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Rabaris are devoted Hindus. According to their myth of existence they were created by Parvati, the consort of Lord Shiva, who wiped the dust and sweat from Shiva as he was meditating and fashioned the very first camel from the dust balls she collected from his body.
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Walking into an old shop with relics and antiques in China Town, the old Chinese man handed the minipimp an umbrella.
"Ah yes, 'mbella you want? That be 5 dolla", said the man that seemed to be about 500 years old. The young girl handed the man her weekly allowance.
This was it thought the girl. The ad in the newspaper clipping she found on the city streets claimed that this umbrella was magic.
"Yes yes you see right here you just wave around like this kay? You do real good kay honey?", said the man in a very fast voice while waving around the umbrella. Minipimp assumed this was his way of giving instruction on how to use it.
"Seems easy enough", she thought to herself.
So the little girl walked outside and down to the end of the block. She twirled the umbrella around. She waved it up and down. She tapped it against a building. She shoved it into a hole made for recycled cans. She twirled it, waved it, and bounced it.
Nothing.
And just as she was about to give up, she looked over at the shop she purchased this umbrella. And inside the display she saw the Chinese man. And from she could make out, he kind of winked at her. She found this most bizarre because it was not the kind of expression you would typically get from an old Asian man.
But just as he did, he seemed to disappear. Or maybe he fell. Or maybe she wasn't seeing it correctly through the stained glass window. She wasn't sure.
But what she does know is that the minute the man seemed to disappear, something actually appeared on the umbrella.
to be continued...
The Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia. It forms a superspecies with the closely related black-billed and Pacific koels which are sometimes treated as subspecies. The Asian koel is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of crows and other hosts, who raise its young. They are unusual among the cuckoos in being largely frugivorous as adults. The name koel is echoic in origin with several language variants. The bird is a widely used symbol in Indian poetry.
The Asian koel is a large, long-tailed, cuckoo measuring 39–46 cm (15–18 in) and weighing 190–327 g (6.7–11.5 oz). The male of the nominate race is glossy bluish-black, with a pale greenish grey bill, the iris is crimson, and it has grey legs and feet. The female of the nominate race is brownish on the crown and has rufous streaks on the head. The back, rump and wing coverts are dark brown with white and buff spots. The underparts are whitish, but is heavily striped. The other subspecies differ in colouration and size. The upper plumage of young birds is more like that of the male and they have a black beak. They are very vocal during the breeding season (March to August in the Indian Subcontinent), with a range of different calls. The familiar song of the male is a repeated koo-Ooo. The female makes a shrill kik-kik-kik... call. Calls vary across populations.
Location: Warsaw - Poland
Make-up & Hair: Urody Kaskada Studio
Art Direction: Nomad & Sundos Al Ayoub
Gear: Hasselblad H1 + Leaf Aptus 22 Digital Back
Light: 2x Profoto Pro-8a 2400 Air Generators + 3x Profoto Proheads + Profoto Giant 300 Umbrella
Special thanks go to Jacek Błaszczyński from 4Creators Studios, Magdalena Bolesławska and Ahmed Fahmy for the great support.
Unsure if this is the Amur's or the Blythe's.
Asian Paradise Flycatcher getting active after we caught the Baby Civet Cat climbing out of its little tree hole.
The Asian Openbill or Asian Openbill Stork, Anastomus oscitans, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Southeast Asia.
Asian Openbill Stork is a broad-winged soaring bird, which relies on moving between thermals of hot air for sustained flight. Like all storks, it flies with its neck outstretched. It is relatively small for a stork at 68 cm length. They breed near inland wetlands and build stick nest in trees, typically laying 2-6 eggs.
Breeding adults are all white except for the black wing flight feathers, red legs and dull yellow-grey bill. The mandibles do not meet except at the tip, and this gives rise to the species' name. Non-breeding adults have the white of the plumage replaced by off-white. Young birds have brown tinge to the plumage.
The Asian Openbill Stork, like most of its relatives, walks slowly and steadily on the ground, feeding on molluscs, frogs and large insects.
Credits:
Hair: Magika – Nonsense
Hair Stick: Neko Hama – Kanzashi Aya
Skin: Glam Affair – Linn
Earrings: Dahlinks – Fan Earrings
Dress: Lika Ruby – China Dress Heart
Bracelet: Sigma Jewels – Anya Single Bracelet
Nails: N-core – Manicure
Shoes: N-core – Coquette
Pose: fri.day
Nguyen Viet Hung, Fred Unger and Aziz Karimov welcome the guests at the ILRI@40 gala dinner at Melia Hotel, Hanoi on 13 October 2014 (photo credit: ILRI/Jules Mateo).
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Asian Giant Hornet-
The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), including the subspecies Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica),colloquially known as the yak-killer hornet,is the world's largest hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia. Its body length is approximately 50 mm and its wingspan about 76 mm (3 in),and it has a 6 mm (0.24 in) stinger which injects a large amount of potent venom.
The Asian or Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus), sometimes known by the name of one of its subspecies – the Indian Elephant, is one of the three living species of elephant, and the only living species of the genus Elephas. It is the largest living land animal in Asia. The species is found primarily in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Indochina and parts of Nepal and Indonesia (primarily Borneo), Viet Nam and Thailand. It is considered endangered, with between 41,410 and 52,345 left in the wild.
This animal is widely domesticated, and has been used in forestry in South and Southeast Asia for centuries and also in ceremonial purposes. Historical sources indicate that they were sometimes used during the harvest season primarily for milling. Wild elephants attract tourist money to the areas where they can most readily be seen, but damage crops, and may enter villages to raid gardens
San Diego Zoo-San Diego Ca.