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This beautiful animal was photographed at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. 1st place photo, Color Photography Division, Animals Category, 2016 Yuba-Sutter County Fair.
One of the greatest things I've got to experience since moving to North America is to actually hear a pack of wolves howl once in Yellowstone. Wow!
Why wolf moon?
A single wolf's howl lasts a few seconds, which for most of the year is what you hear, a single wolf communicating with its pack, something like "wait up, I've got to run to the loo".
However, a chorus by a pack can last a couple of minutes and longer. Packs tend to howl together during the breeding season in January and February, to communicate with other packs, basically "bugger off, this territory is ours". So wolves are particularly loud and vocal in the first months of the year, which is probably why people associate the month of January with howling wolves.
There's no evidence that wolves howl at the moon, but they do howl up into the sky, and so looking as if they are would be howling at the moon is a short trip for anyone's imagination to take.
400mm, f/9.0, 1/125, iso100, heavily cropped.
I saw these four wolf cubs near Dome Creek, east of Prince George, BC. There were another five not seen in this picture.
A Timber Wolf shot at the Columbus Zoo at the Flickr meetup. Shot in raw and processed with Capture NX. I used a Nikkor 80-400mm lens
This a female wolf spider warming her egg sack in the sun. The egg sack is just behind her head in the picture. This was being on a tree stump.
Low on the horizon, the first full moon of 2020 looked stunning.
Then I read there was scheduled to be a penumbral lunar eclipse*.
Great excitement..... but unfortunately as the time approached, it went behind a cloud bank. We had glimpses, but if there was a shadow, it was faint!
* The moon will pass behind the Earth, with respect to the sun, dipping through the outermost edge of our planet's shadow in what scientists call a penumbral lunar eclipse.
The eclipse will be visible primarily from the Eastern Hemisphere, with countries in Europe, Africa and much of Asia in prime viewing position. It will begin at 12:07 p.m. EST (1707 GMT), peak at 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT) and end at 4:12 p.m. EST (2112 GMT).
Grey wolf. Parc Omega, Quebec, April 13, 2019.
A side trip after seeing the massed snow geese.
This is a captive animal. Sorry for any confusion.
Parc Omega is a safari park in Quebec, Canada, with a 12-kilometre nature driving route.
Another POV from the Wolf Spider ( Lycosidae )
Tech info | Single exposure at f16, exp.time 1/60sec, ISO640
Venus Optics Laowa 15mm f/4 Macro Lens | Telescopic Canon EF to Sony E Extension Tube | Meike Mk320-s flash | Sony A7
January full Moon just before the lunar eclipse started.
Metal wolf sculpture from the Wolfburn Distillery is in the foreground.
Loup gris
Lobo europeo
Eurasischer Wolf
歐洲狼
الذئب الأوروبي
Photographing bears, wolves and wolverines is done mainly from commercial hides at the border between Finland and Russia where animals are baited by food. I just want to be honest about it. Paying for wildlife observation (and conservation) remains key to ensure this business model outweighs others that can be harmful to animals such as hunting, farming, forestry, mining...
Damn light shine, not ONE picture didn't have a big ol' light reflection across Clawd's eye. Bah.
I find it interesting that they all have different skin tones. Clawd is the darkest, but he and Clawdeen and very similar, then Howleen is positively pale by comparison!
With an estimated population of only 30 individuals, i was treated to a rare sight of the largest predator in Denmark.
A stunningly beautiful animal.
In reality this missle is usually launced from a ship. The Sea Wolf is a naval guided missile system designed and built by BAC, later to become British Aerospace (BAe) Dynamics (now MBDA). It is an automated point-defence weapon system designed as a final line of defence against both sea-skimming and high angle anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Royal Navy has fielded two versions, the GWS-25 Conventionally Launched Sea Wolf (CLSW) and the GWS-26 Vertically Launched Sea Wolf (VLSW) forms. In Royal Navy service Sea Wolf is being replaced by Sea Ceptor.
Sea Wolf is powered by the Blackcap solid-fuel rocket to a maximum velocity of Mach 2, and can intercept targets at ranges between 1,000 and 6,000 m (1,093.6 and 6,561.7 yd) and altitudes between 10 and 3,000 m (32.8 and 9,842.5 ft). The warhead weighs 14 kg (30.9 lb) and is a proximity fused HE-fragmenting type. In the manually loaded form, the missiles are stored on board in maintenance-free canisters, sealed until use and handled like a round of ammunition.
Instead of a launcher that is aimed at the target by the fire-control system, VL Sea Wolf uses a vertical-launch system (VLS). Missiles are launched vertically by a Cadiz booster motor and turnover pack, to clear the ship's superstructure and rapidly flipped onto their flight path by thrust vectoring. The booster motor, which also increases the range of VL Sea Wolf from 6.5 km to 10 km, then separates from the missile, which flies on to engage the target.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Wolf_(missile)