We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Do link to the Ark every week!

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.

NB 2/2:: Access to Modulator was down from late afternoon PST 2/1 until sometime in the wee hours 2//2 because of network problems in the Atlanta area that impacted our hosting service. This has also delayed receipt of boarding email sent directly or via BlogCarnival. Boardings will be delayed.

Cats

• Blog d’Elisson: (W)RAP Star
• Chris Dolley: A Kitten’s Guide to Snow: Kai and Xena
• Catymology: Football nut
• The Poor Mouth: More Robyn
• Jelly Pizza: So Over…
• KeesKennis: My name is Lelu and I’ll take you on
• Lab Kat: Friday Cat Blogging: Coby
• Sisu: Tiny focuses and Babe applies the think system to…
• Manx Mnews: Friday Cat Blogging — THE SHOES Boo loves shoes
• Texas Oasis: Catblogging – Snooze News
• Stereophile: Who Will Rid Me Of This Meddlesome Photographer? and Check Out These Ears, Monkeyboy?
• Val’s Bien: White Stuff! Tigger
• No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging: Abandoned Angel
• enrevanche: Gato-in-the-box
• Elms in the Yard: Adventure in Jurassic Park
• xenogere /strange behavior/: Aisle or window?
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: Wood as a Method for Staying Warm
• Scribblings: Feline Friday: Happiness is a cozy blankie…
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Talk to the paw
• Middle Fork: Prelude to a Kitty Encounter
• Sisu: I love you, Babycakes
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Cold Cats
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging: 2-Photoes
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: AyeAye’s comedic performance
• TacJammer: Observer
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Frankie, Paz, Phil and Sammy
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging: Lord of the Landing
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn likes to play play “Poetry in Motion.”
• Not A Fish: Here she is! Welcome the new and improved – Shoosha
• Photos and Pursuits: Feline Friday: Two Kitties
• you’re On Notice: Friday Cat Blog: Awww
• Poi Rats and Cats and Bun: Merlins Pink Bathrobe Photo Shoot
• The Paw Path Cat Blog: We looove cold weather!
• IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Piper the Aware
• The Wide Awake Cafe: Captain and Amos
• Shrimp and Grits: Friday cat: I’m the baby! (Ash Edition)
• Skeezix’s Scratching Post: Frootbat Friday
• Simply Left Behind: Friday Kitten Blogging: ThumbPer
• Mind of Mog: Bazel Just Because and Tongue ‘n Toes Thursday #7
• House of the (Mostly) Black Cats: Need a Valentime? Or a sisfur? boarded 2/3
• Windypundit: Four More 35mm Cats : Ripley and Dozer boarded 2/3
• Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging: Datsa and Amy boarded 2/3
• Mind of Mog: Under the Chair and On Top of It boarded 2/3
• iInfidel: Night hunting boarded 2/4
• This Blog is Full of Crap: Friday Catblogging: Carnival of the Cats #150

Dogs

• KeesKennis: A dog from my past – Ridgebacks
• Val’s Bien: Playing in the Snow: Trixie and Casey
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: My Faithful Hound
• Athenamama: Things
  are Looking Up, Sort Of
• composite drawlings: Dogblog: Clyde test-drives his new bed
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Before the Escarpment –Sasha and Dexter
• One Hot Stove: Weekend Dog Blogging: Dale, Caught on Camera; boarded 2/3
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Dusty boarded 2/04

Other Vertebrates

• The Scratching Post: The Cruiser
• KeesKennis: Wild
• Sisu: Piglets and a Blindfolded Dog
• Middle Fork: Little Grey Forest Toad
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series: The Short Big-eye (Pristigenys alta)
• Burning Silo: Another Mudpuppy Night at Oxford Mills (aquatic salamanders) boarded 2/3
• The Urban Pantheist: Happy Groundhog Day boarded 2/3
• Path to Freedom Journal: Blackberry Steals the Show boarded 2/3

Birds

• Living the Scientific Life: Cuz It’s My Birdday .., Ferruginous Hawk and Birds in the News 68 (v2n19)
• Melange: An Uncanny Resemblance: Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
• A Mark on My Wall: Carved Toucan and Egret
• 10,000 Birds: Stalking the Piermont Snowy Owl
• Natural Visions: Friday Quiz #33 boarded 2/3

Invertebrates

• Living the Scientific Life: C’mon Baby, Light my Fire: Female ornate jumping spider, Cosmophasis umbratica
• The Voltage Gate: The Symbology of Invertebrates: Circus of the Spineless #17
• Pharyngula: Threesome! Loliginid squid mating
• (sometimes)photoblog: Monarch Caterpillar Dreams

In Memoriam

• Living the Scientific Life: Goodbye Barbaro

Didn’t Make It

• Paleoblog: Stegosaurus Discovered in Portugal
• Ontogeny: Terror birds (Titanis walleri) never met humans

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

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Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 149th edition, 1/28, is up at Mind of Mog. The 150th edition will be hosted by Laurence, the founder, at This Blog is Full of Crap on 2/4. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging hosted on 2/2-3 by Rosa’s Yummy Yums . Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 41st edition is up and hosted by Snail’s Eye View. The 42nd edition will be hosted on 2/8 by Neurophilosophy.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 17th edition is up at The Voltage Gate. The 17th edition will be hosted at the end of February by Pharyngula.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.