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Dark to light and light to dark,
Three black carriages, three white carts,
What brings us together is what pulls us apart.
Gone our brother, gone our heart.
What is disturbing can be beautiful.
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Bao Bao is a female giant panda cub who lives at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Bao Bao is one of only several hundred giant pandas alive today in captivity, among fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world. Wikipedia
Born: August 23, 2013
Species: Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Russian soldiers escorting german prisoners in WWII.
Those who survived the bad conditions of captivity, would only be relased many years after the end of war.
Chess Coins - Black King surrounded by White Pawns...
Background - White 300GSM paper..
Lighting - CFL Table lamp..
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The snow leopard (Panthera uncia syn. Uncia uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Snow leopards inhabit alpine and subalpine zones at elevations from 9,800 to 14,800 ft.
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December 19, 2016 - Bottlenose Dolphins Capture – Taiji, Japan
Greed doesn't take a break, the boats are heading out again - the hunters are leaving the harbour.
They have found a pod. We can confirm that they are bottlenose dolphins. They will likely be stolen for a life in captivity. The drive has happened VERY fast. They have already been driven into the cove.
We're not sure if they'll be slaughtered or sold into captivity, as bottlenose dolphins are highly 'desirable' I the captivity industry. The trainers have arrived to steal the dolphins out of the wild for a life in captivity.
The bottlenose have been driven deep into the cove. Trainers wait for them on the shore of the killing beach, to choose which ones are desirable for captivity. There are at least 2 juveniles.
It appears one of the juveniles have been stolen into captivity. There have been 4 taken altogether.
The remaining of the pod have been driven out to sea. Half of the pod have been stolen for a life in captivity - performing for frozen fish just to survive.
We won't know if the pod survives without the rest of the members, but hopefully there are enough adults in the pod that know how to hunt and where to migrate.
There are many reasons why keeping these animals in captivity is wrong, such as the poor, often terrible, conditions in which dolphins are still kept in many facilities worldwide, and the high illness and mortality rate of captive animals. No state of the art captive aquarium or marine park can ever meet the complex physiological and psychological needs of a dolphin, or most other animals, for that matter. And we have not yet mentioned the number of individuals killed in the process of being captured, and the stress these animals go through when separated from their companions and social networks.
It’s time we recognize that the only, true reason we still keep these magnificent, large brained and socially complex creatures captive is for our entertainment; entertainment for the motive of making money, and lots of it.
Dolphins are who, not what, and they deserve some rights. We humans should use our judgment and compassion toward these (and other) fellow animals and stop keeping them caged as our prisoners.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
October 11, 2018 – Risso’s Dolphins Slaughter – Taiji, Japan
Taiji: On the second red Cove day in a row, a pod of 8 Risso’s dolphins was driven into the cove. Although they attempted to escape several times, the hunters were persistent to drive them in.
Among the young dolphins, 3 of them were carried out in slings to the sea pens inside the Taiji harbor, trainers by their sides... so close to the butcher house where their mothers and pod mates were cut apart. In the sea pens, one of the juveniles spy-hopped and seemed to look right at our cove monitors through the net. These young dolphins face a life sentence in captivity.
Pledge NOT to buy a ticket to a dolphin show.
Credit: DolphinProject.com
Photographed under captivity for documentation purposes.
The cork-lid trapdoor spider has a highly sclerotised and abruptly truncated abdominal posterior, which is used as a plug to its burrow entrance. This prevents any effective attacks from predators such as wasps.
San Leo is certainly one of the many enchanting and interesting from the standpoint of historical, artistic and cultural area of Montefeltro, located in the vast and lush hinterland.
Symbol of this ancient town and village is the impressive and beautiful medieval fortress, which was among the most powerful of all Italy and where you can still breathe a magical and mysterious, emanating from the legend of the shadowy figure of the Count of Cagliostro, cunning and ambiguous alchemist here he died after long years of captivity.
This impregnable fortress is considered of great importance since the Middle Ages because of its formidable strategic position: in fact it stands on the highest point of a rock overlooking the valley Marecchia, surrounded by a series of steep walls overlooking unusable from any side.
For this characteristic and the attractive location on the border of Mount Felt it was the subject of bloody clashes and conflicts between peoples and families of the most important in the history of Italy.
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Scene from an opera.
I was attracted by the contrast and saturation of colours.
Exposure taken handheld, Canon EOS 5D, Jupiter 9 85mm F 2 M42 mount, 1/125s @ F 3.5, ISO 800, manual focus.
Light postprocess.
From a shoot with Dave Cahill, (www.davecahill.com), front-man for the Almighty Terribles.
It's not a duck, but a Platypus!
*Note: Kamonohashikamo = Confused Platypus is part of a group of collectibles known as San-X Characters which are very popular in Japan. Details in my blog: ihengbok.blogspot.com/2009/03/zombie-nation.html
February 26, 2017 – Pantropical Spotted Dolphins Capture – Taiji, Japan
Today a large pod of Pantropical spotted dolphins were driven into the cove. 17 dolphins were taken from the ocean for a life in captivity.
Late this morning, a large pod of Pantropical spotted dolphins were driven into the infamous cove in Taiji by a near full fleet of 11 banger boats. The pod were split out at sea, some dolphins driven back out to sea by the banger boats, away from their family swimming for their lives. The remaining 75-100 dolphins were netted inside the waters of the cove just before midday, swimming close together in fear, awaiting their brutal captive selection from the dolphin hunters and trainers.
The dolphins were driven below the tarps by the skiffs using their outboard engines, and man handled by the trainers to determine which dolphins were the most profitable for captivity. This caused immense trauma to the dolphins, and we could see from our view point dolphins with bloody beaks, dolphins being wrestled by the divers who were checking their sex and examining them for markings.
3 skiffs emerged from beneath the tarps carrying the bodies of 17 dolphins, trainers atop them holding them still. Tiny dolphins who are now no longer free, confined in the tiny sea pens in Taiji harbour and beyond.
The rest of their pod were driven to the outskirts of the net that trapped them in the cove by skiffs and divers chasing them with immense speed and noise. Six banger boats awaited these dolphins on the outside of the nets. The angry men on board drove them out with haste and impatience, the dolphins needed no prompt, swimming fast, jumping high and diving deep, fleeing for their lives after losing 17 members of their family, babies jumping with their mothers, trying to keep up with their pod.
We all breathed a sigh of relief, but the release of a pod is always bitter sweet. These dolphins have a chance of survival in the wild once more, but many of them may not make the treacherous swim for freedom back out to sea, suffering injuries from being grossly manhandled by the hunters and trainers, from the exhaustion of fighting so hard on the long drive in, and the stress and anxiety experienced throughout the entire traumatic ordeal.
The captive selection of dolphins is the driving force behind the dolphin drives that happen every year from September through March. Every dolphin slaughtered for meat, every dolphin who dies due to injuries sustained during a drive or selection process, every dolphin who drowns after becoming entangled in a net, every dolphin who starves to death or death by dehydration, every baby ripped from their mother, or dumped out at sea... These deaths are a result of the demand for captive dolphins. The demand by humans to see, swim with, kiss, touch, control cetaceans in such an artificial and unnatural environment. The dirty truth of the matter is, there is an exorbitant amount money to be made in the captive trade of live dolphins, and these drive hunts will not relent until the demand for dolphins in the entertainment industry is subdued.
This campaign spanning years back, and for six months of every year is Operation Infinite Patience. We will not relent, we will not stop sharing the stories of these dolphins... Not let their lives be forgotten. Our strongest weapon is a camera, our greatest tool is education. When the consumers of the captive trade become aware of the horrifying truth of the inhumane practices that fuel the industry the walls will come crumbling down, and only then the dolphins will swim free. Only then will we ever have a truly blue day, with no rows of prison pens containing hundreds of cetaceans. Only then these wild dolphins will be left to be just that... Wild.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd