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The llama (/ˈlɑːmə/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈʎama]) (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
Llamas are very social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is very soft and lanolin-free. Llamas can learn simple tasks after a few repetitions. When using a pack, they can carry about 25 to 30% of their body weight for 8 to 13 km (5–8 miles). The name llama (in the past also spelled "lama" or "glama") was adopted by European settlers from native Peruvians.
In Aymara mythology llamas are important beings. The Heavenly Llama is said to drink water from the ocean and urinates as it rains. According to Aymara eschatology llamas will return to the water springs and lagoons where they come from at the end of time!
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama
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Amsterdam - Eenhoornsluis - Haarlemmerstraat - Haarlemmerdijk - Korte Prinsengracht
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The waters of the Barnet Physic Well, located on the Common, were recommended as a remedy for various medical complaints in William Camden's Brittania (1586) as "The Barnet Whey" but only became well-known as a source of mineral water during the second half of the 17th century. In 1652 the well was described as producing "an excellent purging water" that worked as well as that of Epsom water but with half the quantity.
A well-house was built in 1656[3] and in 1661 the Well was described as "famous" by Joshua Childrey in his book Natural Rarities of England, Scotland and Wales.[14] In 1662, Thomas Fuller in Worthies of England hoped that its waters would save as many lives as were lost in the Battle of Barnet,[14] and Samuel Pepys recorded his visits in 1664 and 1667 in his Diary,[14] drinking five glasses of the water on his first visit which caused him to need to urinate "seven or eight times upon the road" home.[15] The Well was also mentioned by Daniel Defoe in his Tour of the Whole Island of Britain (1720s). It was popular into the 18th century but subsequently declined until being restored in the 20th century. A new Tudor-style well-house was built in 1937[14] which was restored in 2018.[15]
At least once annually Mountain goats must find mineral licks to replenish their stock of minerals, in particular selenium. It helps there digestive process. Typically these goats come to this lick in the early summers. They look like they are in bad condition, but they are only shedding their winter guard hairs and wool. Soon they will be wearing their summer coats. They cannot survive the harsh winter conditions without their heavy winter coat. Its difficult to distinguish between the billy's and nannies (at least for me) with their winter coat so you need to study their horns or watch them urinate. Females tend to squat for this. These are actually horns as both sexes grown them and they are not shed. I'm not positive, but I think this is a juvenile male.
This species of deer is the most common and widely distributed in North America. When faced with danger their most common means of defense is their ability to run up to speeds of 35 miles/hour. Prior to running away they have a number of ways they alert other members of their family of impending danger. They will stomp the ground with a forefoot, blow or snort through their nose and flash their white tail as they escape.
Whitetail deer have tarsal glands located on the inside of their back legs that are very important for deer communication as each deer has its own unique scent and this gland probably identifies gender, health and dominance status. These glands are also used to make "rub-urinations" in the breeding season.
The hair on these tarsal glands can be raised when they experience anxiety, fear, nervousness or excitement as shown by this doe in the photo. The hair has been raised to the point the tarsal glands look like two hair brushes rubbing against each other.
This doe has sensed my presence but she has not located me yet so she is reacting by becoming a bit anxious and nervous.
She has a fawn with her as well as another doe and fawn so she is getting ready to sound an alarm.
becoming silver moons that shatter on the wind and wishes as they flee toward regeneration.
Taraxacum is the name of this common and humble weed called the dandelion that people try to eliminate from grass and garden.
did you know that besides making wishes on the dandelion puff, urinating on it's leaves was an old pregnancy test. If the leaf turned red you were pregnant.
Italians and other Europeans harvest the leaves for salad. The young leaves are tender and less bitter and are filled with iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium and several vitamins.
The root can be made into a tea which benefits the liver, high cholesterol and inflammation It contains powerful antioxidents.
Think about that before you contemptuously pull them out of your orderly yards and gardens.
Found on the gravel plains, the sand deserts and the mountains is the Arabian gazelle. Its natural range extended right across the northern Emirates, only avoiding the very soft sandy areas of the Liwa into which only the sand gazelle would venture. It has a delicate body, weighing only 10 to 14 kgs and can reach speeds of 65 kms per hour if it needs to escape danger. The mountain gazelle has a pure white belly with a dark to black stripe on its flanks that changes to dark beige or brown on the back, the neck and the head. The facial markings consist of various shades of brown with two white stripes extending from the eyes towards the nostrils. Females give birth to their single fawn during any month, but with natural peaks in spring and autumn. Most grazing activity takes place at dawn and dusk. They rest during the hottest hours of the day under any shelter available, which may be a cave for those that inhabit the mountains.
Usually moving in small groups of four to six animals, they are highly territorial, with the dominant male continuously marking its territory with a wax-like substance which it produces in glands below the eyes. The substance is deposited by rubbing its head against a bush, a branch or a stone. The group also maintains several places within its territory which they establish as “toilets”. The animals usually only defecate and urinate at these sites. As with oryx and sand gazelle they do not need to drink water, but will readily do so if water is available. (arabianwildlife.com)
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We were searching for the Pharoah Eagle-Owl at dusk when a family of these beautiful gazelles appeared. They picked their way across and down the steep mountain side as easily as if they were walking along a road. Their presence made up for the fact tht the owl did not put in an appearance, which was one of the target birds that we did not find on this trip (luckily, we had seen the owl in Morocco a few years previously).
Here is the link to our Arabian Peninsula birding trip: ebird.org/tripreport/431495
Qarn Nazwa, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. November 2025.
Rockjumper Birding Tours.
Amsterdam - NDSM
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For my ": One of kind" flower images project. (NO 79)
Blackberry is not a single fruit - it's actually an aggregate composed of lots of individual berries. Each ‘bobble’ in the blackberry bears one seed and is termed a ‘drupe’.
Bramble is one of the most important food plants for other wildlife in Britain. 150 species of invertebrate use it as a food plant, including sawflies, aphids, scale insects, beetles, butterflies (including Green Hairstreak and Holly Blue) and moths (such as Scarlet tiger moth, Double-striped Pug and Chinese Character).
Blackberries are also important foods for many species of birds and mammals, like field mice. They use the bountiful supply to stock up on reserves before winter.
Folklore has it that blackberries shouldn’t be picked and eaten after 10th October as the devil will have urinated, spat or trodden on them. The weather at this time is often warm, humid and wet - perfect for the Botrytis mould, which renders the fruits inedible. It's likely the story ties into such outbreaks.
New canes on the most vigorous brambles can reach a length of five meters in a year. Once the tips of the new, fast-growing canes arch over and hit the soil, they bury themselves in the soil, rooting to produce new plants in the spring, a form of layering. In this way, brambles are able to “leap-frog” or “hurdle” around the countryside, forming the familiar dense thickets.
Ever noticed that some blackberries are tastier than others? There are around 350 different ‘microspecies’ of bramble in the UK, they all look (and taste) very slightly different from each other.
The study and classification of these microspecies are called ‘batology’ and those that do it are ‘batologists’.
2 year old, 400 pound male grizzly, Max is the name!
There are about 55,000 wild grizzly bears located throughout North America, 30,000 of which are found in Alaska. Only around 1,500 grizzlies remain in the lower 48 United States. Of these, around 1,000 are found in the Northern Continental Divide in northwestern Montana. About 600 more live in Wyoming, in the Yellowstone-Teton area. There are an estimated 70–100 grizzly bears living in northern and eastern Idaho. Its original range included much of the Great Plains and the southwestern states, but it has been extirpated in most of those areas. Combining Canada and the United States, grizzly bears inhabit approximately half the area of their historical range.
Although the once-abundant California grizzly bear appears prominently on the state flag of California and was the symbol of the Bear Flag Republic before California's admission to the Union in 1850, the subspecies or population is currently extinct. The last known grizzlies in California were killed in the Sierra foothills east of Fresno in the early 1920s.
The killing of the last grizzly bear in Arizona in 1936 at Escudilla Mountain is included in Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac.
In September 2007, a hunter produced evidence of one bear in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness ecosystem, by killing a male grizzly bear there. In the North Cascades ecosystem of northern Washington, grizzly bear populations are estimated to be fewer than 20 bears. One sighting of a grizzly bear in 2010 has been recorded. There has been no confirmed sighting of a grizzly in Colorado since 1979.
Other provinces and the United States may use a combination of methods for population estimates. Therefore, it is difficult to say precisely what methods were used to produce total population estimates for Canada and North America, as they were likely developed from a variety of studies. The grizzly bear currently has legal protection in Mexico, European countries, some areas of Canada, and in all of the United States. However, it is expected that repopulating its former range will be a slow process, due to various reasons, including the bear's slow reproductive habits and the effects of reintroducing such a large animal to areas prized for agriculture and livestock. Competition with other predators and predation on cubs are other possible limiting factors for grizzly bear recovery, though grizzly bears also benefit from scavenged carcasses from predators as an easy food source when other food sources decline
Hibernation
Grizzly bears hibernate for 5 to 7 months each year (except where the climate is warm, as the California grizzly did not hibernate). During this time, female grizzly bears give birth to their offspring, who then consume milk from their mother and gain strength for the remainder of the hibernation period. To prepare for hibernation, grizzlies must prepare a den, and consume an immense amount of food as they do not eat during hibernation. Grizzly bears do not defecate or urinate throughout the entire hibernation period. The male grizzly bear's hibernation ends in early to mid-March, while females emerge in April or early May.
In preparation for winter, bears can gain approximately 180 kg (400 lb), during a period of hyperphagia, before going into hibernation. The bear often waits for a substantial snowstorm before it enters its den: such behavior lessens the chances predators will find the den. The dens are typically at elevations above 1,800 m (5,900 ft) on north-facing slopes. There is some debate amongst professionals as to whether grizzly bears technically hibernate: much of this debate revolves around body temperature and the ability of the bears to move around during hibernation on occasion. Grizzly bears can "partially" recycle their body wastes during this period. Although inland or Rocky Mountain grizzlies spend nearly half of their life in dens, coastal grizzlies with better access to food sources spend less time in dens. In some areas where food is very plentiful year round, grizzly bears skip hibernation altogether
Something struck me as striking seeing these plants growing on the sand track leading down to the beach. I think it adds a nice touch of colour to this rocky beach at Birubi.
Fun fact: Lobsters have bladders on either side of their heads, so they communicate by urinating at each other. I don't know about you, but that would piss me off ;)
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Bull Moose transfer their scent to their dewlap (it's often called a 'bell') by urinating in the soil and then rubbing it in the wet ground to help him attract females. Guys, don't try this at home!
Whitetail deer are what is termed as ruminants meaning they have a four-chambered stomach allowing them to eat large amounts of a variety of different foods such as legumes (alfalfa, soybeans and red clover), leaves, tree bark, shoots, hay, grass, acorns, fruit and corn and regurgitate them later and chew them thoroughly before swallowing to be digested.
This male (buck or stag) is moving through the bush looking for does as it is the breeding season for whitetails in October and November. Both bucks and does have tarsal glands on the inside of their back legs that are active all the time. Each set of glands has a unique scent for recognition and probably carries information about their gender, dominance status and health condition of each individual. Bucks will use these glands to make "rub urinations" on the ground to attract does.
I watched this nice 8 pointer make a rub urination and then lay down in it to perfume himself for hopefully some night activity.
Manneken Pis is a landmark 55.5 cm (21.9 in) bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its existence is attested as early as the mid-15th century, Manneken Pis was redesigned by the Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1619. Its blue stone niche in rocaille style dates from 1770. The statue has been repeatedly stolen or damaged throughout its history. Since 1965, a replica has been displayed on site, with the original stored in the Brussels City Museum.
Manneken Pis is one of the best-known symbols of Brussels and Belgium, inspiring several legends, as well as numerous imitations and similar statues, both nationally and abroad. The figure is regularly dressed up and its wardrobe consists of around one thousand different costumes. Since 2017, they have been exhibited in a dedicated museum called GardeRobe MannekenPis, located on the same street. Owing to its self-derisive nature, Manneken Pis is also an example of belgitude (French; lit. 'Belgianness'), as well as of folk humour (zwanze) popular in Brussels.
At least once annually Mountain goats must find mineral licks to replenish their stock of minerals, in particular selenium. It helps there digestive process. Typically these goats come to this lick in the early summers. They look like they are in bad condition, but they are only shedding their winter guard hairs and wool. Soon they will be wearing their summer coats. They cannot survive the harsh winter conditions without their heavy winter coat. Its difficult to distinguish between the billy's and nannies (at least for me) with their winter coat so you need to study their horns or watch them urinate. Females tend to squat for this. These are actually horns as both sexes grown them and they are not shed. These goats don't have much for defense from predators except their deadly horns and amazing ability to climb and traverse steep rock faces. They have very interesting hooves that splay out to provide grip along with rough pads. The river in the background is the North Saskatchewan, fed by the glacier that its named from. That's also why it has this pretty turquoise color.
Galapagos Islands
Immature pelican resembles adult but lacks head and neck markings and has pale underparts.
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The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era.
Llamas are social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is soft and contains only a small amount of lanolin.Llamas can learn simple tasks after a few repetitions. When using a pack, they can carry about 25 to 30% of their body weight for 8 to 13 km (5–8 miles). The name llama (in the past also spelled "lama" or "glama") was adopted by European settlers from native Peruvians.
The ancestors of llamas are thought to have originated from the Great Plains of North America about 40 million years ago, and subsequently migrated to South America about three million years ago during the Great American Interchange. By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago), camelids were extinct in North America. As of 2007, there were over seven million llamas and alpacas in South America and over 158,000 llamas and 100,000 alpacas, descended from progenitors imported late in the 20th century, in the United States and Canada.
In Aymara mythology, llamas are important beings. The Heavenly Llama is said to drink water from the ocean and urinates as it rains.[6] According to Aymara eschatology, llamas will return to the water springs and lagoons where they come from at the end of time.
This one was with its herd in Machu Picchu. Lovely animals. Wishing everyone a Peaceful Thursday!
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Alf had a cystoscopy (May 18th) because of bladder stones and couldn't urinate easily. He is slowly healing right now.
Fingers crossed for you my dearest yellow friend!
But today is his birthday! ♥
Happy Birthday sweet Alf! He has become 8 years!
Hip Hip Hooray! Let's hope for many happy returns lovely Alf!
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Addy and ♱Alfie
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This corkscrew souvenir is a delightful memento from my visit to Brussels
This image features a playful twist on Brussels' iconic Manneken Pis statue, famously depicted as a little boy urinating into a fountain. In this creative adaptation, the traditional water jet is humorously replaced with a corkscrew, adding a touch of whimsy to the scene.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Rams and ewes defend and share a territory. They are mainly solitary. Males will mark off their territories with urine and secretions from gland under the chin as well as using dung. They are the only bovid who, like a cat, scrape the ground before and after urination and defecation.
The males are known to use roads and telephone lines as boundaries. They have excellent hearing. They have been known to scavenge meat from carcasses as well as kill the young of ground birds but this is due to severe shortages of food.
Although Kestrels often hover by roadsides I find them to be quite skittish when perched and usually don't allow close approach. Consequently most of my Kestrel photos are of flying birds. But this young bird has taken to perching right outside the windows of the visitor centre at Spurn and by peering round the door I managed to get a few photos not through glass. We have four species of falcon breeding in Britain and Kestrel is by far the commonest with 31,000 breeding pairs, though they are amber listed because of a 25-50% population decline. For completeness the other British falcons are; Hobby 2050 pairs, Peregrine 1750 pairs, and Merlin 1150 pairs breeding in Britain.
Kestrels have very good eyesight and people once thought that they gained this by eating certain plants, just like the myth of carrots improving eyesight. Old herbalists used to claim to know which plants these were and that is how Hawkbit came to be named. Kestrels have different eyes to us as they can detect ultraviolet. When Scene of Crime Officers use UV to look for blood and urine as it glows, Kestrels can similarly see where voles have recently urinated in grasslands. That's how they manage to find those vole needles in a haystack.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
A small antelope with a red-brick coloration that lives in pairs on a defended territory. However, they rarely associate with one another. They prefer grasslands that have scrubby thickets which provide cover. As long as they have green food they can be independent of water although if it is available they have been known to drink.
Steenbok are known to hide in old aardvark holes when cover is sparse.
Both male and female Steenbok will scrape the ground before, during and after defecating and urinating. Sometimes this will bury the dung but not always. This is believed to be a territorial action performed by both the male and female Steenbok.
Rosebay Willowherb - one of our most beautiful wild flowers.
A tea made from it's fermented and dried leaves was common in England until the 17th century and is still popular in parts of Russia where it is known as Koporsky tea from the town of Koporye, where it has been produced since the 13th century.
The leaves are picked, rolled to slightly crush them and left to ferment before drying, which brings out the unique fragrance and taste.
Rosebay Willowherb is said to have more vitamin C than rosehips (which has up to 8 times more vitamin C than lemons), and also contains magnesium and B vitamins and is supportive to the function of the heart and the immune system as well as being caffeine-free.
The herb is also a mild sedative and is useful for the relief of lower urinary tract symptoms such as difficulty starting urination or a frequent need to urinate
White-faced or capuchin monkeys are one of the four species of monkeys that can be found in the forests of Costa Rica.
When you eventually find them they will tell all of their family that you have arrived and some may take a peek at you or throw things at you.
Do not stand under them or they could also urinate on you. Some very wise Monkeys.
Have a great weekend.
I’m a war hero
No
A man who was in war
I must be glorified
I lost some skin
I’m a hero
I have wounds
I know the sounds of war
I’ve heard the explosions
Smoke got into my lungs
Eyes and ears
I’m a hero
I urinated lead
They tested me
I was in the war
I should be glorified
Why do we fight then?
Why is it that we kill?
You see I’m a war hero
We all need me
This bull (Cervus canadensis) just finished thrash urinating, soaking his belly and mane in urine. As it soaks into his coat the aroma apparently makes him more attractive to the cows.
I caught this Squirrel Monkey at Mocagua Island, Amazonas, Colombia, in a moment suspended between hesitation and instinct—quietly measuring the space between branches, weighing its next leap.
Trivia -
Males weigh around 750 gms - 1100 gms. Females weigh 500 to 750 grams. Commonly captured for the pet trade and for medical research they are however not in the endangered class. They can only sweat through the palms of their hands and feet. They also make use of a technique to maximize evaporative cooling known as urine washing. They urinate on their hands and rub the urine over the soles of their feet. The urine then evaporates and cools the body.
Galapagos Islands
The "Brown Pelican" is an endemic species of Galapagos.
A common resident that goes by the scientific name of Pelecanus occidentalis urinator.
Often feeds by plunge-diving from the air, usually close inshore. They are accomplished fliers, regularly seen soaring on thermals. Often fly to or from feeding grounds in orderly rows, with birds flapping and gliding almost in unison.
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Sloths are among the slowest-moving animals on Earth; they can swim but are virtually unable to walk. This makes them an easy target for jaguars, eagles and people that hunt sloths for their meat.
Brown-throated sloths have the ability to rotate their heads like owls. They can turn their heads up to 300 degrees due to their unique neck structure.Sloths evolved to expend very little energy because their diet does not provide them with a lot of calories and nutrition. Brown-throated sloths primarily eat tough, rubbery rainforest leaves. These leaves are also full of toxins (a form of protection for the rainforest trees). But sloths have developed a digestive system to handle these highly indigestible leaves. Their stomachs are multi-chambered, similar to a cow’s stomach, and house a mix of bacteria which helps to slowly break down the leaves. It takes two weeks for a sloth to digest one meal — the slowest digestion time of any mammal! and they only descend from the rainforest canopy to urinate and defecate once a week.
Sloths are specially adapted to live among the treetops. Their fur hangs upside down, running from their stomachs to their backs. This is because sloths themselves usually hang upside down. The orientation of their fur helps the rain water flow away from their body. But sloths take the risk to climb down to the ground because of a symbiotic relationship they have with the flora living in their fur. Sloth fur is rife with macro- and microorganisms like algae, fungi and moths. While these organisms benefit from having a sheltered place to live among the long coarse hairs, the sloth also gains from the relationship.
The algae provides supplemental nutrition for the sloth and tints the fur green, which helps camouflage the sloth among the leaves. The fungi helps fend off parasites known to cause diseases like malaria and Chagas disease. The moths provide fertiliser for the algae.
Another unique trait of sloths is that they rely on solar energy to regulate their body temperature. With such a slow metabolism, sloths must sunbathe in order to keep their body temperature up. In this way, sloths are similar to reptiles.
Male brown-throated three-toed sloths can be easily distinguished from females because they have a bright orange patch with a black stripe on their backs. This patch has scent marking glands that attracts female sloths. Alpha males have a larger patches than other males.
Female Bighorn
Fun fact:
Rams routinely check estrus status of ewes by flehmen (urine-testing), and they can stimulate females to urinate by licking the vulva. Maybe that's why she is smiling ;-)
Early evening, Kamfersboom, Auob, Kgalagadi Transfontier Park, South Africa
The mother of these cubs had urinated earlier and the male quickly got up to sniff her urine.
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Happy...Nom...Caturday...Nom, nom, nom
His Majesty Boris Wilberforce Lester, King Feline of the Lester household, seen here, is eating. This is both news and a reason to celebrate.
Boris, you see, has lost a lot of weight. A dangerous amount of weight. He went from a fat and muscular 19-lb (8.6 kg) butterball to a scrawny 11 lbs (5.5 kg) in a rather short period of time due to an inflammatory liver issue. This is not untreatable, but it can be life threatening, and it was, not least because it seriously affected his ability to eat.
When one of his young subjects, lovely little Bebe, died suddenly in late November at three and half years of age from a sudden stroke (on my lap, no less), he went off of food altogether. This made it necessary for my wife and me to force-feed him via feeding syringe several times a day.
During this period, he also temporarily lost his sense of smell (no, not from COVID), so even when he became willing to eat, he couldn't smell the food and thus would not eat it. This is apparently normal for cats: if it doesn't smell like food, it isn't food.
The two and a half weeks immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday were terrible for us all. Bebe was gone, Boris seemed to be fading, and Yoshi and Leemy were clearly depressed. On top of that, Boris and Yoshi both had to go to the emergency hospital several times (Yoshi, who is otherwise healthy and strong as an ox, has a urinary tract issue that prevents him from urinating when he is stressed, and this, too, can be life threatening).
All-in-all, it was an unhappy holiday season at the Lester household.
My wife and I had an idea that turned out to be a really good one; we adopted a new young cat. Nina Seraphina Lester is a shiny and tiny black beauty. Her entry into the fold immediately changed the household dynamic. Boris recovered some of his vigor and, apparently spontaneously (although it could have been due to the meds), recovered his sense of smell and his appetite. Yoshi and Leemy immediately showed higher spirits, and my wife and I were given some much-needed joy.
For us, the best gift we received this holiday season is what you see here: Boris is eating again. He has had a healthy-ish appetite for over two weeks now. Perhaps he was motivated by the presence of a new, young cat. Then again, it could be that Nina's appetite is infectious. She has enough appetite for a human teenager!
Whatever the reason, he has already filled out a little and is showing a renewed interest in life. Although he still has a way to go, we have new hope for him.
Photos of Nina will follow later. For now, I am content to celebrate this: knock on wood, BORIS IS EATING AGAIN!
Vultures are scavengers, meaning they eat dead animals. They rarely attack healthy animals, but may kill the wounded or sick. When a carcass has too thick a hide for its beak to open, it waits for a larger scavenger to eat first Vast numbers have been seen upon battlefields. They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, until their crops bulge, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food. These birds do not carry food to their young in their talons but disgorge it from their crops. The mountain-dwelling bearded vulture is the only vertebrate to specialize in eating bones, and does carry bones to the nest for the young, and it hunts some live prey.
Vultures are of great value as scavengers, especially in hot regions. Vulture stomach acid is exceptionally corrosive allowing them to safely digest putrid carcasses infected with botulinum toxin, hog cholera bacteria, and anthrax bacteria that would be lethal to other scavengers and remove these bacteria from the environment. New World vultures often vomit when threatened or approached. Contrary to some accounts, they do not "projectile vomit" on their attacker in defense, but to lighten their stomach load to ease take-off. The vomited meal residue may distract a predator, allowing the bird to escape.
New World vultures also urinate straight down their legs; the uric acid kills bacteria accumulated from walking through carcasses, and also acts as evaporative cooling.
ferries main transport
it is here that cremations are done.
It is supposedly the most polluted water in the world-whatever that means.
you would never know it..........
Locals are seen swimming bathing washing brushing their teeth defecating and urinating in it.
Still the mist the movement the sight and sounds of fauna & flora the antiquity........ makes you fall in love with INDIA.
Yamuna River
Delhi
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King of scavengers.........................................
a group of VULTURES is called a WAKE
They are becoming extinct due to some kind of chemicals in fertilizer consumed by the corpses they eat.
few things amaze me more than a Wake digesting a corpse in a matter of seconds.............
Vultures seldom attack healthy animals, but may kill the wounded or sick. When a carcass has too thick a hide for its beak to open, it waits for a larger scavenger to eat first .
Vast numbers have been seen upon battlefields. They gorge themselves when prey is abundant, till their crop bulges, and sit, sleepy or half torpid, to digest their food.
They do not carry food to their young in their claws, but disgorge it from the crop.
These birds are of great value as scavengers, especially in hot regions. Vulture stomach acid is exceptionally corrosive, allowing them to safely digest putrid carcasses infected with Botulinum toxin, hog cholera, and anthrax bacteria that would be lethal to other scavengers.
This also enables them to use their reeking, corrosive vomit as a defensive projectile when threatened.
Vultures urinate straight down their legs; the uric acid kills bacteria accumulated from walking through carcasses, and also acts as evaporative cooling.
thought you'd be interested !
TALI NULA
KOLKATA
( No longer visible there (: > / (
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Dhaka Bangladesh,
Sadarghat, the Buriganga river,
crowded.
Bathing
washing
cleaning
defecating
urinating
transporting,
the impoverished world
new to the west
daily living in the east.
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Giant otters are mainly aquatic, but they frequently come ashore for intriguing behaviors such as rolling in sand, often in areas where they have previously urinated. This behavior is believed to serve multiple purposes, including scent-marking their territory and potentially maintaining coat health by reducing parasites. They dig dens into riverbanks for shelter, raising young, and staying safe from predators like jaguars and caimans. These unique behaviors make them truly fascinating, but sadly, they face threats from habitat destruction and poaching.
A packrat midden is encased in the porous stone that forms the southern wall of an ephemeral stream that occasionally issues into McDonald Canyon. McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, Colorado.
Packrats collect seemingly random objects from their territories--piñon needles, cactus spines, cones, seeds--and bring them back to their caves. They then urinate on the new treasures, and the urine dries, encasing the objects in something like brown glass that seals them from the air. These middens can store plant materials for up to 40,000 years, giving botanical biogeographers a window into the distant past. Packrats can tell us what sorts of communities occupied this site 20,000 years ago, before the first Native Americans arrived.
ORGANIZED CHAOS
ferries plying
workers carrying, transporting
locals washing bathing defecating urinating
Sadarghat
the Buriganga river
Dhaka
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These Buffalo/Bison were drawn to this one spot to roll around / wallow in and show displays by kicking dirt and urinating on it.
During the rut, bull bison do this to display their strength and vigor. It was quite a show to see & we had front row seats.....
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While the sunrise was the purpose for visiting Mono Lake, seeing wild horses was an unexpected and welcome surprise, and really made the trip extra special. They are part of the Montgomery Pass Wild Horse Herd and have been visiting the south shore of the lake during winter. Apparently, they are unwelcome guests because they poop and urinate all over this delicate ecosystem, and can also damage the Tufa formations. An excerpt from an article is copied below if you're interested. I kept maneuvering around trying to get a portrait with the tufa and lake in the background. Mono Lake, California, USA, December 2024
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Last winter wild horses overwintered along the south shore of Mono Lake throughout South Tufa and Navy Beach. Record winter snow and poconip fog dramatically reduced public access and between 30 and 200 horses lingered in the area until spring. The impact was significant. Nearly every square meter of trail at South Tufa and Navy Beach was covered in manure, and manure piles blocked handicap access along the boardwalk from the parking lot to the lake. Several horses died at South Tufa over the winter and their scavenged carcasses were draped between tufa towers and along the lakeshore.
Volunteer clean-up crews, including Mono Lake Volunteers, Inyo National Forest staff, and Mono Lake Committee staff have worked over multiple days to remove most of the manure from the trails and shoreline to preserve access and maintain some quality of visitor experience. Even with a small and dedicated army of volunteers, it’s impossible to remove all the manure, and some horses remain in the vicinity. Inyo National Forest staff removed at least two carcasses from busy trail areas.
The Inyo is working with agency partners, including the Bureau of Land Management, and preparing to revise the 1988 Management Plan for the Montgomery Pass Herd Management Area (HMA). The Inyo is the lead in managing this expanding wild horse problem that has extended well beyond its original HMA. The Inyo recently told the Committee that planning must be complete before active management occurs, yet that planning has not begun.
In addition to causing detrimental impacts to tufa, fragile alkali meadows, freshwater springs, and bird habitat, the horses present a growing public safety threat as they encroach across new range and appear on Highway 167, Highway 120 East, and move closer to the busy four lanes of Highway 395. The Inyo is aware that the conflicts with wild horses have the potential to escalate, and there has been local support for taking actions that preserve federally protected wild horses within their designated herd management area while also protecting visitors, as well as the fragile habitat and ecological health of Mono Lake, the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve, and the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area.
Galapagos Islands
The brown pelican is a common resident of Galapagos, an endemic species that goes by the scientific name of Pelecanus occidentalis urinator. Its population is estimated at a few thousand pairs that breed throughout the year, nesting in small colonies in low bushes and mangroves, occasionally on the ground, and laying up to two eggs that are incubated by both sexes. Males and females are alike, with brown plumage in their bodies and yellow heads. Their beaks are whitish grey with patches of red.
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The deer was across a field when I came around a corner in the rolling red Toyota blind and spotted it. I set my exposures manually, and this shot illustrates why. Had I been on auto-exposure, the meter would have factored in all that dark shadow behind the leaping buck, and resulted in overexposure. Having preset my shutter and aperture for a sunlit subject, all I had to do was lift the camera and focus. The deer broke into a run, I fired a burst. Perfect exposure!
Shooting RAW, I probably could have rescued a slightly overexposed frame. But it's so much better to nail it. During processing, I upscaled the shot using ON1 Resize; the slightly tighter framing works better, I think.
White-tailed Deer are not native to this part of the province, but in the late 1800s and first half of the 20th century expanded their range from points south and east. They have become a huge problem for many ranchers and farmers, as they browse on planted trees, damage fences, despoil livestock feed by defecating and urinating on it, and attract coyotes. Our native Mule Deer generally subsist on wild forage and are not considered a nuisance. I recall my first winter in Val Marie, in 2000-2001, when one evening I counted deer while driving home from the 70 Mile Butte trail. A six minute drive. I counted about 200 deer: roughly 60% muleys and 40% whitetails. I was stunned! I had no idea the prairie supported so much wildlife!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Kruger National Park
Lions mark their territories by urine-spraying bushes and other obvious objects. They defecate conspicuously and scrape with their feet on the ground where they have urinated transferring the scent to their feet to pass on while they patrol their boundaries.
Yesterday morning I was truly blessed by a longer than expected photo session with this young man. He crossed the road right in front of me on Charlestown Road just a mile or two from our home. I whipped into a church parking lot and waited for him to clear a privacy fence.
Once he cleared the fence I expected him to bolt in the opposite direction but was pleasantly surprised when he started hunting and urinating on (thus being able to determine his sex) a small grove of bushes and trees. He knew I was there and checked on me often as I captured 81 different poses.
A true blessing to capture his beauty in good light!