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These images, which include an encounter with a huge whaleshark were taken far offshore off Costa Rica close to an illegal fishing device (FAD). This Fish Aggregation Device was a raftlike structure manufactured to attract as much sealife as possible, but mainly spawning tuna.
Purse sein fisheries scoop up all life that has accumulated around the raft with their massive nets. Any bycatch from small fish to this huge whaleshark, dolphins and even seaturtles are killed in the process. That is why these FAD's are illegal.
They are however used widely in the pacific to feed our tuna riddled dishes..
A sweetcron sweetcron. Aggregating content about lifestreaming software - Sweetcron - from a number of sources.
A huge aggregation of swallows. Hard to estimate numbers, but more than 5000 were probably present. Birds kept swirling around, and moving east along the lake front.
Ponchartrain Lakefront, Mandeville, LA
28 November, 2013
Scientific Name : Theropithecus gelada
Baboons are terrestrial monkeys and among the most entertaining of African animals to watch, perhaps because they exhibit many behaviours rather similar to our own. Troops typically number between 20 and 80 individuals, although bigger aggregation of over 100 members are known. A troop consist of several kinship groups of adult females and their offspring, as well as a number of mature, sexually-active males. There is a strict hierarchy among the females and the males, with individual males generally having exclusive mating rights to certain kinship groups. Immature males are tolerated within the troop until they reach five years of age, after which they attempt to join neighbouring troops. Individual male baboons are formidable animals armed with large canine teeth, and fear only lions and large male leopards. When two or more male baboons are together, even these predators usually give them a wide berth. This partial immunity from predation has allowed baboons to develop a terrestrial lifestyle, although constant vigilance is required to keep the young out of danger. Baboons frequently forage alongside antelope as the acute hearing of these herbivores provides an early warning against predators. At night, baboons gather to roost in large trees along watercourses or on steep rock faces. Like other primates, baboons are omnivorous. The troop forages in a loose group, digging up succulent roots, turning over rocks in search of insects and scorpions, gorging themselves on fruit and berries, or wading into shallow pools for water lily tubers. The newborn fawns of gazelle and antelope may be preyed upon by adult male baboons. Baboons can become a pest in agricultural areas as they raid orchards and feed on crops, so they are often heavily persecuted by farmers. They can even become a menace around safari lodges, where baboon chasers are sometimes employed to discourage them. The number of baboon species is disputed, with some authors lumping the Guinea, chacma, olive and yellow baboons as a single species - the savanna baboon.
Scientific Name : Theropithecus gelada
Baboons are terrestrial monkeys and among the most entertaining of African animals to watch, perhaps because they exhibit many behaviours rather similar to our own. Troops typically number between 20 and 80 individuals, although bigger aggregation of over 100 members are known. A troop consist of several kinship groups of adult females and their offspring, as well as a number of mature, sexually-active males. There is a strict hierarchy among the females and the males, with individual males generally having exclusive mating rights to certain kinship groups. Immature males are tolerated within the troop until they reach five years of age, after which they attempt to join neighbouring troops. Individual male baboons are formidable animals armed with large canine teeth, and fear only lions and large male leopards. When two or more male baboons are together, even these predators usually give them a wide berth. This partial immunity from predation has allowed baboons to develop a terrestrial lifestyle, although constant vigilance is required to keep the young out of danger. Baboons frequently forage alongside antelope as the acute hearing of these herbivores provides an early warning against predators. At night, baboons gather to roost in large trees along watercourses or on steep rock faces. Like other primates, baboons are omnivorous. The troop forages in a loose group, digging up succulent roots, turning over rocks in search of insects and scorpions, gorging themselves on fruit and berries, or wading into shallow pools for water lily tubers. The newborn fawns of gazelle and antelope may be preyed upon by adult male baboons. Baboons can become a pest in agricultural areas as they raid orchards and feed on crops, so they are often heavily persecuted by farmers. They can even become a menace around safari lodges, where baboon chasers are sometimes employed to discourage them. The number of baboon species is disputed, with some authors lumping the Guinea, chacma, olive and yellow baboons as a single species .
Bronx Zoo Baboon Reserve
Marine life swimming around a fish aggregation device, or FAD, belonging to the Ecuadorean purse seiner 'Ingalapagos', which was spotted by Greenpeace in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands at LAT 04:07 NORTH / LONG 091:28 WEST. Greenpeace is calling for a total ban on the use of FADs, and the establishment of a global network of marine reserves.
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As part of activities marking the entry into force of the Kigali Amendment, guests visiting one of the ten InspiraFarms modular, solar-powered Food Processing and Refrigerated Storage Facilities that are being set up in six districts across four out of the five provinces of Rwanda. Each facility has a total area of 150 square meters that includes cold storage space, a processing area, an aggregation area, administrative and hygiene spaces, all running completely off-grid and in compliance with food safety standards. The cooling facilities use the latest technology and Kigali Amendment friendly refrigerants.
2011. Snow Geese by the thousands start arriving from the Arctic in early October. Typically 70,000 to 90,000 winter in North Puget Sound until late March or April. Fir Island Farms/Hayton Snow Goose Reserve is managed agricultural land (225 acres on the south side of Fir Island Road). It was purchased in 1995 to create a snow goose reserve this non-hunted reserve provides a winter-feeding and resting area for snow geese adjacent to the Skagit Bay estuary. A local farmer is contracted to plant a cover crop of winter wheat for snow geese after harvesting cash crops.
Fraser-Skagit Population Dynamic. "Snow geese that over-winter in northwest Washington comprise a unique population of intercontinental travelers shared by three countries: the United States, Canada and Russia. These snow geese make an arduous, annual flight to Russia’s Chuckchi Sea, to breed on Wrangel Island off the north coast of Siberia. They are called the Fraser-Skagit population, because the same identification collaring/banding studies that disclosed details of their migration timing and itinerary, found that snow geese of this group had a high fidelity to one nesting site on Wrangel Island and to one wintering area, here. They stay apart from the other snow geese aggregations that nest separately on Wrangel and winter in California." ~ wdfw.wa.gov
The idea of ladybirds overwintering in aggregations was well know to me from reading and photographs I had seen. Up to now, I had never been lucky enough to come across more than a few together, and I could never really be sure this was what they were. Not so on this occasion, as you can see from this sequence of photos. The tremendous variation in body pattern leads me to think that these are harlequin ladybirds, of described as the fastest-speeding invasive insect in Europe. It is said to have arrived in England in 2003, following escapes from those used in pest-control.
These are inside a bird hide, and there were half a dozen 'clumps' of them. Quite a sight.
Near Masham, North Yorkshire, March 22nd 2018.
Aggregation of Copper grains
Courtesy of Mr. Reza Abbaspour , Georgia Institute of Technology
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Instrument used: Other FEI FIB (V600, Vectra, etc.)
Representatives of cultural heritage institutions,
policymakers and the Europeana Network
gathered in Iaşi to design interventions to improve national infrastructures. They exchanged insights,
challenges and opportunities. Collaboratively they
Came up with a set of recommendations to support national strategies, develop strong local communities and implement shared frameworks. Europeana’s Common Culture project will oversee the implementation of these recommendations. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 4.0
Removing aggregation criteria for IPv6 initial allocations
Tomohiro Fujisaki
Keio University / NTT
Policy SIG, 4 Mar. 2010, Kuala Lumpur
IPv6