Some of the world’s most beautiful photography of the whale shark, the biggest shark alive today!

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Small Fish Swim Along with a Whale Shark, Rhincodon Typus. The strange and beautiful whale shark, biggest shark in the world.

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Head-on view of an immense whale shark, scary but not actually dangerous to humans.

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Beautiful markings on a huge whale shark in the deep blue of its ocean wilderness.

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Beautiful shot of a whale shark cruising the open waters.

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Beautiful photography of this massive whale shark turning in the endless blue oceans.

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Lots more great whale shark posters!

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Some of the world’s most beautiful posters of endangered rainforest animals :-

Cute, but under threat by habitat destruction and hunting, a baby orangutan hangs casually from a branch.

Hyacinth Macaw Pair, a stunningly beautiful but endangered species from South America.

The Poison Dart Frog, deadly, beautiful, strange and rare.

The majestic Bengal tiger, powerful and glorious, but threatened by habitat destruction and poaching.

Golden Lion Tamarin, stunningly gorgious, and hunted almost to extinction.

Lowland Gorilla, a mighty beast, but no match for human destructiveness.

The extraordinary spider monkey, some species are near extinction.

The Golden Mantella.

The endangered red colobus from Africa.

The well-known chimpanzee, intelligent, curious, but rare now.

The powerful and beautiful jaguar, secretive and scarce.

The rainforest itself, home to millions of species which go extinct before even being catalogued.

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You might also like our other blog post on endangered species.

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Dolphins are marine mammals related to porpoises and whales. The killer whale is in fact one of the approximately 40 species of dophin. The most common species is the bottlenose dolphin.

They mostly live in shallow seas, eating mostly fish and squid, and evolved relatively recenty, a mere 10 million years ago. Their intelligence and playful nature makes them popular in human cultures.

A group of dolphins is known as a “school” or a “pod”. Male dolphins are named “bulls”, females are named “cows”. Baby dolphins are called “calves”.

They use echolocation to sense their surroundings by making clicks and listening to the reflections. Their clicks are among the loudest sounds made by any marine mammals. They have good eyesight and breath through a blowhole on the top of their head. Their brains are different in structure from most land animals.

They have been known to actively protect people and whales. They sleep with only one half of their brain at a time.

For more information, see the Wikipedia page on Dophins

Here are some of the world’s most beautiful dophin posters:-

Dophins! Beautiful, intelligent, playful, free! Shown here swimming in shallow seas

Dolphin sunset. natural beauty at its best

Two dolphins play together in warm shallow seas, happy and free in their ocean wilderness

Atlantic Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas, reflecting against the deep blues of the warm tropical seas.

Bottlenose Dolphins leaping for joy in their endless ocean wilderness

Dolphin kiss.

Dolphin protrait, intelligent, curious, playful and wise in the ways of their ocean home

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The beautiful, sleek, streamlined form of a dolphin, at home in the clear blue waters

Danse Des Dauphins, serene beauty, perfectly poised, natural artists.

See 1441 more great dolphin posters!

You might also like our other blog posts Bottlenose Dolphin, and Dolphins

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Pandas are endangered. The Giant Panda has less than 3000 individuals left in the wild, with under 300 in captivity, and is officially listed as a “conservation reliant endangered species”.

The giant panda is descended from carnivorous species, although its diet is almost entirely bamboo. It now only lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, having been driven out of all of it’s lowland habitats due to deforestation and human habitation.

Giant pandas are the only bears which never hibernate, because their food source is so low in nutritional value that it does not allow them to build up enough excess fat to survive hibernation. This problem is made worse by the fact that their bodies are built to be carnivorous, so they can’t extract all that much of the nutrition that is in their bamboo food.

Their very low birth rate also makes it difficult for them to survive their endangered status. See the Wikipedia Giant Panda page for more info.

The Red Panda which also feeds mainly on bamboo, is a small tree-living mammal. It is not a bear and not closely related to any other living species. It lives in temperate forests in the Himalayas. It is classified as “vulnerable”, with less than 10,000 individuals alive today.

Enjoy some of the world’s best images of pandas :-

Cute baby giant pandas, enjoying their play

Very young bay panad, adorable and innocent in the snow

Hug!! A mother giant panda gives a warm and protectice hug to her young cub

Innocence and playfullness, two giant panda cubs having fun climbing

Satisfaction!! A giant panda lying back on the snow while munching bamboo leaves

The beautiful and shy red panda, in a sunlit meadow in its Himalayan wilderness

Giant panda cub enjoying a rest while climbing a tree in its forest habitat

A giant panda eating bamboo in the luxurious green vegetation of its mountain wilderness

Click here for 338 more great Panda posters!

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