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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone.
I'm sorry guys, the previous photo sucks! I'm going to re-do that concept probably!
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Part IIII
Masai Mara (MNC) | Kenya
Yep, more cub shots - I can't resist them!
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A glimpse of what I hate to crave
will carve out almost fourteen days
A yellow sky, a bright red cloud,
a special song... we laughed so loud...
If it's a strength then why it tore my chest?
Must save myself; it's for the best.
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Vulnerability © Ilina S.
IUCN RED LIST STATUS: VULNERABLE (trend: decreasing)
rucervus daucelii or cervus daucelii
subspecies: Hard-ground or Southern Barasingha
barasingahert
barasinga ou cerf des marais
Barasinghas oder Zackenhirsche
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Griffon vultures have been used as model organisms for the study of soaring and thermoregulation. The energy costs of level flight tend to be high, prompting alternatives to flapping in larger birds. Vultures in particular utilize more efficient flying methods such as soaring. Compared to other birds, which elevate their metabolic rate to upwards of 16 times their basal metabolic rate in flight, soaring griffon vultures expend about 1.43 times their basal metabolic rate in flight. Griffon vultures are also efficient flyers in their ability to return to a resting heart rate after flight within ten minutes.
As large scavengers, griffon vultures have not been observed to seek shelter for thermoregulation. Vultures use their bald heads as a means to thermoregulate in both extreme cold and hot temperatures. Changes in posture can increase bare skin exposure from 7% to 32%. This change allows for the more than doubling of convective heat loss in still air. Griffon vultures have also been found to tolerate increased body temperatures as a response to high ambient temperatures. By allowing their internal body temperature to change independently of their metabolic rate, griffon vultures minimize their loss of water and energy in thermoregulating. One study in particular (Bahat 1995) found that these adaptations have allowed the Griffon vulture to have one of the widest thermal neutral zones of any bird.
It declined markedly throughout the 19th–20th centuries in much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, mainly due to direct persecution and "bycatch" from the poisoned carcasses set for livestock predators (Snow and Perrins 1998, Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2015). In some areas a reduction in available food supplies, arising from changes in livestock management practices, also had an impact (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001, Orta et al. 2015). It is very highly vulnerable to the effects of potential wind energy development (Strix 2012) and electrocution has been identified as a threat (Global Raptors Information Network 2015). Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) used for veterinary purposes pose a threat to this species. One case of suspected poisoning caused by flunixin, an NSAID, was recorded in this species in 2012 in Spain (Zorrilla et al. 2015). Diclofenac, a similar NSAID, has caused severe declines in Gyps vulture species across Asia.
Giraffe have recently been listed as Vulnerable to extinction on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Giraffe numbers in Africa have plummeted by a staggering 40% over the last 30 years. We estimate today that there are only less than 100,000 giraffe remaining in all of Africa.
Some populations have been harder hit than others and Masai giraffe seem to be taking the brunt of it. As one of the most populous giraffe populations in Africa, there are only 32,000 Masai giraffe remaining in southern Kenya and Tanzania. Their number has dropped by more than half in the last 30 years. And this trend continues.
More information and how you can help to save these wonderful animals at Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) !
Masai giraffe family
Arusha N.P., Tanzania, Africa
More pictures of these fascintaing animals in my Giraffe Album !
Masai Mara (MNC), Kenya
Natito's female cub Ndoto deciding that she really does need to come down the tree and follow her mother.
Lechucita Bigotona, Long-whiskered Owlet, Xenoglaux loweryi.
IUCN: Vulnerable
Endemic´s Perú
Bosque de Protección Alto Mayo
Departamento de Amazonas
Perú
Nombre común: El pibí boreal
Nombre científico: Contopus cooperi
Nombre en inglés: OLIVE -SIDED FLYCATCHER
Nombre en alemán: Olivflanken Schnäppertyrann
Nombre en francés: Moucherolle á côtés olive
Lugar de la foto: Cataratas de Medina, Mariquita, Tolima, Colombia.
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I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before
Erlebniszoo Hannover
Eisbär
(Polarbär)
Ursus maritimus
Vorkommen:Arktis (Kanada, USA (Alaska), Grönland, Norwegen (Spitzbergen = Svalbard), N-Russland)
Lebensraum:Eisflächen mit Meereszugang, arktische Inseln und Küstengebiete
Kopf-Rumpf-Länge:180 - 280 cm
Schwanzlänge:6 - 13 cm
Gewicht:150 - 650 (800) kg
Nahrung:Robben, gestrandete Wale, Aas, menschl. Abfälle; selten auch Kräuter, Gräser und Beeren
Gefährdungsstatus:VU (gefährdet)
This herd of "Barbs", as they are familiarly known, are the only wild sheep native to Africa, their range being the rocky mountain country of Northern Africa (especially in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria, but extending to Sudan).
The herd leader, “The Captain”, surveys his realm. These animals impress as they leap from rock to rock. They are able to leap over 2 metres from a stationary position.
Currently classified as vulnerable in their native range, there are feral populations in areas to which they have been introduced such as SW USA and SE Spain. Taronga Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo NSW is one of the zoos that play an important role in their conservation.
completely personal. completely vulnerable.
today has been awful. i just want everything to end. i can't wait to escape.
i haven't taken such honest picture in a long time. if ever. it says so much. to myself. i put my pain into it.
taking pictures has probably never made me feel the way it did today.
271/365.
A tale of friendship, farming and fascination!
This image may look like a caterpillar is under attack from a group of worker ants, but it is in fact the opposite! What you are witnessing is the mutualistic association called 'myrmecophily'.
The caterpillar of the Shining Oak-blue Butterfly has a special gland that secretes small droplets of 'sugar water' as a lucrative food source for ants. In return for this nutritious free food, a small group of worker Green Tree Ants will guard and protect the caterpillar from any potential predators or parasitic wasps.
Caterpillars are some of the most vulnerable invertebrates and often need to have defence mechanics such as toxins, spines or camouflage. This caterpillar has taken it to the next level!
I have been wanting to see this interaction for over a year and have been constantly looking at trees near creek-lines in monsoon forest. Finally got to witness it this week and there were half a dozen caterpillars on this tree!
Photographed at British wildlife centre.
Hedgehogs are sadly endangered. ptes.org/state-britains-hedgehogs-report-2018/
Black Dragon Pool Park
Old Town Of Lijiang
Yunnan Province, People's Republic Of China
"The water that feeds the five-hectare Black Dragon Pool bubbles up
from the foot of Elephant Hill. Here a stone bridge and the elegant
three-tiered Deyue Pavilion offer stunning prospects of the mountain,
trailing a wisp of cloud like a scarf on the breeze" -- Peter Moss
(an excerpt from the book "Lijiang, The Imperiled Utopia")
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Today is officially something different Friday? :-) So something different from me. I would like to do more shots like these but if I'm honest I found "the body" quite hard a subject to shoot. It belongs together with my other image "Victim or Predator". I hope you like it.
And TFI Friday :-)
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