Baby Giraffe at UK zoo - really cute

[liesl78]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1ODg24/funtasticus.com/20080130/giraffe-baby/

[FC_Florida]

Segueing into the animal kingdom brought by Liesl78, are there any marine biologists, oceanographers or fish experts here on BSH that could tell me what is that below?

I took these pictures from my cellphone. I thought it could be a manta ray but I don't know. It moved slowly and erratically. Then it went further on open water. It hipnotized me.
Any ideas? A UBO (unidentified buoying object), perhaps?

[TomD]

I am no expert on rays, but my guess is it's a "sting ray" (there are many species), not a manta ray.
Check out http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/stingray.html

[FC_Florida]

I am no expert on rays, but my guess is it's a "sting ray" (there are many species), not a manta ray.
Check out http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/stingray.html

Thanks! I thought it could be a manta ray because I remember seeing on TV a report of one sighting last summer on Miami Beach shoreline. And I was on the 36th floor of a high rise and the thing looked huge! Going to check that website out!

[TomD]

Here's one for all the animal lovers - a pair of koalas upstage Andy Roddick
(on YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ6PDgt3d8E