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The Lace Monitor, or Lace Goanna, Varanus varius, is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas. It belongs to the subgenus Varanus.
Lace monitors are the second-largest monitor in Australia after the Perentie. They can be as long as 2.1 metres (over 6 ft 10ins) with a head and body length of up to 76.5 cm (2½ ft). The tail is long and slender and about 1.5 times the length of the head and body. Maximum weight of lace monitor can be 20 kg.(44 lb), but most adults are much smaller.
These common terrestrial and often arboreal monitors are found in eastern Australia and range from Cape Bedford on Cape York Peninsula to south-eastern South Australia. They frequent both open and closed forests and forage over long distances (up to 3 km a day).
They are mainly active from September to May, but are inactive in cooler weather and shelter in a tree hollow or under a fallen tree or large rock.
The females lay from 4 to 14 eggs in spring or summer in termite nests. They frequently attack the large composting nests of Scrub Turkeys to steal their eggs, and often show injuries on their tails inflicted by male scrub turkeys pecking at them to drive them away.
Their diet typically consists of insects, reptiles, small mammals, birds and birds' eggs. They are also carrion eaters, feeding on already dead carcasses of other wildlife. Lace monitors will also forage in areas inhabited by people, raiding chicken coops for poultry and eggs, rummaging through unprotected domestic garbage bags, and trash cans in picnic and recreational areas.
Like all Australian goannas, they were a favourite traditional food of Australian Aboriginal peoples and their fat was particularly valued as a medicine and for use in ceremonies
Lace monitors are found in two broad forms. The main form is dark grey to dull blueish black with numerous scattered cream spots. The snout is marked with prominent black and yellow bands extending under the chin and neck. The tail has narrow black and cream bands which are narrow and get wider towards the end of the tail.
The other type, known as 'Bells Form', is typically found in dryer parts of NSW and Queensland. It has broad black and yellow bands across the body and tail. Close up these bands are made up of various spotted patterns.
Reptile House
Bronx Zoo New York
♫Nos hablamos pero no
Sabemos ,si será
Volcados en la ilusión
Me voy en un segundo
Hoy necesito estar sentado desde aquí
Y los dos llegamos tarde para decirnos que ...
Y aunque eres invisible veo a través de ti
Y siendo intocable yo te siento en mis sueños
Y me lamento por no estar allá
Y hoy te miento para estar solos
Tú y yo
Y la distancia le ganó al amor
Sólo te veo en el monitor
Esperando respuesta veo que hoy
Tu ausencia llega nada mas
Las cosas deben de seguir
Y no sabemos si será...
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PhotographerÕs Mate Petty Officer Second Class (DV) Eric Lippmann, of Decatur, MI, an underwater photographer assigned to CINCLANTFLT Det Combat Camera Atlantic, Norfolk, VA., is lowered to the wreck site of the USS Monitor to photographically document salvage operations with a NIKONOS-V underwater camera. The divers are working from the Derrick Barge WOTAN, the main support vessel for Phase II of the Monitor 2001 expedition, the sixth NOAA-Navy expedition to preserve the historic vessel. The ship went down off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, in 1862 during a severe storm.
Official U.S. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate Chief Petty Officer (DV/SW) Andrew Mckaskle.
CLF. Det Combat Camera Atlantic
An extension of the position/angle assignment for Strobist 102, I softened the light with a shoot through umbrella and chose the angle most complimentary to the monitor.
The Colorado Fish & Wildlife Conservation Office continued an important partnership with the National Park Service to recover Threatened greenback cutthroat trout populations within the Rocky Mountain National Park. Service employees monitor streams in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Credit: USFWS
Surprised after seeing the treadmill, seeing this monitor in the trash didn't have as much shock value. :(
SUPER MONITOR, una computadora recibiendo la senal por FireWire. En Camara Super Leonardo Noriega. Asistente de Camara Carlos Velez y Norman creador del Track y apoyo en direccion. Por supuesto mi esposa en la documentacion con estas fotos, seguimiento y continuidad y el chapus con el maquillaje con las chavitas.
puedes ver el video en: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYqS_6zrIQ4
TO VIEW sit back from your monitor 2 feet and place your index finger about 10 inches in front of your eyes and focus on your finger. This will cause your eyes to go comfortably cross eyed. Keep that same cross eyed focus and notice there are now 3 photos in the back ground. Do not let your eyes leave the cross eye as you look at the middle picture which has appeared. Now increase or decrease how much your eyes are cross eyed until the image pops into 3D. Your eyes will want to leave the cross eye, but fight that urge. This is an acquired skill and takes practice. Stop if it's uncomfortable.
Another Coelioxys nest parasite bee from the Adirondack Mountains of New York. This one is a nest parasite of big Leaf Cutters like Megachile latimanus. Here are shots of a male and a female. You can see the long pointed abdomen that the female uses to cut into the nest walls and the odd multipronged rear ends of the males, the uses of which are not apparent to me...but all the Coelioxys males have them.
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Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
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Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Marylandhttp://bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
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Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
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Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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A water monitor leaves the water and goes off into an open drain leading into the water (eeeew!). Look at the amount of human generated junk the poor animal has to contend with! This pic was taken from the boat during our ride into the mangroves at Balapitiya near Galle. (Balapitiya, Sri Lanka, June 2011).
Até que seria interessante um monitor transparente, não? Bem, fiz o teste aqui em casa!
Vejam o resultado!
The Data Technology Institute, the Bayes Centre, is the £39m completion phase of the Potterrow development adjoining the Informatics Forum and Dugald Stewart Buildings which opened in 2008.
Design by Bennetts Associates architects, engineering by Buro Happold and construction by McLaughlin & Harvey.
"The Data Technology Institute will create a hub for innovation that substantially broadens the scope of the School of Informatics. The building will house a mixture of internal users and external groups that may include start-up companies and research groups amongst many others. The building will provide flexible spaces in the form of individual offices, open plan working, dedicated secure space for external groups, social space, meeting and conference rooms, laboratories (for robotics and human monitoring), teaching spaces and seminar rooms." www.ed.ac.uk/estatesprojects/central-area/live-capital-pr...
Bayes Centre: www.ed.ac.uk/bayes
Webcam: dtisite.inf.ed.ac.uk/
Blue painted plastic milk bottle on galvanised star picket marking the corners of the bird monitoring plots, Ash Island burn, Ash Island, Hunter Wetlands National Park
I'm still kicking myself that i didn't go back to rescue this monitor from that skip. I bet it still worked - and i could've done with a spare monitor...
Varanus salvadorii is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea. It is also known by the common names Salvadori's monitor, Crocodile monitor, Papua(n) monitor, and Artellia.[4] The largest monitor lizard in New Guinea, it is believed to be one of the longest lizards in the world, reaching up to 244 cm (8.01 ft). It is the sole member of the subgenus Papusaurus. V. salvadorii is an arboreal lizard with a dark green body and yellowish bands, a blunt snout and a very long tail. It lives in mangrove swamps and coastal rain forests in the southeastern part of the island, where it feeds on birds, small mammals, eggs, and carrion in the wild, using teeth that are better adapted than those of most monitors for seizing fast-moving prey. Like all monitors it has anatomical features that enable it to breathe more easily when running than other lizards can, and V. salvadorii is thought[by whom?] to have greater stamina than most monitors. Little is known about its reproduction and development, as the species is very difficult to breed in captivity.
V. salvadorii is threatened by deforestation and poaching, and is protected by the CITES agreement. The lizard is hunted and skinned alive by tribesmen to make drums, who describe the monitor as an evil spirit that "climbs trees, walks upright, breathes fire, and kills men"; yet the tribesman maintain that the monitor gives warnings if there are crocodiles nearby.
Many thanks to - " Edward Jude Photography " for the correction in name for this lizard :)
I just can't help myself. I promise the monitor's been put back in the box and I won't fiddle with it until I get it home.
The 17" flat panel in this picture is to give a general size comparison. Sorry about using your gear, Mike, but it was all in the name of science.
Previous actions supported by the Service's State Wildlife Grant Program has shown success with wood turtle conservation. State fish and wildlife agencies in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota showed significantly decreased mortality at protected nest sites and new nesting documented at 50 percent of restored sites.
Photo by Jessica Piispanen/USFWS
These gadgets are very tiny that track all the fitness metrics even when you walk, run, jog or swim along with your quality of sleep too! These can double up as a wrist watch or fit in your palm. Many experts and the ones who already are using it will certainly certify that these gadgets are of immense help to lead them in the right fitness tracks.
Why late? Go and grab one now for yourself and monitor how well you are performing in terms of health and fitness activities.
This was an aspect of the job I found far more palatable than chasing illegal immigrants (IIs) seeking to enter Hong Kong for a better life. We had Observation Posts (OPs) along the Sino-Hong Kong border for monitoring Chinese Communist Army activity. These were equipped with powerful binoculars and long lens cameras, although this photograph was taken with my personal camera. This was from an A Company OP at Sha Tau Kok.
Taken during an Op Culex tour in late 1980. Op Culex was the name for support of the Hong Kong government in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants from the People's Republic of China. This was a Sisyphean task until the HK government ended the policy of granting residence permits to those who managed to make it to HK Island. Numbers dropped dramatically after that.
The water monitor puts his head up, probably intending to move on. We are urged to move on as well, as most members in our group have finished their wee wee and other washroom related activities. (Puerto Princesa, Philippines, May 2013)