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….?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

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

ALERT ~ 1:38 PM EDT:

We will be offline for 7-10 hours and will catch up boardings when we return. 11:59 PM EDT (9/28) ~ Caught up!

Cats

• Blog d’Elisson: Ullumination ~ Matata relaxes in the sunroom
• House of Chaos: Mine !
• Sisu: Tiny and Baby and Babe
• The Poor Mouth: I don’t care if it’s a veggie sausage, it’s mine now
• A Blog Around The Clock: Marbles and Orange Julius and irresistable ~ Marbles and Orange Julius
• Siani’s Pot-Pourri: Liberty warms her toes in style
• The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: Where’s the Cat?
• Val’s Bien: Eli and Tigger, Where’s the Food?
• Dragonheart’s Domain: Frootbat Friday: Hope Jewel & A Trip to the Vet
• Manx Mnews: Fun Friday
• Texas Oasis: Purrsday Night – Henry’s checkup
• enrevanche: The nuggets must be guarded
• Books at Eclectics: The amazing Mocha Fudge Brownie!
• Elms in the Yard: Symmetri-cats ~ Her Ladyship and Missy
• Perfectly Parker: Formerly Feral Friday ~ Treat Seeking Missile
• Middle Fork: Tinker on Back Porch
• Athenamama: Thalia Sinks To A New Low (Part II)
• Take Joy!: Hide and Seek ~ Serena (both ends)
• Chey’s Place: Feature Friday
• Catymology: A pear-shaped cat contemplates the autumnal equinox
• Photos and Pursuits: Comfort
• Shrimp and Grits: Friday Cat ~ She did it!
• Bonnie Underfoot and Victor Tabbycat: I can put up with him…
• Survival of the Furriest: Fun Friday ~ Monty Q. Kat
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog ~ an opposable thumb thing
• Dolphin’s Dock: Feline Friday
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Reine and Phil
• Watermark Comfort
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Ringo Baby Picture
• Mind of Mog: Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos ~ Ritzi
• Mind of Mog: Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos #12; boarded 9/29
• CatSynth: Weekend Cat Blogging and more ~ It’s all about Luna! boarded 9/29
• Imeowza: Can’t get no catnip boarded 9/30

Dogs

• Val’s Bien: Quiz, How Smart is Your Dog?
• composite drawlings: Dogblog ~ Clyde takes a cat nap
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Pushing Barriers ~ Sasha and Dexter
• Mad Goat Lady: Pink Pooches
• Scratchings & Sniffings: The Carmel Goes Sockless!
• The Devil Dog: Scooter Dog
• sleeping mommy: The Prodigal Pup Returns
• The Coby Chronicles: Furry Friday ~ Depressed; boarded 9/29

Invertebrates

• Sisu: A spider’s work is never done ~ European Garden Spider, AKA Cross Spider (Araneus diadematus)
• The Backyard Arthropod Project: Screaming in the Trees ~ “dog day” cicadas
• Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod ~ Piglet! ~ Heliocranchia sp.
• Burning Silo: insect photography 101
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature ~ Sea Nettle
• Ontogeny: Friday Ant Zen ~ Cecropia Ants, Azteca alfari
• (sometimes)photoblog: A Bumble Bee

Birds

• A DC Birding Blog: Winter Finch Forecast for 2007-2008
• Living the Scientific Life: Returning From the Edge ~ Rimatara Lorikeets, Vini kuhlii
• Rurality: Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)
• X-TREME Tea Time: Friday Creature ~ Rather Autumnal
• Pocahantes County Fair: More Turkeys
• Natural Visions: Friday Quiz #67
• Mon@rch’s Nature Blog: Golden-crowned Kinglet and many more
• Diamondcat’s Xanga: Eagle

Other Vertebrates

• Earth, Wind & Water: Hudson hawk(sbill)
• VWXYNot?: Friday’s Primate Party
• What Do I Know?: Friday Foal Blogging
• cookiesinheaven: “Giving the Bronx Cheer…Horsie style”
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series – Basking Sharks
• The Liberal Amphibian: African Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) boarded 9/29
• xenogere: river cooter (Pseudemys concinna); boarded 9/29

In Memoriam

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Didn’t Make It

• Paleoblog: Mammoth DNA and Cerasinops hodgskissi
• The Hairy Museum of Natural History: Stories from the Snyder Quarry 5

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• the skwib: Professor Quippy ~ This Thanksgiving It’s Velociraptor

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 183rd edition, 9/23, is up at This, That & The Other Thing . The 184th edition will be hosted on 9/30 by Life from a Cat’s Perspective. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging #120 hosted on 9/29-30 by Madak-Masak. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 58th edition is up and hosted by The Nightjar. The 59th edition will be hosted on 10/4 by the Naturalist Notebook.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 24th edition is up and hosted by Naturalist Notebook. The 25th edition will be hosted at the end of September by The annotated budak.

For other current carnivals check out 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.