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White-Winged Crossbill cool fact: individual White-Winged Crossbills can eat up to 3,000 conifer seeds each day!
Noi umani siamo osservatori grossolani, anche in ragione di sensi di efficienza assai inferiore a quelli di numerose specie animali, ma soprattutto per l'incorreggibile superficialità che ci distingue. Questi alberi, questi cipressi, ad esempio, sembrano a prima vista tutti uguali. Invece sono tutti diversi: ciascuno, proprio come accade agli individui della nostra specie, esprime la propria individualità ..... ..
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Lone tree standing in a field at the top of a hill behind Bordlands, near West Linton, Peeblesshire, (more recently Scottish Borders) Scotland.
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A bit late for the holiday season, but presented in the spirit of Santa. A weather-worn Limber Pine anchored in granite clings to the slopes of Grassy Top, with the afternoon sun warming its trunk. I'm not sure of the age of the older trees on this slope, but based on nearby trees that I've cored I'd guess this individual might be a bit over 300 years old.
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Kaziranga National Park
State Of Assam
India
The Asian or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east.
Three subspecies are recognized—Elephas maximus maximus from Sri Lanka, the Indian elephant or E. m. indicus from mainland Asia, and E. m. sumatranus from the island of Sumatra. Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia.
Since 1986, E. maximus has been listed as endangered by IUCN as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be 60–75 years. Asian elephants are primarily threatened by degradation, fragmentation and loss of habitat, and poaching. In 2003, the wild population was estimated at between 41,410 and 52,345 individuals.
Female captive elephants have lived beyond 60 years when kept in semi-natural surroundings, such as forest camps. In zoos, elephants die at a much younger age and are declining due to a low birth and high death rate.
The genus Elephas originated in Sub-Saharan Africa during the Pliocene, and ranged throughout Africa into southern Asia. The earliest indications of captive use of Asian elephants are engravings on seals of the Indus Valley civilization dated to the third millennium BC. – Wikipedia
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en estos dias estoy aprendiendo sobre las individualidades, hacer lo que uno quiere sin perder la perspectiva de trabajar en conjunto.
necesitamos aprender a no opacar el brillo de los demas, y menos a una persona a quien quieres tanto y con la que estas formando un equipo...
In case anyone wants a better look at the two from that mating pair I posted recently, here they are with individual portraits- female on the left, male on the right. They favored the same perch, although I flipped the female around so they would face each other. Siskiyou County, California
Una pequeña, y más escasa, prima de la mantis.
Presenta una metamorfosis hemimetábola, donde el aspecto del individuo que sale del huevo es muy similar al adulto.
A diferencia de la mantis, que presenta ojos redondos, la parameles los tiene en forma de cono.
A small, rarer cousin of the mantis.
It has a hemimetabolous metamorphosis, where the appearance of the individual hatching from the egg is very similar to that of the adult.
Unlike the mantis, which has round eyes, the parameles has cone-shaped eyes.
Un uomo si giudicherebbe con ben maggiore sicurezza da quel che sogna che da quel che pensa.
Victor Hugo
DA VEDERE ONBLACK
Comer también es tomar decisiones.
No simplemente sentarse a la mesa y comer.
cuando tomas tu alimento decides que tipo de cuidados das a tu cuerpo y al medio ambiente. como te quieres sentir y ver y que mundo dejaremos a las nuevas generaciones con cada acto o decision
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Glossy ibis
This glossy wading bird is a scarce visitor to the UK, though records have become more common in recent decades.
Scientific name
Plegadis falcinellus
The glossy ibis is a heron-like bird with a long, curving beak. They breed in parts of southern and southeast Europe and are occasional visitors to the UK. However, in recent decades sightings here have become more common, mirroring an increase in their breeding population in southwest Europe. Glossy ibises made a couple of breeding attempts in England in 2014 and 2016, with the first confirmed successful nest in 2022. It's predicted that breeding may become more common as climate change results in drier summers in southwest Europe and milder winters in the UK.
Most glossy ibises arrive in autumn, occasionally staying through the winter, though they could be seen in any month. It's often young birds that turn up here, sometimes just months after leaving the nest. Bird ringing projects have allowed us to see where some of these visiting ibises have travelled from, as they're fitted with a ring on their leg that allows birdwatchers to identify individual birds and trace their origins. Most of the ringed birds that have been spotted here were given their identifying rings as nestlings in Doñana in southwest Spain, though a few have been young birds from the Petite Camargue in the south of France.
Glossy ibises are usually found in wetlands or damp fields, using their long bill to probe the mud for food. They have a varied diet, mostly feeding on invertebrates like water beetles and dragonfly larvae, but occasionally eating newts, frogs, lizards, and other vertebrates. Their bills have special sensory organs in the tip that can detect pressure and vibrations, allowing them to find food buried in the mud.
No es frecuente ver vuelvepiedras (Arenaria interpres) en las orillas de fango de la marisma salada, prefieren las costas arenosas y, sobre todo, rocosas. Pero todos los años un pequeño grupo de menos de diez ejemplares aparece por la marisma, en este caso luciendo su precioso plumaje nupcial.
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Turnstones (Arenaria interpres) are not often seen on the muddy shores of the salt marsh; they prefer sandy and, above all, rocky shores. However, every year a small group of fewer than ten individuals appears in the marsh, in this case displaying their beautiful breeding plumage.
EN:: Best photographed at night when there are no background distractions, this art installation in a pond in the Tiergarten, Berlin. spoke to me of the adjustments societies had to make to the advent of shopping trolleys in supermarkets.
The very functional trolley that came after the advent of self service shopping coupled with carparks, meant that shoppers able to walk the trolley out of hte shopping centres and leave them strewn around the environs. Then came the temptation for anti-social individuals to take the trolleys further, dumping them in ornamental ponds, lakes even rivers.
Artistically this appealed because of the duplication by reflection, the waterline not immediately apparent.
The visible memory has remained, but the artist, the gallery and the specific location have all faded from memory. However, we would be most pleased to have any of that information, if there is any viewer who recognizes or recalls this installation.
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D:: Diese Kunstinstallation lässt sich am besten nachts fotografieren, wenn es keine Ablenkungen im Hintergrund gibt. Sie befindet sich in einem Teich im Tiergarten in Berlin. Es sprach mir von den Anpassungen, die Gesellschaften an die Einführung von Einkaufswagen in Supermärkten vornehmen mussten.
Der sehr funktionelle Einkaufswagen, der nach dem Aufkommen des Selbstbedienungseinkaufs in Verbindung mit Parkplätzen auf den Markt kam, ermöglichte es den Käufern, den Einkaufswagen mit dem Wagen aus den Einkaufszentren herauszunehmen und ihn in der Umgebung verstreut zurückzulassen. Dann kam die Versuchung für unsoziale Menschen, die Karren weiter zu transportieren und sie in Zierteichen, Seen und sogar Flüssen abzuladen.
(Explore: 4 June 23)
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Our back story::
On our very first day in Berlin, we had so enjoyed many significant landmarks and encounters with people, that we just had to do some more exploring that night. As the night settled and the traffic quietened we were prepared to take our car into this unfamiliar city (driving on the other side of the road from what we are familiar with!) so quieter places like the Tiergarten seemed wise. We found it full of surprises - this art installation being one of them.
Yes, so we try to return to our relationship again... me, my garden and its inhabitants. I had an unfortunate fall about a month ago and hurt my shoulder badly. Now the damage from that accident has recovered to the extent that I can comfortably hold my camera.
A stekel of some kind (?) is the first individual to my humble delight to model like this after the new reckoning of time...
ANDEAN CONDOR Female Vultur gryphus. A female Andean Condor is soaring through the blue skies at Volcán Antisana east of Quito in northern Ecuador at 8:10 AM on the brilliant sunny morning of August 9, 2017.
The adult female doesn't have the fleshy comb and dewlap of the adult male and the bare skin of the female's head and neck is black. Both sexes of adults exhibit a white puffy collar of down feathers.
The Andean Condor is a very rare bird in Ecuador, the entire population consisting of perhaps 100 individuals.
The Andean Condor belongs to the New World vulture family Cathartidae and soars in the Andes and along certain coasts from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego. The wingspan can exceed 10 feet (3 meters).
Una hembra del Cóndor Andino Vultur gryphus está deslizándose por los cielos azules del Volcán Antisana al este de Quito en el norte de Ecuador a las 8 y 10 de una mañana gloriosa el 9 de agosto de 2017.
For OPTIMAL DETAILED VIEWING, of this flying female ANDEAN CONDOR, VIEW THE GIANT SIZE (2320 x 1500) with this direct Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/neotropical_birds_mayan_ruins/51844...
The adult humpback whale is generally 14–15 m (46–49 ft) long, though individuals up to 16–17 m (52–56 ft) long have been recorded. Females are usually 1–1.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in) longer than males.
The species can reach body masses of 40 metric tons (44 short tons). Calves are born at around 4.3 m (14 ft) long with a mass of 680 kg (1,500 lb)] The species has a bulky body with a thin rostrum and proportionally long flippers, each around one-third of its body length.[14][15] It has a short dorsal fin that varies from nearly nonexistent to somewhat long and curved.
Like other rorquals, the humpback has grooves between the tip of the lower jaw and the navel. The grooves are relatively few in number in this species, ranging from 14 to 35. The upper jaw is lined with baleen plates, which number 540–800 in total and are black in color.
The dorsal or upper side of the animal is generally black; the ventral or underside has various levels of black and white coloration. Whales in the southern hemisphere tend to have more white pigmentation. The flippers can vary from all-white to white only on the undersurface. Some individuals may be all white, notably Migaloo who is a true albino. The varying color patterns and scars on the tail flukes distinguish individual animals.[
The end of the genital slit of the female is marked by a round feature, known as the hemispherical lobe, which visually distinguishes males and females.[15][19]
Unique among large whales, humpbacks have bumps or tubercles on the head and front edge of the flippers; the tail fluke has a jagged trailing edge. The tubercles on the head are 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) thick at the base and protrude up to 6.5 cm (2.6 in).
They are mostly hollow in the center, often containing at least one fragile hair that erupts 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) from the skin and is 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) thick. The tubercles develop early in gestation and may have a sensory function, as they are rich in nerves. Sensory nerve cells in the skin are adapted to withstand the high water pressure of diving.
In one study, a humpback whale brain measured 22.4 cm (8.8 in) long and 18 cm (7.1 in) wide at the tips of the temporal lobes, and weighed around 4.6 kg (10 lb). The humpback's brain has a complexity similar to that of the brains of smaller whales and dolphins.
The structure of the eye indicates that eyesight is relatively poor, being only able to see silhouettes over long distances and finer details relatively close. Computer models of the middle ear suggest that the humpback can hear at frequencies between 15 Hz and 3 kHz "when stimulated at the tympanic membrane", and between 200 Hz and 9 kHz "if stimulated at the thinner region of the tympanic bone adjacent to the tympanic membrane". These ranges are consistent with their vocalization ranges.
As in all cetaceans, the respiratory tract of the humpback whale is connected to the blowholes and not to the mouth, although the species appears to be able to unlock the epiglottis and larynx and move them towards the oral cavity, allowing humpbacks to blow bubbles from their mouths. The vocal folds of the humpback are more horizontally positioned than those of land mammals which allows them to produce underwater calls. These calls are amplified by a laryngeal sac.
This image was taken in Juneau, Alaska
The Lapland Longspur has an Arctic distribution, breeding in northern Europe and Asia as well as in the New World. The birds winter to the south in their home continents. This image of a breeding male was taken near Travers Reservoir in southern Alberta, Canada. The bill of this individual does not show the typical yellow.
In a savanna, each tree, each stem of grass, and each prairie plant is unique. Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. November 13, 2022.
“what i really want from music. that it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. that it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.”
~ friedrich nietzsche
i heard this cover today, after i snapped this photo... for some odd reason, i felt they went together..... i'm in a strange mood today... maybe it's cuz it's the 1st of october??? bwah-ha-ha
The Sandhill Crane is widely dispersed across the US and Canada with several localized breeding populations. Some are year round residents, while others migrate to northern breeding grounds. This individual is part one of the most northern breeding populations, photographed a over a hundred miles north of the arctic circle. This was not a species I expected to see in Alaska, and was immediately struck by the strong rusty tones in its plumage. I did a little research and found out that their coloration is in part due to iron stain from a diet that is largely among peat bogs and muskegs.
The midnight sun provides even more warmth to this summer tundra scene.
Alaska 2019