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Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape, oilseed rape, rapa, rapaseed and (in the case of one particular group of cultivars) canola, is a bright yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family).

 

Rapeseed is grown for the production of animal feed, vegetable oil for human consumption, and biodiesel. Leading producers include the European Union, Canada, the United States, Australia, China and India.

 

Processing of rapeseed for oil production provides rapeseed animal meal as a by-product. The by-product is a high-protein animal feed, competitive with soya. The feed is mostly employed for cattle feeding, but also for pigs and chickens (though less valuable for these).

 

Annual must-do rape field phone shot, has to be quick or I can't drive for sneezing!

Rape blossoms @ Sagamihara park

Ensilage de cannes de colza, Finistère Nord, Bretagne - France

field, rape field, Scania, Sweden, Höganäs, Skåne, Sweden,

Sony ILCE 7RⅡ

USSR Projection Lens Triplet-5

100mm F2.8

Prueba de luces sobre la mesa de baile.

(grafico a la maxima resolución).

Photographers Come to shoot to the Rape garage

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Dunkle Wolken und goldener Raps / Dark clouds and golden rape

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Apologies for posting this but there are interesting things to write about here. This unfortunate female Mallard had attracted the unwanted attention of three males. Mallards are highly unusual in this kind of mating system as it is usually a highly ritualised courtship, and even in Mallards only descends to this when you get groups of hormone-charged unpaired males.

 

Most birds mate by pressing their cloacal openings together but about 3% of birds have penises, and this includes ducks. A drake Mallard's penis shrinks to about a tenth of its size for most of the year but regrows for the mating season. It is stored inside the body, only bursting out for copulation. Moreover, it is corkscrew-shaped, and some species, are equipped with brushes for removing the sperms of previous matings. But the female reproductive tract is also a complicated shape, and can be the opposite spiral to the male's penis. Many duck species including Mallard have a skewed sex ratio in favour of males, meaning that females can afford to be choosy who they mate with. But a skewed sex ratio also means that many mediocre males would not get to mate. So they have evolved a penis that would enable them to force a female to mate. This skewed sex ratio also explains the promiscuous gang rape system illustrated here. But females ducks have fought back evolutionarily speaking, with increasingly complex reproductive tracts to prevent males from fertilising their eggs by force with their pop-up corkscrew penises. Such as the "thread" on their reproductive tract spiralling in the opposite direction to the male's penis. The female reproductive tract also has blind alleys where unwanted sperm can end up. This type of evolutionary arms race between the sexes is known as antagonistic co-evolution. Females can tighten their reproductive tract to make it difficult for sperm to reach the eggs. As many as 35% of Mallard copulations are forced, yet these only result in 3 to 5% of the offspring. If she wants to mate she can relax the tract and allow his sperm passage. Because the cloaca is also the excretory tract (Cloaca is Latin for sewer), raped females can defecate right after forced sex and eject sperm. Occasionally females will drown during such encounters but the rampant males will continue trying to mate even after her death. I have also heard of cases where male Mallards have attempted to mate with males who have died.

 

I apologise for the crude title too. I was going to call it "Sabine's Duck?" with reference to the rape of the Sabine Women in Roman Mythology, and a nod to Sabine's Gull, but I thought it might be a bit too obscure. And one final thing: When Linnaeus first gave Mallard a scientific name in 1758, he mistakenly named both the male and female as different species. He called the male Anas boschas and the female Anas platyrhynchos, and it was the male name that was adopted for 150 years, until 1906 when Einar Lönnberg noticed that the female name appeared two pages earlier in the text of Systema Naturae (10th edition). There is a strict law of precedence in taxonomy and the earliest name prevails, so Anas boschas was ditched in favour of Anas platyrhynchos (which means broad-billed duck).

/ Takao, Kitamoto-shi, Saitama

// 菜の花 / 埼玉県北本市高尾

 

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The Rape of Persephone (Italian: Ratto di Proserpina) is a large Baroque marble sculptural group by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622.

 

Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. It depicts the abduction of Persephone, who is seized and taken to the underworld by the god Hades.

 

Borghese Gallery - Rome

 

Near Nexing in Winequarter, Lower Austria.

 

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This is a collage that I did with coloured tissue papers, panties and acrylics on paper. My reason for doing it has to be obvious. Somehow, we have to find a way to stop this dreadful and barbaric behavior, no-one in the world should have to be subjected to rape!!!

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Rape fields near Turvey, Bedfordshire, 18 Apr 2017

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Rape fields in full bloom in Worcestershire. England's answer to Provence?

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EF 50mm 1.4 USM

Maco P.T.C. 400

D-76 1:1

Clict to view LARGE size on black - Trust me, it is better :o)

 

This is classic view on Tuscany in May.

On the most of fields are blooming rape.

This photo is from Orcia Valley (Val d´orcia).

Spring, The Netherlands

Ein Rapsfeld unter wolkigem Himmel in der Schweiz, 17 Mai 2021

Rape field in Takikawa city Hokaido Japan

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View of a solitary tree standing in a field of rape

*Working Towards a Better World

This painting is done in mixed media on canvas addressing the cruel and hateful subject of rape. Women and girls deserve respect, common courtesy, kindness, love, admiration and to always be treated fairly, the right to live equally and have their own mind. Women and girls are people, with brains, hearts, and self-respect, they should always be treated with dignity.

 

Here are some sites with helpful thoughts:

 

What you Should Know About Rape and Sexual Assault

www.datehookup.com/content-what-you-should-know-about-rap...

 

Rape Crisis England & Wales

www.rapecrisis.org.uk/commonmyths2.php

 

SOAR/Speaking Out About Rape

soar99.org/blog/

 

Reason.com

reason.com/blog/2014/10/24/fckh8-uses-little-girls-as-pro...

 

Farley Mount Hampshire

115 pics in 2015 - Mellow yellow (101/115)

 

Not quite mellow but definitely yellow!

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