks lemmy
    • place to post cute ducks, gooses allowed too 🦆🦆
  • Crows lemmy
    • Bring stories and images of your encounters with crows, ravens, and other corvids. Link articles and anecdotes. Note here your literary references. Art welcome.
  • Squirrel Spotting Society lemmy
    • RULES:
  • Rabbits lemmy
    • No description
  • Lagoloaf lemmy
    • Got a bunny? Does it loaf? Take a pic, share it here.
  • bugs lemmy
    • A casual place for Arthropoda.
  • Pet Rats lemmy
    • A place for pet rats!
  • guinea pigs lemmy
    • A community for discussion, advice and pictures of guinea pigs.

Here is a popular post from one of the inactive communities. 🪦♻️

🖼️ She turned 11 today (direct link), posted in Rabbits (👍153 👎2)

She turned 11 today

My little geriatric lionhead granny is happy and active despite tooth problems. Long live Puusti!

Posted by MolochHorridus

The main links are using lemmyverse.link which should redirect to the post on your own instance. If you have not used this before, you may need to go direct to https://lemmyverse.link/ and click on ‘configure instance’. Some apps will open posts correctly when using the direct link.

️🤖 indicates a summary generated using AI - 🖋️ TLDR This, 🖊️ news3k, 🖍 Deepseek. It is possible that the summary does not accurately convey the meaning of the original article, refer to the source material if in any doubt.

Multicommunity: animals.json

  • best_of_animals_bot@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPBEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Please comment under the original posts.

    The descriptions of the inactive communities are auto-generated, it will pick up the first non-header line from the sidebar.

    If you have a comment about the monthly posts please create a [META] post in the community. Thanks!