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The Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas) is a baboon from the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons; its range extends from the Red Sea in Egypt to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Baboons are also native to and live in Southwestern Arabia, especially in Yemen. The mountains of Yemen and the horn of Africa make it a great place for the baboons live, where predators are not as common as in central Africa. The Hamadryas Baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians as the attendant of Thoth, and so, is also called the Sacred Baboon.
Apart from the striking size difference between the sexes (males are often twice as large as females) which is common to all baboons, this species also shows sexual dimorphism in coloration. Males are silver-white colored and have a pronounced cape which they develop around the age of ten, while the females are capeless and brown. Their faces range in color from red to tan to a dark brown that older males often exhibit. Males are an average of 30" tall, with tails about 20" long, and weigh an average of about 45 lbs. Tails end in small tufts. Infants are dark in coloration and lighten after about one year. Hamadryas baboons reach sexual maturity at about 51 mo. for females and between 57 and 81 mo. for males.The average life span of Hamadryas baboons in the wild is about 35 years.
The Hamadryas Baboon lives in semi-desert areas, savannas and rocky areas, requiring cliffs for sleeping and possibilities to drink water. The Hamadryas Baboon is omnivorous and is adapted to its relatively dry habitat. It is not discriminating in its search for food, eating grass, roots, seeds, reptiles, insects, small mammals and crops. Hamadryas baboons will dig for water in dry streambeds. Hamadryas baboons are diurnal and have the largest day ranges of any primate.
The Hamadryas Baboon is unusual among baboon and macaque species in that its society is strictly patriarchal and patrilineal. Females may try to establish matrilines but they are usually overruled by the males, who forcefully transfer them among social units and away from their female relatives. The males limit the movement of the females. They herd them with visual threats and will grab or bite any female that wanders too far away. Males will sometimes raid harems for females, resulting in aggressive fights. Some males succeed in taking a female from another's harem. This is called a 'takeover'. Visual threats are usually accompanied by these aggressive fights. This would include a quick flashing of the eyelids accompanied by a yawn to show off the teeth. As in many species, infant baboons are taken by the males as hostages during fights.
The baboon has an unusual 4-level social system called a multi-level society. Most social interaction occurs within small groups called one-male units or harems containing one male and up to nine females which the males lead and guard. A harem will typically include a younger "follower" male who may be related to the leader. Two or more harems unite repeatedly to form clans. Within clans, the dominant males of the units are probably close relatives of one another and have an age related dominance hierarchy.
Bands are the next level. Two to four clans form bands of up to 200 individuals which usually travel and sleep as a group. Both males and females rarely leave their bands. The dominant males will prevent infants and juveniles from interacting with infants and juveniles from other bands. Bands may fight with one another over food, etc and the adult male leaders of the units are usually the combatants. Several bands may come together to form a troop. Several bands also often share a cliff-face which they sleep on.
Like other baboons, the Hamadryas Baboon breeds aseasonally. The dominant male of a one-male unit does most of the mating, though other males may occasionally sneak in copulations as well. Often, a male forms a harem by "adopting" subadult females and teaching them to follow him. He protects them and in 1–2 years, they go into estrus and he mates with them.
Females do most of the parenting. They nurse and groom the infant and it is not uncommon for one female in a unit to groom an infant that is not hers. Like all baboons, Hamadryas baboons are intrigued by their infants and give much attention to them. Dominant male baboons prevent other males from coming into close contact with their infants. They also protect the young from predators. The dominant male tolerates the young and will carry and play with them. When a new male takes over a female, she may go into deceptive estrous cycles. This behavior is likely an adaptation that functions to prevent the new male from killing the offspring of the previous male.
Hamadryas baboons are often depicted in ancient Egyptian art as the sacred attendants of Thoth, scribe to the gods. Occasionally Thoth also appears in the form of a hamadryas (often depicted carrying the moon on his head), as an alternative to his usual depiction as an ibis-headed figure. Hapi, one of the Four Sons of Horus that guarded the organs of the deceased, is hamadryas-headed and thus often sculpted as the lid of a canopic jar. Hamadryas baboons were revered because certain behaviors that they perform were seen as worshiping the sun, and they were viewed as mediators between humans and the gods.
Transformation of field and pastureland represents the main threat of the Hamadryas Baboon, their natural enemies (the leopard and the lion) having been nearly exterminated in their range. The IUCN lists it as "least concern" in 2008.
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When you descend into the New York City subway system, down underground, you never really know what you're going to encounter. Sometimes it's scary, sometimes it's great. On this particular occasion on a Saturday afternoon, it was great. I was on my way home after visiting the International Center of Photography museum at Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street (1133 Avenue of the Americas, for all you old-timer YOURDON Inc. fans), where I spent an hour looking at some brilliant, but also somber and depressing, Depression-era photos taken by Lewis Hine. (Hine is perhaps better known to non-photographers as the man who took the breathtaking photos of the workers building the Empire State building -- see this website for some sample photographs). Alas, Hine died in 1940 in a state of near-anonymity and abject poverty; a few months before his death, he had lost his house because he couldn't keep up with the payments...
I don't upload many video clips to my Flickr site, and I haven't had the chance to record much "subway music" lately. But this particular scene was particularly interesting to me, because the band persuaded one of the bystanders to join in their group, providing a reasonably rhythmic clanging sound on a cowbell that was provided to him.
As for me: I recorded two different video clips, of which this was the better one. After a couple minutes, the uptown train arrived at the station, and I got aboard.... for all I know, the band is still there, playing their hearts out ...
A newly introduced combat gear to Ragnarok Systems. It is going to be used with both HAZMAT troopers and some of the armies.
The armor itself is based on an old experimental Russian armor, probably built around 80's and early 90's.
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Dang, wasn't that much of a pain. Guess that my mind betrayed me this time.
I for one am quite happy with it.
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If this doesn't get enough attention I will start tagging people. FYI. IF this disturbs anyone, I'm sorry but I simply had to.
Graphics for a new post breaking down what the Pantone Matching system is. Check it out here: cliqunited.com/pms-the-design-color-standard-explained/
The solar system created by Latvian American Edward Leedskainin inside the Coral Castle he built in Homestead, Florida just before sunset on a clear day with a few wisps of clouds in the background
Olympus OM-D E-M10 + 14-42mm
Panasonic Lumix GX1 + X 14-42mm
Olympus Fisheye Cap Lens 9mm
Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8
Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.4
Panasonic Leica 15mm f/1.7
Olympus 45mm f/1.8
Panasonic 14mm f/2.5
back to Venice and a walk round the Dorsoduro area. Fresh water has always been a problem in Venice so they built a system of tanks, wells and fountains to store rainwater under the courtyards .
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I never posted this photo before as I "cut off" the bottom of the TA-N80ES amp. It does show a nice pair of 7 series CD players though!
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This image image accompanies the Inventing Interactive article about the UI sequences in the film "Guardians of the Galaxy" The full post is online at www.inventinginteractive.com/2014/08/31/guardians-of-the-...
Während den Fahrgästen im Glacier-Express Nr. 909 auf der Fahrt nach Zermatt bereits Kaffee und Kuchen serviert werden, müht sich die Zugmaschine HGe 4/4 II Nr. 101 der Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (MGB), die Fuhre im steilen Zahnstangenabschnitt der Oberalpstrecke kurz vor Andermatt (UR) abzubremsen.
this is what happened when system of a down were transported into some kind of wierd cartoon u get in da newspapers
A Lego toy fair giveaway - seems to be a table marble game? Lego soccer balls are fitting perfect. Around 1996/97
Saw this leaf being brightly backlit by the sun. The texture in the leaf came out pretty well. Used a flash to illuminate the foreground. Flash was used not to override the ambient light, but to supplement the ambient light.
D300 + Tamron 90mm + SB-800
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Processing generated particle system paths rendered in blender. Blog post of the details: www.cutsquash.com/2014/04/exporting-processing-blender/
Hi there! This is my combined December holidays / birthday present, that my hubby helped me put together. My crafty space is just 1/4 of a space bedroom. See the before picture here. The system is from Best Scrapbook Shelf. Read more about it on my blog. :-)
Thanks for looking!
Well....if you have a smoke world....and you've already created a smoke sun....what would logically come next.....The Smoke Solar System, of course. : )
You can view a whole sequence of steps to how I got here in this discussion thread.
www.flickr.com/groups/smoke_and_mirrors/discuss/721576262...