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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
Jodi Picoult
''...La danza è la più sublime, la più commovente, la più bella di tutte le arti, perché non è una mera traduzione o astrazione dalla vita, è la vita stessa...''
(Henry Havelock Ellis)
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Recently the great Amsterdam zoo ARTIS was also gazetted as a Botanical Garden, much to my joy! It always had many plants and flowerss, but now lots of them have been signposted as well (not this one, though, which is presumable a cultivar). It's wonderful to be able to alternate between the Hortus and the Zoo, only a couple of hundred metres away from each other.
The Zoo, of course, has many caged animals, but there are 'free in the air' ones as well. Here's a Honeybee scrounging for the last Autumn Nectar. She's on a Sage and flower's nectar is apparently not very accessible for her from the inside. So she's loading up from its backside between the sepals and the corolla, where there's nectar-seepage, or perhaps she's cutting into it.
It was very wet - see the raindrop - but a bit of Sunlight was all Honeybee needed for her expedition.
Amsterdam, Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, Artis (NL) 23-07-2016
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My kids are having a holiday this week, so it's quality time. What better place than to spend it at the zoo? I took this shot of this wonderful creature with my Powershot camera. It was taken at the zoo in Amsterdam, Artis.
A group in front of a group at a corner of Arti & Amicitiae in Amsterdam (www.arti.nl/aktiviteiten.php )
Set of 6 bento poses for Pose fair. Shape included, just in case someone wants it. I packed 3 different chairs inside. The price is discounted so grab it ASAP ♥
They're not endemic to The Netherlands - although a few live in ARTIS. Moreover, Gyps fulvus is endangered, But in 2007 about 100 of them came to The Netherlands apparently as members of a population in the Pyrenees.
They're majestic animals and it's hard to imagine that they feel at home in their ARTIS cage, no matter how well they're cared for.