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Im Tierpark Berlin leben zwei Eisbärinnen - Tonja und ihre Tochter Hertha. Beide sind gleich groß, für Besucher sind sie nicht zu unterscheiden. Die Tierpfleger erkennen sie an der leicht unterschiedlichen Form der Schnauze. Dass Hertha nicht, wie es gängige Praxis ist, weil die Mütter ihren Nachwuchs irgendwann nicht mehr bei sich dulden, an einen anderen Zoo abgegeben werden konnte, liegt an einem folgenschweren Fehler, der lange vor ihrer Geburt gemacht wurde. Beide Elterntiere, Tonja und Wolodja, stammen aus dem Moskauer Zoo. Und dort wurde 10 Jahre nach Herthas Geburt festgestellt, dass Tonjas Papiere gleich nach der Geburt durch den Fehler eines Mitarbeiters vertauscht worden waren und Tonja und Wolodja in Wahrheit Geschwister sind. Hertha ist somit Ergebnis einer Inzucht und daher nicht für Zuchtzwecke geeignet. Ihr Vater Wolodja wurde an einen niederländischen Zoo abgegeben. Und nach einigen anfänglichen Rangeleien hat sich Mutter Tonja offenbar damit arrangiert, dass Hertha weiterhin bei ihr wohnt.
Berlin Animal Park is home to two female polar bears - Tonya and her daughter Hertha. Both are the same size and visitors cannot tell them apart. The zookeepers recognise them by the slightly different shape of their snouts. The fact that Hertha could not be given to another zoo, as is common practice because the mothers no longer tolerate their offspring at some point, is due to a serious mistake that was made long before she was born. Both parents, Tonja and Volodya, come from Moscow Zoo. And there, 10 years after Hertha's birth, it was discovered that Tonja's papers had been mixed up immediately after birth due to an employee's mistake and that Tonja and Volodya were in fact siblings. Hertha is therefore the result of inbreeding and not suitable for breeding purposes. Her father Volodya was given to a Dutch zoo. And after some initial scuffles, mum Tonja has apparently come to terms with the fact that Hertha continues to live with her.
Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called the "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Berlin Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Manor Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe. In front of and behind the manor, the original design of the gardens was carefully restored. That is why you won't see any animals in this part of the enormous premises of the Animal Park. But you'll find plenty of them at a short distance.
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This area was settled by German and Scandanavian immigrants. My Grandmother spoke only German until she started school.
133/366 zum Muttertag für alle Mütter, die, die Mütter waren, sein wollen oder in diesem Augenblick werden. Für alle die, die eine Mutter brauchen könnten, die Mütter jeder Spezies und ein Hoch auf die Mutterliebe, die wir heute zelebrieren und die einfach immer da ist.
I rented out Nikon Z6 + 24-70mm F4 for a week to see if I should upgrade my Nikon D750 to Z6. It was a brilliant camera. Love the color but not the focus or just *one* memory card slot.
I didn't show her here even though I love every little inch of her.
She's the mother of Ramin and Hermia and the character I had the biggest problem to find a suitable mold for. After a failed GO with LLDT and already fearing I would never find the perfect shell for her Soom suddenly released the brown tan Beryl. And she's just gorgeous...and also still needs a name and face-up
Ara
??? Mellenkamp - SOOM SO Beryl
Dress made by Nalisinko Workshop
A mother feeding her Child in Shanghai, China.
The one-child policy (simplified Chinese: 计划生育政策; pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; literally "policy of birth planning") is the population control policy of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy. It officially restricts the number of children married urban couples can have to one, although it allows exemptions for several cases, including rural couples, ethnic minorities, and parents without any siblings themselves.
A spokesperson of the Committee on the One-Child Policy has said that approximately 35.9% of China's population is currently subject to the one-child restriction. The policy does not apply to the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao.
"Look at the camera."
Ramin would sometimes think about his mother, even years after the end of the war.
Looking out of the window where Cheryl and her mother Alessa would sit in the garden, watching them while every touch, every word they exchanged was a proof of their deep love for each other, brought up often unpleasant memories.
He wasn't envious, he was happy now and what had happened in the past belonged there, but still once in a while he remembered her.
Her cold eyes, the hands that lacked affection, seldom smiling.
Sometimes she would pick him up, telling him how he was her perfect little boy, but it never felt right to him.
It was always about perfection and he had tried his best to make her happy, especially after the death of his father.
It took years for him to accept that he couldn't have done anything to avert the inevitable.
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Finally I'm allowed to upload this picture :)
It was part of the "Soom around the World" project, for Flickr I decided to upload the picture without the text though.
It's the first time I actually took a picture of Arcadia interacting with one of her children.
Ramin and his mother have a difficult relationship, different than the one his sister shares with their mother.
While Hermia always tried to be like her mother, never questioning her and her believes, Ramin was most of the time afraid of her.
He tried very hard to make her happy but he never realized that it wasn't him who was "wrong".
He doesn't hate her, and later in his life he understands that his mother was just a product of all the social pressure she had to endure since she was a child herself, but he still wishes that things would have been different.
The mentioned thing at the end is actually a hint towards what Arcadia does when the war ends: she kills herself and her daughter, unwilling to accept the future.
I actually worked a lot at Arcadia's character in the last weeks,
She's still a perfectionist and rarely shows affection and any emotion towards most of the people around her, but I made her less "she's evil" and more "she's human".
Just like Hermia for example she was raised with one goal, namely that one day she would be married to a wealthy man, get a few kids and that none of this would be hers to decide.
She got a bit cynical about all this and, with tightly pressed lips, accepted her fate most of the time.
Before she was just a cruel bitch who's only in for the money, the good name and everything she did was basically "well, she does it because she's horrible".
I also changed her thoughts about her husband and thus also the way she and Roman interact (her dead husband is Roman's brother and thus he's her brother-in-law), while most of the time I imagined them hating each other like woah I now think they can, mostly, accept each other and their fucked up situation.
After all Roman has to take care of the kids now after his brother died.
More about that as soon as I get Roman's new shell (please ship alreadyyyy ;A;)
Title is by the way an on-going joke between me and my friends.
Before she got a name I always just called her "DIe Mutter" (the mother), which ended with us going all Rammstein-Voice "Mutterrr" whenever we would talk about her :'D
Ara
Arcadia Mellenkamp - SOOM SO Beryl
Ramin Mellenkamp - SOOM MD Afi