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I don't normally use emojis but rolling on the floor laughing just seemed right for this photo. I tried to add said emoji to my title but failed abysmally. Anyway, this is a Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) which despite its name, and scientific name, actually eats krill. It uses its fancy christmas tree-shaped teeth to filter out the water in the same manner of the baleen plates in large whales. Here's a better view of the specialised teeth: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/46487454534/in/photolist
Actually the teeth show better in this skull shot not taken by me: www.flickr.com/photos/angry_vet_/14120884729/
Crabeaters are the commonest seal in Antarctic waters. A distinctive feature of Crabeater Seals is that they are often covered in scars, and this one is no exception. Most sources suggest this is the result of attacks by Leopard Seals, and to a lesser extent Orcas. But why is it that similar-sized Weddell Seals are usually scarless? Maybe Weddells never fight back and just let themselves get eaten while Crabeaters are feisty fighters? Here's a scarless Weddell Seal www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/47534011572/in/photolist There was a wonderful sequence in David Attenborough's Life in the Freezer that showed Orcas working in unison to create waves that knocked seals off the ice and into the water where the Orcas could catch them. But the Orcas spyhopped first to check whether the seal was a Weddell or a Crabeater. They did not like attacking Crabeaters because they were likely to fight back, whereas Weddell Seals apparently don't fight back. Here's the clip of Orcas v seal on Youtube with explanation from the producer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VEwsI4SlY
Montréal, Qc
Un castell (« château » en catalan) est une manifestation culturelle traditionnelle des pays catalans consistant à bâtir une pyramide humaine de six à dix étages de forme et organisation bien définies.
A castell ("castle" in Catalan) is a traditional cultural event of the Catalan countries consisting of building a human pyramid of six to ten floors of well-defined form and organization.
Watching a procession during a festival on Inle Lake. The huge golden bird at the front is the Karoweik, containing 4 gold leaf covered holy objects. They are being taken down the river to be placed in a monastery.
Annually, during the Burmese month of Thadingyut (from September to October), an 18-day pagoda festival is held, during which four of the Buddha images are placed on a replica of a royal barge designed as a hintha bird and taken throughout Inlay Lake. One image always remains at the temple. The elaborately decorated barge is towed by several boats of leg-rowers rowing in unison, and other accompanying boats, making an impressive procession on the water. The barge is towed from village to village along the shores of the lake in clockwise fashion, and the four images reside at the main monastery in each village for the night. Sometime in the 1960s during a particularly windy day, when the waves were high on the lake, the barge carrying the images capsized, and the images tumbled into the lake. It was said that they could not recover one image, but that when they went back to the monastery, the missing image was miraculously sitting in its place.
WATERDOG.
Originally named ‘Flyboat 81’ it is believed that it was built by the Baltic Engine Works Company in 1876 at East Yorkshire.
Made from iron her hull is riveted and not welded and when she slid of the dry docks on completion she boasted a steam engine and plied her trade as a trader between Hull, Goole, York and Rotherham and carried a variety of freight.
In the early 1900’s the steam engine was removed and in 1950 a newer and more modern marine Gardner 4LW engine was installed.
In 1963 WATERDOG’s new owners British Waterways renamed ‘Flyboat 81’ to its current name WATERDOG which coincided with the names of her sister craft named ‘WATEREEL’ ‘WATERDEER’ and ‘WATERBIRD’.
In 1962 the British Transport Commission was separated into several newly established organisations which saw the management of the inland waterways becoming under control of the newly formed British Waterways Board.
All British Waterways assets and responsibilities in England and Wales were transferred to the Canal and River Trust on 2 July 2012.
In 1979 ‘WATERDOG’ which by this time had been taken out of service was reinstated back into service and was converted to a houseboat.
‘WATERDOG’ which is today moored in Woodbridge, Suffolk boasts a beam of 14.60 feet (4.45m) with a depth of 7.19 feet (2.29m) with an overall length of 88.98 feet (27.12 m) and has a tonnage gross of 74.00.
From 1876 – 1958 she was named ‘Flyboat 81’ and in 1958 she was renamed ‘WATERDOG’.
Her current owners acquired ‘WATERDOG’ in the 1990’s and during that time the vessel has undergone a total refurbishment which includes an engine replacement which has seem the installation of a Ford 6 cylinder Dovertech engine with a PRM gearbox which works in unison with the 29 inch propeller.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
for KING & COUNTRY - TOGETHER (feat. Kirk Franklin & Tori Kelly) [Official Music Video]
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Continuing trying to branch out I came across this wonderful song, sung during the COVID lockdown. I am very impressed with the words and the work and decided to create a work around the song. Challenges make life more interesting! 😊😊😍
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The pink Flamingos put on a show for us this morning at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. They all started singing and turning their heads and then opened their wings in unison. It was quite the sight.
Snow White & Rags watching birds together
Snow White (mixed breed) & Dushara Tatters and Rags (Somalis), 10.10.2014.
Olympus E-400 Digital Camera.
Its not everyday you see a pair of JT42CWR's singing in unison but such an event occured today as 66432 and 66430 multi'd up to work 6Y11 High Marnham - Whitemoor 'Octopus' Train, seen here passing Whissendine about 45 early.
There cant be many shots on this line where you can get the entire HOBC train in and was surprised I got it to fit in here
Sarus Crane
The sarus crane (Grus antigone) is a large non-migratory crane found in parts of the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia. The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in), they are conspicuous and iconic[4] species of open wetlands. The sarus crane is easily distinguished from other cranes in the region by the overall grey colour and the contrasting red head and upper neck. They forage on marshes and shallow wetlands for roots, tubers, insects, crustaceans and small vertebrate prey. Like other cranes, they form long-lasting pair-bonds and maintain territories within which they perform territorial and courtship displays that include loud trumpeting, leaps and dance-like movements. In India they are considered symbols of marital fidelity, believed to mate for life and pine the loss of their mates even to the point of starving to death. The main breeding season is during the rainy season, when the pair builds an enormous nest "island", a circular platform of reeds and grasses nearly two metres in diameter and high enough to stay above the shallow water surrounding it. Sarus crane numbers have declined greatly in the last century and it has been suggested that the current population is a tenth or less (perhaps 2.5%) of the numbers that existed in the 1850s. The stronghold of the species is in India, where it is traditionally revered and lives in agricultural lands in close proximity to humans. Elsewhere, the species has been extirpated in many parts of its former range.
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I have never seen this before, 30 male mallard in unison lifting their tails dropping their heads and pulling up water. In response to a call from a female.
With a weight of 6 tons and a height that can reach 3.3 m to the shoulder, the elephant is the largest land animal in the world. Tusks of 90 kg have been recorded, but tusks of older bulls generally weigh 50 to 60 kg. Elephants can live as long as 70 years. With as many as 50 000 muscles, the elephant’s trunk is very sensitive. It is essentially a modified nose, able to detect water underground. Using the finger-like appendages at the tip of the trunk, elephants can pick the smallest flowers and twigs, pick a thorn from their feet and pull out strong reeds or grass. There is a common misunderstanding that the joints between the elephant’s feet and body are its knees. They are, in fact, its wrists. Elephants’ foot bones and hand bones are one and the same and have evolved to suit this four-legged mammal. An elephant’s tusks are actually its upper incisors, growing continuously until the elephant dies at about 60 years of age. They use their tusks for obtaining food, self-defence, and males use it for fighting. An elephant’s skin is about 3 cm thick, although it is rather sensitive. Elephants eat great quantities, and in a day can consume up to 272 kg (600 pounds) of tender shoots, grass and tree bark, drinking up to 200 litres of water in a single session. One elephant deposits about 150 kg (330 pounds) of dung per day, and drops a dollop every 15 minutes.
Info source: southafrica.co.za/elephant.html
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The photo was taken during September 2017 at Lake Panic Bird Hide, Kruger National Park Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Grey Crowned Crane
Scientific name: Balearica regulorum
The Grey Crowned-Crane (also known as a Crested Crane) is a very large bird (often over a meter tall) and has a distinctive ‘crown’ of golden feathers on the top of its head. Grey crowned-cranes have a distinctive ‘booming’ call which they make by inflating the red sacks underneath their chin.
Breeding pairs of cranes are monogamous. Couples often ‘sing’ to one another to affirm their bond; this is known as unison calling. Cranes are also known for ‘dancing’. They move their bodies, bob their heads and leap around; this is usually to impress the opposite sex during courtship. However, the crane’s dance can also be a sign of aggression.
Grey Crowned-Cranes share their parental duties. The male and the female build a nest together and both help out with incubating the egg and raising the young.
A pair of Boeing EA-18G Growlers retracting their gear during a formation take-off at Oshkosh. They are 168376/551/NJ and 168387/569/NJ of VAQ-129 "Vikings".
Electronic Attack Squadron 129 is the United States Navy's only EA-18G Growler training squadron. The Vikings are a Fleet Replacement Squadron, responsible for training all EA-18G crews and developing procedures for the operation and maintenance of the aircraft.
EAA AirVenture 2024.
Morning riders along Karioitahi Beach, NZ.
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and there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their testimony coincides].
1 John 5:7-8
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