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"By the rivers of Babylon
Where he sat down
And there he wept when he remembered Zion.
Oh from wicked, carry us away from captivity
Required from us a song
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?
So let the words of our mouth
And the meditations of our hearts
Be acceptable in thy sight
O-verri
By the rivers of Babylon
Where he sat down
And there he wept when he remembered Zion.
Oh from wicked, carry us away from captivity
Required from us a song
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?
How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?"
RIVERS OF BABYLON ......SUBLIME
Only one specimen of Wood's Cycad (Encephalartos woodii) has ever been found. Since this plant is dioecious (it has separate male and female plants), all existing specimens are clones that one male plant.
Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, Nederlands
August 2013
Naked 'Borat' wrestler Ken Davitian was in attendance, but politely declined After Dark's invitation to host a Suffocating People to Death With the Hairy Anus of a Fat Man" themed torture room.
Taken at Dieselpunk studios, Wickford with Essex Strobist group
Models- Jade Nunn, MM#708862,
Demondaz, MM# 25055
MUA- Crystal Edwards
Strobist info- YN560II with a shoot through umbrella on 1/4 power above and to the right from the camera.
Silver-eared Mesia
The silver-eared mesia (Leiothrix argentauris) is a species of bird from South East Asia.
The species was once placed in the large Old World babbler family Timaliidae, but that family has recently been split with this species being placed with the laughingthrushes in the new family Leiothrichidae.
The species is sometimes placed in its own genus Mesia, or in the genus Leiothrix with the red-billed leiothrix. There are seven described subspecies, with considerable variation in plumage between them. Further research is needed to establish if this represents a single species or not.
The diet of the silver-eared mesia is dominated by insects and their larvae, as well as fruit and to a lesser extent seeds. A study of the diet of feral birds in Hong Kong found that 87% of the faecal samples studied had the remains on insects in them, and 97% had the remains of fruit. The species will often associate in large groups of up to thirty individuals while foraging, and even forms groups during the breeding season. They will also join large flocks of other species in the forest, known as waves, which include other species of babblers. They generally feed closer to the ground, but may go as high as 5 metres up into the canopy.
The silver-eared mesia is a seasonal breeder, with the season lasting from November to August, although the season starts later, in April, in the northern part of its range. Both the male and female are involved in building the nest, a deep cup of bamboo and other dead leaves lined with rootlets and fern fibres. The nest takes about four days to construct and is placed near ground level or up to 2m up in a bush. Underlying its relationship with the red-billed leiothrix the nest is said to be indistinguishable from the one of that species.
The eggs of silver-eared mesia are white with light but rich madder-brown spots. Between two and five eggs are laid in a typical clutch, with four being the typical number in India but two or three more common in Malaysia. Both parents incubate the eggs, with (at least in captivity) the female incubating the eggs during the night. The eggs are incubated for 13 to 14 days after the laying of the first egg. Both parents feed the chicks, which fledge after 12 days, and parental care lasts for a further 22 days after fledging.
This photo does a good job at expressing some of the mixed feelings over having animals in captivity. I appreciate the work of conservation and education that our zoos do, but sometimes you see these beautiful intelligent animals such as this gorilla and you can see in their face the sadness of captivity.
I took my daughter to the Butterfly Rainforest at the University of Florida, and it was a perfect day. With temperatures around 65 the butterflies were active, but more prone to posing for photos, and seeking warmth in the sunnier spots of the "rainforest". It is a wonderfully educational trip if you are in the area, and the adjacent natural history museum and art museum are terrific as well.
Class 31 D5541 slowly rusts away on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Initially saved for preservation and repainted in its original livery, it seemed to get forgotten about and was eventually sold for scrap. Shame really as there is no Class 31 on the GWR but it wasn't their loco.
Imagine being born in a world covered in green leaves and trees. Exotic birds flying around chirping and singing. Your cover and surrounded by family and others like you. Your perfect day was playing and frolicking under the warm afternoon sun. Then one day your taken away from your world and placed in a box,a concrete box with bars; a cage. The little stream and dew from leaves you once took a cool refreshing drink from is now replaced with a bowl of stagnant water changed every other hour or day. The trees that you took shelter on and hid under from the hot sun are now replaced by iron bars and a concrete ceiling. The feeling of the warm soil between your fingers and taste of fresh green grass is replaced by the cold concrete. This cold place with a bed made of hay, surrounded by metal rods, and a a bowl of water is a life time sentence. Here you will spend your day until the end, watching the trees you once climbed and hid under from behind the cold metal bars. This is captivity.
And the seasons, they go round and round,
And the painted ponies go up and down.
We're captive on the carousel of time.
-Joni Mitchell
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Vendalist (c)
An orangutan at the National Zoo in Washington DC. This animal looks rather depressed, head in hand. Is this animal self-aware? Does it know that it is not in its natural habitat? Can it feel depression? These are questions that have not yet been answered. Perhaps this pose has nothing to do with these feelings, and then, perhaps not.
Building 11 (1939). Set: Suvilahti power plant and gasworks (Helsinki, Finland) + collection: Buildings + Spaces