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4 Class 14 on the rear of the 'Bear-Ex' on the approch to Ramsbottom.
D9526+D9539+14901 (D9524)+D9537.
26-7-14
WCRC Class 47 No.47245 passes Rewe,with the 08:15 Bristol Temple Meads to Plymouth light engine working,on the 4th of August 2019.
Freightliner Class 70 No.70011 heads towards Portskewett,with the 13:29 Wentloog to Southampton MCT working,on the 29th of June 2018.
DB LHB Class 628.4 2-car diesel hydraulic dmu No.628 662 at Koln on a local S-Bahn service from Dusseldorf, 6/10.
BR Class "46" 2,500 hp 1Co-Co1 No.46 052 (ex-No.D189) with plated-up headcodes in BR blue with all-yellow front ends awaiting departure at Bristol (Temple Meads) on a South West - North East Cross Country service, 08/78. Scanned photograph taken with an Exacta.
South African penguins at the Berlin Zoogarten.
I'm not very sure about the ID, but I think they are African Jackass or Blackfooted Penguins (Spheniscus demersus)
The follwing description of Jackass penguins is taken from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's Animal Diversity Web and is ©1995-2006, The Regents of the University of Michigan and its licensors.
By David G. Fichtner
Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Subphylum: Vertebrata; Class: Aves; Order: Sphenisciformes; Family: Spheniscidae; Genus: Spheniscus; Species: Spheniscus demersus
Geographic Range
The Jackass Penguin is found only off the coast of South Africa. They breed on twenty-four islands offshore between Namibia and Port Elizabeth, South Africa. On the mainland, there are colonies of penguins at Betty's Bay and Simonstown, South Africa, and in Namibia.
Biogeographic Regions:
ethiopian (native ).
Habitat
The Jackass Penguin lives in the warmer latitudes between twenty and forty degrees south. This is not the only penguin species that lives in warmer climates. There are several other species that live on the warm shores of New Zealand, South America, and the Galapagos Islands. When they aren't in the tropical waters hunting for food, they live on the rocky shores where they reproduce and take care of their young.
Aquatic Biomes:
coastal .
Physical Description
The Jackass Penguin ranges from 30 to 100 cm in height. They are black on their dorsal side, face, flippers, and the top of their head. Their entire ventral side and lateral parts of the head and torso are white. Along the chest and sides are black horseshoe-shaped stripes. The body of the Jackass Penguin is shaped like a bowling pin and its feet are webbed.
Some key physical features:
endothermic ; bilateral symmetry .
Reproduction
Jackass Penguins lay two or three eggs at a time. There is not much vegetation on these shores so they must make their nests from hardened guano. The young are cared for by both parents in nests that the adults make or in burrows that they find. The incubation period starts anywhere from mid-November to early December and continues for five weeks. These penguins may use a special fold of skin extending from the stomach to cover the eggs and keep them warm. After hatching, the offspring are fed by regurgitation and watched over for eight weeks. Unlike other penguin species, the Jackass Penguin does not have a creche stage because of the isolative behavior during mating and nesting of the species.
Key reproductive features:
iteroparous ; gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual ; oviparous .
Behavior
When parents stop taking care of the young, they must learn to fend for themselves. Upon reaching maturity ( of which only 40% ever do) they find a mate and remain with them for the rest of their lives. The adults, when hunting in the sea, live in groups of fifty to one hundred. While nurturing the young, however, the adults may live a more secluded life. These penguins live and hunt together and may look for food 50 km from their nesting grounds. Jackass Penguins are able to get this far from shore because they can swim up to 7 km per hour.
Individuals communicate to one another by squawking. The Jackass Penguin gets its name from its loud braying call.
An interesting behavior of this penguin is its manner of cooling off in the heat. The Jackass Penguin spends most of the day in the water and spends the cool night on land. If they are unable to reach the water, as is the case when watching over the eggs, the Jackass Penguin can dissipate heat through its flippers, feet, and open beak.
Key behaviors:
motile .
Food Habits
The entire diet of the Jackass Penguin is marine. The penguin is known to eat twenty-five species of fish, eighteen species of crustaceans, three species of squid, and one species of polychaete. Forty-two percent of its diet is made up of fish.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
There are no real negative economic effects of the Jackass Penguin. Due to their small numbers and size, penguins do not eat enough fish to be detrimental to that industry.
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Penguins are a good source of guano. Guano is excavated from the shores, processed, and made in to fertilizer, which is then sold around the world. Another economic use people have for penguins is with their skins, which are used as gloves and other leather goods.
Conservation Status
At the present, there are 120, 000 individuals left in the wild. This number is down ninety percent from sixty years ago. The biggest threats now to the Jackass Penguin are oil spills, over fishing of surrounding waters by people, and natural competition and predatation from seals and straw-necked ibis. Some fisherman claim that these penguins compete with them for fish, but because of the small size of the animal and the relatively small populations remaining, they consume only around 2900 tons of fish yearly. This number is too small to be detrimental to fishermen.
Other Comments
People have begun to take steps for preserving populations of the Jackass Penguin. All the islands that the penguins breed on have been made into nature reserves or national parks. Further, fences have been constructed around their breeding grounds. This prevents attacks on eggs and young by natural predators. Lastly, the South African National Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds has rescued many of the species from oil spills and has rehabilitated them for return to the wild.
Contributors
David G. Fichtner (author), University of Michigan.
References
Muller-Schwarze. BEHAVIOR OF PENGUINS. New York: State University of New York Press, 1984. p 149-56
"Penguin." ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA. 1986 ed.
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Die Class 77 bringt leere Wagen nach Dillingen. An diesem regnerischen Montag passiert sie mit ihrem Zug den Bahnübergang in der Siersburger Hauptstraße (km 14,93).
An interesting conversation on a scrap of notebook paper that flew into my office this morning by a stong gust of wind. Lot's of inferences about the involved parties can be drawn by this dialogue. Any suggestions?
Though it looks personal, I couldn't resist sharing this. Enjoy!
SJ ASEA/NOHAB/Motala/Hagglunds Class Rc6 15V ac 4,860 hp Bo-Bo No.1339 in SJ blue, black, red & silver livery outside Stockholm, 6/10.
27 Apr 2021 Southern BREL Class 313 EMU 313207 (1976 York) at Brighton station being used as a staff covid test centre.
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