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The meerkat (Suricata suricatta) or suricate is a small mongoose found in southern Africa. It is characterised by a broad head, large eyes, a pointed snout, long legs, a thin tapering tail, and a brindled coat pattern. The head-and-body length is around 24–35 cm (9.4–13.8 in), and the weight is typically between 0.62 and 0.97 kg (1.4 and 2.1 lb). The coat is light grey to yellowish-brown with alternate, poorly defined light and dark bands on the back. Meerkats have foreclaws adapted for digging and have the ability to thermoregulate to survive in their harsh, dry habitat.
The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris sondaica on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct.
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Sequences from complete mitochondrial genes of 34 tigers support the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers are diagnostically distinct from mainland subspecies. In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group revised felid taxonomy and recognizes the living and extinct tiger populations in Indonesia as P. t. sondaica.
Evolution
Analysis of DNA is consistent with the hypothesis that Sumatran tigers became isolated from other tiger populations after a rise in sea level that occurred at the Pleistocene to Holocene border about 12,000–6,000 years ago. In agreement with this evolutionary history, the Sumatran tiger is genetically isolated from all living mainland tigers, which form a distinct group closely related to each other. The isolation of the Sumatran tiger from mainland tiger populations is supported by multiple unique characters, including two diagnostic mitochondrial DNA nucleotide sites, ten mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and 11 out of 108 unique microsatellite alleles. The relatively high genetic variability and the phylogenetic distinctiveness of the Sumatran tiger indicates that the gene flow between island and mainland populations was highly restricted.
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six living and many extinct species of swan. Swans usually mate for life, although "divorce" sometimes occurs, particularly following nesting failure, and if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another.
Camellia japonica, communément appelé camélia, est une espèce d'arbustes.
Historique
D'abord cultivé en Chine, puis au Japon, notamment pendant la période Edo, où il jouait un rôle majeur dans la cérémonie du thé (en particulier les types Higo et wabisuke), (ne pas confondre le Camellia japonica et le Camellia sinensis que l'on utilise pour le thé), le camélia s'est très vite répandu dans toute l'Europe au cours de la première moitié du xixe siècle, avant de sombrer dans un oubli relatif, jusqu'à l'apparition des premiers hybrides dans les années 1930. Elle est aussi appelée Rose du Japon.
Le caméllia "de Higo", ancienne province appelée aujourd'hui Kumamoto, était un emblème des Samouraïs de cette région car il avait la particularité d'avoir plus de 200 étamines qui occupaient la quasi-totalité de la fleur, composée de 5 à 9 pétales disposés à plat. Pour les Samouraïs, cela faisait référence à l'importance du "cœur" par rapport à celle du corps (à l'inverse des camélias "wabisuke", symboles d'humilité et de recueillement). Plus tard, durant l'ère Meiji, le camellia devient un symbole de mort: il était surtout planté autour des cimetières, et la fleur fanée qui tombe entièrement sans perdre ses pétales évoquait les décapitations "trophées" par les samourais (Nantabuki), avant de redevenir à la mode à la fin du 20e siècle.
C. japonica aurait été rapporté du Japon par les marchands portugais au xvie siècle, puis à plusieurs reprises par les Britanniques en provenance de Chine, à la fin du xviiie siècle.
Joséphine de Beauharnais en a lancé la mode en France. Au 19e siècle Nantes et Angers étaient les principaux centres de production des camélias (d'abord surtout utilisés comme fleur coupée, avant de devenir des plantes de parcs). Aujourd'hui, la grande majorité des camélias français est produite dans le Finistère.
Certains spécimens japonais sont âgés d'au moins 500 ans.
Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%A9lia_du_Japon?wprov=sfla1
Langur [Semnopithecus entellus]
Northern plains gray langur
The northern plains gray langur (Semnopithecus entellus) is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in India on the lowlands north of the Godavari and Krishna rivers and south of the Ganges. It is thought to be introduced to western Bangladesh by Hindu pilgrims on the bank of the Jalangi River. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_plains_gray_langur
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Entelle, Langur, Houleman
Le Semnopithèque entelle (Semnopithecus entellus) est une espèce de primate de la famille des Cercopithecidae qui vit dans le sous-continent indien.
Ce singe est surtout connu sous le nom générique d'Entelle ou de Langur, mais ces termes sont ambigus car ils désignent de nombreuses espèces de primates qui lui sont apparentées. On l'appelle également Entelle d'Hanuman, Entelle des Indes (ou Entelle de l'Inde), Langur sacré, Langur gris ou encore Houleman.
Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semnopithecus_entellus
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Voor-Indische hoelman
De Voor-Indische hoelman (Semnopithecus entellus) of Hanumanlangoer is een zoogdier uit de familie van de apen van de Oude Wereld (Cercopithecidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Dufresne in 1797.
Het voedsel van deze langoeren bestaat voornamelijk uit bladen, vruchten, knoppen en jonge loten. Ze eten ook mineraalrijke aarde, zodat ze ook de nodige zouten binnenkrijgen. Hun meerkamerige maag is aangepast om dit soort voedsel te kunnen verteren.
Bron: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voor-Indische_hoelman
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Having a pleasant walkabout among the monkeys
You’ll find more monkeys on the loose on the Monkey Tree path. You really get very close to the monkeys between the treetops! What's more, there is a very special type of monkey on the loose here: the douroucouli. These night monkeys live in special night accommodation. If you want to spot them, you must first let your eyes get used to the dark and then follow the noises. You’ll meet the largest monkeys on the loose in Apenheul, the Bengal Hanuman langurs, almost at the end of the route and you'll find small dwarf monkeys all over Apenheul.
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Deutsch: www.apenheul.de/affen-und-natur/entdecken-sie-die-vielen-...!
Weitere freilaufende Affen kann man vom Affenbaumpfad aus beobachten. Hier, hoch oben zwischen den Baumwipfeln, befindet man sich fast Auge in Auge mit den Affen! Und hier lebt auch eine sehr spezielle, freilaufende Affenart: die Doeroecoeli. Diese Nachtaffen wohnen in einer speziellen Nachtunterkunft. Sobald sich Ihre Augen an das Dunkel gewöhnt haben, können Sie einfach den Geräuschen folgen und diese Tiere beobachten. Fast am Ende der Route treffen Sie auf die größte freilaufende Affengattung von Apenheul: die Bengalischen Hanuman-Languren. Und an verschiedenen Stellen in Apenheul laufen kleine Zwergaffen frei herum.
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Kinard Beach, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Kinard Beach, or Trá Chathail in Gaelic, is a beautiful beach enclosed by rocks on the Dingle Peninsula, approximately 9km east of Dingle, in County Kerry. Just offshore, the huge column known as An Searrach (also called The Foal), dominates the scenery.
Vanessa atalanta, the red admiral or, previously, the red admirable, is a well-characterized, medium-sized butterfly with black wings, red bands, and white spots. It has a wingspan of about 2 inches (5 cm). It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The red admiral is widely distributed across temperate regions of North Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. It resides in warmer areas, but migrates north in spring and sometimes again in autumn. Typically found in moist woodlands, the red admiral caterpillar's primary host plant is the stinging nettle (Urtica dioica); it can also be found on the false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica). The adult butterfly drinks from flowering plants like Buddleia and overripe fruit. Red admirals are territorial; females will only mate with males that hold territory. Males with superior flight abilities are more likely to successfully court females. It is known as an unusually calm butterfly, often allowing observation at a very close distance before flying away, also landing on and using humans as perches.
The water tower on the Lauwerhof in the center of Utrecht is a water tower that dates from the end of the 19th century. It is a national monument. The Water Supply Museum was housed in this water tower for over 25 years.
History
In the prehistory of this water tower, the water pumps, wells and waterways in Utrecht often served as sources for (drinking) water. The canals were used as a discharge point for the sewage system. During the 19th century, several cholera epidemics broke out in Utrecht, sometimes claiming large numbers of victims. In the mid-19th century, the English physician John Snow gained insight into an important cause of the spread of this infectious disease, and the sanitary revolution started. The drinking water problem in Utrecht led to the establishment of a Health Commission within this city in 1855, also the first in the Netherlands. The writer Nicolaas Beets, who lives in the city, wrote poems about drinking water in 1873:
It would take until 1883 before a drinking water supply with water pipes was put into use in Utrecht. The construction, financing and exploitation were done by the Compagnie des Eaux d'Utrecht, later called the Utrechtsche Waterleiding Maatschappij (UWM). The drinking water was transported from Soestduinen through a pipeline system to Utrecht over a distance of approximately 15 kilometers. In the early years, the hydraulic head of about 50 meters, together with a steam-driven pumping station, was enough to maintain sufficient water pressure on the water mains. However, the number of water users increased rapidly. In order to keep the pressure in the water supply network constant, it was eventually decided to build the first water tower in the city center of Utrecht.
The construction of the water tower started in 1895 to a design in the Neo-Renaissance style by the UWM architect L.C. dumont. The backyard of UWM director P.E. Rich in the current Lauwerhof. The Gouda contractor Dessing carried out the work for an amount of 46,800 guilders at the time. A year later, the 39-meter high water tower was put into use. The water reservoir, installed at a height of 30 meters, has a volume of 1500 m³ and is the largest that has been used in the Netherlands. It was developed by the German firm F.A. Neumann-manufactured reservoir is of the Intze IM type. In 1897, the UWM built a second water tower on the Riouwstraat. Over the decades, the UWM had several more water towers built in Utrecht and the surrounding area. The water towers in Zeist and Baarn of the UWM were given a similar architecture to the water tower on the Lauwerhof.
The water tower was in use until 1983; after that, the reservoir served as a reserve facility until 2010.
Source: www.wikipe.wiki/wiki/nl/Watertoren_(Utrecht_Lauwerhof)
Build: 1895-1896
Hight: 39 m.
Architect: Lucas Christiaan Dumont (Utrecht, 7 december 1865 - Haarlem, 22 juni 1935)
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watertoren_(Utrecht_Lauwerhof)
Daisy
Osteospermum est un genre de plantes vivaces herbacées ou arbustives, de la famille des Asteraceae, dont certaines espèces ont été placées dans les genres Dimorphotheca, Tripteris et Oligocarpus. Plusieurs d'entre elles sont aussi connues sous le nom de marguerite d'Afrique, marguerite du Cap ou souci pluvial. Cette plante pousse généralement en bord de mer pour fleurir de mai à octobre.
Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteospermum?wprov=sfla1
The scientific name is derived from the Greek osteon (bone) and Latin spermum (seed). It has been given several common names: African daisy, South African daisy, Cape daisy and blue-eyed daisy.
Narcissus were well known in ancient civilisation, both medicinally and botanically, but formally described by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753). The genus is generally considered to have about ten sections with approximately 50 species. The number of species has varied, depending on how they are classified, due to similarity between species and hybridisation. The genus arose some time in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, in the Iberian peninsula and adjacent areas of southwest Europe. The exact origin of the name Narcissus is unknown, but it is often linked to a Greek word (ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") and the myth of the youth of that name who fell in love with his own reflection. The English word "daffodil" appears to be derived from "asphodel", with which it was commonly compared.
The species are native to meadows and woods in southern Europe and North Africa with a centre of diversity in the Western Mediterranean, particularly the Iberian peninsula. Both wild and cultivated plants have naturalised widely, and were introduced into the Far East prior to the tenth century. Narcissi tend to be long-lived bulbs, which propagate by division, but are also insect-pollinated
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28plant%29?wprov=sfla1
The veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) is a species of chameleon (family Chamaeleonidae) native to the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Other common names include cone-head chameleon and Yemen chameleon. Males grow to around 17-24 inches in length and females around 14 inches, they grow casques on their head and are born as pastel green before growing stripes and more colorful as they grow. They are known for their variable color changes due to a variety of factors, including to show aggression, social status, reproduction, and stress. Females live around 5 years and males live for around 8 and they breed a few times a year.
Invasive species
This chameleon is an introduced species in Hawaii, where it is invasive in the local ecosystem. There is a breeding population established on Maui. It can also be found in the wild in Florida, where escaped pets have established populations.
The veiled chameleon is the logo of the SUSE Linux operating system.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin?wprov=sfla1
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Zutphen
is a city and municipality located in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands.
In about 300 AD, a Germanic settlement was the first permanent town on a complex of low river dunes. Whereas many such settlements were abandoned in the early Middle Ages, Zutphen on its strategic confluence of IJssel and Berkel stayed.
The settlement received town rights between 1191 and 1196, making it one of the oldest towns in the country. This allowed it to self govern and have a judicial court. Only Utrecht, and Deventer preceded it in receiving town rights.
The old center survived the Second World War almost in its entirety, though some parts of the city were lost, especially the area around the railway station, in the northern part of the city center, known as the Nieuwstad (English: New City). The city center includes many monumental buildings dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, and some even date back to the 13th century, such as a retirement home area. There are also remains of the old town walls in several places.
Today, Zutphen is a modern small city. The urban area, which includes the village of Warnsveld, has about 51,000 inhabitants.