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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Hagenbeck Tierpark--1939
You can see more of my paintings at hannekatrineberg.com
Paramount Studios To Make New Movie Based On The Ringling Bros.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/smurfs-david-stern-david-weiss-ringling-brothers-paramount-315143
The movie's story will be set in the present day? I don't get this. Why in the world would it be set in the present day?
Courtesy of Mike Naughton
YANKEE DOODLE CIRCUS
Rare Spotless Cheetah Sighted In Kenya
“I was told about this incredible ‘morph’ phenomenon that has not been seen for over 90 years…the last one recorded was shot in Tanzania in 1921. By ‘morph’ this means a genetic colour variation, the most well known being the ‘King’ cheetah, specimens of which have only occurred in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The Mughal Emperor of India recorded having a white cheetah presented to him in 1608, saying that the spots were of a blue colour and the whiteness of the body also inclined to blue-ishness….there are also reported cases of melanism or albinism, but the latter does not apply to this cheetah. The only reported cases of this morph, which scientists believe is a recessive gene like the king cheetah, have been in East Africa from the subspecies, acynonix jubatus raineyii.” – excerpt from Guy Coombes’ account with a ‘morph’ cheetah
Photos © Guy Coombes
Guy Coombes photographed this rare ‘morph’ cheetah in the Athi-Kapiti area of southern Kenya over a year ago. The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is classified as Vulnerable (IUCN 2008). Current study results show that Kenya holds 1200 – 1400 cheetahs with over 75% residing on land outside protected areas.
Please visit Action for Cheetahs in Kenya (ACK), whose mission is to promote the conservation of cheetahs through research, awareness and community participation in Kenya.
For more information about the sighting please visit Guy Coombes’ blog post
Courtesy of Stefan Grossmann
Other rare color morphs of the species include speckles, melanism, albinism and gray coloration. Most have been reported in Indian cheetahs, particularly in captive specimens kept for hunting.
The Mughal Emperor of India, Jahangir, recorded having a white cheetah presented to him in 1608. In the memories of Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, the Emperor, says that in the third year of his reign, Raja Bir Singh Deo brought a white cheetah to show me. Although other sorts of creatures, both birds and beasts have white varieties .... I had never seen a white cheetah. Its spots, which are (usually) black, were of a blue colour, and the whiteness of the body also inclined to blue-ishness. This suggests a chinchilla mutation which restricts the amount of pigment on the hair shaft. Although the spots were formed of black pigment, the less dense pigmentation gives a hazy, grayish effect. As well as Jahangir's white cheetah at Agra, a report of "incipient albinism" has come from Beaufort West according to Guggisberg.
In a letter to "Nature in East Africa", H. F. Stoneham reported a melanistic cheetah (black with ghost markings) in the Trans-Nzoia District of Kenya in 1925. Vesey Fitzgerald saw a melanistic cheetah in Zambia in the company of a spotted cheetah. Red (erythristic) cheetahs have dark tawny spots on a golden background. Cream (isabelline) cheetahs have pale red spots on a pale background. Some desert region cheetahs are unusually pale; probably they are better-camouflaged and therefore better hunters and more likely to breed and pass on their paler coloration. Blue (Maltese or grey) cheetahs have variously been described as white cheetahs with grey-blue spots (chinchilla) or pale grey cheetahs with darker grey spots (Maltese mutation). A cheetah with hardly any spots was shot in Tanzania in 1921 (Pocock); it had only a few spots on the neck and back, and these were unusually small.
JUST ONE SMALL REASON WHY WE NEED TO LEAVE AS SMALL A CARBON FOOTPRINT ON OUR PLANET AS POSSIBLE!!
Structural engineer in action
Whether you’re a ‘bird person’ or not, this is stunning!!!
Not
to detract from the sheer magic of it, but in practical terms, how M A
NY trips would a bird have to make with that tiny little quantity of
mud/clay it could carry? (and how far from the nest is the source?)
If
you take the construction of a “circular bowl” in your stride as
instinctive – how the heck does the bird come up with the
windbreak/entrance design that shields the eggs/chicks from the elements
– and at what point in fashioning the bowl do they start to construct
it?
Courtesy of Mark Rosenthal
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Bear Quintuplets
Black bears typically have two cubs; rarely, one or three. In 2007,
in northern New Hampshire , a black bear sow gave birth to five
healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4
cubs, but five was, and is, very extraordinary. The photographer learned
of them shortly after they emerged from their den and set a goal of
photographing all five cubs with their mom - no matter how much time and
effort was involved. He knew the trail they followed on a fairly regular
basis, usually shortly before dark. After spending nearly four hours a
day, seven days a week, for more than six weeks, he had that
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and photographed them. He used the
equivalent of a very fast film speed on his digital camera.
healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4
cubs, but five was, and is, very extraordinary. The photographer learned
of them shortly after they emerged from their den and set a goal of
photographing all five cubs with their mom - no matter how much time and
effort was involved. He knew the trail they followed on a fairly regular
basis, usually shortly before dark. After spending nearly four hours a
day, seven days a week, for more than six weeks, he had that
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and photographed them. He used the
equivalent of a very fast film speed on his digital camera.
Courtesy of Casey Gibbs
Elephant Acrobatics
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