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The Pyrenean or Iberian wild goat, a species endemic to the Pyrenees. Pyrenean ibex were most common in the Cantabrian Mountains, Southern France, and the northern Pyrenees. In January 2000, the Pyrenean ibex became extinct. Other subspecies have survived: the western Spanish or Gredos ibex and the southeastern Spanish or beceite ibex. Following several failed attempts to revive the subspecies through cloning, a living specimen was born in July 2003; however, she died several minutes after birth due to a lung defect
Something to close out the night ... I'll post its ID tomorrow.
HINT: native to Georgia, discovered in the 1700's, extinct in the wild. It's ours ... I took this shot with my Samsung today and it looks like it's budding! I've never seen the blossoms. That's white hydrangeas behind it. North Georgia
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ANSWER: Ben Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha). John Bartram discovered these trees along the Altamaha River here in Georgia in 1765, and his son returned to collect seeds in the 1770's. It soon became extinct in the wild ... and every tree today comes from those seeds that William Bartram collected 250 years ago! We're waiting for blossoms!
From around 11,000 - 3,000 BCE the Sahara was green, during the African Humid Period it was not desert, but lightly wooded savanna grassland, when this was the case Scimitar-horned Oryx would have been very common across northern Africa. Later depictions in Ancient Egyptian tomb art and in Roman mosaics suggest that they were still common in those days, but after the Roman period, the population of oryx started to gradually decline, as the climate changed and Africa became drier, however, they still survived in good numbers around the fringes of the Sahara up until the 20th century. Then their population went into steep decline, particularly following the introduction of better firearms and motor vehicles, hunters could kill more animals, more easily and gain access to areas of the Saharan region that would previously have been difficult to reach. The combination of habitat loss, competition with domestic livestock and overhunting, resulted in their extinction north of the Sahara, and a major reduction in numbers south of the Sahara, by the 1960s only one significant population remained in the Ouadi Rimé Ouadi Achim Game Reserve known as the OROA in central Chad. Unfortunately, civil war between the Chadian army and northern rebels backed by Colonel Gaddafi, made it too dangerous for rangers to operate in the reserve and these last wild oryx were poached, likely killed for meat by both sides during the conflict, sometime in the 1980s the Oryx likely became extinct, surveys conducted in the 90s found only skulls and horns, in the year 2000 the IUCN declared that the Scimitar-horned Oryx was extinct in the wild.
Luckily, in the 1960s when the oryx was still common in the OROA, fifty Oryx were captured to start a captive breeding programme, the animals were sent to zoos in the USA and from there to Europe and then around the world. During the 90s some captive oryx were returned to their natural habitat in fenced reserves in Tunisia and Morocco, but being fenced in they are not truly wild. Around a decade ago conservationists started to plan the reintroduction of oryx to the OROA, to re-establish a wild population in their last known home. Oryx were selected from zoos around the world including Marwell Zoo in the UK, to create a world herd of oryx at the Delaika Breeding Centre in Abu Dhabi, oryx from this herd would then be sent to Chad and ultimately released into the wild in the OROA. The first oryx in this project run by the Sahara Conservation Fund, were released in 2016, the plan is to release 500 oryx. Already the population in the OROA has grown to around 500, but a few more animals will be brought and released to bring the number of released animals up to 500.
December 2023 update, when I visited OROA in 2022 six years after the start of the oryx reintroduction project, despite there being a significant number of oryx back in the wild and plenty of wild born calves, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature still classified the SHO as Extinct in the Wild, however, they have just published their latest reassessment of the SHO and have changed their classification to Endangered. Thus, the Scimitar-horned Oryx’s return to the wild is now officially recognised and the wild population in OROA stands at over 600, this is a huge milestone for the project.
WEEK 27 – Carrollton, GA, Target (I)
In this pic we’re taking a straight-on look at the storefront, which had already received most of its new paint job and had its old Target logo removed, in favor of a temporary bullseye logo poster placed off to the left. The façade features the typical pronounced, rounded entryway area that a lot of mid-90s Target stores opened with, and as we’ve discussed, the inside will hold some fun classic traits as well.
With the June 2018 remodel, it is believed that the P93 décor package was erased completely from existence, as Carrollton seems quite likely to have been the very last store to still have it. However, going through BatteryMill's Target list briefly yesterday, I discovered that at least one other store – in Helena, MT – not only also had P93, but it, too, remodeled in June 2018. So, it’s still likely that P93 no longer exists, but hey: we thought Carrollton was the last store to have it; but if there’s a store out there that had it that we didn’t know about, then there’s at least a teeny-tiny glimmer of hope that it may still be out there today, and we don’t know about that, either! Just some food for thought to leave y’all with, as we wrap up the first five photos in this album :)
We’ll pick right back up here in two weeks, so be sure to stick around for that! (And by the way, just in case you were wondering: we do have a pretty good idea of how many P97 stores are remaining. The count stands at nine. Not sure about P01, P04, etc. Though I am interested, in case anyone else has any idea!)
In the meantime, next week – starting yet another brand new store tour…
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
For the duration of Biennale 2019, Post hoc transmits an electronic reading of millions of lost, invisible and extinct entities. The lists are announced from an echo-free chamber located in one wing of Palazzina Canonica. From the chamber the words are transmitted to several six-metre tall tree cell towers. Line by line, the vast lexicon of the bygone can be heard in proximity to each tree, where the lists can also be streamed on a handheld device.
The enormous scale of Post hoc is only visible at the emptied library located on the second floor of the Palazzina, where the lists are being printed in sync with the broadcasts. Even here, the printed contents become increasingly difficult to view as the paper unfurls about the space over time.
A rare sighting of this super rare, priceless and highly endangered (kena threaten) tailless cuckoo. Thought to be extinct at the turn of the century when one of these freak was sighted perching on a CB (chee bye) tree just outside Elvis's Pub (China Town, SG) on Independence Day in 1945. As far as records shown, this is the second sighting since the second world war, WWII. I'm sure there are more world wars ahead if this species continue to be sighted especially in SG and especially among the CB photographers here. The first sighting was however, in a faraway Jalan Bersar toilet a long long time ago, too long to remember and there's no point mentioning.
In fact this sensationally enigmatic bird is long suspected to be a close relative of a very strange thing called Archaeopteryx (missing link between dinosaur and modern bird. The anatomical characteristics between the 2 are almost identical except for one major difference in their respiratory system in which one take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide while the other take in money and expel laughing gas) this strange creature possess feathers just like a modern bird but with a mouth full of very sharp teeth just like the cuckoo shown above. The set of 32 sharp teeth always get the job done in amazing ways. Feathers first evolved as a means of temperature regulation, inadvertently providing the wonderful possibility of flight. A 200 million year old fossilized remains of this creature suggest that it possesses advanced flight feathers which bear close resemblance to the Long-legged bare-backed Cuckoo shown above and thus for sure it's able to fly like a housefly. It also shared many characteristics such as long sexy legs, bare back, 2 boobs, long hair, nice butt, nice smell, nice shape, tasty, crunchy, smooth complexion, contour body and most strikingly of all, able to stand on just 2 legs with or without heels. This is a clear indication that she is a bipedal vertebrate and having the ability to walk upright and wear dress. A far cry from its ancestors which could at the best of their ability only crawl in small circles on the floor and could fart a little bit along the way. But exactly at which stage of the evolutionary ladder when she starts to develop such unique and impressive characteristics remains unknown and often hotly debated among the brightest brains in the scientific community. One such bright sunny brain is Professor Humpty Dumpty from the University of Hornytown. He had devoted his entire life studying a 220 million year old fossilized remains and has make a startling discovery that the remains were actually leftover chicken bones from last night's dinner xyz***!!F__K!!KNN.
However it's hypothetically accepted that once the position of her butt had evolved sufficiently to line up with her skull within an angle of 13deg from her spine or in simple terms when all of her 206 bones have anatomically fall into their correct place to take the form of half a cuckoo she would begin to stand upright and able to walk and run in circles probably able to jump and sings twinkle twinkle little stars along the way. Fossilized records had showed that this happens around 135.25 million years ago and still happening today at 4pm. Incidentally, by looking at this bird you are watching evolution unfolding in real time right before your very eyes.
However, scientists are still missing 2 critical components needed to establish the link between the 2 creatures to be the same exact species....the elusive number 2 left butt cheek bone and the left nipple bone If anybody happen to come across these 2 missing items, please alert the ICI (International Cuckoo Institute) The 2 cuckoo scientists on duty will be glad to provide protocol on the handling of artifacts with great paleontological significance such as these.
Birds like this one is one of the immensely successful evolutional outcomes of nature, a cornerstone to the trail of life on the planet.
In the beginning of time (some 150 million to 220 million years ago), there was only one single most successful design of living thing on our primitive world known as the sexysaur. One fine day, this group of hopelessly overweight organism decided to go air borne. In order to achieve that, they dramatically reduced their size and started to develop wings and took flying lessons. The possibility of flight opens up numerous window of opportunities greatly enhancing the survival of the species and thus securing a successful path in the process of evolution. The ability to fly allows them to travel over great distances in short period of time to places otherwise unreachable in search of food or mate, sight seeing, look for loss pets, search for food court, or serve as quick getaway from nasty flightless debt collectors. The perfect strategy that results in the successful evolution of bird species in the world.
The Long-legged bare-backed Cuckoo display above is one of its success story for which she serves as a living testimony. No other species, subspecies, antispecies, funnyspecies or even nonspecies is as successful as this sexyspecies.
Those that did not buy the idea happily went extinct some 65million years ago (this group of idiots become known as the dinosaurs)
Those that took to the sky, took their success, secrets, tactics, riddles and technology with them. Those folks became the birds that we know today including the one shown above.
In fact, in the history of evolution, the earth has underwent not one but several mass extinction brought on by either very violent natural causes or of extra-terrestrial origin such as a massive asteroid impact. The most recent is 65 million years ago (in geological time scale is just about during the last Christmas when you are about to have the first bite of your favorite Christmas pie when a stone the size of a football stadium hit the earth with incredible devastating consequences). In that geological instance, the big boys dinosaurs are completely annihilated, leaving behind their descendants flying above us today and some left-over bones for us to ponder. Destructive and violent as it sounds but such occurrence actually accelerates and assist evolution by wiping out the out-of-date, out-of-fashion, out-of-steam, incorrigible, bossy, stingy, rude, smelly, noisy, inconsiderate, oversize, unreasonable, difficult to control, impossible to tame, obese, unfriendly, grumpy, uncooperative, busybody, potential terrorist, all talk no action, indecent, big bully and out-of-money dominant life forms and provide the possibility of diversification in the development of new and improved life forms or organism. Our very own existence is the eventual outcome of such destructive forces. Prior to this, we are just a bunch of noisy little apes wondering around the plains of Africa looking for berries to eat.
One burning riddle scientists are still trying to figure out is that why this particular cuckoo has taken evolution not 1 not 2 but hundred of steps further and go wingless yet fully capable of flight. Perhaps this is an adaptation to the strange combination of high sugar bubble tea/apple pie diet and the lack of horny ground predators in sg. Nevertheless, it's clear that birds have evolved from dinosaurs (some might have even developed from sexysaurs, a kind of horny dinosaur that refuse to be annihilated 65 million years ago despite being hit by a massive meteoroid from an amusement park across Wall street) and this bird has came a long way transforming from a 40 ft ferocious meat-eating T-rex to a bird-sized gentle bubble tea sucker.
Looking at the image, not much eye contact though. But back contact is not bad too. This one comes with my favorite original contour body, rosewood fretboard on maple neck, sexy G-string, synchronised tremolo and locking tuner by Fender. Wonder if she is a brood parasite. I certainly would not mind if she visit my nest, I would be more than happy to provide full gps coordinates of my nest : 3rd stone from the sun
Additional note :
130 million years of gradual speciation had resulted in a pair of long slender cuckoo legs that is covered with gorgeous fair smooth skin instead of scales found in other bird or bird-like species. This gives the animal a huge evolutionary advantage over a pair of stupid scaly legs. That would allows her to attract more horny male species resulting in higher number of nesting cycles, hence more offspring, especially horny female chicks..the more the better
This is the only cuckoo and for that matter the only bird species which spot the longest hair on the planet. These what looks like human pubic hair is in fact very fine strands of crystallized radioactive carbon 13.13 isotopes. The phenomenon is a result of a combination of factors. One such combination is the excessive exposure to male species not of her own kind during her most horny period.
This is a direct result of a hypothetical condition known as Reset Windup. In engineering term, Reset Windup is a situation whereby the cuckoo's brain is overloaded with corrupted data during an attempt to correct an excessive amount of error information accumulated in her hippocampus as a result of some serious horny misjudgment As a consequence, the inner lining of her skull's tissue is heated up by the contaminated fluid to extremely high temperature and pressure. In a response to such deadly situation, her brain would then starts to drain off the deadly sexy fluid thru' the follicles thus allowing the internal pressure to falls back to its normal level of 13000 PSI (Pound per Sexy Inch) at ambient temperature. Million of years of evolution has equipped this cuckoo with a super brain capable of processing tremendous amount of data in a very short period of time with self diagnostic, self troubleshooting, self stimulating and debugging function. This special abilities allow the cuckoo to correct the mentioned deadly condition incredibly fast thus protecting her brain from serious hardware, software as well as underwear injury. Otherwise she could be a mad cuckoo or worst, dead cuckoo with a living but very corrupted brain. For any other bird species, the result would be undoubtedly 100% fatal. Even panadol can't help either.
The sexy sticky yellowish fluid subsequently cools and crystallize into the black-colored hair-like particles suspended from her skull as shown in the image.
Anyway, regardless of the vast number of strange combination of factors, long hair is always better than no hair (botak) for this particular species..
A recent discovery of a set of fossilized upper jaw bone by Professor Robin Hoody (Swordsman University) lies buried for 200 million years
under a 7-Eleven store at Wall Street belonging to this species has revealed something extraordinary. At some point in its evolutionary past this creature has possessed something out of anybody’s imagination, venom yes 100% pure venom no joke.
It is evident by its 2 enlarged front teeth still attached to the jaw structure after 200 million years by a tiny piece of pre-historic Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. It has evolved to generate and store huge amount of venom ready to inject into her lucky prey victim just for one single most important purpose, kill the bargirl.
Traces of fossilised DNA in her mouth indicates there are at least 2000 complex chemical components of various type of toxin in her venom composition.
Each component has evolved to perform a very specific task, some of which makes the victim laugh and dance in circles fully naked while others destroy the blood structure turning it into a thick straw berry chicken soup which halt blood flow resulting in a joyful death. Both methods are extremely effective in taking the lives out of its living victims
Together they form a very potent Hemotoxin cocktail cough syrup which design to kill its victim in miniseconds in one single bite sometimes 2, depending male or female sexually active prey.
How and why at one point in time this sweet and gentle creature has developed such a nasty defensive/offensive mechanism is still a subject of intense study and would remain so for the next 200 million years until some smart Alec comes along figure that out and comes up with a rational explanation follow by a possible resolution.
However, recent studies show that this creature has given up its deadly chemical weapon sometimes between 100million and 50million years ago for something that is less nasty and deadly, a pair of boob-like airbags which attached to her chest. (subsequently the patent for the generation of the deadly venom has been sold to Poseidon (sea god) which he then deploy on some of his cheeky sea creatures such as Cone Snail, Box Jellyfish and Blue ring octopus to kill innocent cold blooded prey items under the sea and is met with huge success as a result of its extreme toxicity which could deliver instant death to their victims. They would become the world's most venomous animals. There are plans to expand its venom producing plants to China taking advantage of its cheap labour and free WIFI.
The reason for that is largely due to the extreme seasonal/environmental change which has impacted the behavior of her aggressive fast moving prey items. The greenhouse effect has caused her prey items to become more sluggish, stupid, lazy, groggy, grumpy, inconsiderate, abusive, unreasonable and most importantly loses their ability to run fast which eventually lead to their demise. (this is exactly
what 's happening to us currently)
As such, advance predator such as this female cuckoo, which is designed to be predatory at that moment in the evolutionary history also changes her predatory instinct. She can then focus her energy into more mating cycles instead of wasting her resources to generate venom of such complexity to bite and kill fast running sexy preys which has became obsolete since. Instead of biting her victim to death she seduce them to die for her. This method only works on male prey items for obvious reasons. Concurrently, she also give up the idea of large prey predation and devote to eat something more manageable in size such as tiny worms and occasionally a Big Mac or 2.
The male cuckoo however, is non-predatory from the very beginning of time and only eats fresh buttercake and drink lukewarm pure pussy juice.
highlight :
The absence of the usual tail feathers has revealed an extraordinary appealing organ which is usually well hidden from sight known as a butt and it grab me by the throat. This piece of juicy, extremely elastic, hand woven, shiny, safe-to-use, easy to wash, irresistible, often unusable, machine washable, microwave safe, warm & smooth, carefully calibrated, 100% sterilized, tasty, sometimes slightly salty, highly aromatic, at times problematic, robust, extremely stable, low in fats, high in proteins, low in cholesterol, sugar free, mostly playable, top quality, reliable, highly maneuverable, a little bit tricky, insect-resistant, a little bit slippery, weather resistant, water proof, solid and at the same time soft to touch organ (wish my bolster has all these qualities) allow her to sit comfortably on the eggs during incubation period and simultaneously preventing her from falling out of the nest when she farts in her sleep. Usually Cuckoo would build their nest more than 3 meters up on the tree and as such, this job is considered to be working at height. Risk assessment must be carried out and PPE (personal protective equipment) such as safety harness, hard hat, safety goggles, ear protection, safety pussy shoes, super glue, luggage bags, tooth pick, sun block, ladder, fishnet stocking, perfume, tampon, reader digest, fire extinguisher, speargun, shopping bag, manicure, moisturizer, hamburger, 7-up and parachute is required by law. However, in view of her super ass which is also a shock absorber and a pair of boob-like tissue which double as a parachute, she is well exempted from all safety equipment including toilet roll. It also has a build-in AI temperature and pressure control system which intelligently adjust to the optimal settings in the course of the incubation period for best comfort, stability, safety, gas exchange and heat transfer. Another amazing feature is that it can be programmed to switch off when the butt is not in use for incubation during which it can be used for other more functional purposes such as attracting a mate, for hire or just showing off.
Hence, this multifunctional multicoloured butt is indeed a staggering marvel of engineering bearing the hallmark of a product from nature manufactured to the highest quality and safety level which surpass all standards set by horny mankind
If you wish to have one installed, please contact Dr Hairy Cock mobile 88813888
Just in case you can't reach him. Just drop by at his workshop located at no. 13 Manymorecocks Street. He is sure in, 24/7. There in his ISO certified, digitally hygienic, explosion proof, terrorist-free, tax free, high-security, air-tight, earthquake-proof, anti-tsunami, mold-free, worry-free, cyber secured laboratory, you can find him busy at his work dismantling, assembling, designing and constructing a wide range of butts for an endless range of applications. His latest project which I'm not supposed to tell is a space butt mounted on a cuckoo just like the one display above and send the entire package to Mars. This highly classified scientific experiment is to test out the theory of cuckoo colonization in another planet outside of our own. In addition, the program is also design to seek out the origins of the Martians. Where do all these idiots would possibly come from? Have they evolved from kind of strange ancient microbial life or imported from another screw-up planet by some screw-up aliens on holiday and how they manage to evolve so unsuccessfully to become the present day Martians living in such a hostile place with no air, no water, no shops, no food court, no casino, no WIFI, no YouTube, no convenient stalls, no porn, no where to go except hiding under thick layers of red sand waiting for a sexy earth cuckoo to drop by once every few million years.
Unlike mother earth where we are all too familiar with, Mars has yet to install an atmospheric curtain around the red planet due to budget constraints of the stingy Martians. Without which, the cuckoo from earth would not survive for long no matter how good is her mating and incubating skills. No air means dead cuckoo. In order to overcome that, the future Mars cuckoo would need to evolve to develop a self- sustaining internal oxygen compartment which allows the generation and storage of oxygen gas. The solution, to convert her 2 existing boob-like organs into gas chambers each capable of storing 50 tons of O2 gas with provisions to generate and store an additional 50mg of Nitrogen/hydrogen sulfide mixture, 2.5mg of horny gas and a little laughing gas as well. With the well-thought system in place, we never need to depend on the cunning Martians for air. They overcharge every time. One major engineering problem pin down but still thousands more to go.
Another major issue is the lovely solar winds from the sun.
Without a magnetic curtain (generated by the earth's core) to repel them just like mother earth does, the deadly UV rays, cosmic rays, X rays, grandma rays, grandpa rays, stink rays, funny rays and a whole range of high energy nasty charged particles will soon strip the cuckoo external plumage exposing her naked body. That would prove fatal not for the cuckoo but for the Martians. The Martians for the longest time have never seen a naked cuckoo before and that would certainly blow their minds turning them into headless Mars bars. They must find a solution to this sticky problem fast otherwise the 2 remaining martians would be annihilated staring at the naked cuckoo all day long with the solar wind gently blowing.
However, this cuckoo has one super trick up her sleeve. Not only does her 2 boob-like organs able to generate and store gases they also double as electromagnetic flux generators. The resultant sexy magnetic field forms a cocoon-like shield wrapping all around her, protecting her fragile body from the deadly solar winds radiate from the sun's surface especially during a sunspot when the radiation is at its peak.
Apart from the protective function, the magnetic flux also create a spectacle of colorful aurora called Assrora in the region around her ass. This is a result of the intense magnetic forces interacting with the highly active stream of chemically complex mixture of gases exiting her bottom especially after a heavy meal of garlic and anions. At times, bright streaks of lightning can also be seen resulting from the excessive build-up of cheeky-charged particles discharging to the ground below follow by a series of ass splitting banshee screams.
Final conclusion :
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace both came up with the Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection independently. Hat off to you guys.
Both are immensely successful in the development of their "The Origin Of Species" thesis thru keen observations of the natural world.
(but that did not shed light on why my boss crucified me for an incompetency that i never agree during the course of work despite after working diligently for half a million years. I am completely devastated. It's like a bullet thru' my brain. They forced me to take over a super hot potato and swallow it without a single drop of water, that really hunts. But life have to go on. I pray that one day justice will prevail and cleanse my name )
Sadly, both somehow missed this cuckoo. Has Alfred Wallace discovered this cuckoo during his field trip here in 1854 things will never be the same.
This cuckoo would provide all the materials he needs to formulate his theory and the answers to all the intriguing questions that he is dying to know about the origins of species and will undoubtedly be way ahead of Charles in that regards.
He would be able to see this cuckoo evolving right before his teary eyes in real time which otherwise would take millions of years, too slowly to be observed, study and recorded by any living human being.
Observing this cuckoo in real time doing the real things is like travel back in time doing the fake things. The technological innovations that nature has put into this bird is simply mind blogging. Such example is the transformation of the black bill into a CBlips, the boob-like objects in disguise, the extraordinary butt, from rock to rocket, from wings to no wings to chicken wings, from feather to fair skin, from bird-eyes to human-like eyes, from bird smell to sexy smell, from scaly legs to sexy legs, from dinosaur to sexysaur last and not least the state-of-the-art Fart propulsion system. In order to fully digest all her natural wonders of evolution, he probably have to dissect this human-like cuckoo to have a detailed look of her from the inside, outside and backside. I’m sure he is able to unlock more secrets and unravel more mysteries about this cuckoo and for that matter evolution itself. I’m sure he would exclaim after a detailed analysis of this cuckoo …damn it, this thing is a super delight...and damn hot !
This will also shed light on how other species evolve, half evolve, strangely evolve, little bit evolve, anyhow evolve or successfully fail to evolve. Evolution as we know today will never be the same again. All the books on evolution that we know about will have to be re-written for the sake of one bird, the Long-legged bare-backed tailless Cuckoo....sweat !
(have a good look at the specimen shown above. However, for safety reasons male reader is advised not to pay too much attention at one particular highly evolved piece of hardware known as the butt. It was reported that a curious male reader has suffered a phenomenon called pulsating eye-ball syndrome after having stared at the arousing object for 13mins straight without blinking leading to a massive short-circuiting of the brain cells which in turn causes the affected eye-balls to expand and contract at an alarming rate. If the condition is not treated promptly, the eye-ball would invariably turn into fish-balls)
In the image, there is a red color pillar with a grey color onion shaped object situated at the left side of the cuckoo. This strange looking structure is actually a mini nuclear missile which runs on radioactive plutonium13.13. Its function, however is not to deliver a massive destructive force to its enemy but to serve as a quick getaway transportation for the cuckoo in distress.
In the event of an emergency such as uncontrollable large scale fire or a horrible horny riot that ever to break out in the vicinity , this wingless cuckoo would then be able to jump onto the device right away, hold it tight like a bolster and launch herself away from any imminent dangers by licking the onion vigorously. A perfect escape strategy.
The last time a cuckoo ever try this out is yesterday 4pm when a stray exploding firecracker drop 4ft away trigger a responsive reaction. The cuckoo immediately swing into action and ride on the damn thing. The missile take off successfully saving the cuckoo's life. However, at 10,000ft in the air, the combustion chamber, a major component of the device suddenly blow up due to excessive temperature build up and blow the poor cuckoo's ass into 13 pieces. The cause of the incident was traced to a pair of faulty 'o' ring which served to isolate the cuckoo's fart gases from coming into contact with the rocket fuel source of highly compressed laughing gas.
The mixing of these gases created an phenomenon known as Shaky-ass where the highly excited male air molecules build up inside the cuckoo's butt starts to vibrate so violently that it leads to the catastrophic breakup of her ass. She survived the incident after having her badly damaged ass sew up in the Smithsonian Institution's gift shop. The repair job takes over a month to complete during which the out-of-action cuckoo is confined to doing blowjob. To blow away the curious Big-eye flies which gather around her injured butt just to watch.
To prevent such tragedy from happening again, it is mandatory for all female wingless cuckoo species to install titanium heat shield to protect their butt. As from yesterday, under the bizSAFE WSH regulation those cuckoo which deem vulnerable to the potentially fatal Shaky-ass condition and do not have sufficient protection for their asset will have their butt confiscated by the long and horny arms of the law. The better quality butts would then be used to installed in sex toys for the cuckoo sex industries to boost the declining birth rate. The resulting buttless cuckoo which have lost their sexual appeal to their male counterparts will have to be scraped or convert to sex slaves for a group of very horny male hyena in the singapore zoo and to be consumed as snack then after.
I'm not too sure if this particular cuckoo conform to the specific requirement unless an intimate butt inspection is being carry out to determine if the protective shield is of the right material and dimension to offer full protection to the entire butt and not half a butt or quaterbutt
For new installation, please contact Mr Hairy Maniac at 999111
For repairs/overhaul/replacement or unconditional sniffing contact Mr Spill Gates at $$$$123
For spare parts, you seriously run out of luck
One final and most important note (I promise) :
Cuckoo species are infamous for their brood parasitic behavior. Most cuckoo parents would leave their parental duties from incubating the eggs to feeding their own young
entirely to another species If this young cuckoo chick needs help, I won't mind to feed this hot freak until she is mature enough, tame enough, wild enough, hot enough, cheeky enough to fend for herself and at the same time providing her with the best TLC I could afford to give this poor chick a head start in life.
But please don't tell my wife about it....otherwise the consequence is unimaginable. I'll be put into an exceptional evolutionary transition transforming from a human being into a single cell organism in a brink of an eye. Literally nothing left.
The story of CB leaf :
According to historical records which date back to the early days of the SAF (sg army). Soldiers were strongly discouraged from using a particular type of plant for camouflage purpose in the course of field craft training. It was green and it was big and best of all it looked like a pussy. It was extremely hard for your enemies NOT to spot you from miles away because you looked just like a gigantic green moving pussy.
This is the infamous CB leaf. scientific name : Chee Bye leaf, common name : simpoh air plant
uncommon name : plant more leaves
Christian name : Chai tow kway (fried carrotcake) leaf
Hokkien name : CB leaf also
Cantonese name : also CB leaf
Malay name : CB leaf sama sama
Alternative name of the plant around the globe :
Indian name : roti prata curry leaf
Japanese name : Love that pussy leaf
Chinese name : make more pussy leaf
European name : eat the pussy leaf
American name : play that funky pussy leaf (til you die .......♫♫ ♪)
North Korean name : Rocket pussy leaf
Martian name : space pussy leaf
Mexican name : hot pussy leaf
Russian name : freeze pussy leaf
African name : Serengeti pussy leaf
Australian name : Kangaroo pussy leaf / Down under got pussy leaf
Thai name : Tom Yum pussy
Singapore name : Chilli pussy crab
Terrorist name : bomb that pussy
English name : pussywillow
Hungary name : Budapussy
Italian name : Pastapussy
Mongolia name : Magnolia icepussy
James Bond name : Octopussy leaf
Musical name : Pussy note in F major (with accidental)
Airplane name : Fly Pussy Fly
IT name : Fire Pussy Wall
Vacation name : Annual pussy leave
Technological name : acute erotic Pussification misalignment
Medical name : unkeratinized stratified squamous - epithelium......nevermind
Family name : Miss Pussy Leaf
WI-FI name : pussy 5G
Nickname : Lan Jiao (Lan bird)
Hieroglyphic name : dunno how to read
Fakename : Pussy Sham Leaf
Brandname : Brand essence of Pussy
Atomic name : Uranium Pussy 235 Leaf
Roadname : Missy Pussy street
Story name : 3 little pussy pigs
Ancient name : Rivers Of Babylon(there we sat down)
Alcoholic name : Johnnie Woker black pussy label.
Song name : Stairway To Heaven (Dazed and confused)
Band name : ZZ TOP (just got back from pussy's)
Astronomy name : Milky pussy way
Botanical name : Bellis perennis pussykickapoo
Biblical name : Caiaphas&pilate_Q_gsus
Technical name : Electromagnetic pussy excitation
Guitar name : Fender stratocaster vs Gibson les pussy
Biology name : multicellular pussycitation
Cosmology name : Supermassive black hole (there is one in every galaxy including ours. There is one found in our company known as the BOSS or more appropriately SMAH (SuperMassive AssHole)
Mystery name : Shroud of Turin. relics of Crucifixion & resurrection of the Lord.
Electrical name : High tension busbar juice
Arabic name : ساق طويلة كس زهرة
Electronic name : VLSI (Very Large Sexy Integration)
Archaeological name : Archaic pussy
Baby name : Cinderella, little glass pussy
Hebrew name : נֶחְמָד מודיע אלמוני flou(-ə)r
Thai name : ดอกไม้ หี
Surname : Ah Lian (aka pussy lian)
SG Lockdown name : Circuit Breaker, stay home stay safe, stay D (steady).
Controversy name : Documentary Hypothesis
Lost gospel name : Q source oral tradition
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extra info :
This is a female featherless bird species (male species has got absolutely no interesting features and therefore nut thing worthy to talk about)
Only 4 species known to have existed in this world.
I got 3 of them and the forth one is still at large.
Believe to be hiding in a place far far away. A place so remote that even MRT+LRT+SBS bus can't reach.
I'm determined to track her down one day, shoot her and post her in flickr backside....i mean ...website.
What actually happened :
This group of people/photographer together with their supposedly hired model came by while I was busy shooting the Stork-billed Kingfisher hunting beside a small pond.
Out of nowhere a lady came over accusing me for trying to shoot their model and thus scaring her demanding me to move off from the area. I was rather taken aback and pissed off at her rude remarks. I then reminded her that this was a public place. I shoot my bird while you guys shoot your model. In fact I think the appearance of this huge group of people really impacted my photography.
It was at this moment that I decided to do exactly what they were accusing me.....shoot their fucking model !
A subject that was last on my list. I turn my lens away from the king and started framing this girl which I soon found her to be more appealing than my kingfisher. (Damn it I should have devoted my time shooting girls instead!)
Later, while I was reviewing the pics that I decided to do a write-up on this rather unexpected encounter. Inject a little humor, married it with a little avian flavor, spice it up with a little archaeological excitement, mix it with some astronomical reasoning, stir it with a bit of engineering logic, fix it with a dose of interplanetary space exploration, sprinkle with lots of nonsensical bullshit and turn it into something amusing.
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About 5 km south of Aviemore, 'Loch of the Island' is a popular location for gentle walks through pine woodland, teased by occasional views across the lake to the nearby mountains, not to mention a ruined castle on the eponymous island. This much-photographed view near the outflow was even voted 'Britain’s Favourite Picnic Spot' in 2010.
The castle, ~430 m from here but ~70 m from the nearest shore, is thought to have been built in the late 14th Century as a refuge against clan warbands following the lakeside 'Thieves' Road' to Strathspey. Developed and occupied until the late 18th Century, the castle was then simply maintained as a picturesque ruin.
It was one of the last osprey nest sites before Victorian egg thieves rendered them extinct in Scotland; though they (naturally) returned to nearby Loch Garten in the 1950s, the ospreys have yet to nest here again.
The loch and island are natural, but the shoreline isn't: an 18th Century dam artificially raised the water level to allow felled logs to be floated down the Milton Burn to the Spey.
Beyond the loch's southern shore, ~800 m away at Inshriach, the ground first rises to 462 m 1¾ km away, then 848 m at Creag Dhubh, 4 km away on the horizon.
Posted on May 31/ 2021
Maybe it's a good thing. When was the last time you saw one of these...? Yes, kids, it's a public phone. A great way to get yuckies. Oh, lord... Could you use one now if you had to?
Extinct monsters
London :Chapman & Hall,1896.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14893427
Many depict the Loch Ness monster as a Plesiosaurus, such as this 1 from a bk on "Extinct monsters" in #bhlib biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14893427 #bhlpod
Hoopoes are colourful birds found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for their distinctive "crown" of feathers. Three living and one extinct species are recognized, though for many years all were lumped as a single species—Upupa epops..Camer, Coolpix P 900
On Saturday ( 1st of September) I went for a ride out on State Highway 37 ,where the Waitomo Glowworm Caves are, when I noticed this along the way!
Moa
The moa were nine species of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about 3.6 m in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about 230 kg. Wikipedia
Moa were large, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand until about 500 years ago. There were nine species of these extinct birds. They belong to the ratite group of birds, which also includes ostriches, emus and kiwi. Genetic comparisons suggest that the closest relatives of moa are the flighted tinamous of South America.
Extinction
Moa were hunted to extinction by Māori, who found them easy targets. Their flesh was eaten, their feathers and skins were made into clothing. The bones were used for fish hooks and pendants.
Where they lived
Moa lived on mainland New Zealand, and Great Barrier, D’Urville and Stewart islands, where there were trees, shrubs and grasses to eat. Different species preferred different habitats, depending on the food that was available. For example, little bush moa and Mantell’s moa lived in dense forest, while the crested moa and upland moa occupied mountain zones in the South Island.
What they looked like
It is uncertain exactly how moa looked. It is thought they were similar to emus, with a domed back. They had three front-facing toes on each foot and a small toe at the back. Their feathers were rough and furry.
Female moa were usually larger than males. The largest were female giant moa, at about 2 metres tall and weighing over 250 kilograms. Some moa, such as Mantell’s moa, and males of northern populations of stout-legged moa, were smaller than a turkey.
Moaland
When moa bones were first announced by European scientists in 1840, it sparked international interest. Once the largest bird to have existed, moa briefly become a national symbol, and New Zealand was called ‘the land of the moa’.
I've always wanted to photograph this atom on the outside wall of the Universe of Energy at EPCOT Center. It didn't quite turn out how I imagined but i tried to salvage it and turn it into something abstract and interesting since the UoE is now extinct.
EPCOT Center | Future World | Universe of Energy
Thanks for looking! I appreciate feedback.
I think only a few people have ever walked past this. There is but a faint trail through dense, regenerating lodgepole pine.
Hiding atop a giant old Oak tree, this enigmatic bird, waits for the distraction to pass, so he can fly down, to gorge on Bangalow Palm berries.Berries are the Kereru’s favourite food all the year round — Puriri in the summer and autumn, Miro in the autumn and winter and Taraire in the winter and spring. Karaka, Nikau and Kahikatea and other berries also supplement their diet where available. During the late winter when there are few or no berries, leaves and shoots provide sustenance.
Nesting usually occurs in spring or early summer and their mating is characterised by spectacular aerial displays, by both sexes but particularly males, close to the time of egg laying. I have often watched them flap upwards from a perch, stall and dive, doing the “loop de loop”. By way of explanation for this remarkable behaviour, the locals say they get drunk on Puriri berries, but according to a DOC report, “When a pigeon flies from its perch, glides up to a vertical stall and then glides down to return to the original perch or fly off somewhere else, the perch from which the kereru flies gives the best indication of the general location of its nest.”
They lay one egg which is peculiarly long, narrow and white. Both adults brood the egg during the 28 day incubation period. The hen sits through the night and morning with the cock taking over from midday until the evening.
Apart from Emperor penguins and flamingoes, pigeons and doves are the only birds to produce food for their chicks. They feed their chicks, called squabs, crop-milk, a protein rich, cottage cheese like secretion from the crop wall. At first crop milk is the only food but, as chicks grow, regurgitated foods form an increasingly large share of the diet.
Like many long lived birds, Kereru breed very slowly. Studies in Northland, Hawkes Bay and Marlborough have found that fewer than 15 per cent of chicks survive long enough to become independent. If this decline continues the species will not be able to sustain itself. Although habitat loss is a major concern, the most serious threat comes from predators, especially Homo sapiens.
Their conservation is important because they play a key ecological role in the regeneration of native forest by dispersing seeds of trees and shrubs such as Miro, Tawa, Karaka, Puriri and Taraire, too large to be dispersed by other birds.
A couple of years ago, the Waikato and Bay of Plenty Conservation Boards initiated a Kereru counting project aimed at farmers with remnants of bush on their land. The project was also aimed at encouraging landowners to fence off bush, to trap and poison predators and plant tree lucerne in the short term while native trees recovered or became established. It is good to see that many landowners have picked up the challenge and adopted these birds as their own.
Kereru is usually a silent bird, something which can be unnerving when one finds them sitting on a branch, usually in the deep shade of a tree quietly observing one. A soft “ku” is sometimes heard along with the growl of the hen bird and the slightly sibilant whistle of welcome to their own. The various Maori names, kuku, kereru, kukupa, tend to be onomatopoeic. They also reputed to sometimes shower in light rain, turning over with feet firmly gripping a branch to allow the rain to fall on their bellies.
Unlike most birds, pigeons can drink without raising their heads to swallow. They become especially thirsty while eating berries, something Maori used to their advantage in hunting them. They would place drinking troughs with nooses beneath berry bearing trees. I am told that these troughs were still in use not too many years ago in the upper reaches of this Valley.
There are two sub species, novaeseelandiae, which breed on the three main islands and chathamensis, which breed on the Chatham Islands and which are a larger bird. A third sub species is extinct, spadicea which survived on Norfolk Island until the 1800s.
They seem totally unafraid of man which is much to their detriment. They are entirely vegetarian not even feeding insects to their young as do the honey eaters. Harmless as a dove is an old adage, and like the dove the symbol of purity and peace, they are faithful to their mates, defenseless, gentle and innocent of sin.
- See more at: www.nzbirds.com/birds/kereru.html#sthash.l1YOb9Xu.dpuf
Kailua, Hawaii and a Hawaiian Sunset lights up the sky in shades of pink and purple with a teal blue ocean in contrast. #Ilovehawaii.
Kerið, volcanic crater lake in Southwestern Iceland. Two people can be seen walking right on the top of the crater edge.
Megatherium is an extinct genus of ground sloths.
Here is the Giant Sloth
This summer, Brookfield Zoo and Dino Don Inc. are unleashing more than 20 life-sized, animatronic re-creations of giants that had roamed North America and Eurasia during the Ice Age. They'll include the following giants:
-Mastodon (18 feet long)
-Woolly mammoth (15 feet tall)
-Giant ground sloths (20 feet long)
-Giant rodent (10 feet long)
-Short-faced bear (11 feet long)
-Giant ape (10 feet tall)
-Saber-toothed cat (5 feet long)
-Giant bird (12 feet tall)
Adding to the life-like effect, parts of the animals – including the head, eyes, mouth, and tail – move as they did in real life. The display's creator, Don Lessem, CEO of Dino Don, Inc., has been digging, reconstructing, writing about, and roboticizing dinosaurs and other creatures from the past for 30 years.
Keep your eyes peeled because these Ice Age Giants will be arriving soon – and it's all free with general admission!
With its lineage pretty evident, a former UP E9A is at the IHB's Blue Island Yard awaiting movement east via Conrail to Naporano Iron & Metal in New Jersey for scrapping. 01/11/80--Tom Golden photo
...that would apply to both the remnants of the glacier des Diablerets at about 9000ft above sea-level and the medium used to take this photo, although we are hanging in there !
Once considered as eternal snow and open to summer skiing, the glacier is fast melting with streams of water crossing it here and there.
"Les Diablerets", canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Shot with Zeiss Ikon rangefinder & Leica ASPH Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 @ f/8, 1/1000sec on CineStill 50D ISO-50 film.
I think the back building was the original homestead. In the distance are the Big Horn Mountains which if in the house you could see quite well. Johnson County, WY where the Johnson County Cattle War took place www.wyohistory.org/essays/johnson-county-war-1892-invasio... Happy Fence Friday!
Confinement jour 43 / Lockdown Day 43
En direct des studios de confinement avant fermeture...
Photophore "boule de neige" en verre, de la manufacture Kosta Boda, souvenir d’une belle année suédoise (1986)
Quarante trois jours, c’est très long... Mes photos s’appauvrissent, mes textes s’étiolent, et tout cela tourne en rond dans le (co)vide de ma pensée du moment, de plus en plus rongée par le manque, à moyen-terme, d'horizon social, culturel et voyageur.
J'ai toujours fui à toutes jambes les réseaux prétendus "sociaux", portés par l’autosatisfaction nombriliste ("regardez tous comme je suis beau") et l’autocongratulation réciproque et forcée ("oui, tu es vraiment magnifique, merci pour le partage") donc il me paraîtrait surréaliste de sombrer à mon tour dans les travers post-adolescents de ce monde virtuel, fugace, et superficiel, que je n’aime pas beaucoup...
Et puis, et surtout, je ne tiendrai pas encore douze longs jours de détention semi-volontaire, à ce rythme quotidien et "contraint" d’une photo, si possible pas trop moche (plus gagné d'avance, faute de liberté) et d’un texte si possible pas trop c... (définitivement perdu, faute de talent littéraire)
Je me place donc délibérément en mode “pause” (ou "pose longue" en photo) à partir de demain et jusqu’au déconfinement...(le 11 mai... ou plus si affinités !)
Si je réussis péniblement à produire une ou deux photos "montrables" (traduction = pas trop moches) dans les jours qui suivent, je les publierai, au compte-gouttes et après une sélection draconienne et sans concession.
Cette sage décision me permet déjà de penser à mon inspiration photo et à mes voyages des "jours d’après"...
Et cette perspective va vraiment me motiver dans la dernière ligne droite de ma détention !
Certes, les tristes prophètes hygiénistes, idéologues ou écologistes des médias et de la politique profitent désormais de leur temps de parole (inespéré avant le virus) pour occuper largement le paysage audio-visuel, et nous y annoncer la proximité de la fin de l'ancien monde, voire la fin du monde tout-court, et nous assurer avec conviction que rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant…
Mais j’espère bien que non, et que tout sera à nouveau (presque) comme avant, en 2021...
Les soi-disant prévisionnistes de l’avenir se sont toujours trompés depuis des siècles !
C'est la seule statistique rassurante du moment !
Et puis, ce n’était pas si mal que ça avant, non ?
J'espère que vous en avez encore quelques souvenirs ? 😊
Bonne fin de confinement et "Take care"
Le journal complet du confinement et des chroniques de la guerre :
Compare these images. All are cephalopods, same family as squids, Ammonites are extinct, nautilus has existed for 500 million years and is till around. Both controlled their buoyancy by filling the shell chambers with water or gas. The chambered shell is known as a phragmacone, in some of the segments of the nautilus you can see siphuncle, which connected each chamber and regulated the buoyancy. The ammonite keel would have floated horizontally, the nautilus floats with a vertical keel.
I do wish it would explode.
In central Victoria, Australia, there are many extinct volcanoes.
The farmers probably like it that way.
This skeleton display was housed
inside of The Hunterian Museum,
our Day 2 in London, visiting BOTH
The Hunterian Museum
and
The Sir John Soane's Museum!
Zoo Dortmund (Germany), April 2009
The barbary lion is extinct in the wild since 1922. In Algeria the last one was shot in 1893, in Morocco some lions of this species lived until 1920. But a small population escaped their extinction and morrocan princes received this lion pride as a present from the Berber people. In 1970 King Hassan II. gave the pride to the zoo of Rabat. And in 1998 52 of these barbary lions were still alive (24 males and 28 females) – in the zoo of Rabat and at a few other places of the world – like in Dortmund, Germany. Probably even in Rabat not all of them are pure-blooded.
Der Berber- oder Atlaslöwe ist in freier Natur seit 1922 ausgestorben. In Algerien wurde der letzte 1893 erschossen, in Marroko, lebten noch einige Löwe dieser Art bis 1920. Aber eine kleine Population entging ihrer Vernichtung und marrokanische Fürsten bekamen dieses Rudel vom Berbervolk geschenkt. 1970 überließ König Hassan II. das Rudel dem Zoo von Rabat. Und 1998 lebten von dieser Gruppe noch 52 Tiere ( 24 männliche und 28 weibliche), im Zoo von Rabat und an wenigen anderen Orten der Welt – wie Dortmund. Wahrscheinlich sind selbst in Rabat nicht alle von ihnen reinrassig.
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