Animals kissing

[Maz]

I love this And hamsters like being kissed and giving whisker kisses too. If you scroll right there are more photos

 

[elusive]

Great photos, especially love the barn owls.

 

[Coco61]

Rabbits were cute but the dog/fish was the most surprising.

 

[Maz]

I liked the Beavers It made me think of Mr and Mrs Beaver from the Narnia books.

 

[Tulsi]

I could only see the giraffes

 

[Zara]

I could only see the giraffes

There is a little arrow to the right of the first picture that lets you look through the others. Maybe it’s not visible on your screen.

 

[Frida]

Lovely photos

 

[Daisy]

Those photos are lovely, especially the third one. I don't know which animal that is.

Gerbils greet each other by touching noses and it always looks like kissing

But if they grab another gerbil's nose with their paws it means they're giving them a ticking off!

This is Twiglet telling Astra off for hogging the wheel:

 

[Maz]

I also like the third one and don't know what the animal is! Maybe some kind of baby squirrel? Apparently there are many types of squirrel. I did wonder if, with some of them, it was actually a telling off rather than kissing! Lovely photo of your gerbils

 

[RainbowBrite]

I thought they were baby meerkats. Oops.

 

[Maz]

They might be!

 

[elusive]

They look a bit like baby ground squirrels or maybe antelope squirrels.

 

[Tulsi]

Baby meerkats I reckon. I liked the foxes best. Such amazing colouring.

 

[Member ID2]

I also thought they were baby meerkats.
They are all lovely but Daisy's gerbils are my favourites. Interesting that touching and grabbing noses has completely different meanings.

 

[Daisy]

A lot of body language translates reasonably well across species. Just as grabbing someone's face would be considered intimidating in humans, it often is with animals too. The same with sustained eye contact without blinking (a long, hard stare) That's usually interpreted as intimidating as well by humans and animals alike.

Another interesting body language thing is winking. Gerbils and Robos (and possibly other hamsters but I haven't observed it myself yet) will sometimes wink at a human and it's not exactly known what this means, but it's probably a way of saying "I'm friendly, I'm not a threat". I believe it's polite to wink back to indicate that you're not a threat either.

 

[Maz]

I haven't heard of the winking before!

 

[RainbowBrite]

I did not know robos wink at humans. How cute.

 

[Member ID2]

Winking as in closing and opening one eye while looking at you?
Rodney used to do that but not till he was elderly.

 

[Daisy]

Winking as in closing and opening one eye while looking at you?
Rodney used to do that but not till he was elderly.

That's right. Maybe Syrians do it too?

 

[Member ID2]

That's right. Maybe Syrians do it too?

They do. It used to amuse me when Rodney looked at me and winked with one eye.