Not your usual reason for a flight delay

[mithriltabby]

You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital. It’s a stifling 100° in the shade and you’re eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder.

On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade within 1 mile has become very popular.

You start calculating the distance to the plane door and wonder: “Do I feel lucky today?”

Comments

[divertimento.livejournal.com]

I suppose none of those lions decided
to climb into the plane and become
a Toonses of the sky (The Lion Who
Could Fly a Plane, but Not Very Well).

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

Awww! Big kitties!

Now when a neigborhood cat takes up residence under my car all I normally have to do is open the door to get him to flee. There is a part of me that thinks a similar approach is not going to work as well.

[seathan.livejournal.com]

So how close DID the person taking that photo get, I wonder. It almost looks like a photoshop job.

[mithriltabby]

I particularly like the one that’s sprawled on its back with the belly exposed, just like Yeti does.

[mithriltabby]

The pic may be that small because it was cropped from a photo taken by a megapixel camera from a safe distance. If it is photoshopped, they did a damn good job with the light falling on the bits of lion outside the shadow of the wing.

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

"Fear the power of the fluffy belly AND my huge teeth!"

[mithriltabby]

You just know that’s what’s in his kitty dreams.

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

Wheras my cat dreams more along the lines of being a cheetah.

Meow

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Along similar lines...when my first kittie (see picture) was a kitten, my wife and I happened to be watching "Animal Planet" one day. The show displayed a pack of lionesses, just hanging out. All of a sudden, an Impala comes jumping past. A lioness simply reaches up and catches the thing, snagging it with one paw.

My cat (Figaro) was watching this show, and was FASCINATED by what the lioness did. For quite some time afterwords, he was strutting around like a big kitty, in a manner similar to short Italian guys after a showing of "Rocky"

[mithriltabby]

Snopes says this one’s for real.