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This built was intended as a gift to my friends, Zoe and Sky, that are responsible for Wild Track.
Their "mission is to protect endangered species using a unique combination of advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and traditional ecological knowledge."
They "specialize in footprint identification technology (FIT). Footprints are many times easier to find than the animals themselves, and now that" they "can decode them, they can inform us on where species are, and where their individuals roam."
Zoe's favourite animal is the rhinoceros and since back in July of 2021 I had built the tiny rhinoceros as part of my 3 Companions project, it seemed fit to start with him. So I had the little calf... all I needed was his mother.
Making a bigger animal meant that I would have to study the animal's anatomy... and that's when the questions started to line up... white rhino... black rhino... they are both grey... which one was I trying to build? One of the distinct traces of the tiny rhino I had previously built was the square lip, that is also a characteristic of the white rhino, while the black rhino has a pointed lip. So it was decided, I was building a white rhino. I than tried to incorporate the most of the real animal into my built, such as the hoofs, the muscles of the legs, the hump and curvature of the back.
All this investigation proved to be productive because when I first unveiled the built Sky said: "You know, this is a white rhino!"
That just made my day.
It was a pleasure to build this, not only because I wanted to create an unique gift for Zoe and Sky but also because it was a lot of fun and challenging to incorporate that amount of detail into such a small construction.
Enough talk go and check the wonderful work they do in www.wildtrack.org .
FWC photo by Karen Parker
Activities were conducted under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit # MA770191
Becca is my little sis, I'm ten years older. Of course, Mom and Dad were too tired by that point so, her three other siblings raised her...My little Boo Bear is graduating soon, I can't believe it!
Snapped after lunch, the cat tracks are still there and have been joined by mine and a squirrel's. I came and went to the garage and the squirrel did the same with the bird feeder.
Renewing the track at Five Oak Green on 10 November 1996 is 37010 in multiple with 33019 with a train being loaded with old ballast.
This cab view of vintage metro train during some runs on test track after master overhaul. These old russian trains of Ečs type were withdrawn from service in 1997.
Real 14 mm lens are realy useful in small places like is this cab. It is fun. :-)
少し、私は鉄ちゃんですね。 :-)
I just love trains :). Another photo taken near the Main Train Station in Bratislava. Tried to include as much detail as possible in this one. Created from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens.
Incredible and too rare italian track frame, the WILIER is copper plated, which became the traditional color
scheme for the Wilier professional team bikes after World War 2.
It' s in good condictions, no dents only some scratchs.
49x51cm C-C
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