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The Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata) is a pangolin found on the Indian subcontinent. It is not common anywhere in its range. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defence against predators such as the tiger. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
It is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.
The Indian pangolin is threatened by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine.
The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. It is about 84–122 centimetres (33–48 in) long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33–47 cm long, and weighs 10–16 kg. Females are generally smaller than the males and have one pair of mammae. The pangolin possesses a cone-shaped head with small, dark eyes, and a long muzzle with a nose pad similar in color, or darker than, its pinkish-brown skin. It has powerful limbs, tipped with sharp, clawed digits. It is an almost exclusive insectivore and principally subsists on ants and termites, which it catches with a specially adapted long, sticky tongue.The pangolin has no teeth, but has strong stomach muscles to aid in digestion. The most noticeable characteristic of the pangolin is its massive, scaled armour, which covers its upper face and its whole body with the exception of the belly and the inside of the legs. These protective scales are rigid and made of keratin. It has 160–200 scales in total, about 40–46% of which are located on the tail. Scales can be 6.5–7 cm long, 8.5 cm wide, and weigh 7–10 grams. The skin and scales make up about one-fourth to one-third of the total body mass of this species.
The Indian pangolin has been recorded from various forest types, including Sri Lankan rainforest and plains to middle hill levels. The animal can be found in grasslands and secondary forests, and is well adapted to desert regions as it is believed to have a tolerance to dry areas, but prefers more barren, hilly regions. This pangolin species may also sometimes reach high elevations, and has been sighted in Sri Lanka at 1100 meters and in the Nilgiri mountains in India at 2300 meters. It prefers soft and semi-sandy soil conditions suitable for digging burrows.
Pangolin burrows fall into one of two categories: feeding and living burrows. Feeding burrows are smaller than living burrows (though their sizes vary depending on the abundance of prey) and are created more frequently during the spring, when there is a greater availability of prey. Living burrows are wider, deeper, and more circular, and are occupied for a longer time than feeding burrows, as they are mainly used to sleep and rest during the day. After a few months, the pangolin abandons the burrow and digs a new one close to a food source. However, it is not uncommon for the pangolin to shift back to an old burrow.
Unlike its African counterpart, the Indian pangolin does not climb trees, but it does value the presence of trees, herbs, and shrubs in its habitat because it is easier to dig burrows around them. Features that promote an abundance of ants and termites (grasses, bare grounds, bases of trees, shrubs, roots, leaf litter, fallen logs and elephant feces) are often present in pangolin habitats.
Few details are known about the breeding behaviour of the Indian pangolin. During the animal's mating period, females and males may share the same burrow and show some diurnal activities. Males have testes in a fold of the skin located in their groin areas. The female's embryo develops in one of the uterine horns. The gestation period lasts 65–70 days; the placenta is diffuse and not deciduate. Usually, a single young is born, but twins have been reported in this species. The young weigh 235–400 g at birth and measure roughly 30 cm. The newborn animals have open eyes, and soft scales with protruding hairs between them. The mother pangolin carries her young on her tail. When the mother and young are disturbed, the young pangolin is held against its mother's belly and protected by the mother's tail.
I don't think this kind of image is possible without the use of infrared. It is pregnant with energy. The box belongs to the Bureau of Meteorology which has an official weather station at Low Head.
Weather Report was also the name of a very fine Jazz group, including saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Jazz is actually a nice way of describing infrared photography. Every shot is an improvisation and makes us see things anew.
Macro Monday: #PatternsInNature
Width of the frame: 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches
Last Minute capture for "Patterns in Nature". It's an extreme close-up of an agate palm or worry stone which to me looks like a storm on Jupiter.
Taken with two Kenko extension tubes (16 and 10 mm) and the Raynox DCR-250 "super macro conversion lens" all mounted to my macro lens, and with in-camera focus stacking. Developed and processed in ON1 Photo Raw. It's amazing that some backlight, and then haze reduction and increase of saturation and dynamic range brought out these colours on what looks like a fairly palish (mostly brown and white tones) mineral to the unaided eye (no extra colours added!).
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Jupiter-Wetterbericht
Offensichtlich ist Sturm auf dem Gasriesen angesagt ;-)
Last-Minute-Foto für das Thema "Patterns in Nature". Extrem-Makro (so etwas in der Art) eines Achat-Handschmeichlers, aufgenommen mit zwei Kenko-Zwischenringen (10 und 16 mm) in Kombination mit dem Raynox-DCR-250-Macro-Converter. Von hinten angestrahlt und mit der Kamera-internen Fokus-Stacking-Funktion aufgenommen. Entwickelt in ON1 Photo RAW. Die Hintergrundbeleuchtung sowie "Haze Reduction" (Dunst entfernen) und die leichte Erhöhung der Sättigung und des Dynamik-Umfangs brachten mal wieder erstaunliche Farben zutage, die mit dem bloßen Auge so nicht zu sehen sind, da wirkt der interessant gemusterte Stein eher blass mit seiner bräunlichen Grundfarbe sowie der weißlichen Bänderung. Die Gelb- und Orange-Töne dürften auch überwiegend dem Hintergrundlicht zu verdanken sein. Künstliche Farben habe ich der Aufnahme aber nicht hinzugefügt.
Ich wünsche Euche eine schöne Sommerwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
CN 595 is done for the day after spotting two cars at the South end of Huntsville Yard for 450 to lift later that night while it passes some wicked old NAR flat cars fitted to haul concrete ties.
Sala espectacular en el interior de las minas de Wieliczka. Relieves, esculturas y reproducciones de carácter religioso tallados en sal decoran la inmensa y sorprendente estancia.
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North Island Kokako - Tiritiri Matangi--Wattle Track, Auckland, New Zealand
Māori name - Kokāko
Bird Species (# 437) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/279704961#_ga=2.96644890.406106...
This 4200 Report Monitor reel-to-reel tape recorder was manufactured by Uher factories in Munich in the early 1980s. It was primarily developed for professional use and was intended for use with 13 cm reels in half-track mode. The housing is made of robust die-cast aluminum, and in addition to numerous technical features, there were also many accessories, such as matching microphones, for use in interviews by reporters. The sound is excellent and enables perfect recordings in hi-fi quality! My device still works well and looks quite good.
I had been watching the weather reports for Yosemite Valley for over a week in anticipation of a Winter Storm that was due to arrive last Wednesday night. I had been hoping for an opportunity to drive up to the park and grab a shot of a clearing rainstorm with low clouds scattered across the valley floor. I've shot from the tunnel several times, but I have never been able to get a shot with steamy low clouds rolling through the trees.
So early last Thursday morning, I made what was going to be a 12 hour, 3 tank full gamble to make a one day dash up to the park trying to make it to the tunnel just as a break in the clouds was due to arrive. I drove through scattered rain showers on my way up hwy 99, and by the time I arrived in Oakhurst at 1:30, low clouds had moved in over the Sierras and it looked like I might have wasted an entire day trying to get my shot. But after driving up hwy 140 for a while, the clouds broke up and suddenly I began to worry that ALL of the clouds would be gone and I would be left with just another cloudless afternoon up at the tunnel.
But as I entered the park, the low clouds moved in again and it began to rain in earnest. As I arrived at the tunnel, there was a small but determined group of photographers camped out hoping that the clouds would lift and that the rain would let up. I took a spin around the park just to pass the time, and by the time I had returned, the rain had stopped, the clouds were breaking up, and there was only one photographer left. And best of all...my low clouds were scattered across the valley floor! The lone photographer (Dave) and I shot for about 90 minutes straight before it started raining again. People came and went, but as it began to pour and the clouds moved in again, I was the last photographer to head back to my car. The above shot was taken in the pouring rain just as the rain clouds began to turn orange behind me. I kept shooting as the end of the valley lit up in a bright topaz blue before all the light was gone.
After stopping to see some friends of mine in Mariposa, it was time for the long drive back, which was not without its own adventures. I hit some serious fog just outside of Bakersfield and you literally couldn't see two feet in front of the car. After the fog broke up, I made it through the grapevine only to discover that the entire Southbound 5 freeway was closed due to construction and had to take a detour through downtown LA. I didn't get home until 1:30 AM. All in all, a very crazy day and a bit of a gamble...but I will definitely be trying that again.
Wreckage of the B29 Superfortress 'Overexposed' which crashed at Higher Shelf Stones near Bleaklow summit on 3rd november 1948. All 13 crew were killed.
A somewhat disturbingly-detailed report of the crash can be found here:
aircrashsites.co.uk/air-crash-sites-5/superfortress-44-61...
Report and full photo gallery on my website: www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/blue-green-bingo...
The Blue-Green Bingo Hall is a former entertainment venue in England. Over the decades it has been used as a cinema, bingo hall, and casino.
Winter close to Bromma Airport on January 11, 2021.
"A picture says more than a thousand words" and you can all see how shitty the winter weather was mid-afternoon yesterday...
Featuring The Watcher Desk and Chair by Never Totally Dead
*Chair has solo sits and desk has a lovers menu
Main Store Taxi:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Enchanted%20Escapes/106/18...
Various other decor by BAMSE, Contraption and Ex Machina
On Her
Hair by Opale
Outfit by E-Clipse Design
On Him
Hair by Lock & Tuft
Outfit by ZED
I'm currently working on a new skin and lens
The head is the Nova of the Lelutka Revolution line.
It's my favorite!
It takes some time to make each skin into three different brand's heads, but it's fun.
I can't wait to show you.
HAIR - Tram
Report and full photo gallery on my website: www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/religious/hopital-plaza-...
L'Hôpital Plaza has been abandoned for nearly two decades. Originally built as a seminary, it also served as a hospital during WW1 and WW2.
NEW JERSEY 2017 BALD EAGLE PROJECT REPORT
ANOTHER PRODUCTIVE YEAR FOR NJ’S EAGLES
by Larissa Smith, CWF Wildlife Biologist
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ in partnership with the NJ Endangered and Nongame Species Program has released the 2017 NJ Bald Eagle Project Report. In 2017, 178 eagle nests were monitored during the nesting season. Of these nests 153 were active (with eggs) and 25 were territorial or housekeeping pairs. One hundred and ninety young were fledged.
In 2017 the number of active nests was three more than in 2016, but the number young fledged decreased by 27 from a record high of 216 fledged in 2016. The productivity rate this season of 1.25 young/active nest is still above the required range of 0.0 to 1.1 for population maintenance. Productivity could be lower this season for many reasons including weather, predation and disturbance to the nesting area. In 2017 nest monitors reported several instances of “intruder” eagles at nests which did disrupt the nesting attempts of several pairs. One of these “eagle dramas” unfolded at the Duke Farms eagle cam watched by millions of people. An intruder female attempted to replace the current female. This harassment interrupted the pairs bonding and copulation and no eggs were laid.
This year’s report includes a section on Resightings of banded eagles. Resightings of NJ (green) banded eagles have increased over the years, as well as eagles seen in NJ that were banded in other states. These resightings are important, as they help us to understand eagle movements during the years between fledging and settling into a territory, as well as adult birds at a nest site.
For more info: www.conservewildlifenj.org/blog/2017/12/06/new-jersey-201...
New Jersey Bald Eagle Project Report | 2017 may be downloaded here: www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/eglrpt17.pdf
Horace was pacing up and down the lounge, I said “what’s up old pal” he responded well tis like this Bri, I phoned Huw Edwards a few days ago at The BBC (Huw and Horace go back a long way, drinking in Tredegar) and asked why there had been no reportage or sightings of ‘The Beast Of Bodmin Moor’ recently.
Check what ever search engine you good people use, allegedly the beast is quite a fearsome cat like animal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Bodmin_Moor
Huw responded “well Horace, we have had no information on the beast for some time, would you like to go out and report back”.
Horace looked at me with that cute face and asked if we could travel out onto the moor, I said “no problem Horace”, great he responded, I have your brothers Land Rover out in the drive ticking over ready to go.
So we rounded up Hoof, got in brothers Land Rover with Horace at the wheel and off we went. We came to this location on the edge of Bodmin Moor, you could hear Horace’s knees knocking, he was out the vehicle calling “here kitty kitty, here kitty kitty”.
We then could see the sweat coming off Horace’s brow, he spotted this large Y shaped object, he thought it was the giant wishbone of a dinosaur, which Horace felt the beast must have eaten for breakfast.
So Hoof being the only sensible one of the three of us, explained to Horace, this was only a piece of wood which just happened to be pointing at one of the very early China Clay dries, some say it dates back to 1900. Just up over from the chimney is the disused Stannon Clay works which was bought by English China Clays in 1919.
We felt that a trip to the nearby Old Inn, at St Breward, was required in order to calm Horace down. At around 720 feet above sea level, it is the highest pub in Cornwall.
Wasn’t long Horace was back to his old self, following a few pints, plus he and Hoof were playing spoof with the locals at a social distance in the beer garden.
Following H & Hs drinking exploits, guess who ended up driving them home😎
Have a lovely weekend, thank you for looking at my photographs. The comments and banter you leave are so appreciated.
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The secret is out, and the Canadian internet groups imploded after the release of five SD70ACU's painted to honor the Canadian and United States Armed Forces. Thanks to the team at CP for making this possible, as well as putting on a great ceremony at the Calgary headquarters on Remembrance Day 2019. The 5 meter barrier around the units was a nice touch, as every fan managed to get lots of sunny shots without having to use a people filter.
It's going to be interesting to shoot these units on the road, with the variations in dark and light paint each one will present challenges to the photographer, but its bette rthen dirty red!
Leica Q2 'Reported Edition'.
Thanks for your comments and favs. All my photos are here: www.giuliomagnifico.it
Al Tramonto: Montagna della Luce.
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Il 'Monte Lessino' (al singolare) indicava il territorio dedicato al pascolo nelle montagne a nord di Verona e già nel IX secolo appare citato in documenti con il termine 'Luxino'.
Le ipotesi su questo termine sono varie. Lessa dal germanico medioevale Lees (pascolo). Dal nome personale Alessio, contrada di Erbezzo. Dal termine romano lixia quindi luxare (disboscare, simile al diffuso roncare), ma significante l'azione di rendere 'liscia' la superfice con operazioni di livellamento e la pratica agricola romana del 'debbio', consistente nel bruciare la sterpaglia, per formare praterie adatte alla fienagione e al pascolo.
In ogni caso, quindi, termini che convergono nelle attuali caratteristiche di questa montagna, con grandi superfici prative e a pascolo.
Altra suggestiva ipotesi viene dall'antico termine Luxinum vale a dire "Montagna della Luce".
Comunque sia tutte le ipotesi si adattano perfettamente a questo territorio ed ognuna ne evidenza le caratteristiche.
Ho già descritto questo altopiano in una precedente foto postata ad agosto 2017.
Ho voluto riportare questa descrizione per la spiegazione storica nella quale è chiamata "Montagna della Luce".
Infatti all'ora del tramonto la luce del cielo, i colori si riflettono sulla montagna.
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At Sunset: Mountain of Light.
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The 'Monte Lessino' (in the singular) indicated the territory dedicated to grazing in the mountains north of Verona and already in the ninth century appears to be cited in documents with the term 'Luxino'.
The assumptions on this term are various. Lessa from the medieval Germanic Lees (pasture). From the personal name Alessio, district of Erbezzo. From the Roman term lixia then luxare (deforestation, similar to the widespread roncare), but signifying the action of making the surface 'smooth' with leveling operations and the Roman agricultural practice of 'debbio', consisting in burning the brushwood, to form prairies suitable for haying and grazing.
In any case, therefore, terms that converge in the current characteristics of this mountain, with large meadows and pastures.
Another suggestive hypothesis comes from the ancient term Luxinum that is to say "Mountain of Light".
However all the hypotheses are perfectly adapted to this territory and each one of them highlights its characteristics.
I have already described this plateau in a previous photo posted in August 2017.
I wanted to report this description for the historical explanation in which it is called "Mountain of Light".
In fact, at sunset time the light of the sky, the colors are reflected on the mountain.
With tornado watches issued shortly
Before noon Sunday, for the areas
Including, the western region
Of my mental health
And the northern portions of my
Ability to deal rationally with my
Disconcerted precarious emotional
Situation, it's cold out there
Colder than a ticket taker's smile
At the Ivar Theatre, on a Saturday night
Flash flood watches covered the
Southern portion of my disposition...
-- Tom Waits