Animal Portraits: White Wolf

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Our Animal Portrait today will be of a White Wolf.

This is one of the members of the White Wolf pack at a wolf sanctuary in West Yellowstone Montana. Actually it is a white phase of the Grey wolves (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf, true wolf or western wolf and are found throughout the west but mainly in the northern Rockies from Colorado to Montana and along the U.S. and Canadian border. These are a captive pack and due to trauma early in their lives they have been unable to be returned to the wild. They are kept in a large enclosure that replicates the habitat they would have occupied had things worked out differently.

They have been featured on the blog previously under a post titled http://www.bigshotsnow.com/fishing-wolves/  which shows their unusual behavior where they have developed their hunting skills on their own, so they are able to locate or hunt for Rainbow trout. The fish are introduced into a stream that runs through the enclosure and the wolves spend hours hunting and ultimately catching these trout. While not a totally satisfactory replacement for life in the wild it introduces some much need focus and activity that mimics what their behavior would have been had they been able to live out their lives in the wild, and reduces the boredom so often seen exhibited by captive animals. Obviously their prey would have been different but their hunting instincts are true to their nature.

The purpose of the Animal Portraits posts are to showcase animals in a portrait format that exhibits their characteristics and personality traits. Rather than just show them in a static pose. Each Animal Portrait attempts to capture an aspect of their personalities that may not often be seen.

Here we see one of the pack in a calculating pose where his thoughts may be something on the order of ” I see you. I know you. You have been my friend. So upon further consideration I have decided not to bite you or take away your fish, which you have caught fairly and is the second one you have caught today, while I personally have caught none so far, but I reserve judgment on whether I might do so at a later date.”

Other posts that have featured Animal Portraits are

http://www.bigshotsnow.com/animal-portraits/ Escalante Coyote

http://www.bigshotsnow.com/50-shades-of-grey/ Harbor Seal

http://www.bigshotsnow.com/animal-portraits-dazma-the-amur-leopard/ Amur Leopard

Enjoy.

50 Shades of Grey

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It is a pleasure to post this image from our new “Animal Portraits” collection of the lovely Anaesthesia Tungsten from 50 Shades of Grey fame played by the vivacious and comely Aima Seale. We were lucky enough to have a few moments with this gorgeous actress between takes of her new project, 51 Shades of Grey which should be in theaters by the end of the year.

Never one to turn down an interview she spoke of her humble beginnings, starting with her early life living on a run-down wharf in Sausalito. Her family, always poor, spent most of their time living flipper to mouth, caging fish from passing tourists and the occasional grudging hand-out from the crab boats that went by. It’s hard to believe but Aima was considered a plain child and was left to her own devices through out high school. Her only joy was acting in the various plays at “Our Mother of Difficult Choices” high school where she had a spotty attendance record.

It was there that she was spotted in a small role in the school’s presentation of “Moby Dick” and was soon on her way to stardom. After several years working the circuit of various theme parks she got her chance to audition for Anaesthesia Tungsten in the adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey and the rest is history.

Her co-star, handsome and walrusy, Sacha Moustache, who plays Christian Grey her romantic interest in the film, says “She’s incredible. She’s a big girl and she’s going to be a big star. I can’t wait to whip her into shape. She’s Oscar gold for sure”.

This is a first for us, having a star of her magnitude as a subject, but we’re up to the task. Aima Seale is just one of many personalities, famous and infamous, that will be featured in our soon to be released eBook “Animal Portraits” coming to an electronic reader near you. Stay tuned.