I'm afraid I don't know, but he was pulling my beard! I have another picture of him sitting on my head!
Mine is a picture of one of my fish, Cobi, a male Gold Honey Gourami, who unfortunately just passed yesterday.....
I do too. When I joined, I wanted my avatar to be a bird picture I took. At the time, all my pictures were with cell phones or your average point-and-shoot camera, so I filled it in with an Iiwi picture from the internet. I recently got a nice digital camera, so I am taking much better photos now. That's why I switched it.
I knew I wanted mine to be of my eternal muse, the okapi, but wanted something different from just a photo of one. I eventually came across this clay one made by DragonsAndBeasties on deviantART and was immediately smitten: Little Okapi
My current avatar is a photo of me and my friend Tom with a gorilla statue at Blackpool Zoo. I was giving him and his girlfriend a tour whilst working there in the summer.
I finally figured out how to avatar! Mine is a Vegas Valley leopard frog. From extinct to not quite so extinct!
I think I've had five profile pics in the past? Maybe six? I can't remember. At a couple points I had Thylacines (of course), once I had the old WCS logo with the gazelles I think, and my last one was a photo of London Zoo's old Panay Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rats. My current one is, of course, a big pile of rocks! (also known as Northern Elephant Seals) ~Thylo