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Great swathes of highly coloured yellow rapeseed on the lower slopes of the Chiltern Hills with a fantastic bright blue sky.
Mecklenburg rape field taken on the way to the Karrendorf meadows, which are a large bird and nature reserve.
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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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).
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
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After the horrors of two world wars, many countries adopted the Geneva Conventions on August 12th 1949. The Conventions describe rules of treatment of people from the opposing side in any war or armed conflict. That are soldiers, civilians, medical personnel, unhurt and wounded, living and dead.❗️
Since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukrainian we have witnessed countless war crimes committed by russia, being committed by russia daily. Torture, rape, executions. No boundaries or limits of russian cruelty are to be seen. On August 12th we show and tell about one of the countless russian war crimes, in particular the abduction of 82 Ukrainian medics who are now being illegally held in russian captivity. Their families have no information about the further destinyy of their close ones.
In the meantime the International Committee of the Red Cross, calling itself guardian of the international humanitarian law (which the Geneva Conventions fall under), does not act, trying instead to free itself of complicity in the "evacuation" of civilians, among them children, from the Mariupol blockade to russia and the murder of Ukrainian POWs in the Olenivka penal facility.
We and our defenders need help, now. We need to put pressure on international organizations so that they fullfill their obligations. And we need to tell the world about russian war crimes and their accomplices, who make the genocide of the Ukrainian nation possible on a structural level.
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