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Where Asia and Europe collide. To right is the peninsula of old city Istanbul and on the left the Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge spanning the Bosphorus connecting Europe to Asia.
With FraumĂĽnster Church in the background. Finally found the sweet spot for this lens f/6.3. If you have the ability to use flickr in any other language than English you will be able to right click on the picture and open as an original. Detail with this lens was outstanding. Time stamp on the clock was 21:21 in the evening.
I wish you a happy Christmas all my friends and my followers. Thank you for 2020.
Pls don't use my Photo for any commercial issues without my permission.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Texture by Lenabem-Anna
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Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) is a southern subspecies of the plains zebra. It is named after the British explorer and naturalist William John Burchell. Common names include bontequagga, Damaraland zebra, and Zululand zebra (Gray, 1824). Burchell's zebra is the only subspecies of zebra which may be legally farmed for human consumption.
Like most plains zebras, females and males are about the same size, standing 1.1 to 1.4 metres (3 ft 7 in to 4 ft 7 in) at the shoulder. They weigh between 230 and 320 kilograms (500 and 700 lb). Year-round reproduction observed in this subspecies in Etosha National Park, Namibia, concludes synchronization of a time budget between males and females, possibly explaining the lack of sexual dimorphism.
Burchell's zebras are described as being striped on the head, the neck, and the flanks, and sparsely down the upper segments of the limbs then fading to white. One or two shadow stripes rest between the bold, broad stripes on the haunch. This main distinguishing characteristic sets the Burchell's zebra apart from the other subspecies. Gray (1824) observed a distinct dorsal line, the tail only bristly at the end, and the body distinctly white. The dorsal line is narrow and becomes gradually broader toward the rear, distinctly margined with white on each side.
A pair of Grant’s zebra at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Notice there are no shadow stripes, and the stripes extend all the way to the hooves.
Behaviour
Like most plains zebras, Burchell's live in small family groups. These can be either harem or bachelor groups, with harem groups consisting of one stallion and one to six mares and their most recent foals, and bachelor groups containing two to eight unattached stallions. The males in bachelor herds are often the younger or older stallions of the population, as they are most likely not experienced enough or strong enough to defend breeding rights to a group of females from challengers. These small groups often congregate in larger herds around water and food sources, but still maintain their identity as family units while in the population gatherings.
Formerly, the Burchell's zebra range was centred north of the Vaal/Orange river system, extending northwest via southern Botswana to Etosha and the Kaokoveld, and southeast to Eswatini and KwaZulu-Natal. Now extirpated in the middle portion, it survives at the northwestern and southeastern ends of the distribution.
Burchell's zebra migrates the longest distance of any terrestrial animal in Africa, making a round trip of 500 kilometres (300 mi). They migrate from the Chobe River in Namibia to Nxai Pan National Park in Botswana. Their migration follows a straight north–south route almost entirely within the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA).
Controversial introductions outside its historical range
From 2001 until 2016 the Kissama Foundation reintroduced wildlife in the Quiçama National Park of Angola. The project was dubbed Operation Noah's Ark. Amongst animals such as blue wildebeest, waterbuck, Cape giraffe, bush elephants, gemsbok, eland, nyala and ostrich were also Burchell's zebras. And from 2017 until 2019 Wildlife Vets Namibia exported wildlife to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital city Kinshasa to introduce animals into the Parc de la Vallée de la Nsele. Wildlife Vets Namibia in partnership with Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature also established a Burchell's zebra population on Île de Mateba, which is originally a rainforest island. Both introductions in west Angola and west DRC are controversial since the park service bodies from both countries did not opt to obtain the native Grant's zebra from for example countries such as Zambia, Tanzania or Kenya.
Like other plains zebras, Burchell's zebras must have populated the African plains in impressive numbers. Associations of thousands have been reported. The wild herds were thought to have disappeared by 1910, and the last known captive individual died in the Berlin Zoo in 1918. As European settlement spread northward from the Cape to colonial southern Rhodesia, this subspecies was thought to have been hunted to extinction.
However, Groves and Bell concluded in their 2004 publication that "the extinct true Burchell's zebra" is a phantom. Careful study of the original zebra populations in Zululand and Eswatini, and of skins harvested on game farms in Zululand and Natal, has revealed that a certain small proportion shows similarity to what now is regarded as typical burchellii. The type localities of the two subspecies Equus quagga burchellii (Burchell's zebra) and Equus quagga antiquorum (Damaraland zebra) are so close to each other that they suggest that the two are in fact one, and therefore the older of the two names should take precedence over the younger. They therefore say that the correct name for the southernmost subspecies must be burchellii, not antiquorum. The subspecies Equus quagga burchellii still exists in KwaZulu-Natal and in Etosha. Equus quagga burchellii can be found in a number of zoos in the United States, including the Cincinnati Zoo, Columbus Zoo, Naples Zoo, Nashville Zoo, Woodland Park Zoo.
FINALLY……………..The car situation is taken care of and my life can return to normal! I ended up with a new Toyota Rav4 yesterday and I love it! I am looking forward to seeing all your wonderful images I have missed on Flickr. Have a great weekend!
Taken in Ashland, WI at Bayview Park on Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior
On Explore on June 9, 2012
Also known as The Gold Tower along the Canal de Alfonso XIII in Seville Spain.
Seville Cathedral in the far background. Photo taken from the Restaurante RĂo Grande on the west side of the canal.
Slight mix of traditional Mercedes-Benz Silver and a grayish magenta sky at sunset and you end up with Mergenta.
Mercedes-Benz Museum - Stuttgart, Germany
After a long evening it's time to wake up and get things in focus. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. :)
Daily Rhythm used this for one of their music video covers. (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix). Check it out.
In remembrance on Memorial Day 2014 of those that paid the ultimate price while on active duty for their country.
The Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial is located in Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The cemetery can be found 2.5 kilometers southwest of Findel Airport. It is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Under a US-Luxembourg treaty signed in 1951 the US government was granted free use in perpetuity of the land covered by the cemetery, without taxation.
The cemetery, which is 50.5 acres (20.4 ha) in extent contains the remains of 5,076 American service members. On 22 occasions two brothers rest side-by-side in adjacent graves. Most of the interred died during the Battle of the Bulge which was fought nearby in winter 1944/1945. The 5,076 headstones are set in 9 plots of fine grass, lettered A to I. Separating the plots are two malls radiating from the memorial and two transverse paths. Two flagpoles overlook the graves area. Situated between the two flagpoles lies the grave of General George S. Patton Jr.
May they all rest in peace.
Triad star symbolizing Mercedes-Benz rising over one of their iconic buildings near the Mercedes-Benz Museum. Stuttgart Germany.
Schloss Solitude, about 3km south west of Stuttgart and a bout a ten minute drive from the house. One of my favorite places in the Stuttgart area to visit. Taken last year, but since we haven't had much snow this year (only one time), thought I would post from my files from a year ago to remind me of what snow looks like. :)
HMS BELFAST (C35) - Construction of the Town Class Cruiser started in 1936, launching soon after in 1938. A year later she was commissioned into the Royal Navy fleet.
Found and captured in digits after visiting the Godiva Chocolate factory while in Brussels. Shot is from the south east side of Park Elisabeth looking toward National Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
Our star as it sets near Aidlingen, Germany earlier this evening. Hope everyone had a great weekend!
A horse enjoys the view at dawn over Seongsan Ilchulbang Peak on Southern Jeju Island, South Korea.
Published on the front cover of The Jeju Weekly ( www.jejuweekly.com ) on December 31st, 2010.
A World Heritage Site
leap year for moth
29th feb '08 - march 1 '09
a period of transition
with more than a little help from my friends (you know who you are)
240 pictures. (many eminently deleteable. reminders of what i'd do differently)
still, much fun.
ps. the hair's chopped now. feels good.
A drum scanned version of an earlier post. Not scanned with my new drum scanner, but with the same model by someone else. Hopefully indicates what I have to look forward to when I get mine up an running.
I was doing some cleaning and came across this barn image from a while back. You all know how I love barns, especially red ones! LOL I hope you're having a good Thursday!
Someone needs more than a hug. Princess and her frog friend found along Galeries Royales St-Hubert in Brussels Belgium.
The Walkie Talkie building and The Shard communicating through reflective light over the River Thames.
Today there is a festival in Tokyo call as "AKARI MATSURI" I have been there to enjoy it . I am really surprised how kids are creative, cause all photos and scripts on the light writen or drawn by school kids for today. It is realy interesting.
Crater Lake is located in Southern Oregon on the crest of the Cascade Mountain range, 100 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. It lies inside a caldera, or volcanic basin, created when the 12,000 foot high Mount Mazama collapsed 7,700 years ago following a large eruption.
Generous amounts of winter snow, averaging 533 inches per year, supply the lake with water. There are no inlets or outlets to the lake. Crater Lake, at 1,943 feet deep, is the seventh deepest lake in the world and the deepest in the United States.