No argument here

www.ffw.ch/de/news/medienmitteilung-dokumentarfilm-porkeria/

 

The documentary “Porkería” challenges the arguments of the meat and dairy industry and its stakeholders with concrete examples of the damage caused by the sector. Environmentalists in the Amazon forest have their say, denouncing massive deforestation to grow soy, corn and wheat. “Western countries are taking their lands away from indigenous populations and cutting down ancient forests to produce feed for the meat and dairy industries,” emphasizes Vera Weber, president of the Franz Weber Foundation.

Nearly 90% of global soy and grain production is used as livestock feed and ultimately to produce animal protein. If this cereal were used directly for human consumption, the benefits would be much greater. “The production of plant proteins is ten times more efficient than the production of animal proteins,” says Vera Weber. A reduction in the consumption of animal-based foods would mean that freed up arable land could be used directly to produce food for humans, without having to go through animals. Large-scale production of animal feed would also be drastically reduced, and the extent of global deforestation would be massively reduced.

 

Il documentario “Porkería” sfida le argomentazioni dell’industria della carne e dei latticini e dei suoi stakeholder con esempi concreti dei danni causati dal settore. Gli ambientalisti della foresta amazzonica dicono la loro, denunciando la massiccia deforestazione per coltivare soia, mais e grano. "I paesi occidentali stanno sottraendo le loro terre alle popolazioni indigene e abbattendo foreste secolari per produrre mangimi per l'industria della carne e dei latticini", sottolinea Vera Weber, presidente della Fondazione Franz Weber.

Quasi il 90% della produzione globale di soia e cereali viene utilizzata come mangime per il bestiame e, in ultima analisi, per produrre proteine animali. Se questo cereale venisse utilizzato direttamente per l’alimentazione umana, i benefici sarebbero molto maggiori. "La produzione di proteine vegetali è dieci volte più efficiente della produzione di proteine animali", afferma Vera Weber. Una riduzione del consumo di alimenti di origine animale significherebbe che i terreni coltivabili liberati potrebbero essere utilizzati direttamente per produrre cibo per l'uomo, senza dover passare attraverso gli animali. Anche la produzione su larga scala di mangimi per animali verrebbe drasticamente ridotta e l’entità della deforestazione globale verrebbe ridotta in modo massiccio.

  

Entertaining and easy to understand: "Crash Course Philosophy Part 2: How to Argue - Philosophical Reasoning" (youtube 9:42)

Maybe you also take a look at part 3, that is about further kinds of arguments, namely: induction and abduction

Not NLP or some other kind of manipulative rhetoric, but rational arguing.

 

Fabio Keiner accuses me (without giving any proof!), to have deletet his comment. Therefore this demonstration to show that I did not delete the comments.

 

A sincere exchange of views, opinions, ideas, thoughts is only possible when having arguments based on evidence and when the drawn conclusions are logical consistent. Defamation, abusive language, false accusations, illogical conclusions, flawed reasoning are thwarting communication.

 

1. Screenshot flickr Zeitangabe: 1 Tg. aufgenommen als ich die Antwort an Fabio Keiner schrieb, daß ich keinen seiner Kommentare gelöscht habe, der zweite am Tag darauf, der dritte (flickr Zeitangabe 4 Tg.) heute, Sonntag 23.4.2017. Alle 3 Google Chrome Browser. Zu sehen ist das Ende meines Eingangskommentares zu dem Bild (Zitiat aus Russell: "Is there a God?), darauf folgend die zwei Kommentare von Fabio Keiner und danach der Kommentar von Marjan)

Ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι Quod Erat Demonstrandum Q.E.D.

Denkanstoß: Derjenige, der jemanden beschuldigt hat Beweise zu bringen.

 

Part of: "res noscenda note notiz sketch skizze material sammlung collection entwurf überlegung gedanke brainstorming musterbogen schnittmuster zwischenbilanz bestandsaufnahme rückschau vorschau" Sonntag. Nicht grimmig, und auch nicht screaming, schon gar nicht a "sceraming hand" // (Fußnote an jene, die glauben, daß es ohne Kimono-Triptych quasi wertlos ist: hier gehts um Leute, die nicht antworten, wenn man sie nach Fakten für ihre Behauptungen fragt, Leute, die nicht bereit sind ihren Standpunkt, ihre Meinung zu erklären und zu erläutern, sondern einfach Behauptungen aufstellen ohne jeglichen Beweis und Behauptungen auch noch aufrecht erhalten, wenn sie jeglicher Grundlage entbehren, selbst noch wenn sie bewiesenermaßen falsch sind. Hier gehts um Leute, wie euch, die nicht bereit sind auf Gegenargumente einzugehen.... Es geht um das Verweigern von lauterer Diskussion (mit Argumenten und validen logischen Schlußfolgerungen), lauterer Debatte, lauterem Dialog, lauterem Streitgespräch, - Ich reagiere nur darauf, daß lauterer Dialog, lauteres Gespräch von euch verweigert wird)

 

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Woke up in the wrong bed this morning.

It was mine, but it should have been yours, even though mine is more comfortable.

 

The shower went cold before I was done washing.

And there was crusty tooth paste on the tube.

 

Front wheel of my bike wobbled all the way to work.

And my cat listens to me better than the person I have lunch with.

 

Read a zombie story blog after lunch.

Tried to relate to the main character, it didn’t work, she was a single mum.

 

Should buy cotton ear buds on the way home.

But this new album I got from that guy whose name I never remember has me distracted.

 

You message me to say we should talk later.

Seeing friends tonight, I lie.

 

Wish you would try harder, you tell me.

So do I, I respond quietly (in my head).

 

See you around is not a good way to leave it.

But we do because there is too much stubbornness between us.

 

I’ll go to sleep in the wrong bed tonight.

It’ll be mine, but it should be yours, even though mine is more comfortable.

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The two jaguars of the Salzburg zoo seemingly didn't have the same opinion!

www.ffw.ch/de/news/medienmitteilung-dokumentarfilm-porkeria/

 

The documentary “Porkería” challenges the arguments of the meat and dairy industry and its stakeholders with concrete examples of the damage caused by the sector. Environmentalists in the Amazon forest have their say, denouncing massive deforestation to grow soy, corn and wheat. “Western countries are taking their lands away from indigenous populations and cutting down ancient forests to produce feed for the meat and dairy industries,” emphasizes Vera Weber, president of the Franz Weber Foundation.

Nearly 90% of global soy and grain production is used as livestock feed and ultimately to produce animal protein. If this cereal were used directly for human consumption, the benefits would be much greater. “The production of plant proteins is ten times more efficient than the production of animal proteins,” says Vera Weber. A reduction in the consumption of animal-based foods would mean that freed up arable land could be used directly to produce food for humans, without having to go through animals. Large-scale production of animal feed would also be drastically reduced, and the extent of global deforestation would be massively reduced.

 

Il documentario “Porkería” sfida le argomentazioni dell’industria della carne e dei latticini e dei suoi stakeholder con esempi concreti dei danni causati dal settore. Gli ambientalisti della foresta amazzonica dicono la loro, denunciando la massiccia deforestazione per coltivare soia, mais e grano. "I paesi occidentali stanno sottraendo le loro terre alle popolazioni indigene e abbattendo foreste secolari per produrre mangimi per l'industria della carne e dei latticini", sottolinea Vera Weber, presidente della Fondazione Franz Weber.

Quasi il 90% della produzione globale di soia e cereali viene utilizzata come mangime per il bestiame e, in ultima analisi, per produrre proteine ​​animali. Se questo cereale venisse utilizzato direttamente per l’alimentazione umana, i benefici sarebbero molto maggiori. "La produzione di proteine ​​vegetali è dieci volte più efficiente della produzione di proteine ​​animali", afferma Vera Weber. Una riduzione del consumo di alimenti di origine animale significherebbe che i terreni coltivabili liberati potrebbero essere utilizzati direttamente per produrre cibo per l'uomo, senza dover passare attraverso gli animali. Anche la produzione su larga scala di mangimi per animali verrebbe drasticamente ridotta e l’entità della deforestazione globale verrebbe ridotta in modo massiccio.

  

 

Jeffrey Smart

Australia

1921 – 2013

 

The argument, Prenestina

1982

synthetic polymer paint, oil, pencil on canvas

“Humour is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.” ... Unknown

The debate/arguments continue as to the decision to place this attraction/eyesore at the edge of the Recreation Grounds in Stratford-upon-Avon. The latest objections are to the light show emitted by the wheel.

Atlantic Puffin disagreement in Newfoundland, Canada.

The style of the Gemarah is argumentative, yet joy is often derived from its study.

 

How can argument be a pleasure? When we approach it as a vehicle transporting us towards oneness. This vehicle fueled by most refined love is otherwise horribly derailed.

 

Currently we're at a standstill. The honking is both symphony and cacophony.

 

-Ourit

   

Go find your own.

 

Couple of crows fighting over what looks like a piece of squirrel fur in Mendocino, California.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

- Aristophanes

 

my question: was he blind?

I think that the lioness was saying to the male Atlas, that she has a headache!

She seemed to be having an argument of some sort with another woman.

 

Photograph 32 of 40 for my short time-lapse film “Man and the Mountain - A Dolomiti Tale” due for release February 23rd 2019.

 

From photos that you’ve seen you’ll know that Lago di Braies is stunning. This huge amphitheatre of reflecting rock on the far side of the lake dwarfs everything else. However potentially humbling it may be though, the shoreline, boat jetty and car parks are absolute chaos. I spent almost week here in total trying to take it all in. This beautiful lake in my opinion being ruined.

 

I was witness to several arguments between groups of photographers hustling for space, groups that even brought their own ladder to climb onto the locked boat jetty and groups commandeering boats before the hiring booth was open.

 

What I laughed at most though, and I swear on my life that this is a true story, was that a group of happy snapping warriors took (stole) a boat and were happily shooting away, not caring that they were ruining everyone else’s time when they had a discussion about whether they should leave the life ring inside because it wasn’t photogenic enough. After more and more reports of people dying for “the shot” I was honestly lost for words.

 

Location: Lago di Braies, Italian Dolomites

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I had already resolved several times not to take any more forest pictures with the drone - too often it looks spectacular on the display, but afterwards you can't do too much with it. But nature always has counter-arguments: by chance I found this small clearing today, where a few brown-leafy young beeches stood under the otherwise bare trees

 

Well it's a disagreement isn't it.

  

Borrego Springs, CA. 2 shot blended.

Pourquoi l'anglais, me direz-vous ?

Parce que.

Non, je n'ai pas d'autre argument.

 

Pourquoi ce reflet ?

Parce que.

Et non, je n'ai toujours pas plus d'argument.

  

Photo HDR prise le 18 juillet 2019, Grande Rue, à Alençon, en Normandie...

Blue Jay arguing with Larry.

 

20180107 Ron Mayhew IMG_8869a Red White and Blue Argument.jpg

Blog:https://lovenuaries.wixsite.com/lovearies/blog-1/arguments

Every friendship in your lifetime serves a purpose. Many of them don't last forever.. Maybe you share a unique bond with someone for 3 years and spend every living second with this friend.. and then One day you just slowly drift off & the friendship fades. Or worse, you two get into a disagreement & your friendship ends on bad terms.. Yet you still can think about all of those great times with that friend..(even if you no longer speak) and laugh- later in life.

>Some friendships are there to make you grow. To help you learn a lesson, that without this person you would have never learned. And their purpose was simply to come into your life, help you grow.. and move on.

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>>Then there are the real true friendships. The one's that you make.. and no matter what - the bond doesn't break. You may have disagreements with these friends, but the bond you two share is so much stronger than an argument.. & even if you haven't spoken in many months or even years.. When you two get back together, it's like you never left each other's side.

 

Those beautiful deep soul friendships that you find with VERY FEW PEOPLE are so special.. And you may not even know you're making one of these friendships when they're formed. ... But, then here you are so many years later.. Still catching up over a cup of coffee at the local coffee shop, just texting each other to see how they're doing.. but no matter what.. you're always there for each other.

   

Some friendships are forever.

Most are not.

Some friendships are unbreakable.. but you probably cannot count those people on one hand (even if you think you can).. In the end, the number will be far less than you think..

 

Be grateful for them. Keep them. Because some friends are meant to be your forever friend. & They're FAMILY.

 

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**Hey guys. I am overwhelmed with all of my comments/ favorites right now.. *I'm not going to tell you I'm not.

I'm actually having a hard time catching up on returning all of your comments..

So please be patient with me.. as I ATTEMPT to return your comments.

I love every single one of your comments & read them all & smile.

I really do appreciate you all.

And I always look forward to hopping on to Flickr to see your photos & catch up!

 

I hope that you all had a nice Monday! :) Happy Tuesday tomorrow.. I'm going to try to do this weeks 52 week challenge photo tomorrow at some point (subject:monochrome). As long as all goes well.

 

Have a great evening all!

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 11:36am on Thursday May 12th 2022 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.

  

THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)

  

By Paul Williams

  

The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!

  

OK

  

I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.

  

I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.

  

WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?

  

The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.

  

The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:

 

KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS

  

They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.

  

A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.

  

Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.

  

Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.

  

Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .

  

FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!

  

The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!

  

Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  

Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.

  

Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.

  

Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.

  

THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS

  

Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).

  

Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.

  

There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.

  

In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!

  

In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!

  

So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!

  

I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).

  

They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....

  

Yep I get that....

  

I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.

  

Paul Williams June 18th 2021

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I forgot it was Extraterrestrial Abductions Day.

 

There seems to be an argument on who abducts who. The astronauts say they get to abduct the aliens. The aliens are positive it means the astronauts are the ones who get abducted.

 

For information on Extraterrestrial Abductions Day, see www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/March/extabductday.htm

 

"Kerfuffle is a word of Scottish origin meaning a mess or an argument. (Suspicion: onomatopoeia for the sound of a flustered chicken fluffing its feathers.) Kerfuffle is applied more broadly than wank and may mean any kind of argument, including some very serious ones."

 

You gotta love words!! and wild turkeys!!

 

Thank you for your visits, thoughts and inspiration!!

Northern Flicker ( Red-shafted Flicker) These two males were having a argument. The one on the right took a poke at the chest of the one on the left and almost fell off of its perch. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. It is the only woodpecker that commonly feeds on the ground. There are over 100 common names for the Northern Flicker. Among them are: Yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names are attempts at imitating some of its calls. Shot through a window covered in rain drops as it was pouring outside. Handheld 1/800sec, f8 iso 3200. IMG_4559

Sandhill cranes having a brief argument

It must be breeding season or something. These birds always stay really high up, so not the easiest to catch without the zoom but you will get the idea here.

 

I am home now but I still have many photos to sort from my time in Emmaville.

Sim: Midian

Models: Peony Benoir, Zanner Igaly

Your argument is invalid.

A subcomissão criada no Senado para acompanhar os preparativos para a Copa do Mundo não está só preocupada com o andamento das obras até o evento, mas também com o que pode acontecer com elas depois. Neste Argumento, Ângela Brandão entrevista o vice-presidente da subcomissão, senador Zezé Perella.

Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) bulls having an argument on a Sea Lion Island beach in the Falkland Islands.

“Circumstances!?! I make circumstances.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Yeah, she said that too...

It must be the hat that made her channel the guy....

 

Chocolate, Vanilla, or the photobomb

Created for Saturday Self-Challenge ~ Your interpretation of Nature

 

With this challenge, I was finally able to pay a tribute to Kataza, a young adult baboon, who was at the centre of a controversial argument between those of us who love to have these wild animals roaming free in our area, and so called "Wildlife Officials" who continue to mess around with Nature. Kataza was removed from his troop in the hills in my picture, and "planted" him in a troop much closer to Cape Town. There was an outcry as this poor young guy struggled to be accepted by the troops in the new area, and it was only when it appeared that he was about to be killed by the new troop that he was moved back to his existing family.

 

That wasn't good enough for the "officials", however, and our celebrations were cut short about two weeks later, when "they" decided to move him to a wildlife sanctuary, some 2000 km to the north. We are told that he has finally settled down after months of torment, but I can only imagine him sitting in the hot bushveld, and dreaming of the days when he was free to roam the windswept hills of the southern Cape Peninsula.

 

I took the picture of the hills this morning, and added a painterly texture in Photoshop, and then added my picture of Kataza, taken just before he was taken away.

 

Shadow Frames

A local kid enjoying the views from a rock next to the viewpoint on top of The Treasury.

WARNING: If you go to Petra and want to take "the photo" of The Treasury you may have to pay extra fees to local scammers or have an argument with them.

Tree Swallow; Handsome aerialists with deep-blue iridescent backs and clean white fronts, Tree Swallows are a familiar sight in summer fields and wetlands across northern North America. They chase after flying insects with acrobatic twists and turns, their steely blue-green feathers flashing in the sunlight.

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tree_Swallow/id

Cuando joven me asombraba enormemente la forma del piñón. Esto era principalmente por su entrelazado de armonía, por su perfecta simetría, por su natural sabiduría.

 

Ahora en la adultez este fruto sigue llamando mi atención, pero a los argumentos anteriores se le suman otros dos: su fragante olor y su maduro color.

 

En mi vejez espero que el piñón me siga deslumbrando. Quizás lo haga por conducirme a mi niñez de plenitud o por ser un atisbo de infinitud... ¡Quién sabe!