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Kenya
Masai Mara National Reserve
East Africa
Miscellaneous Elephant Facts
1) African Bush Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. Males can grow up to 13 feet tall at the shoulders, measure up to 30 feet from trunk to tail, and weigh up to 14,000 pounds. Perhaps that explains why Elephants are the ONLY mammals that cannot jump!
2) An elephant’s trunk weighs around 400 pounds and contains around 100,000 different muscles. But, thanks to finger-like appendages at the tip, they’re also nimble enough to pluck a single blade of grass.
3) Unless you’re ambidextrous, you probably prefer to use one hand over the other. Elephants are the same way about their tusks: Some are “lefties,” others are “righties.” They’ll favor that tusk when fighting other Elephants, picking things up, or stripping leaves and bark off trees. Because of constant usage, their preferred tusk gets shorter over time.
4) Elephants have highly developed brains, not to mention the largest in the entire animal kingdom. Their brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans, although it is smaller in proportion to their enormous body weight.
5) Elephants have an extremely slow pulse rate, around 27 beats per minute. Compare that to the average human (80 bpm), or Canary (1000 bpm).
6) The elephant’s trunk, which is called a proboscis, contains 16 muscles. It’s very similar to that of their ancient ancestors, the mammoth and mastodon, with a large muscle on the top and sides of the trunk allowing elephants to raise it. There are also thousands of smaller muscle fascicles, or bundles of muscle fibers, that allow for finer movements of the trunk.
7) Elephants are incapable of jumping, but these massive mammals can run at a maximum speed of 25 miles (40 km) per hour. Yet even when they are moving at their fastest, they still keep at least one foot on the ground at all times.
Grey squirrels are mainly herbivorous, eating acorns and hazel nuts, berries, fungi and even bark, buds and shoots. However, on rare occasions when plant food is very scarce they will eat insects, smaller rodents, bird eggs and nestlings.
They are very self aware and trusting.
Their motto is...
"I see therefore I am"
Their favourite movies are...
"any starring James Bond."
Their favourite advert is...
"all because the Lady Loves Milk tray."
They are also members of...
"The Worldwide society of nature's entertainment and puzzle solving group."
Terry Morley 2017
😉
Moremi Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
Young elephant mock charging the land rover. He faked the charge at least four times, before running off to join the rest of the herd. I cropped the image to show his facial expression.
Botswana has the largest elephant population on the continent due to tight protection and civil unrest in neighbouring countries. The relative difficulty in accessing the wildlife areas coupled with the military threat to poachers has allowed the elephant population in Botswana to grow.
The Okavango Delta also sees high concentrations of elephants due to the permanent water source.
There have been incidents of poaching in Botswana, mainly rhino, but the government decided to set up a military task force in the fight against the scourge. Poachers were ruthlessly dealt with and the task force became a full-time anti-poaching unit.
The Linyanti area of Botswana was once a hunting concession but in the past 10 years, with only photographic tourism being offered, the elephants are starting to return en masse to the region and Linyanti today is being touted as equal to Chobe when it comes to elephant experience. – Wikipedia
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Thanks for following me, always, Wayne S. Grazio aka fotograzio
Photography And Post Processing - Me.
I like this image a lot and it is a personal favourite of mine. Shows yet another old lady/woman by the market stalls seeming absorbed/drained by life again and the look in her facial expression tells a story which can't be told which appears to be a mystery judging by her eye look. Although i did do loads of research into other documentary photographers for my university project looking at the likes of Henri Cartier Bresson and William Eggleston etc i can't really say they inspired me as i just went for my own approach. Trying to capture the moment was one of my target learning outcomes, i just like to grab the camera and capture whatever i see or comes natural.
I would say that shot is quite candid like some of the other shots, i got this shot as the old lady was walking slowly my direction without the self awareness i was there and it felt like forever until i finally got close enough to get the high quality snap shot i wanted to achieve. If you look closer at the image/photograph you can also see the old man walking/hidden right behind her also walking slowly who is probably related to the old lady or has some sort of connection. The post processing/production was quite simple as i messed around with the brightness/contrast to add more to it rather the image have a fade quality. Also i have tried to be clever by blurring the market stalls on the side to show how life/generation is going all too quickly for the pair. Almost like a daze which puts the focus/spotlight onto the main subject. I think the monochrome/black and white work well rather then color/colour as it makes the image more truthful for the audience.
Moremi Game Reserve
Botswana
Southern Africa
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Botswana has the largest elephant population on the continent due to tight protection and civil unrest in neighbouring countries. The relative difficulty in accessing the wildlife areas coupled with the military threat to poachers has allowed the elephant population in Botswana to grow.
The Chobe River front was once only a part of the ancient elephant migration routes but with civil war in Angola and the war of liberation in Namibia the elephants fell victim to mass poaching.
Rival armies were killing elephants for target practice and to sell ivory for weapons. The elephants reacted to this threat by not crossing Chobe River, instead the Chobe then became the dry season refuge for the herds and over the years the numbers built up and the reputation of Chobe grew.
There have been incidents of poaching in Botswana, mainly rhino, but the government decided to set up a military task force in the fight against the scourge. Poachers were ruthlessly dealt with and the task force became a full-time anti-poaching unit.
The end of the war in Namibia, and relative peace having returned to Angola, the elephants have slowly but surely started moving across the Chobe River again. There are many elephants that have not had the experience of the migration routes and still see Chobe as a dry season refuge.
The Linyanti area of Botswana was once a hunting concession but in the past 10 years, with only photographic tourism being offered, the elephants are starting to return en masse to the region and Linyanti today is being touted as equal to Chobe when it comes to elephant experience.
Other areas of Botswana such as the Okavango Delta also see high concentrations of elephant due to the permanent water source.
a sign on a West End footpath nurturing folk to be themselves as all otherselves are taken by someone else.
A Bhikkhuni is a fully ordained female Buddhist monastic. Male monastics are called Bhikkhus. Buddhism is unique in that Buddha, as founder of a spiritual tradition, explicitly states in canonical literature that a woman is as capable of nirvana (enlightenment) as a man, and can fully attain all four stages of enlightenment.
Meditation is for the Bhikkhunis the road to enlightenment. Photo taken at the Buddhist temple of Pha That Luang in Vientiane.
Een bhikkhuni is een non in het boeddhisme. Het dagelijks leven en veel van de regels voor bhikkhuni's komen sterk overeen met die van bhikkhu's de boeddhistische monniken. Voor bhikkhuni's is er echter een striktere discipline. Een van de redenen hiervoor is dat in de tijd van de Boeddha vrouwen onder bescherming stonden van mannen. De Orde van Bhikkhuni's is daarom ook ondergeschikt aan de Orde van Bhikkhu's, die een begeleidende en overziende rol speelt in de Orde van de Bhikkhuni's.
Moremi Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
Botswana has the largest elephant population on the continent due to tight protection and civil unrest in neighbouring countries. The relative difficulty in accessing the wildlife areas coupled with the military threat to poachers has allowed the elephant population in Botswana to grow.
The Okavango Delta also sees high concentrations of elephants due to the permanent water source.
There have been incidents of poaching in Botswana, mainly rhino, but the government decided to set up a military task force in the fight against the scourge. Poachers were ruthlessly dealt with and the task force became a full-time anti-poaching unit.
The Linyanti area of Botswana was once a hunting concession but in the past 10 years, with only photographic tourism being offered, the elephants are starting to return en masse to the region and Linyanti today is being touted as equal to Chobe when it comes to elephant experience. - Wikipedia
this is such an oldie outtake from last year's 365
haven't had much time lately, but wanting to participate with y'all
some of my favorite thoughts of the past few days:
when you know better, you do better!
don't hold yourself hostage to who you've been or what you've done...
when you know better and choose to do better, you rise into your best self
take responsibility for the energy you bring to the world..and the energy you allow into your life!
HSS!
thank you dear friends, for your continued support and LoVe xo
Moremi Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
Miscellaneous Elephant Facts
1) Males can grow up to 13 feet tall at the shoulders, measure up to 30 feet from trunk to tail, and weigh up to 14,000 pounds. Elephants are the ONLY mammals that cannot jump!
2) An elephant’s trunk weighs around 400 pounds and contains around 100,000 different muscles. But, thanks to finger-like appendages at the tip, they’re also nimble enough to pluck a single blade of grass.
3) Elephants tusks are ambidextrous. Some are “lefties,” others are “righties.” They’ll favor that tusk when fighting other Elephants, picking things up, or stripping leaves and bark off trees. Because of constant usage, their preferred tusk gets shorter over time.
4) Elephants have highly developed brains, not to mention the largest in the entire animal kingdom. Their brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans.
5) Elephants have an extremely slow pulse rate, around 27 beats per minute. Compare that to the average human (80 bpm), or Canary (1000 bpm).
6) The elephant’s trunk, which is called a proboscis, contains 16 muscles, with a large muscle on the top and sides of the trunk allowing elephants to raise it. There are also thousands of smaller muscle fascicles, or bundles of muscle fibers, that allow for finer movements of the trunk.
7) Elephants are incapable of jumping, but these massive mammals can run at a maximum speed of 25 miles (40 km) per hour.
A self-portrait that delves into the depths of the self, as the face is captured within the eye, symbolizing introspection and the examination of one's innermost thoughts and emotions.
Health isn’t optional piersey.com/health-wake-up-call-story/ and your body will eventually tell you that. This is the honest breakdown of my wake-up call, the signs I ignored, and what finally pushed me into real change.
How can I put this I, I, I...
I'm an independent woman, I...
I've been crying like a child
I just wanted you to know the person that I am
More than any other of your fans
I will love you for a thousand years
Yours truly
---
How could I ever love another?
How could you say you don't remember?
God knows I'd give anything
For just one more night together
Today I miss you more than ever
How could you say you don't remember?
This one's for the happiness I'll be wishing you forever
You got me crying like a child
Ain't no need for me to lie
(宇多田 ヒカル) Utada (Hikaru) - This One (Crying Like A Child)
Kansas City Zoo
At the age of 2 years, Milo (a chimpanzee) has entered the age of self-discovery, self-awareness, and self-consciousness. And don’t let that ashamed, pathetic look fool you. That kid is still finding ways to get about anything that he wants.
The surprising lesson behind holiday eating piersey.com/holiday-eating-real-effects/ and why hunger can be grounding instead of stressful.
Greetings portrays three mannequins who have awakened into autonomy and now present themselves with confidence and humor. The central mannequin has reconstructed its identity with white hands, a ceramic head, and a small bird placed inside its chest as a playful symbol of self-awareness. Around it, the other mannequins select their own prosthetics and embrace their worn or incomplete bodies without shame. Even the dog seems newly sentient, questioning its place in this evolving world. Together, they offer a light-hearted yet poignant meditation on self-determination, reinvention, and the quiet dignity of claiming one’s own form. Image Sources: edan-cohen-Sz5vFRzabbE-unsplash; vintage-style-female-display-mannequin-from D&A Binder; carrying-hand-prosthethetic-WWI Museum; crequle-french-cubist-oil-and-acrylic-on-board-le-mannequin-after-giorgio-de-chiricolate-20th-century-sku22213572_0 from Vinterior; Metal Mannequin from Bell & Beasst Empoorium; robin-818126_1920-Oldiefan on Pixabay; Head from BrocanteMitchVintage on Etsy; Dog from Robt.YoungAntiques; Sitting Mannequin origin unknown; Polio Boos from QuantiGarageSale on Etsy;
~Aldous Huxley
i also adore this quote-
"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are." ~Eckhart Tolle
:) happy weekend my friends
Keeping Santa Cruz Weird.
Photo by Chuck Rogers.
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Joe Buck has no self-awareness. Troy Aikman has self-awareness but made a bad choice covering himself.
Thursday Night Football Postgame Broadcast on December 16, 2021.
I recently began reading this book by Koch, chapter a day, until I found my old report cards going back to 1943 when I began school. Thinking about "consciousness" as I sought to date my very first memories....is memory a measure of the moment our consciousness or self-awareness began? Or does it exist even earlier I wondered.
Fascinating topic if a bit esoteric. Not having as much difficulty with the subject as I thought I might....however, parsing or interpreting the cover photos is yet to become clear.
Taken and edited on an iPhone 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxYsi5Y-xOQ
Compassion withheld, Judgment delivered, Blame received, Hope denied, Addiction to cope, Shame as result, Justified rebellion, Scorn of the child . . . Look in his eyes, Have mercy for one, Forgiveness released, Surrendered demands, Accept the history, Cycle broken, Compassion for self, Grace envelops, Embrace the story, Renewed sense of life, Never alone, Higher provision, It has all been seen, Living allegory, Proof of my need, Focus on One.
Taken and edited on an iPhone 4
What is it?>>>Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Click to Listen >>> An Amazing Song
Heaven and Earth melting Together
In tHe middle of the RoaD
between the lines
neither Samsara nor Nirvana
Light and Dark Enlightenment
Floating on Hades Wings
HKD
Schweben zwischen Himmel und Erde in der Mitte
HKD
Listen: Damaged by Queensrÿche
There's nail in my head.
Copyright © 2020 Vic Bonilla All Rights Reserved.
Do not reproduce this image without expressed permission from the photographer.
I intended to create a cheap looking cityscape and needed a very cute monster toy to go with it (the less menacing the monster is the better). I was mainly inspired by the video game Rampage (which was one of my favourite games as a child).
The photograph is intended to be self aware and look fake. I hope these intentions are obvious to the viewer.
Kruger National Park
South Africa
Miscellaneous Elephant Facts
1) African Bush Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. Males can grow up to 13 feet tall at the shoulders, measure up to 30 feet from trunk to tail, and weigh up to 14,000 pounds. Perhaps that explains why Elephants are the ONLY mammals that cannot jump!
2) An elephant’s trunk weighs around 400 pounds and contains around 100,000 different muscles. But, thanks to finger-like appendages at the tip, they’re also nimble enough to pluck a single blade of grass.
3) Unless you’re ambidextrous, you probably prefer to use one hand over the other. Elephants are the same way about their tusks: Some are “lefties,” others are “righties.” They’ll favor that tusk when fighting other Elephants, picking things up, or stripping leaves and bark off trees. Because of constant usage, their preferred tusk gets shorter over time.
4) Elephants have highly developed brains, not to mention the largest in the entire animal kingdom. Their brain is 3 or 4 times larger than that of humans, although it is smaller in proportion to their enormous body weight.
5) Elephants have an extremely slow pulse rate, around 27 beats per minute. Compare that to the average human (80 bpm), or Canary (1000 bpm).
6) The elephant’s trunk, which is called a proboscis, contains 16 muscles. It’s very similar to that of their ancient ancestors, the mammoth and mastodon, with a large muscle on the top and sides of the trunk allowing elephants to raise it. There are also thousands of smaller muscle fascicles, or bundles of muscle fibers, that allow for finer movements of the trunk.
7) Elephants are incapable of jumping, but these massive mammals can run at a maximum speed of 25 miles (40 km) per hour. Yet even when they are moving at their fastest, they still keep at least one foot on the ground at all times.
8) If you’ve ever been up close to an elephant, you may have noticed their incredible eyelashes, which can grow up to five inches in length. Studies have shown that the the ideal length for eyelashes is approximately one-third of total the length of the eye, which helps to prevent the eyes from drying out.
What is your story?
Enjoy YOUR fantasy
1st level of interpretation
Watcher
Observer
Watching
A shared Sundown
2nd level of interpretation (analytic)
A waiting Venus
Awaiting Venus
Nothing to say
Contact impossible
Departed
Peace
Harmony
3rd level of interpretation (symbolic)
Duality
Yin + Yang
female - male
Two people - one Light
One source
TAO
I see oneness behind duality
HKD