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Just a day or two old, on a shoreline, alone, no defenses at all, against so many predators. I adore these little critters.
“Amphibians are highly vulnerable to climate change. Their permeable skin, essential for respiration and water absorption, makes them susceptible to changes in temperature and humidity, often leading to dehydration during droughts and heat waves. Their aquatic life stages, especially for frogs, are sensitive to changes in water conditions and precipitation patterns.
Many amphibians have specialized habitats with specific temperature or seasonal requirements that can be disrupted by climate change. Furthermore, they face increased disease risks, such as from the deadly chytrid fungus (Bsal) disease, which thrives in altered climates.” -Mongabay. I found a new healthy respect for the frogs and toads we saw within the park we camped at. Frogs help control the insect population and they are food for other animals further up the chain. Sometimes we forget just how interconnected we all are as animals. Apparently, frog populations are on the decline. This guy had beautiful colouring.
I spent the evening on Cissbury Ring this week watching the most amazing cloud show as all around me were showers. Incedibly though I managed not to get wet through the whole time I was up there!
Continuing my theme of various ecosystems with some wildlife residents of the prairie.
The prairie ecosystem occupies the lower and mid-latitudes of the Interior Plains of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, hillier land to the east. From west to east, generally the drier expanse of shortgrass prairie gives way to mixed grass prairie and ultimately the richer and wetter soils of the tallgrass prairie.
Lesser Prairie-Chickens inhabit shortgrass prairies of the southern Great Plains, especially areas where shinnery oak, sand sagebrush, and bluestem grasses (such as little bluestem and sand bluestem) predominate.
The northern population of the LPR is listed as threatened/vulnerable while the southern population is listed as endangered. This is due to significant habitat loss and fragmentation of their native grassland ecosystems. This habitat loss has been caused by various factors, including conversion of grasslands to cropland, livestock grazing, energy development, and fire suppression. Additionally, climate change and the use of herbicides further threaten their habitat.
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Reportage street shot from a Disabled People Against Cuts protest outside of the Ministry of Defence building in Glasgow, Scotland, on 26th March 2025.
I think it's fair to say that the true measure of a society is on how it treats it's most vulnerable people.
Bearing in mind that any one of us can become disabled at any time through no fault of our own. The societal safety net that we all pay into during our lives is there for that very reason. To care for us if or when we are unable to care for ourselves.
We therefore owe it to ourselves to fight these welfare cuts, to put pressure on our MPs to vote against the changes. Don't just think about it, do it, let them know because one day it could be you that needs to depend upon them for survival.
Take care.
Victoria's Riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae), Crater Lakes, Tablelands, Queensland, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S123536467
Victoria's riflebird (Lophorina victoriae), also known as the lesser riflebird, Queen Victoria riflebird, Queen Victoria's riflebird, or Victoria riflebird, is a bird-of-paradise endemic to the Atherton Tableland region of northeastern Queensland, Australia where it resides year-round.
Source: Wikipedia
A ANTA é o maior mamífero terrestre do Brasil, está listada como VULNERÁVEL.
Esse é meu único registro que tenho desse lindo animal, que dá nome a esse local
A Anta estava em fuga, perseguida por cachorros...
The tapir was on the run, chased by dogs...
She managed to escape, but her cub did not.
Sadly, small animals and birds have suffered from persecution by dogs that are abandoned in the environmental park.
These dogs are natural hunters and are becoming a serious problem in the Brasília Mineral Water National Park.
Lagoa da Anta - Tapir Lagoon
Meditation Island
Ilha da Meditação
Bioma Cerrado
Área de Proteção Ambiental
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Água Mineral
Brasília, Brasil
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc. It is found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina, in the cerrado, pantanal, and the southeastern region of the Amazon basin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The bare-faced curassow lives in moist, semi-deciduous and gallery forests, often near the fringes of the woodland. It mainly feeds on fruit, but seeds, flowers and small invertebrates are also eaten. Breeding takes place in the summer in the southern part of its range, with the nests being platforms of sticks in trees.
The bare-faced curassow has a wide range and is fairly numerous in parts of its range, however it is subject to hunting and to the destruction of its habitat and the total population is likely to be declining quite rapidly. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as "vulnerable".
Female koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) named "Tharah" (Aboriginal for "Thunder" ) born 11/1/2014 and living in the Australia Outback habitat at the San Diego Zoo. The Zoo has the largest colony of koalas outside of Australia, with 20 living in San Diego and more than 30 on loan to other zoos in the US and Europe. Conservation status: Vulnerable
For a giraffe, drinking water generates a conflict of interest between supplying a vital need (drinking water) and give up controlling foreign's threats. What do you prefer: live or stop controlling?
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Para una jirafa, beber agua genera un conflicto de intereses entre suplir una necesidad vital (beber agua) y renunciar a controlar las amenazas externas. ¿Qué prefieres: vivir o dejar de controlar?
Etosha National Park, Namibia
September, 2017
E X P L O R E : May 14, 2023 #24
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Lock down for a street and social documentary photographer in the vulnerable category is tough, I hope that you are enjoying my archive of unpublished shots and differing subjects. Wishing you all the very best weekend that you can in these difficult times. Enjoy!
Okavango Delta
Botswana
Southern Africa
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The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae; it is a muscular, deep-chested cat with a short, rounded head, a reduced neck and round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. The lion is sexually dimorphic; males are larger than females with a typical weight range of 150 to 250 kg (330 to 550 lb) for the former and 120 to 182 kg (265 to 400 lb) for the latter. Male lions have a prominent mane, which is the most recognisable feature of the species.
A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The species is an apex and keystone predator, although they scavenge when opportunities occur. Some lions have been known to hunt humans, although the species typically does not.
Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight. In the Pleistocene, the lion ranged throughout Eurasia, Africa and the Americas from the Yukon to Peru but today it has been reduced to fragmented populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and one critically endangered population in western India.
It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Lion populations are untenable outside designated protected areas. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern. – Source Wikipedia
Expression of emotion
Where form and content
Are fused completely
AmScope 4X Achromatic Microscope Objective
Once the life blood of the north shore, shuttling pellet after steaming pellet of iron ore to the docks of Lake Superior, two of the Missabe's finest still make their keep along the banks of the big lake. The pair of Maroon warriors are seen here, shuffling cars around Proctor yard.
* Cigua Amarilla, (Spindalis dominicensis), Hispaniolan Spindalis
* Estatus: Residente Local Comun (Rlc)
* Endemica (E)
La cigua amarilla (Spindalis dominicensis) es una especie de ave de la familia Cardinalidae. Puede ser encontrada en República Dominicana y Haití.
The Hispaniolan spindalis (Spindalis dominicensis) is a species of bird formerly in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Incertae sedis
Genus:Spindalis
Species:S. dominicensis
Binomial name
Spindalis dominicensis
Spindalis-1323
Homeless man.
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
-- Victoria Pratt
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Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) named "Kartick" born December 27, 2017 to mom "Tasha"and dad "Bhutan" at the Woodland Park Zoo. Sloth bears are native to the Indian subcontinent and feed on fruits, ants, and termites. There are less than 10,000 sloth bears remaining in the wild.
San Diego Zoo
Conservation status: Vulnerable
Después del período decría, la muda que afecta a las plumas de vuelo convierte este momento en uno de los mas vulnerables en el ciclo de vida de los limícolas.
Vuelo de vuelvepiedras ( Arenaria interpres) con un fondo de algas, costa de Cádiz.
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After the breeding period, the moult that affects the flight feathers makes this moment one of the most vulnerable in the life cycle of waders.
Turnstone ( Arenaria interpres) flight with a seaweed background, Cádiz coast.
Kenya 2010
Masai Mara
Africa
Since 2010, the world has been celebrating the cheetah each December 4th as International Cheetah Day.
Why December 4th?
It is the birthday of Khayam, a cheetah Dr. Laurie Marker raised from a cub at Wildlife Safari, in Oregon. Khayam was trained for the first research project in re-wilding and inspired her first trip to Namibia in 1977.
Dr. Marker took Khayam to Africa to see if she could be taught to hunt in the wild. Through trial and error, Dr. Marker was successful in her efforts, and she eventually brought Khayam back to the US.
It was during this time that Dr. Marker found out about how cheetahs were being exterminated by Namibian farmers who viewed them as vermin, and she vowed to do something about it. So Dr. Marker became the cheetah’s champion because of Khayam, and chose this animal’s birthday as a day to promote cheetah conservation in her honour.
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus; /ˈtʃiːtə/) is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae that occurs in North, Southern and East Africa, and a few localities in Iran.
It inhabits a variety of mostly arid habitats like dry forests, scrub forests, and savannahs.
The species is IUCN Red Listed as Vulnerable, as it suffered a substantial decline in its historic range in the 20th century due to habitat loss, poaching for the illegal pet trade, and conflict with humans. By 2016, the global cheetah population has been estimated at approximately 7,100 individuals in the wild.
Several African countries have taken steps to improve cheetah conservation measures.
Hembra de Orthetrum cancellatum recién emergida y completando su desarrollo para convertirse en un ejemplar listo para su primer vuelo.
Momento crítico en la vida del odonato por su vulnerabilidad ante posibles depredadores, como por ejemplo las hormigas.
Una de ellas se encuentra examinando el interior de la exuvia que acaba de abandonar la libélula.
Ant and dragonfly
Female of Orthetrum cancellatum just emerged and completing its development to become a specimen ready for its first flight.
Critical moment in the life of the odonate due to its vulnerability to possible predators, such as ants.
One of them is examining the interior of the exuvia that the dragonfly has just left.
Posing in the old orphanage.
Model: my daughter.
Its so difficult to make good portraits.......pffffff, still have lots to learn!!!!
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EP305669-B
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
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Female lions, lionesses, are able to give birth to cubs all year round, usually from the age of about three or four years old. Pregnancy lasts for around 110 to 120 days. Eventually, when it is time to give birth, lionesses leave their family pride to find a private den in the shelter of bushes, or even a cave.
When they are first born, cubs are very small. They have their eyes closed and don’t open them until they are two to three weeks old. Even then, they can’t see properly for another week or so, so need lots of care and attention from Mum. As they are unable to defend themselves, cubs are vulnerable to attack from large birds and snakes and even male lions.
Lionesses can have as many as six, so they are kept very busy making sure they are all safe.
If there are older cubs already in the pride, the mother must wait until her young are around three months old before introducing them. Older cubs often bully the smaller cubs and steal their milk, so they need to be big enough to stand up for themselves.
Young cubs drink milk from their mother’s teats. It is good for them and helps them to grow quickly. At around two to three months, they begin to eat meat as well with their small milk teeth. At six to seven months old, cubs stop drinking milk altogether.
Cubs are full of life. It is important that they play with other youngsters and adults members of the pride, as this helps them to bond. When playing, a cub can often be seen leaping on another’s back and biting their neck. - Internet