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Here, you can see a prime example of the aforethought extinct, Shy Coastal Gorilla, which was discovered Christmas Day in Daytona Beach, Florida. Unlike many other gorilla species, the Shy Coastal Gorilla is very thin, tall, and walks erect, leading some to believe that it is the notorious "Missing Link" in the evolutionary process.
The Shy Coastal Gorilla has a voracious appetite, and is an omnivore. Using its unusual, and deceptive charm, it manages to disarm those who would normally be wary of an animal of this size, by gaining their trust and causing them to erroneously believe that it is helpless, and in need of food and shelter. The Shy Coastal Gorilla especially enjoys gaining invites into homes where ham and mashed potatoes are being served, having long ago lost its desire for more organic fare, or the desire to hunt regularly, though it is perfectly able to. .
To identify the Shy Coastal Gorilla, scientists carefully examine the animal's stance, and behavior. Though sometimes found hanging from tree limbs, this species often stands erect, grinning from ear to ear, placing its finger up to its lips, in an effort to appear innocent. Extreme caution must be used when approaching this animal, as it will use its cunning and ability to engage and entertain passers by, sometimes to the point of hysteria, which has been known to result in some people literally laughing themselves to death!
The Shy Coastal Gorilla can most often be seen in public places like Walmart, or as in this case, my brother's front yard. Do not attempt to approach the Shy Coastal Gorilla if you encounter one. While doing so is not usually dangerous, the most likely result will be that your pantry will be emptied of food. It is advisable not to feed this species unless you want to have it around your neighborhood permanently, which could be advantageous to those suffering from depression.
Several more captures will be posted to make identification easier, although when you've seen one, you most likely won't have difficulty distinguishing it from other apes due to its rubber-like, frozen facial features. The most common physical traits of the Shy Coastal Gorilla are its erect, lanky posture, its black fur, idiotic fixed grin, eyes that may appear to have slipped below the eye socket, and brightly colored, slip on, tennis shoes.
1989年製のソニー EV-S900。
Hi8という絶滅したフォーマットのビデオデッキです。
いまでも普通に動くのが恐ろしい。
左右には本木目パネルが化粧板として貼られている他、
大型電源トランス搭載など、とにかく物量投下が凄い。
実際に重量が約7kg以上もする等、
こんな重厚な民生用ビデオデッキは他に存在しません。
因みにPCMデジタル録音が可能で、
私はデジタル録音機として主に使っていました。
1989年当時で定価245,000円（税別）。
・・・愕然とするのが、30年以上経過しているのに、
この245,000円という価格を現在の価値に計算し直す際、
GDP換算すると現在の230,000円程度になるという事実。
デフレって恐ろしい。
これが日本の失われた30年というヤツですね。
The Glossotherium, an extinct giant ground sloth belongs to a group of mammals that have bony body armor, like the armadillo.
The Hall of Primitive Mammals, one of two halls in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives, traces the lower branches of the evolutionary tree of mammals, including monotremes, marsupials, sloths, and armadillos.
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located at Central Park West and 79th Street, comprises of 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library, across 2-million square feet. The collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts. Founded in 1869, the museum opened in the original Victorian Gothic building designed by J. Wrey Mould in 1877. A southern expansion, a rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque by J. Cleveland Cady, extends 700 feet along West 77th Street and in 1936, John Russell Pope added the overscaled Beaux Arts entrance on Central Park West.
Extinction Rebellion à Lausanne, après les scientifiques ce sont les médecins et soignants qui les ont rejoints cette fois.
Courageux ou inutiles, ils ont au moins le mérite de ne pas laisser indifférents... comme une piqûre de rappel dont on a bien besoin.
One of dozens of original paintings by Julian P. Hume housed at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.).
On a visit to the Smithsonian in October 2003, Helen James & Storrs Olson showed us several wonderful paintings of an artist depiction of extinct Hawaiian subfossil avifauna. The truth is, however, that no one alive really knows what they actually looked like. But, Julian does a great job of bringing the bones to life with his world class paintings!
Helen & Storrs allowed me to take photographs with the condition that they not be shown publicly until published. The photos were finally published in "Extinct Birds of Hawaiʻi" (2016) by Michael Walther and generously illustrated by Julian P. Hume.
This comparison painting shows a scaled reconstruction of extinct Hawaiian geese with nēnē (far right).
From left to right:
+ Giant Hawaiian goose (Branta sp.), Hawaiʻi Island; extinct
+ Kauaʻi Turtle-jawed goose (Chelychelynechen quassus), Kauaʻi; extinct
+ Maui nui moa-nalo (Thambetochen chauliodous), Maui, Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi (Maui Nui); extinct
+ Oʻahu moa-nalo (Thambetochen xanion), Oʻahu; extinct
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+ Stumbling moa-nalo (Ptaiochen pau), Maui
+ Greater Hawaiian goose or Nēnē-nui (Branta hylobadistes), Maui and possibly Oʻahu and Kauaʻi; extinct
+ Nēnē or Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis), exant on Kauaʻi, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaiʻi Island
Helen working
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Helen & Storrs
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St. Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent.
The fulmars are tubenosed seabirds of the family Procellariidae. The family consists of two extant species and two extinct fossils from the Miocene.
Fulmars superficially resemble gulls, but are readily distinguished by their flight on stiff wings, and their tube noses. They breed on cliffs, laying one or rarely two eggs on a ledge of bare rock or on a grassy cliff. Outside the breeding season, they are pelagic, feeding on fish, squid and shrimp in the open ocean. They are long-lived for birds, living for up to 40 years. Wikipedia
Down the volcano on the north coast.
At the eastern end of the island, this high plateau is crowned by the extinct volcano Maunga Pu A Katiki (400m) and bound in by steep cliffs. There are also three small volcanic domes, one of which sports a huge mask carved into the rock that looks like a giant gargoyle. Also worth looking for is a series of small moai that lie facedown, hidden amid the grass, as well as the Grotto of the Virgins (Ana O Keke).
Legend has it that this cave was used to confine virgins so that their skin would remain as pale as possible. It's worth crawling inside if you don't feel dizzy (there's a little path that leads to it, on a ledge, with the unbroken sweep of the Pacific below) to admire a series of petroglyphs.
The best way to soak up the primordial rawness of Península Poike is to take a day hike with a guide because the sights are hard to find.
I found this poor bugger stuck in the Museum of Natural History in New York. He was dumped at the top of a staircase, with no fanfare. I can't imagine many people taking notice of it unless they happened to recognise that it was a Tasmanian Tiger. The thing died in a Boston zoo. I got really sad, even a little teary looking at it. It was a skinny stuffed thing, but I thought it was very beautiful, which kind of suprised me. I thought if this is all that's left, then it should really be back home in Tasmania. The sadness of the animal's extinction tends to get lost behind stories about whether there are survivors out there in the wildness. There aren't, and humanity's to blame. We suck.
PS. Another Tassie Tiger photo can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/cenz/11848145/
Street Play (Theru koothu), the oldest and most powerful art form is a folk theatre performed in the open mostly during temple festivals in the villages of Tamilnadu, India. the performances generally depict scenes from ancient epics like Ramayana, Mahabharatha and tamil classical epics. There will be no dialogues instead only songs. Artists are trained to sing in their own voice and in a high pitch to reach entire crowd, since no technology available that time. The artists dressed up with complex heavy costumes and have a very bright elaborated makeup. They put on high towering head dress, sparkling shoulder plates and wide colorful skirts. Usually the whole trope will be played by males, even female characters also be performed by males.
Different variety of koothu includes Nattu Koothu, Kuravai Koothu, and Valli Koorhu, which are of about the state and culture of different peoples in Tamil country; Samaya Koothu showcasing religious topics, Porkaala Koothu, Pei Koothu, Thunangai Koothu about martial arts and war of the country. Another important art form viz, Chakyar koothu is very popular in Kerala.
In early days, they were respected for their skills and were invited to perform in villages during the festivals. The plight has changed over time, Street plays are now becoming extinct even in the rural villages of India, as the younger generation opt for dance programs, light music instead of street play.
One of world's most endangered species, in a 2006 count there were less than 100 Guam kingfishers left in the world and not a single one in the wild. Primarily as a consequence of the introduction of the brown tree snakes, these birds only live in zoos.
Captive breeding efforts, first successful at the Bronx Zoo, are underway in the hopes of returning a viable population to the wild.The goal is to put captive-bred birds back in the wild, though that may be impossible for the foreseeable future on Guam, where a few mating pairs are held in a well-protected captive breeding center. Millions of brown tree snakes still live on the island, defying all efforts to eradicate them.
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
Scale: 1:7
Producer: Character Options (Primeval action figures)
Released: 2007
Time: Late Permian
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Leptictidium, which means graceful or delicate weasel, was around 50 - 40 million years ago. A little hopping creature about the size of a cat, similar to today's Elephant Shrew.
THE government’s attempts to reduce rhino poaching in South Africa seem to be failing, if figures released on Thursday by the Department of Environmental Affairs are anything to go by.
The number of rhino poached in South Africa so far this year has climbed to 946 — already a 42% increase on the 668 recorded by the end of last year, and much higher than the 333 killed in 2010 and the 448 animals lost in 2011.
Scientists have warned that if poaching continues to increase at this rate, the species will be extinct in the wild by midcentury. South Africa is home to more than 80% of the global rhino population.
Nope, it's a sawn down trunk! I must admit if gave me a bit of a turn on spotting it for the first time in the hedge bottom!
Take one last look, because you will never again see me in the red jacket and blue scrubs!! Nor will I ever torture you with tales of work life. Nor will I attempt to find hidden spaces within these walls to make my own. Nor will I attempt to carry my 20 pound camera bag a half-mile to work and shove it in my locker.
Ever
Again
It has been a challenge to make this project work in the dark working months when i arrive and leave this place in the dark. And since increasing my work hours, it has just meant one more day of trying to be creative here at work. I am thankful to be leaving work today knowing I will never have to bring my camera here again ..........
The California Jackalope, Lepus-Odocoileus hemionus californicus (extinct) was a crossbred mutation between the desert dwelling Antelope Jack Rabbit (Lepus alleni) and a subspecies of mule deer whose range covered much of the state of California. This species was widespread throughout northern and central California, especially the Sierra Nevada. The Jackalope was a browser and would typically take over ninety percent of its diet from shrubs and leaves and the balance from grasses.
Since prehistoric times Native Americans hunted the Jackalope and, since about 13,000 BC, human populations controlled their numbers in California. After Europeans settled in California, pressure intensified as the human population expanded hunting Jackalope to augment their food supply. Human expansion in the middle of the nineteenth century consumed large amounts of natural habitat until an outbreak of Cervidae Influenza in 1876 caused the entire population to crash. Tentative efforts to save the species proved futile and the last Jackalope (pictured here) died at the Sacramento Zoo in 1903.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge : "Stretching The Truth".
Image created for a blog post I have written called "The ECM Dinosaurs" www,documentboss.com. The dinosaurs are from "Toys R Us" the setting is Egypt from a holiday a few years ago. The rest is Photoshop. I took the photographs of the dinosaurs on a perspex curved table using two lights a small beauty dish behind with a diffuser to simulate the early morning sunrise from behind to the right and a large square diffused soft box to my left on low power as fill-in.
I had to tone down the highlights a lot in Photoshop to make the dinosaurs skin look more realistic. All the dinosaurs are fairly close in size. I did some research and calculated that a Tyrannosaurus Rex head height would be just under twice my height. So I placed the camera low with the centre of the lens half way up the T-Rex body.
I discovered that even T-Rex has a best side and angle for the camera.
The Wallace Monument stands on the the Abbey Craig just outside Stirling. It is actually an extinct volcano. The hills in the background are the Ochils.
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