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Caribou, High Park Zoo, Toronto
What do they think when we come and gawk, point our cameras, and then move on, leaving them in their pens and cages?
One of a group of thirteen WW1 RPPC's I found yesterday at an antique mall north east of Toronto. Most of the men pictured are definitely allied P.O.W.s displaying prisoner numbers on their uniforms.
As is so often the case, the seller of these photos was not available to add any background to the collection. None have been mailed. All have divided backs but only three have a photographer's imprint. Those three were all taken in Leipzig.
Pencil inscription on the reverse reads;
"Robert Meslon, Rue d'Orbec, Livarot, Calvados, France."
Olympus 35 RD
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Scientist in captivity. They don't survive well in the wild, something to do with sunlight allergies and agoraphobia ;), Singapore
Captive male and female showing courtship behaviour, including the male moving vigorously before the female, displaying its open beak and tongue, and mounting.
Willie chills in my hand. He gives people the willies. He's likely an Opistophthalmus species, but to my knowledge he's not one commonly seen in captivity (or seen at all), unless he's an unusual color variant.
This photo is also featured in an article which appears to be in French:
thecatwalk.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/la-phrase-qui-tue/
And on this site for All About Pets:
www.pet-lovers-pet-care-resources.com/All-About-Pets.html
And on this somewhat inaccurate, but amusing list of dangerous pets:
www.toptenz.net/10-dangerous-exotic-pets.php
As well as this forum which copied the above list:
The heavy snow-covered chains at the Philadelphia Navy Shipyard's old Marine Railway led into a black doorway in a building.
It was only when I got home and started processing the shots that I noticed that the metal plate and framing in the building had facial features. I brightened it up a bit in photoshop to make it more apparent. Very cool!!
Top 10 reasons to visit the Eden Project
Here's some of what you'll find when you visit:
1.the world's largest rainforest in captivity with steamy jungles and waterfalls
2.cutting-edge architecture and buildings
3.stunning garden displays all year round
4.world-class sculpture and art
5.evening gigs, concerts and an ice rink in the winter
6.educational centre and demonstrations to inspire all ages
7.brilliant local, fairly traded food in the restaurants and cafes
8.a rainforest lookout that takes you above the treetops
9.living example of regeneration and sustainable living
10.free land train pulled by a tractor.
Even if you've visited before, our plants, exhibits and events programme change every season and every year.
Rainforest Biome - Our 50-metre-tall Biome houses the world’s largest rainforest in captivity.
Mediterranean Biome - A colourful, sensory journey through citrus, olives, vines and perfumed herbs.
In our beautifully transformed clay pit in Cornwall, you'll find over 80 exhibits, including unusual plant combinations, unique sculpture and quirky information displays.
The Core is Eden's innovative education centre: it's a fantastic building full of interactive displays where both children and adults can press buttons, wind handles and peer inside things.
Out in the snow today...
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St. Mary The Virgin at Broxted, in north west Essex, is a charming if otherwise unremarkable English parish church. Matters might have remained that way but for the captivity and eventual release of the three British hostages held in Beirut, Lebanon, between 1985 and 1991. The church now houses two memorial windows dedicated to John McCarthy, Terry Waite and Brian Keenan.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157600116388733/ to see the full set.
Called 'Broccheshevot' [Badger's Head] by the Saxons in the 10th century AD, Broxted was the home of Lord Butler [1902 - 1982] who was the local MP for 45 years and the man who drafted what finally became the 1944 Education Act.
Neighbouring Chickney parish church is certainly a Saxon building but Broxted church has even older - re-used - Roman material in its walls which was robbed out from a nearby Roman building during Saxon or medieval times. The oval street plan of Broxted village may reflect the original oval perimeter of the settlement which the Saxons once called 'Badger's Head'.
The chancel dates from around 1220 AD and has a priest's door. This door is now used for disabled wheelchair access. The nave is the same width as the chancel but contains elements of a building which is certainly older than 1220. Saxon? Possibly. It was certainly remodelled and partly rebuilt at the same time as the chancel. The south doorway was rebuilt in the 14th century. A north aisle was added in the early 15th century.
The belfrey is weatherboarded externally with an internal supporting frame inside the church and contains four bells dated from 1632 to 1688.
The three Beirut hostages became connected with the church because John McCarthy and his family lived next door at the time of his capture and the McCarthy's have family buried in the churchyard. Artist John Clark was commissioned to make two symbolic windows and all three hostages plus Jill Morrell and others connected with hostages attended the dedication.
The dedication on January 31, 1993, should have been carried out by then Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie but he broke his ankle shortly before. A recorded address from him was played at the service.
Apart from the Hostages' WIndows Broxted retains an international flavour as it is directly on the flight path to nearby Stansted airport with jets loudly passing over less than 1000 feet above.
I spent quite some time bonding with this calf at the "training camp". Training camps are where elephants are "broken in" for use in the tourism industry. This baby had a four foot radius to walk in due to the chain around her ankle that was also bolted to the cement.
Captivity vs Freedom
Thanks to the following for their photos:
The Explorographer, 'Overlord's Nest' www.flickr.com/photos/adwheelerphoto/9424399837
Jeff S. PhotoArt at HDCanvas.ca, 'Captivity' www.flickr.com/photos/jeff_sch/7838141406
mallix, 'The William Porter Reformatory' www.flickr.com/photos/mallix/4679249808
Paree Textures:
Stony Grunge IV www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/3340207466/in/album-7215...
Nitty Gritty www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/4221757236/in/album-7215...
At World's End www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/4229822325
Jack's Map www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/4077537600
Picture is taken at Nordens Ark.
Nordens ark has participated or is currently taking part in re-population projects, to release animals born at the facility into the wild, including the white stork, eagle owl, bell frog, otter, European wildcat, and lynx. Thank you Nordens Ark for the great work you do every day!
Stomaphis graffii, adult oviparous female (1030B), collected from sycamore at Holme Fen National Nature Reserve, Holme, Cambridgeshire. February 5, 2020. This specimen produced an egg in captivity on Feb 6.
These are mares and foals from the Owyhee HMA of Northern Nevada. This is their first day in captivity, after being rounded up by the BLM. I recently adopted the pinto medicine hat, who was also the lead mare of this band. Finally, after months of trying, she has been accepted into a wonderful sanctuary! Many thanks to a special someone who dedicated many hours to helping Oshunnah get there. You know who you are. I am literally doing the happy dance! All the rescues and sanctuaries are FULL. My sweet and brokenhearted girl will get to live free again on 5 thousand acres. So happy for her. I can't wait to see her run out into the woodlands of her wild horse paradise.
Oshunnah, spirit of the earth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8pMmcEkSA&feature=player_em...
Explored ~ February 20th, 2011 ~ #331 Bumped up to #306 ~ Big Hugs Labs / Feb. 24th.
Feb. 25th, still on Explore, but dropped in position to #329. WOW, March 6th, still on Explore, now @ #319. Interesting its still active. Currently at #317, still on Explore. : ) March 13th
August 18th @ # 306, not dropped yet! Feb 2012 # 300 0 Explore. Still not dropped!
June 2012, still on Explore!
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***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on April 16th 2015
CREATIVE RF gty.im/548736253 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 483rd to be selected for sale in the Getty Images Moment collection, and I am really grateful to them for such an amazing opportunity.
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Photograph taken at 13:29pm on Sunday April 15th 2007 of Houdini, one of a pair of American Flamingos or Caribbean Flamgos (Houdini's partner is called Mango), introduced in 2004 to the Butterfly Gardens, located at 1461 Benvenuto Avenue in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
The Caribean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus Ruber), is found in the Caribean, Yucatan peninsula, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia and Venezuela, and the Galapagos Islands, and has a height of between 3ft 9ins to about 4ft 6ins with a wingspan of around 4ft 9ins. They weigh up to six pounds and can live in captivity up to an age of forty years.Their name is derived from the Latin word for 'flame', their beautiful coloration is caused by the Beta Carotene in their diet and Caribean Flamingos currently have a worldwide population of around 888,000 individuals.
I have visited the Butterfly gardens on many occasions, and absolutely love my time here, with beautiful birds, fish and butterflies, lovely staff members who are helpful and knowledgeable, and an admission fee of $16 for adults which is worth every loonie and toonie.
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Today I visited the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise. The center houses the peregrine fund whose mission is to restore rare species through captive breeding and releases,Improve capacity for local conservation conduct scientific research and environmental education and conserve habitat of endangered raptors.
This photograph was taken at Singapore Zoological Gardens, the home of a female and male white tiger pair. The White Tiger is neither a subspecies in its own right, nor an albino form of a "normal" tiger. Instead, it is a rare form of a Bengal Tiger that possesses a specific gene (autosomal recessive trait), giving it a lighter appearance. They live in the grasslands and forests of South-east Asia and in various parts of India.
Unfortunately, as beautiful and majestic as these creatures are, their existence are in dire straits. "Records dating back at least four centuries indicate that wild white tigers once prowled freely in the forests of India. Some were shot, others were captured and sent to royal menageries and still others remained in the jungles to perpetuate their lineage. The last known specimen in the wild was shot dead in 1958, leaving behind only the captive breeding population. Trophy hunting, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation drove the rest to extinction."... "Almost all of the white Bengals alive today are descended from a solitary male cub that was captured in 1951. Deliberate inbreeding has maintained the animals’ recessive coloration but it also has led inevitably to a whole range of health problems."
More information about this species can be found at:
What kind of life do they have, floating around in a concrete tank?
Don't support animal cruelty!
Over 1 million people have signed the petition to have laws on banning captivity for whales, you can too here: action.sumofus.org/a/seaworld-orcas-captivity-california-...
Please watch #Blackfish documentary.
These animals are well fed and looked after at the zoo; much better conditions than the wild. Would the animals prefer this life at the expense of their freedom?
It was 100 degree F (38 deg C) and was tough for all the animals. This leopard was no exception. He just took an afternoon nap to beat the heat!
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no studio name. There are no indications as to the date or location of the photograph.
The unfortunate animal, which is secured by two chains, has presumably been trained to dance to music produced by the instrument that the man on the left is holding.
Dancing Bears
A dancing bear, often called a tame bear, is a wild bear captured when young, or born and bred in captivity, and used to entertain people in streets or taverns.
Dancing bears were commonplace throughout Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the 19th. century, and can still be found in the 21st. century in some countries.
The History of Dancing bears
In Ancient Rome, bears and monkeys were led to dance and perform tricks for the public. Dancing bears were commonplace in the Indian subcontinent for centuries. The last of them were freed in 2009.
In Russia and Siberia, cubs were for centuries captured for being used as dancing bears accompanying tavern musicians (skomorokhi), as depicted in the Travels of Adam Olearius.
Dancing bears were widespread throughout Europe from the Middle Ages to the 19th. century. They were still present on the streets of Spain and Eastern Europe in 2007.
Recently, organizations and animal rights activists have worked to outlaw or eliminate tame bears, since the practice is seen as cruel and antiquated, citing mistreatment and abuse used in order to train the bears.
French Bear Handlers
Traveling with a bear was very popular in France at the end of the 19th. century, between 1870 and 1914. More than 600 men from Ariège in the French Pyrenees trained bear cubs found in the mountains near their home.
Among them, 200 traveled to North America, arriving at the ports of New York, Quebec, Montreal and Halifax from the ports of Liverpool, Glasgow and Belfast. They would leave their home early in spring, walking from the Pyrenees through France and England, earning money for the crossing in order to arrive in North America in May or June.
Dancing Bears in Popular Culture
-- The popular children's television show, Captain Kangaroo, featured a character known as "Dancing Bear."
-- The concept has entered into the lexicon in the form of the common proverb:
"The marvel is not that the bear
dances well, but that the bear
dances at all."
-- Randy Newman's song "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" is about a humble young man who entertains high society with his tame bear.
-- A dancing bear features at the end of Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 Western novel Blood Meridian and is shot in a saloon by a drunkard.
-- In The Simpsons episode “Marge on the Lam,” Homer Simpson and Lenny Leonard both misremember ballet as “the bear in the little car.”
-- Rafi Zabor's novel The Bear Comes Home is a fictional story about a bear trained to play jazz saxophone.
-- The Joanna Newsom song “Monkey & Bear” concerns a bear named Ursala who is deceived by the Monkey into dancing for children.
-- The animated movie Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted features a bear named Sonya who is trained to ride a unicycle. Sonya is considerably more animalistic than the other anthropomorphic animals in the film.
Opened in 1836 by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest provincial zoo. It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species. In the 1960s the zoo came to national prominence by appearing in the UK television series, Animal Magic, hosted by the comic animal 'communicator', Johnny Morris. Morris would play keeper and voice all the animals there.
The zoo's official name is Bristol Zoological Gardens ('Bristol Zoo Gardens' for commercial purposes). This is not in recognition of the flower displays but recognises the first use of that title at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. Bristol, like its earlier London counterpart, includes several original buildings which have been praised for their architectural quirks, despite being unsuitable for the care of animals; the (former) Giraffe House joins the main entrance lodge and the south gates on Guthrie Road as a Grade II listed building. The old Monkey Temple, resembling a southern-Asian temple, is now home to an exhibit called "Smarty plants", an interactive exhibit which shows how plants use and manipulate animals to survive.
The zoo also has breeding firsts, including the first black rhino born in Britain in 1958, the first squirrel monkey born in captivity in 1953 and the first chimpanzee born in Europe in 1934.
Charles I of Austria or Charles IV of Hungary (Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie; 17 August 1887 – 1 April 1922) was, among other titles, the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Hungary,[1] the last King of Bohemia and Croatia and the last King of Galicia and Lodomeria and the last monarch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He reigned as Charles I as Emperor of Austria and Charles IV as King of Hungary from 1916 until 1918, when he "renounced participation" in state affairs, but did not abdicate. He spent the remaining years of his life attempting to restore the monarchy until his death in 1922. Following his beatification by the Catholic Church, he has become commonly known as Blessed Charles of Austria.
...After the second failed attempt at restoration in Hungary, Charles and pregnant Zita were briefly quarantined at Tihany Abbey.
SAM
Sam was placed in captivity as a young cub after his mother disappeared in Alaska. He wandered in to a fishing village where people (young and old) began hand-feeding him, becoming quite the attraction and a dangerous situation. Without a mother to care for him and becoming habituated to human food, he had to be placed in captivity and arrived at the Center in 1996. Being from the coastline of Alaska, he is very large – weighing approximately 1050 pounds.
Puppies being kept under a basket in order to sell them later on to Togolese people (who eventually eat them, after having "employed" them as watchdogs). Seen in Sege/ Ghana.
The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal. It is the longest member of the Mustelidae, or weasel family, a globally successful group of predators. Unusually for a mustelid, the giant otter is a social species, with family groups typically supporting three to eight members. The groups are centered on a dominant breeding pair and are extremely cohesive and cooperative. Although generally peaceful, the species is territorial and aggression has been observed between groups. The giant otter is diurnal, being active exclusively during daylight hours. It is the noisiest otter species and distinct vocalizations have been documented that indicate alarm, aggressiveness, and reassurance. The giant otter ranges across north-central South America. The giant otter lives mostly in and along the Amazon River and in the Pantanal.
Its distribution has been greatly reduced and is now discontinuous. Decades of poaching for its velvety pelt, peaking in the 1950s and 1960s, hugely diminished population numbers. The species was listed as endangered in 1999 and population estimates are typically below 5,000 in the wild. The Guianas are the last real stronghold for the species. It is one of the most endangered mammal species in the neo-tropics. Habitat degradation and loss is the greatest current threat. The giant otter is also rare in captivity: in 2003, there were only 60 animals being held.
The giant otter shows a variety of adaptations suitable to an amphibious lifestyle, including exceptionally dense fur, a wing-like tail, and webbed feet. The species prefers freshwater rivers and streams, which are usually seasonally flooded, and may also take to freshwater lakes and springs. It constructs extensive campsites close to feeding areas, clearing large amounts of vegetation. The giant otter largely subsists on a diet of fish, particularly characins and catfish, and may also eat crabs. It has no serious natural predators other than humans, although it must compete with other species, including the Neotropical otter and caiman species, for food resources.