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The roots of lotus are planted in the soil of the pond or river bottom, while the leaves float on top of the water surface or are held well above it. The flowers are usually found on thick stems rising several centimeters above the leaves.
The plant normally grows up to a height of about 150 cm and a horizontal spread of up to 3 meters, but some unverified reports place the height as high as over 5 meters. The leaves may be as large as 60 cm in diameter, while the showy flowers can be up to 20 cm in diameter.
Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to regulate the temperature of its flowers to within a narrow range just as humans and other warmblooded animals do.
Dr. Roger S. Seymour and Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel, physiologists at the University of Adelaide in Australia, found that lotus flowers blooming in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens maintained a temperature of 30–35 °C (86–95 °F), even when the air temperature dropped to 10 °C (50 °F).
They suspect the flowers may be doing this to attract coldblooded insect pollinators. The study, published in the journal Nature, is the latest discovery in the field of thermoregulation, heat-producing, plants. Two other species known to be able to regulate their temperature include Symplocarpus foetidus and Philodendron selloum.
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5/18
a tribe of roosters runs the ground between the goat pens and the dog runs. a murderous lot. when you walk through them you watch your back. take your eyes off one of them and they will lunge and jump at you, claws and wings.
i was just over there. they were all in the trees, roosting for the night, and as i passed them, they peeled down the trees in ones and twos and started stalking me, like some bad new york street gang musical (cue the sharks and jets snapping) Forgetting my own advice, i turned to photograph a young goat when this red-eyed bastard snuck up and shanked the back of my leg with talons and beak, kicked off me, and then bowed up large, like a gangster claiming his avenue.
it didnt hurt. but damn, if he could have he would have.
can i interest y'all in some fresh fried chicken and mashed potatoes?
Just beneath the water’s surface, an alligator keeps watch with unblinking patience. At eye level, its presence is both calm and commanding—reminding us that in nature, silence can be as powerful as motion.
Argiope Aurantia. Once a common spider here in the metro-Atlanta... I am starting to worry that they are becoming a rare treat due to intense competition from the nonnative Joro spider.
The goal of this photo was to replicate Minister Jonathan Edward's Sermon- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome
insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like
fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer
eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his
eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely
more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds
you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did
not go to hell the last night; that you was suffered to awake again in this world, after you
closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not
dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God’s hand has held you up.
There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here
in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his
solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this
very moment drop down into hell"
"I'm not afraid to die like a man fighting, but I would not like to be killed like a dog unarmed."
(Billy the Kid in a letter to Governor Lew Wallace, March 1879)
('Billy the Kid', horse,body and coffin by McFarlane Toys / McFarlane's Monsters Series 3: Six Faces of Madness)
Additional diorama parts by RK
Portrait of a highly venomous African snake, the Cape Golden Cobra (Naja nivea). This snake was hunting in a tree above a picnic table at Melkvlei in the Kgalagadi of South Africa.
"I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway."
(Billy the Kid's comment to a Las Vegas Gazette reporter; December, 1880)
('Billy the Kid' and coffin by McFarlane Toys / McFarlane's Monsters Series 3: Six Faces of Madness)
Diorama by RK
The dreamy series
The roots of lotus are planted in the soil of the pond or river bottom, while the leaves float on top of the water surface or are held well above it. The flowers are usually found on thick stems rising several centimeters above the leaves. The plant normally grows up to a height of about 150 cm and a horizontal spread of up to 3 meters, but some unverified reports place the height as high as over 5 meters. The leaves may be as large as 60 cm in diameter, while the showy flowers can be up to 20 cm in diameter.
Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to regulate the temperature of its flowers to within a narrow range just as humans and other warmblooded animals do. Dr. Roger S. Seymour and Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel, physiologists at the University of Adelaide in Australia, found that lotus flowers blooming in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens maintained a temperature of 30–35 °C (86–95 °F), even when the air temperature dropped to 10 °C (50 °F).
They suspect the flowers may be doing this to attract coldblooded insect pollinators. The study, published in the journal Nature, is the latest discovery in the field of thermoregulation, heat-producing, plants. Two other species known to be able to regulate their temperature include Symplocarpus foetidus and Philodendron selloum.
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Island of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Palmarium Reserve
The male chameleon is more colorful than the male and has a bump on the nose. The males can come in a variety of colors.
Wikipedia-
The panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar in a tropical forest biome.
Panther chameleons are zygodactylous: on each foot, the five toes are fused into a group of two and a group of three, giving the foot a tongs-like appearance. These specialized feet allow the panther chameleon a tight grip on narrow branches.
Their eyes are the most distinctive among the reptiles and function like a gun turret. The upper and lower eyelids are joined, with only a pinhole large enough for the pupil to see through. They can rotate and focus separately to observe two different objects simultaneously; their eyes move independently from each other. It in effect gives them a full 360-degree arc of vision around their bodies.
Panther chameleons have very long tongues which they are capable of rapidly extending out of the mouth. The tongue extends at around 26 body lengths per second. The tongue hits the prey in about 0.0030 sec. The tongue of the chameleon is a complex arrangement of bone, muscle and sinew. At the base of the tongue, a bone is shot forward, giving the tongue the initial momentum it needs to reach the prey quickly. At the tip of this elastic tongue, a muscular, club-like structure covered in thick mucus forms a suction cup. Once the tip sticks to a prey item, it is drawn quickly back into the mouth, where the panther chameleon's strong jaws crush it and it is consumed.
Tenerife.
Ten Bel garden.
These spiders had their webs very close to the ground.
the source I used for comparison
www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/178.htm
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This is the same alligator that appeared in the background of the capture of the Tri-colored Heron. At first, I thought it was a female because a few feet down the bayou was an exceptionally large male, but it might also be a male. No way to determine when they are this size, but I do know that there’s a bit of the tail missing on this particular beast. Doesn’t matter whether it’s a male or female because when they are this size, they are lethal no matter what sex they are. This one didn’t stick around and made a banzai launch into the bayou which I failed to capture. The one thing you can count on with an alligator is that they are unpredictable. Photo taken on Armand Bayou.
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I consider my Grandad to have sent me this, as the day before i photographed it i had just said to my mum "oh how i wish i could photograph a wild british snake"... and the next day i find this little guy on my patio (which used to be my grandads' house) I gently placed him into one of our small acer trees. It's such a rarity and i am so pleased :)
This is a juvenile british grass snake (Natrix natrix)
Me and my Grandad were as close as anyone could ever get, he would always help me with my art, he was an amazing artist, i hope that he is proud of my photography..
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Tenerife. Icod de los Vinos.
Mariposario del Drago
Papilio peranthus
en.butterflycorner.net/Papilio-peranthus.519.0.html
a bit damaged, but still a beautiful butterfly
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Papilio demoleus.
Butterfly Garden Berkenhof.
Kwadendamme, Zeeland, The Netherlands.
www.vlindertuindeberkenhof.nl/
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A very curious young American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) swims up to me as I lay on the bank of the water at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA.
The Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon) is one of our most cold tolerant species in North America and proliferates up north to Ontario.
This individual was caught basking in a Georgia USA creek in the final days of a concerningly warm December.
Often it is thought that snakes sleep through the Winter, but it is more accurate to describe their habits as brumation rather than hibernation. That is, they enter a state of torpor rather than deep slumber and will take advantage of warm and sunny days to bask.
Nonetheless, the snake's relative sluggishness in Winter allowed me to obtain this 30 second long-exposure of the snake under moonlight. Albeit- with just a little motion in the head!
Film // ASTIA [soft]
I found this little chap and his friend in my garden this morning, such a privilege as they are a protected species. I have been joking that I haven't got a garden but a jungle as I let plants go a bit wild in there and don't use any chemicals. But is looks like my little jungle is attracting more wildlife than just the pollinators States of Jersey lizards info"
.......Accessing Log........
.......Access Granted.......
[BEGIN LOG]
".....Nearly a month after peace was established between the Talz and Pantora a Separatist armada invaded the planet and attacked the Republic base there. With the help of the Talz the troops stationed there have managed to hold out but they are running out of food and ammo. The 303rd legion was sent to wipe out the seps before they could threaten the nearby moon of Pantora....."
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[END LOG]
.......Incoming Transmission..........
"....Sir this is CT-01745 I've found the sep com station looks like someone beat us to it all of the droid guards have been destroyed but bear no blaster marks, it could have been the Talz....
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"....Wait the scanners picking up movement..."
"Ambush! Everyone get down!"
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And another Star wars series!
I hope to start building for to the 253rd sometime this week along with another series I have planned. (This one should take place during the Galactic civil war)
Until then Enjoy!
This Monster Snapper had stopped in the middle of the road. A group of us helped encourage it to move on before it ate a car or became turtle soup
Butterfly Garden Berkenhof.
Kwadendamme, Zeeland.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anartia_amathea
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Island of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve
Wikipedia-
The Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii) is a large species of chameleon that is endemic to isolated pockets of humid primary forest in eastern and northern Madagascar.
A long-lived species, C. parsonii may not reach sexual maturity until they are 3 - 5 years of age and may live to be more than 20 years old. C. parsonii are native to the primary rainforests of the elevated eastern area of Madagascar, up to an altitude of about 7,000 feet. However, their range extends all the way down to the eastern coast, where trade winds bring moisture ladden air to the land.
Parson's are very stationary animals. Adults may go for long periods without moving except to eat, drink, mate or deficate. They also do not spend much time basking, like many other true chameleons. They will, however, sit in the sun for short periods and slightly flatten one side of their body toward the sun. These sunning sessions are rarely more than 10 - 15 minutes long and usually take place early in the morning as soon as sun is available.
Near threatened according to the IUCN red list. The loss of humid forest, mainly through conversion from slash-and-burn agriculture but also due to logging, is a threat to this species. Much of the habitat of this species is extremely fragmented, and small forest fragments are unlikely to be viable to ensure persistence of this large chameleon that occurs at low densities.
Iguanas are cold blooded so when we have a cold blast here in South Florida, they are in danger, literally falling out of trees lifeless. If they aren't injured, when they warm up they revive and walk away. abcnews.go.com/US/iguanas-falling-trees-florida-due-cold-...
Iguanas are capable of severely injuring people, other animals and themselves when their body language signals are not recognized. Most iguanas clearly sign that trouble is ahead. They nod their head and wave their dewlap side to side. The dewlap is a fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, such as a cow.
Iguanas use their dewlap to communicate. First, an extended dewlap can simply be a greeting, away to say hello to another creature during mating but most generally as a territorial sign. Second, it can be a form of protection. A threatened iguana may extend its dewlap to intimidate a predator into thinking it is much larger than it is. Third, an extended dewlap may be a sign that the iguana is trying to adjust its temperature. An extended dewlap on an iguana basking in the sun is quite normal. It may be catching more sun to warm up or a breeze to cool off. So it's important to see "the big picture" when reading Iguana body language.
Update, this morning I went out to check on my dead Iguana and he was gone! I hope he was up in the tree watching me!
Biscayne Park, FL