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Picture 39
Image by ellenm1
See my photo diary of the cub:
Panda Diary 2009
______________
And a photo diary of Zhen Zhen:
Growing up Panda
Picture 43
Image by ellenm1
See my photo diary of the cub:
Panda Diary 2009
______________
And a photo diary of Zhen Zhen:
Growing up Panda
Some cool endangered species of animals images:
#5 Short stride: Possible Juvenile Canid Tracks-06/24/08
Image by St.VincentVolunteers
Tracks photographed in the beachfront sand on St. Vincent NWR on 6/24/08. This may be the best visual evidence yet of a fourth consecutive red wolf puppy litter on SVNWR. Photo by USFWS volunteer, Robin Vroegop.
#6 Possible Juvenile Canid Prints-06/24/08
Image by St.VincentVolunteers
Tracks photographed in the beachfront sand on St. Vincent NWR on 6/24/08. May be the best visual evidence yet of a fourth consecutive red wolf puppy litter on SVNWR. Photo by USFWS volunteer, Robin Vroegop.
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Pony
Image by *katz
www.gisellaklein.nl
Beneath the Surface
Image by EJP Photo
My other new toy lately is an underwater camera, if you couldn't tell.
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Botanic Gardens - Resident Grey Squirrel
Image by infomatique
There are two types of squirrels in Ireland, the red squirrel and the grey squirrel. The red squirrel is native to Ireland while the grey squirrel is native to North America.
The red squirrel (Sciurus Vulgaris) belongs to a large group of mammals called rodents (Rodentia), which includes rats and mice. They can vary hugely in all shades of red and brown to almost black, and their bushy tail at 20cm is nearly as long as their body. This tail helps them to balance as they climb and jump through trees.
A red squirrel is only half the size of a grey squirrel, and the long ear tufts are found only in red squirrels.
Their home (called a drey) is like a large bird’s nest lined with moss and twigs. Baby squirrels (kits) are born between February and August. There may be two litters in a year, with up to six kits in a litter. Few squirrels live beyond six years, due to starvation, disease, predation, or human interference with their habitat.
They do not hibernate, but rely in winter on buried nuts and small seeds.
The grey squirrel is also a rodent. Rodents are one of the most successful groups of mammals, with 1700 species. Most rodents are small, and all have strong sharp front teeth (incisors) which grow throughout the animal’s life. So rodents have to gnaw constantly at their food, which helps keep their teeth at the right length.
The grey squirrel is a good bit larger than a red squirrel. Measuring up to 48cm from nose to tip of tail, and about half a kilogram in weight, there is little difference between males & females. The thick coat is greyish-brown, with a slight reddish tinge in summer. The tail is grey, very long and bushy. The ear tufts are also much less visible than on the red squirrel.
The Grey Squirrel, introduced into Ireland , from North America remains the greatest single threat to current red squirrel populations. Competition from the grey squirrels generally result in the displacement of red squirrels from broadleaved habitat within 15 years.
In Ireland, the current population originates from a few individuals that were introduced into Castleforbes Estate, Co Longford in 1911.
Fortunately, dispersal of grey squirrels in Ireland has been slower than that experienced in England and Wales. This may be attributed to the existence of much smaller areas of broadleaved habitat, and fewer mature hedgerows which act as corridors along which the grey squirrels can travel. Both squirrels compete largely for the same food in a broadleaved woodland. Grey squirrels hold an advantage where food is limited, due to their ability to consume unripe food such as hazelnuts in October. The red squirrel, however, can only ingest ripened nuts, and therefore it is more likely to suffer from food shortages over the winter months. Red squirrel densities tend to be lower than greys, particularly where food shortages exist. This may be a direct result of lower breeding rates when the prevailing conditions are unfavourable. Where food supplies are plentiful, red squirrels appear to breed at similar densities to greys.
Red squirrels are one of the oldest native Irish species, in that they pre-date human history and were common at the end of the ice age when forests covered most of the landscape. However, it is widely believed that the red squirrel became extinct in Ireland in the early 1700's. Tree cover in this period had dwindled from 80% of the land area which occurred after the last ice age 10,000 years ago, to below 2% of the land area. Fragmentation of the remaining broadleaved habitat was probably one of the main reasons for the red squirrel's disappearance. The red squirrel was re-established at ten sites throughout Ireland, between 1815 and 1856, and these were derived from squirrel populations in England. They did very well and became common again in woodlands. However, in recent years, competition from the grey squirrel has pushed them once more down the road towards extinction.
There are 250,000-300,000 grey squirrels in Ireland, but only 50,000-100,000 red squirrels: the red squirrel is disappearing by 1% every year.
Botanic Gardens - Resident Grey Squirrel
Image by infomatique
There are two types of squirrels in Ireland, the red squirrel and the grey squirrel. The red squirrel is native to Ireland while the grey squirrel is native to North America.
The red squirrel (Sciurus Vulgaris) belongs to a large group of mammals called rodents (Rodentia), which includes rats and mice. They can vary hugely in all shades of red and brown to almost black, and their bushy tail at 20cm is nearly as long as their body. This tail helps them to balance as they climb and jump through trees.
A red squirrel is only half the size of a grey squirrel, and the long ear tufts are found only in red squirrels.
Their home (called a drey) is like a large bird’s nest lined with moss and twigs. Baby squirrels (kits) are born between February and August. There may be two litters in a year, with up to six kits in a litter. Few squirrels live beyond six years, due to starvation, disease, predation, or human interference with their habitat.
They do not hibernate, but rely in winter on buried nuts and small seeds.
The grey squirrel is also a rodent. Rodents are one of the most successful groups of mammals, with 1700 species. Most rodents are small, and all have strong sharp front teeth (incisors) which grow throughout the animal’s life. So rodents have to gnaw constantly at their food, which helps keep their teeth at the right length.
The grey squirrel is a good bit larger than a red squirrel. Measuring up to 48cm from nose to tip of tail, and about half a kilogram in weight, there is little difference between males & females. The thick coat is greyish-brown, with a slight reddish tinge in summer. The tail is grey, very long and bushy. The ear tufts are also much less visible than on the red squirrel.
The Grey Squirrel, introduced into Ireland , from North America remains the greatest single threat to current red squirrel populations. Competition from the grey squirrels generally result in the displacement of red squirrels from broadleaved habitat within 15 years.
In Ireland, the current population originates from a few individuals that were introduced into Castleforbes Estate, Co Longford in 1911.
Fortunately, dispersal of grey squirrels in Ireland has been slower than that experienced in England and Wales. This may be attributed to the existence of much smaller areas of broadleaved habitat, and fewer mature hedgerows which act as corridors along which the grey squirrels can travel. Both squirrels compete largely for the same food in a broadleaved woodland. Grey squirrels hold an advantage where food is limited, due to their ability to consume unripe food such as hazelnuts in October. The red squirrel, however, can only ingest ripened nuts, and therefore it is more likely to suffer from food shortages over the winter months. Red squirrel densities tend to be lower than greys, particularly where food shortages exist. This may be a direct result of lower breeding rates when the prevailing conditions are unfavourable. Where food supplies are plentiful, red squirrels appear to breed at similar densities to greys.
Red squirrels are one of the oldest native Irish species, in that they pre-date human history and were common at the end of the ice age when forests covered most of the landscape. However, it is widely believed that the red squirrel became extinct in Ireland in the early 1700's. Tree cover in this period had dwindled from 80% of the land area which occurred after the last ice age 10,000 years ago, to below 2% of the land area. Fragmentation of the remaining broadleaved habitat was probably one of the main reasons for the red squirrel's disappearance. The red squirrel was re-established at ten sites throughout Ireland, between 1815 and 1856, and these were derived from squirrel populations in England. They did very well and became common again in woodlands. However, in recent years, competition from the grey squirrel has pushed them once more down the road towards extinction.
There are 250,000-300,000 grey squirrels in Ireland, but only 50,000-100,000 red squirrels: the red squirrel is disappearing by 1% every year.
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Finland_1279
Image by archer10 (Dennis)
PLEASE, no multi invitations in your comments. Thanks. I AM POSTING MANY DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON ALL - JUST ENJOY.
There was a demonstration going on as I was walking around Helinski. The group was complaining about farms raising animals for their furs to be used in the fashion industry. The young lady talked to me and noticed I was from Canada, she said they would protest the seal hunt tomorrow with a smile on her face.
2009-05-24 - Vegan Ice Cream Books - 0005
Image by smiteme
del Torro, Wheeler. 2009. The Vegan Scoop: 150 Recipes for Dairy-Free Ice Cream that Tastes Better Than the "Real" Thing. Beverly, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press. (You can read my review here.)
Rogers, Jeff. 2004. Vice Cream: Gourmet Vegan Desserts. Celestial Arts.
A few nice endangered species animals images I found:
Marwell zoo giraffe
Image by Martyn @ Negaro
Marwell Zoo, Hampshire
Sawfish and Hammerhead
Image by BlueRidgeKitties
Two of the odder creatures at the Georgia Aquarium - someone in the crowd exclaimed their disbelief that the sawfish's "saw" was actually real. But it is! Unfortunately I didn't get a better picture of it. They use the "saw" to dig in the bottom of the ocean for food, for slashing prey when they're hunting, and as a defensive weapon. Sawfish are more closely related to rays even though on first glance they look more similar to the sharks in the tank.
All sawfish species are critically endangered in the wild and if you see them in an aquarium they are primarily kept for conservation purposes. Part of why these fish are so rare and endangered is that tourists love to get a "saw" as a souvenir. Please, if you travel someplace where they offer parts of exotic animals as souvenirs, be aware that most of these are illegal and buying them puts threatened species in even greater danger!
The Patas that hopped onto our car
Image by Scorpions and Centaurs
at Woburn Safari Park --- Bedfordshire, England
A few nice wild animals images I found:
Map Treefrog
Image by Santiago Ron
This species is widely distributed east of the Andes from northern of Venezuela to southern Brazil.
Hypsiboas geographicus
This photograph is part of the book "Sapos"
www.puce.edu.ec/zoologia/sron/sapos/index.html
Cow treefrog
Image by Santiago Ron
Cow treefrog. Calling male.
Smilisca phaeota
This photograph is part of the book "Sapos"
www.puce.edu.ec/zoologia/sron/sapos/index.html
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Cheetah at Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre
Image by féileacán
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large-sized feline (family Felidae) inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws. As such, it is the only felid with non-retractable claws and pads that, by their scope, disallow gripping (therefore cheetah cannot climb vertical trees, although they are generally capable of reaching easily accessible branches). The cheetah, however, achieves by far the fastest land speed of any living animal—between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.
www.hesc.co.za/
Rhino -- an endangered species. Drowned in a dip tank after the farmer was exicted from his farm
Image by Sokwanele - Zimbabwe
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Mischievous Cat
Image by Randi Deuro
I caught her climbing onto the arms of the couch, which she is not allowed to do. So of course, I took a picture before making her get down;)
Morning Seagull over Vesuvius
Image by Stuck in Customs
This was the morning that made me never question getting out of bed before sunrise again. It's always a painful thing to do, but once you get out there, it's usually worth it. Even if you don't get the perfect shot, you still have a nice early start to the day.
I shot this in Naples, Italy, where the bay looks across to the cratered Vesuvius. This shot was an HDR taken from a single RAW, as you can tell from the seagull which was caught in flight. Moving subjects usually require the use of a single RAW file for the creation of the HDR. Otherwise, there would be a staccato ghosting of the bird across the sunrise.
from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
A few nice pet animals images I found:
King of the Bar Stools
Image by Jennuine Captures
Ever since we brought our kitties home, they have LOVED climbing over the lower rungs of the barstools.
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Plush Alligator - belly2
Image by Kristibee1
This neat little plush alligator is the perfect toy for any child - or child-at-heart who happens to love 'gators!
For purchase on Ravelry:
www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/plush-alligator
Or, on Etsy:
www.etsy.com/shop/kristijb
"Bobo"
Image by JadeXJustice
Here is my dog JD with his favorite toy, "Bobo" from the Petsmart Commercials. He's very protective over his Bobo...
cute reading animal
Image by arimoore
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AHI Treasures of Southern Africa 3-07 1741 N
Image by Corvair Owner
Giraffe. Taken at the Thornybush Game Reserve next to the Kruger National Park near Hoedspruit, South Africa.
AHI Treasures of Southern Africa 3-07 1470 N
Image by Corvair Owner
Giraffe. Taken at the Thornybush Game Reserve next to the Kruger National Park near Hoedspruit, South Africa.
A few nice endangered species animals images I found:
Picture 2
Image by ellenm1
See my photo diary of the cub:
Panda Diary 2009
______________
And a photo diary of Zhen Zhen:
Growing up Panda
Picture 35
Image by ellenm1
See my photo diary of the cub:
Panda Diary 2009
______________
And a photo diary of Zhen Zhen:
Growing up Panda
A few nice extinct animals images I found:
nude hippy nymphs
Image by mardi grass 2011
Endangered Species: Psychedelic Water 26>
“Hippies are an endangered species here now,” the feral said through the knotty plaits of his beard.
“Not in Japan!” The slight sunbrowned man with a far neater beard and designer dreads laughed over the flames.
“No?”
“No – in Japan, many hippie!”
“We hear nothing about it out here, but in Japan there’s a hippie revolution right now,” Ram interrupted.
“That right.”
Ram turned to the Nipponese man. “It’s because that’s where the young people are – all over Asia. In the sixties and seventies the demographic balance was like this;” He steepled his fingers into a pyramid. “Old people…” He indicated the triangle’s pinnacle with a wave of his fingertips. “Young people…” he swept his wrists outward. Then he inverted the pyramid. “Now in the West, it’s like this. Very few young people, and all more tightly constrained.
“But not in Japan.”
“No,” agreed Zen. “In Japan many young people. Many hippie.”
Cameron conceded the point. “Well, there are a lot more Japanese in town this year, and they’re not all like the squeaky cleanskins that used to turn up, it’s true…” The shaman excused himself to water a nearby tree. When he returned Cameron was describing a strange small creature he’d seen nearby. “It’s only about the size of a rabbit – but it’s not a rabbit.”
“Not a rabbit?” The Japanese hippie couple repeated in unison.
“No – about the same size, but different.”
“Not a bandicoot?” Ram asked.
“No – wait – there it is now!” Cameron’s whisper morphed into a gasp. “You hear that?” A strange loud squeak filled the sudden silence.
“You’re right,” Ram whispered, squatting forward on his toes by the small cooking fire. “That’s no bandicoot.”
“Here it comes,” Cameron said as a squat shrub rustled only a few paces away and a small dark form emerged. He flicked on a blue-white LED flashlight and a diminutive rat-like creature was brightly illuminated for a flashing moment before it leapt and darted for the rainforest underbrush beside the creek. “Sorry – I probably shouldn’t have frightened it. But it’s here every night.”
Catalogues of photographs, drawings and paintings riffled through Ram’s mind; reams of images of native and imported animals studied during years of fauna surveying, or witnessed live and firsthand in plains, woodlands and deep forests throughout the eastern half of the great island continent. None of the remembered forms quite matched this tailless, two kilo marsupial with a surprisingly flattened and rounded face. “Another unknown,” he announced. “A little like a bettong, but not a bettong. Not a bandicoot. Not a potoroo. And definitely not a rabbit.”
“Not rabbit?” Zen echoed. The Japanese Wwoofa (a willing worker on organic farms, exchanging work for board as he travelled the country) still peered into the darkness in stupefaction. His beautiful mate Shi clung to his bare arm, patiently awaiting an explanation.
“No,” said Cameron. “Something very rare and unusual.”
“What is ‘bennon’?” Zen asked.
“Bettong.” Cameron corrected. “Like a bilby.” Zen and Shi regarded him with nonplussed expressions.
“A small kangaroo-like creature, only a foot tall – thirty centimetres,” Ram explained.
“Ah!”
“Oh! But that not one of them?” Shi’s voice is a gentle purr.
“I can’t work out what it is,” Ram admitted, listening to the creature rustling just out of sight in the darkness. “Around here,” he gestured at the massive tree-clad cliff facing them, “anything is possible. Up there above us is an escarpment - a great flat plateau full of rocky land, forest and caves. Anything could live up there…”
“And now that everything round here is regenerating so well, things’ll be coming down here, too,” Cameron continued.
“What that animal?” Zen enquired.
“Buggered if I know.” Cameron flashed his torch around for a few seconds. “It’s still there, somewhere.”
“You not know?” The young lovers peered into the dark.
“No idea,” Cameron confirmed, glancing at the shaman.
“Speaking from a view gleaned after years of fauna surveys and travelling and camping in remote bush,” he said, inwardly disapproving of the self-aggrandisement implied by his words, “that creature is a small marsupial that may be totally unknown to anyone but the Aborigines.”
“They know?” Shi’s eyes were glittering pools of firelight.
“Maybe,” said Cameron. “Probably.”
“You not see it before?”
“Not even in reference books,” Ram assured Zen. “All the images are spinning through my mind now. It’s not a bandicoot or a bettong… even if the tail’s been gnawed off by a dog. And those white splotches look like the markings on a juvenile koala, but its face is more like… a hamster…”
“But that definitely wasn’t a koala,” Cameron assured the visitors. Two flying foxes circled the Sally wattle they were seated beneath and the Japanese visitors looked up as the macrobats alighted in a nearby quandong tree, screeching and warbling in their complex semi-simian language.
Zen was amazed. “Wooah!”
“This animal unknown?” Shi’s eyes were wide, flickering in the firelight as she blinked up at the stars. It was only the third or fourth time that Ram had heard her shy, self-abnegating voice during the evening’s converse. “Not them –other little one,” she said.
“Well it’s unknown to us,” Cameron clarified. “But it could be completely unknown as well.”
“This country is recovering from a century and a half of logging and rampaging cows.” Ram gestured at the dark, hulking, lightless hills that surrounded them. “But it’s ringed by rugged country that no living white person has thoroughly explored. Between here and the mountains that run down the entire eastern side of the continent is a wild, wild country that’s almost totally uninhabited… by modern humans…”
“Like the Washpool and the upper catchments all along the coast and up on the mountains,” Cameron agreed. “Real wilderness, National Parks and reserves no-one lives in…”
“No human live there?” Zen was surprised.
Cameron bared his teeth in a grin. “Not for hundreds of square miles, in many places.”
The shaman shifted into a sitting position. “Last month all the Oz state governments in the east announced they’re declaring a wilderness sanctuary strip that will stretch from the far north tropics of the continent all the way to the far south, on the edge of the Southern Ocean. They’ve realized that you need at least that much land to preserve all the endangered creatures and forest types when you take climate catastrophe into account. And that last wild strip is the land they say they’re going to reserve.”
“Climate catastrophe?” Zen inquired.
“What they call ‘global warming’.”
“Really?” Cameron was incredulous. “When did this happen? I haven’t heard a thing about it!”
“It was front-page news for a day,” Ram replied. “Hardly anyone noticed, it seems.”
“Wow! Good news for a change! That’s incredible.”
“But true. We should really all be celebrating, but it seems most of the people who spent years getting arrested for saving those ecosystems don’t even know that we’ve won. Tell any feral forest fighters you see!”
“Don’t worry. I will.”
The shaman stared up at the brilliant star that still held Shi’s attention. “On the other hand, it is just an announcement by governments that may not be around for more than a year or two. But we can hope.”
“And there wild animal no-one know there as well?”
“You just reminded me,” Ram slapped his knee. “Less than a year ago eye saw an ‘extinct’ huge black quoll on the roadside… one of those mysterious big cats people occasionally report seeing…”
“The ‘black panthers’ you mean?” Cameron smirked.
“I can see why they’d think so.” The shaman returned his smirk. “If you hadn’t seen a quoll up close you’d have nothing better to mistake it for.”
“A koll?” Zen asked.
“Quoll,” Cameron corrected. “A native marsupial cat, called the spotted-tailed quoll.”
“Like koala?”
“About the same size, but you wouldn’t cuddle a quoll, mate, it’d tear you to pieces – unless you trained it from a kitten, and maybe not even then. You ever see a Tasmanian Devil?”
“You mean like on cartoon? Bugs Bunny?”
“That’s the one. Like that, but in real life. You don’t try to pat one.”
“You see one of them but black?”
“And big,” Ram agreed. “Almost as tall as the bonnet of the four wheel drive.”
“That big?”
“Aye – hai – completely black, like a panther, but with a couple of major differences, like a tail longer than it’s body, curved up over its back…” Ram swept his hand up into the firelight, “with a plumed, almost bulbous fringe on the end. A prehensile tail…”
“Just like a quoll,” Cameron suggested.
“And standing… well, almost on tip-toes, not like a cat at all – except for the curved arch of its spine when it turned to look at me. And the face was more squashed in than a cat’s – the face of a big sabre-toothed dasyurid marsupial quoll.”
“With pouch?” Zen suggested as Shi clung to his arm.
“With a pouch,” Ram confirmed. “Though it may face backward, not forward as in most other marsupials; some of the carnivores here are like that.”
“Ahh.”
“Should we tell anyone we see this animal?” Shi whispered.
“If you like,” Cameron said. “Just don’t tell any scientists.”
“Why not?”
“Because they come and catch it. Or kill it.” Cameron mimed the act with a chopping motion.
“No!” Shi was appalled. She looked to Zen for assurance that she’d understood the conversation correctly. Her beau translated for her in a rapid barrage of Japanese.
“Yes!” demurred Cameron. “They kill it, for research.”
“Really?” Zen was obviously confused and a little distraught. “If it so rare?”
“Because it’s so rare.” Cameron looked away and began rebuilding the fire.
“There used to be another species of quoll, all through this country,” Ram told them. “A smaller quoll with a more rat-like tail…”
“Not the spotted-tailed quoll, like the one we’ve been talking about,” Cameron explained as he built the pyre higher.
“No, a smaller quoll that became officially extinct a couple of decades ago. It’s not completely extinct – eye’ve seen one on the Carrai Plateau, a few hundred kilometres south of here, in that new wilderness reserve we were talking about.” More bats joined the small family at the nearby quandong tree. A dog began to bark in the far distance while Cameron filled a blackened stainless steel kettle from a large polycarbonate water container. The attention of the Japanese guests was riveted to the spectacle of the broad-winged fruit bats soaring a few metres over their heads.
“So this quoll not extinct?”
“Well… it’s debatable whether there are enough contiguous family groups to allow the species to survive long-term – enough of them to make it - but no-one really knows. You can’t count them by satellite - they usually live in surprisingly remote areas away from imported carnivores like dogs and cats, and the only people who work out there – the loggers – hardly know the place at all. They spend almost all their time in air-conditioned machines and don’t have the time or inclination to go exploring – and they’re not likely to tell anyone if they see any endangered species.”
“They have to pay for their mortgages,” Cameron explained.
“And the double-mortgages on their trucks,” Ram conceded. “Most of the areas we saved from logging in the past decades had never been surveyed before they started cutting them down. That’s why it was so easy for us to save many places. All we had to do was conduct flora and fauna – plant and animal – surveys, and in most of those untouched or barely touched areas we’d find rare and endangered species…”
“…That were about to become a whole lot more endangered,” Cameron filled in as he began rummaging around in the shadows to explore beverage options.
“Exactly. So we had legal grounds to stop the destruction because the workers and surveyors working for the government supposedly never saw a thing – but the first time anyone else looked, there were rare and unique animals there. I’ve seen four higher-order animals - marsupials - that aren’t described in any book. Five if you count whatever this is in the bushes… but we need a closer look to be certain.”
“Well hang around – it’ll be back,” Cameron assured him. “It’s here every night. Tea? Mint tea? Maté tea? Hot chocolate?” Shi climbed daintily to her feet and helped fill the small table with containers of milk, soymilk and honey.
“But back to the eastern quoll,” Ram continued. “When the authorities realized there were hardly any left, the museum in the Emerald City sent a surveyor out to find some. He came back with over sixty pelts…”
“Pelt?”
“Skins,” Cameron translated.
“…and the pelts were all female.”
“What?” Cameron laughed in shock. “Females?”
“They’re still in the drawer in the museum. You can see them there. They may have been the last sixty females – but as far as the museum knew, they were definitely from the last site where they were known to exist…”
“And they kill them?” Zen and Shi were dumbfounded.
“Of course,” Cameron said. “To prove they exist.”
“So… we not tell anyone then,” Zen decided. Shi nodded enthusiastically and reached for the honeypot. The flying foxes screeched and wheeled, inhabiting their own reality between the starry sky and the domesticated primates who huddled round the flickering fire below.
A true story
By R. Ayana
Continues @ centraxis.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/endangered-species-psyc... BE AWARE - THIS LINK LEADS TO IMPLICATE & XPLICIT CONCEPTS & IMAGES!
ochre woman 2012
Image by mardi grass 2011
Endangered Species: Psychedelic Water 26>
“Hippies are an endangered species here now,” the feral said through the knotty plaits of his beard.
“Not in Japan!” The slight sunbrowned man with a far neater beard and designer dreads laughed over the flames.
“No?”
“No – in Japan, many hippie!”
“We hear nothing about it out here, but in Japan there’s a hippie revolution right now,” Ram interrupted.
“That right.”
Ram turned to the Nipponese man. “It’s because that’s where the young people are – all over Asia. In the sixties and seventies the demographic balance was like this;” He steepled his fingers into a pyramid. “Old people…” He indicated the triangle’s pinnacle with a wave of his fingertips. “Young people…” he swept his wrists outward. Then he inverted the pyramid. “Now in the West, it’s like this. Very few young people, and all more tightly constrained.
“But not in Japan.”
“No,” agreed Zen. “In Japan many young people. Many hippie.”
Cameron conceded the point. “Well, there are a lot more Japanese in town this year, and they’re not all like the squeaky cleanskins that used to turn up, it’s true…” The shaman excused himself to water a nearby tree. When he returned Cameron was describing a strange small creature he’d seen nearby. “It’s only about the size of a rabbit – but it’s not a rabbit.”
“Not a rabbit?” The Japanese hippie couple repeated in unison.
“No – about the same size, but different.”
“Not a bandicoot?” Ram asked.
“No – wait – there it is now!” Cameron’s whisper morphed into a gasp. “You hear that?” A strange loud squeak filled the sudden silence.
“You’re right,” Ram whispered, squatting forward on his toes by the small cooking fire. “That’s no bandicoot.”
“Here it comes,” Cameron said as a squat shrub rustled only a few paces away and a small dark form emerged. He flicked on a blue-white LED flashlight and a diminutive rat-like creature was brightly illuminated for a flashing moment before it leapt and darted for the rainforest underbrush beside the creek. “Sorry – I probably shouldn’t have frightened it. But it’s here every night.”
Catalogues of photographs, drawings and paintings riffled through Ram’s mind; reams of images of native and imported animals studied during years of fauna surveying, or witnessed live and firsthand in plains, woodlands and deep forests throughout the eastern half of the great island continent. None of the remembered forms quite matched this tailless, two kilo marsupial with a surprisingly flattened and rounded face. “Another unknown,” he announced. “A little like a bettong, but not a bettong. Not a bandicoot. Not a potoroo. And definitely not a rabbit.”
“Not rabbit?” Zen echoed. The Japanese Wwoofa (a willing worker on organic farms, exchanging work for board as he travelled the country) still peered into the darkness in stupefaction. His beautiful mate Shi clung to his bare arm, patiently awaiting an explanation.
“No,” said Cameron. “Something very rare and unusual.”
“What is ‘bennon’?” Zen asked.
“Bettong.” Cameron corrected. “Like a bilby.” Zen and Shi regarded him with nonplussed expressions.
“A small kangaroo-like creature, only a foot tall – thirty centimetres,” Ram explained.
“Ah!”
“Oh! But that not one of them?” Shi’s voice is a gentle purr.
“I can’t work out what it is,” Ram admitted, listening to the creature rustling just out of sight in the darkness. “Around here,” he gestured at the massive tree-clad cliff facing them, “anything is possible. Up there above us is an escarpment - a great flat plateau full of rocky land, forest and caves. Anything could live up there…”
“And now that everything round here is regenerating so well, things’ll be coming down here, too,” Cameron continued.
“What that animal?” Zen enquired.
“Buggered if I know.” Cameron flashed his torch around for a few seconds. “It’s still there, somewhere.”
“You not know?” The young lovers peered into the dark.
“No idea,” Cameron confirmed, glancing at the shaman.
“Speaking from a view gleaned after years of fauna surveys and travelling and camping in remote bush,” he said, inwardly disapproving of the self-aggrandisement implied by his words, “that creature is a small marsupial that may be totally unknown to anyone but the Aborigines.”
“They know?” Shi’s eyes were glittering pools of firelight.
“Maybe,” said Cameron. “Probably.”
“You not see it before?”
“Not even in reference books,” Ram assured Zen. “All the images are spinning through my mind now. It’s not a bandicoot or a bettong… even if the tail’s been gnawed off by a dog. And those white splotches look like the markings on a juvenile koala, but its face is more like… a hamster…”
“But that definitely wasn’t a koala,” Cameron assured the visitors. Two flying foxes circled the Sally wattle they were seated beneath and the Japanese visitors looked up as the macrobats alighted in a nearby quandong tree, screeching and warbling in their complex semi-simian language.
Zen was amazed. “Wooah!”
“This animal unknown?” Shi’s eyes were wide, flickering in the firelight as she blinked up at the stars. It was only the third or fourth time that Ram had heard her shy, self-abnegating voice during the evening’s converse. “Not them –other little one,” she said.
“Well it’s unknown to us,” Cameron clarified. “But it could be completely unknown as well.”
“This country is recovering from a century and a half of logging and rampaging cows.” Ram gestured at the dark, hulking, lightless hills that surrounded them. “But it’s ringed by rugged country that no living white person has thoroughly explored. Between here and the mountains that run down the entire eastern side of the continent is a wild, wild country that’s almost totally uninhabited… by modern humans…”
“Like the Washpool and the upper catchments all along the coast and up on the mountains,” Cameron agreed. “Real wilderness, National Parks and reserves no-one lives in…”
“No human live there?” Zen was surprised.
Cameron bared his teeth in a grin. “Not for hundreds of square miles, in many places.”
The shaman shifted into a sitting position. “Last month all the Oz state governments in the east announced they’re declaring a wilderness sanctuary strip that will stretch from the far north tropics of the continent all the way to the far south, on the edge of the Southern Ocean. They’ve realized that you need at least that much land to preserve all the endangered creatures and forest types when you take climate catastrophe into account. And that last wild strip is the land they say they’re going to reserve.”
“Climate catastrophe?” Zen inquired.
“What they call ‘global warming’.”
“Really?” Cameron was incredulous. “When did this happen? I haven’t heard a thing about it!”
“It was front-page news for a day,” Ram replied. “Hardly anyone noticed, it seems.”
“Wow! Good news for a change! That’s incredible.”
“But true. We should really all be celebrating, but it seems most of the people who spent years getting arrested for saving those ecosystems don’t even know that we’ve won. Tell any feral forest fighters you see!”
“Don’t worry. I will.”
The shaman stared up at the brilliant star that still held Shi’s attention. “On the other hand, it is just an announcement by governments that may not be around for more than a year or two. But we can hope.”
“And there wild animal no-one know there as well?”
“You just reminded me,” Ram slapped his knee. “Less than a year ago eye saw an ‘extinct’ huge black quoll on the roadside… one of those mysterious big cats people occasionally report seeing…”
“The ‘black panthers’ you mean?” Cameron smirked.
“I can see why they’d think so.” The shaman returned his smirk. “If you hadn’t seen a quoll up close you’d have nothing better to mistake it for.”
“A koll?” Zen asked.
“Quoll,” Cameron corrected. “A native marsupial cat, called the spotted-tailed quoll.”
“Like koala?”
“About the same size, but you wouldn’t cuddle a quoll, mate, it’d tear you to pieces – unless you trained it from a kitten, and maybe not even then. You ever see a Tasmanian Devil?”
“You mean like on cartoon? Bugs Bunny?”
“That’s the one. Like that, but in real life. You don’t try to pat one.”
“You see one of them but black?”
“And big,” Ram agreed. “Almost as tall as the bonnet of the four wheel drive.”
“That big?”
“Aye – hai – completely black, like a panther, but with a couple of major differences, like a tail longer than it’s body, curved up over its back…” Ram swept his hand up into the firelight, “with a plumed, almost bulbous fringe on the end. A prehensile tail…”
“Just like a quoll,” Cameron suggested.
“And standing… well, almost on tip-toes, not like a cat at all – except for the curved arch of its spine when it turned to look at me. And the face was more squashed in than a cat’s – the face of a big sabre-toothed dasyurid marsupial quoll.”
“With pouch?” Zen suggested as Shi clung to his arm.
“With a pouch,” Ram confirmed. “Though it may face backward, not forward as in most other marsupials; some of the carnivores here are like that.”
“Ahh.”
“Should we tell anyone we see this animal?” Shi whispered.
“If you like,” Cameron said. “Just don’t tell any scientists.”
“Why not?”
“Because they come and catch it. Or kill it.” Cameron mimed the act with a chopping motion.
“No!” Shi was appalled. She looked to Zen for assurance that she’d understood the conversation correctly. Her beau translated for her in a rapid barrage of Japanese.
“Yes!” demurred Cameron. “They kill it, for research.”
“Really?” Zen was obviously confused and a little distraught. “If it so rare?”
“Because it’s so rare.” Cameron looked away and began rebuilding the fire.
“There used to be another species of quoll, all through this country,” Ram told them. “A smaller quoll with a more rat-like tail…”
“Not the spotted-tailed quoll, like the one we’ve been talking about,” Cameron explained as he built the pyre higher.
“No, a smaller quoll that became officially extinct a couple of decades ago. It’s not completely extinct – eye’ve seen one on the Carrai Plateau, a few hundred kilometres south of here, in that new wilderness reserve we were talking about.” More bats joined the small family at the nearby quandong tree. A dog began to bark in the far distance while Cameron filled a blackened stainless steel kettle from a large polycarbonate water container. The attention of the Japanese guests was riveted to the spectacle of the broad-winged fruit bats soaring a few metres over their heads.
“So this quoll not extinct?”
“Well… it’s debatable whether there are enough contiguous family groups to allow the species to survive long-term – enough of them to make it - but no-one really knows. You can’t count them by satellite - they usually live in surprisingly remote areas away from imported carnivores like dogs and cats, and the only people who work out there – the loggers – hardly know the place at all. They spend almost all their time in air-conditioned machines and don’t have the time or inclination to go exploring – and they’re not likely to tell anyone if they see any endangered species.”
“They have to pay for their mortgages,” Cameron explained.
“And the double-mortgages on their trucks,” Ram conceded. “Most of the areas we saved from logging in the past decades had never been surveyed before they started cutting them down. That’s why it was so easy for us to save many places. All we had to do was conduct flora and fauna – plant and animal – surveys, and in most of those untouched or barely touched areas we’d find rare and endangered species…”
“…That were about to become a whole lot more endangered,” Cameron filled in as he began rummaging around in the shadows to explore beverage options.
“Exactly. So we had legal grounds to stop the destruction because the workers and surveyors working for the government supposedly never saw a thing – but the first time anyone else looked, there were rare and unique animals there. I’ve seen four higher-order animals - marsupials - that aren’t described in any book. Five if you count whatever this is in the bushes… but we need a closer look to be certain.”
“Well hang around – it’ll be back,” Cameron assured him. “It’s here every night. Tea? Mint tea? Maté tea? Hot chocolate?” Shi climbed daintily to her feet and helped fill the small table with containers of milk, soymilk and honey.
“But back to the eastern quoll,” Ram continued. “When the authorities realized there were hardly any left, the museum in the Emerald City sent a surveyor out to find some. He came back with over sixty pelts…”
“Pelt?”
“Skins,” Cameron translated.
“…and the pelts were all female.”
“What?” Cameron laughed in shock. “Females?”
“They’re still in the drawer in the museum. You can see them there. They may have been the last sixty females – but as far as the museum knew, they were definitely from the last site where they were known to exist…”
“And they kill them?” Zen and Shi were dumbfounded.
“Of course,” Cameron said. “To prove they exist.”
“So… we not tell anyone then,” Zen decided. Shi nodded enthusiastically and reached for the honeypot. The flying foxes screeched and wheeled, inhabiting their own reality between the starry sky and the domesticated primates who huddled round the flickering fire below.
A true story
By R. Ayana
Continues @ centraxis.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/endangered-species-psyc... BE AWARE - THIS LINK LEADS TO IMPLICATE & XPLICIT CONCEPTS & IMAGES!
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“Hippies are an endangered species here now,” the feral said through the knotty plaits of his beard.
“Not in Japan!” The slight sunbrowned man with a far neater beard and designer dreads laughed over the flames.
“No?”
“No – in Japan, many hippie!”
“We hear nothing about it out here, but in Japan there’s a hippie revolution right now,” Ram interrupted.
“That right.”
Ram turned to the Nipponese man. “It’s because that’s where the young people are – all over Asia. In the sixties and seventies the demographic balance was like this;” He steepled his fingers into a pyramid. “Old people…” He indicated the triangle’s pinnacle with a wave of his fingertips. “Young people…” he swept his wrists outward. Then he inverted the pyramid. “Now in the West, it’s like this. Very few young people, and all more tightly constrained.
“But not in Japan.”
“No,” agreed Zen. “In Japan many young people. Many hippie.”
Cameron conceded the point. “Well, there are a lot more Japanese in town this year, and they’re not all like the squeaky cleanskins that used to turn up, it’s true…” The shaman excused himself to water a nearby tree. When he returned Cameron was describing a strange small creature he’d seen nearby. “It’s only about the size of a rabbit – but it’s not a rabbit.”
“Not a rabbit?” The Japanese hippie couple repeated in unison.
“No – about the same size, but different.”
“Not a bandicoot?” Ram asked.
“No – wait – there it is now!” Cameron’s whisper morphed into a gasp. “You hear that?” A strange loud squeak filled the sudden silence.
“You’re right,” Ram whispered, squatting forward on his toes by the small cooking fire. “That’s no bandicoot.”
“Here it comes,” Cameron said as a squat shrub rustled only a few paces away and a small dark form emerged. He flicked on a blue-white LED flashlight and a diminutive rat-like creature was brightly illuminated for a flashing moment before it leapt and darted for the rainforest underbrush beside the creek. “Sorry – I probably shouldn’t have frightened it. But it’s here every night.”
Catalogues of photographs, drawings and paintings riffled through Ram’s mind; reams of images of native and imported animals studied during years of fauna surveying, or witnessed live and firsthand in plains, woodlands and deep forests throughout the eastern half of the great island continent. None of the remembered forms quite matched this tailless, two kilo marsupial with a surprisingly flattened and rounded face. “Another unknown,” he announced. “A little like a bettong, but not a bettong. Not a bandicoot. Not a potoroo. And definitely not a rabbit.”
“Not rabbit?” Zen echoed. The Japanese Wwoofa (a willing worker on organic farms, exchanging work for board as he travelled the country) still peered into the darkness in stupefaction. His beautiful mate Shi clung to his bare arm, patiently awaiting an explanation.
“No,” said Cameron. “Something very rare and unusual.”
“What is ‘bennon’?” Zen asked.
“Bettong.” Cameron corrected. “Like a bilby.” Zen and Shi regarded him with nonplussed expressions.
“A small kangaroo-like creature, only a foot tall – thirty centimetres,” Ram explained.
“Ah!”
“Oh! But that not one of them?” Shi’s voice is a gentle purr.
“I can’t work out what it is,” Ram admitted, listening to the creature rustling just out of sight in the darkness. “Around here,” he gestured at the massive tree-clad cliff facing them, “anything is possible. Up there above us is an escarpment - a great flat plateau full of rocky land, forest and caves. Anything could live up there…”
“And now that everything round here is regenerating so well, things’ll be coming down here, too,” Cameron continued.
“What that animal?” Zen enquired.
“Buggered if I know.” Cameron flashed his torch around for a few seconds. “It’s still there, somewhere.”
“You not know?” The young lovers peered into the dark.
“No idea,” Cameron confirmed, glancing at the shaman.
“Speaking from a view gleaned after years of fauna surveys and travelling and camping in remote bush,” he said, inwardly disapproving of the self-aggrandisement implied by his words, “that creature is a small marsupial that may be totally unknown to anyone but the Aborigines.”
“They know?” Shi’s eyes were glittering pools of firelight.
“Maybe,” said Cameron. “Probably.”
“You not see it before?”
“Not even in reference books,” Ram assured Zen. “All the images are spinning through my mind now. It’s not a bandicoot or a bettong… even if the tail’s been gnawed off by a dog. And those white splotches look like the markings on a juvenile koala, but its face is more like… a hamster…”
“But that definitely wasn’t a koala,” Cameron assured the visitors. Two flying foxes circled the Sally wattle they were seated beneath and the Japanese visitors looked up as the macrobats alighted in a nearby quandong tree, screeching and warbling in their complex semi-simian language.
Zen was amazed. “Wooah!”
“This animal unknown?” Shi’s eyes were wide, flickering in the firelight as she blinked up at the stars. It was only the third or fourth time that Ram had heard her shy, self-abnegating voice during the evening’s converse. “Not them –other little one,” she said.
“Well it’s unknown to us,” Cameron clarified. “But it could be completely unknown as well.”
“This country is recovering from a century and a half of logging and rampaging cows.” Ram gestured at the dark, hulking, lightless hills that surrounded them. “But it’s ringed by rugged country that no living white person has thoroughly explored. Between here and the mountains that run down the entire eastern side of the continent is a wild, wild country that’s almost totally uninhabited… by modern humans…”
“Like the Washpool and the upper catchments all along the coast and up on the mountains,” Cameron agreed. “Real wilderness, National Parks and reserves no-one lives in…”
“No human live there?” Zen was surprised.
Cameron bared his teeth in a grin. “Not for hundreds of square miles, in many places.”
The shaman shifted into a sitting position. “Last month all the Oz state governments in the east announced they’re declaring a wilderness sanctuary strip that will stretch from the far north tropics of the continent all the way to the far south, on the edge of the Southern Ocean. They’ve realized that you need at least that much land to preserve all the endangered creatures and forest types when you take climate catastrophe into account. And that last wild strip is the land they say they’re going to reserve.”
“Climate catastrophe?” Zen inquired.
“What they call ‘global warming’.”
“Really?” Cameron was incredulous. “When did this happen? I haven’t heard a thing about it!”
“It was front-page news for a day,” Ram replied. “Hardly anyone noticed, it seems.”
“Wow! Good news for a change! That’s incredible.”
“But true. We should really all be celebrating, but it seems most of the people who spent years getting arrested for saving those ecosystems don’t even know that we’ve won. Tell any feral forest fighters you see!”
“Don’t worry. I will.”
The shaman stared up at the brilliant star that still held Shi’s attention. “On the other hand, it is just an announcement by governments that may not be around for more than a year or two. But we can hope.”
“And there wild animal no-one know there as well?”
“You just reminded me,” Ram slapped his knee. “Less than a year ago eye saw an ‘extinct’ huge black quoll on the roadside… one of those mysterious big cats people occasionally report seeing…”
“The ‘black panthers’ you mean?” Cameron smirked.
“I can see why they’d think so.” The shaman returned his smirk. “If you hadn’t seen a quoll up close you’d have nothing better to mistake it for.”
“A koll?” Zen asked.
“Quoll,” Cameron corrected. “A native marsupial cat, called the spotted-tailed quoll.”
“Like koala?”
“About the same size, but you wouldn’t cuddle a quoll, mate, it’d tear you to pieces – unless you trained it from a kitten, and maybe not even then. You ever see a Tasmanian Devil?”
“You mean like on cartoon? Bugs Bunny?”
“That’s the one. Like that, but in real life. You don’t try to pat one.”
“You see one of them but black?”
“And big,” Ram agreed. “Almost as tall as the bonnet of the four wheel drive.”
“That big?”
“Aye – hai – completely black, like a panther, but with a couple of major differences, like a tail longer than it’s body, curved up over its back…” Ram swept his hand up into the firelight, “with a plumed, almost bulbous fringe on the end. A prehensile tail…”
“Just like a quoll,” Cameron suggested.
“And standing… well, almost on tip-toes, not like a cat at all – except for the curved arch of its spine when it turned to look at me. And the face was more squashed in than a cat’s – the face of a big sabre-toothed dasyurid marsupial quoll.”
“With pouch?” Zen suggested as Shi clung to his arm.
“With a pouch,” Ram confirmed. “Though it may face backward, not forward as in most other marsupials; some of the carnivores here are like that.”
“Ahh.”
“Should we tell anyone we see this animal?” Shi whispered.
“If you like,” Cameron said. “Just don’t tell any scientists.”
“Why not?”
“Because they come and catch it. Or kill it.” Cameron mimed the act with a chopping motion.
“No!” Shi was appalled. She looked to Zen for assurance that she’d understood the conversation correctly. Her beau translated for her in a rapid barrage of Japanese.
“Yes!” demurred Cameron. “They kill it, for research.”
“Really?” Zen was obviously confused and a little distraught. “If it so rare?”
“Because it’s so rare.” Cameron looked away and began rebuilding the fire.
“There used to be another species of quoll, all through this country,” Ram told them. “A smaller quoll with a more rat-like tail…”
“Not the spotted-tailed quoll, like the one we’ve been talking about,” Cameron explained as he built the pyre higher.
“No, a smaller quoll that became officially extinct a couple of decades ago. It’s not completely extinct – eye’ve seen one on the Carrai Plateau, a few hundred kilometres south of here, in that new wilderness reserve we were talking about.” More bats joined the small family at the nearby quandong tree. A dog began to bark in the far distance while Cameron filled a blackened stainless steel kettle from a large polycarbonate water container. The attention of the Japanese guests was riveted to the spectacle of the broad-winged fruit bats soaring a few metres over their heads.
“So this quoll not extinct?”
“Well… it’s debatable whether there are enough contiguous family groups to allow the species to survive long-term – enough of them to make it - but no-one really knows. You can’t count them by satellite - they usually live in surprisingly remote areas away from imported carnivores like dogs and cats, and the only people who work out there – the loggers – hardly know the place at all. They spend almost all their time in air-conditioned machines and don’t have the time or inclination to go exploring – and they’re not likely to tell anyone if they see any endangered species.”
“They have to pay for their mortgages,” Cameron explained.
“And the double-mortgages on their trucks,” Ram conceded. “Most of the areas we saved from logging in the past decades had never been surveyed before they started cutting them down. That’s why it was so easy for us to save many places. All we had to do was conduct flora and fauna – plant and animal – surveys, and in most of those untouched or barely touched areas we’d find rare and endangered species…”
“…That were about to become a whole lot more endangered,” Cameron filled in as he began rummaging around in the shadows to explore beverage options.
“Exactly. So we had legal grounds to stop the destruction because the workers and surveyors working for the government supposedly never saw a thing – but the first time anyone else looked, there were rare and unique animals there. I’ve seen four higher-order animals - marsupials - that aren’t described in any book. Five if you count whatever this is in the bushes… but we need a closer look to be certain.”
“Well hang around – it’ll be back,” Cameron assured him. “It’s here every night. Tea? Mint tea? Maté tea? Hot chocolate?” Shi climbed daintily to her feet and helped fill the small table with containers of milk, soymilk and honey.
“But back to the eastern quoll,” Ram continued. “When the authorities realized there were hardly any left, the museum in the Emerald City sent a surveyor out to find some. He came back with over sixty pelts…”
“Pelt?”
“Skins,” Cameron translated.
“…and the pelts were all female.”
“What?” Cameron laughed in shock. “Females?”
“They’re still in the drawer in the museum. You can see them there. They may have been the last sixty females – but as far as the museum knew, they were definitely from the last site where they were known to exist…”
“And they kill them?” Zen and Shi were dumbfounded.
“Of course,” Cameron said. “To prove they exist.”
“So… we not tell anyone then,” Zen decided. Shi nodded enthusiastically and reached for the honeypot. The flying foxes screeched and wheeled, inhabiting their own reality between the starry sky and the domesticated primates who huddled round the flickering fire below.
A true story
By R. Ayana
Continues @ centraxis.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/endangered-species-psyc... BE AWARE - THIS LINK LEADS TO IMPLICATE & XPLICIT CONCEPTS & IMAGES!
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Two Bones Are Better Than One
Image by valeehill
I thought great - one bone can be for chewing while she's in her bed and the other for when she's not. She's never thought much of that idea and always does her best to keep them together out of the bed.
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"The Look" Three Times
Image by valeehill
Lizzie will be 8 years old next month, but she still hears every little noise with those big Corgi ears. I made a quiet whimpering sound and each time I got the "head tilt". Her nature is to be compliant even when asked for photo favors. :)
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Orangotango
Image by Digo_Souza
O orangotango (cujo nome vem de duas palavras da língua malaia que, juntas, significam "pessoa da floresta") é um género de exclusivamente duas espécies asiáticas de Grandes primatas. Nativo da Indonésia e da Malásia, os orangotangos são encontrados somente nas florestas tropicais do Bornéu e da Sumatra. Classificado no género Pongo, orangotangos foram considerados uma espécie. No entanto, desde 1996, eles foram divididos em duas espécies: o orangotango-de-bornéu (P. pygmaeus) e o orangotango-de-sumatra (P. abelii). Para além disso, a espécie do orangotango-de-bornéu está dividida em 3 subespécies. Os orangotangos também são as únicas espécies sobreviventes da subfamília Ponginae, que também incluiu várias outras espécies como o gigantopithecus, o maior primata conhecido. Ambas as espécies tiveram o seu genoma sequenciado e parecem ter divergido há cerca de 400.000 anos atrás. Orangotangos divergiram do resto dos grandes primatas há aproximadamente 15,7-19,3 milhões de anos atrás.
Os orangotangos são os primatas mais arborícolas e passam a maior parte do seu tempo nas árvores. O seu pêlo é tipicamente marrom-avermelhado, ao contrário do pêlo dos Gorilas e dos Chimpanzés. Machos e fêmeas diferem em tamanho e aparência. Têm entre 1,10 e 1,40 m de altura e pesa entre 35 e 100 kg, embora os machos adultos geralmente pesam 200 kg , o que o faz a terceira maior espécie de primata do mundo, superado apenas pelo gorila e pelo homem, com quem partilha cerca de 97% dos genes. Os orangotangos são animais territorialistas, para demarcar território o macho dá um grito estrondoso que avisa os outros orangotangos para não entrarem em seu território. São as espécies mais solitárias dos grandes primatas, com laços sociáveis que só ocorrem principalmente entre as mães e seus filhos independentes, que ficam juntos durante primeiros dois anos. Por consequência os machos adultos só procuram as fêmeas uma vez por ano, na época da seca e acasalam frontalmente.Uma característica sexual notável é o crescimento de "abas" nas laterais da fronte e no pescoço dos machos maduros, o que lhes dá um aspecto bastante peculiar.
As principais ameaças às populações de orangotangos selvagens incluem a caça, destruição do habitat e comércio ilegal de animais para uso de estimação. Segundo os cientistas, restam pouco mais de 100 000 orangotangos no mundo,[5] sendo que o rápido crescimento do ritmo de devastação permite fazer a previsão que a extinção da espécie ocorrerá em algumas décadas.
As fêmeas vivem em grupos, mas aparentemente sem a mesma hierarquia encontrada em outras espécies de antropóides e aprendem como cuidar dos filhotes com as fêmeas mais velhas. Os filhotes nascem após nove meses de gestação, passando a ficar agarrados aos pelos longos das costas da mãe. No ambiente silvestre, a taxa reprodutiva é baixa, o que contribui ainda mais para o risco de extinção. Os filhotes ficam em média 8 anos com a mãe, até se tornarem independentes, o que faz as mães orangotangos, as primatas que cuidam por mais tempo os seus filhos (sem contar com o ser humano.
Os orangotangos vivem em média 35 anos a 40 anos em ambiente selvagem e 50 anos em cativeiro.
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The orangutan (whose name comes from two words in the Malay language, which together mean "person of the forest") is a genus of only two species of Asian Great primates. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are only found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were considered a kind. However, since 1996, they were divided into two species: the orangutan-of-borneo (P. pygmaeus) and Sumatran orangutan-(P. abelii). Furthermore, the kind-of-orangutan borneo is divided into three subspecies. Orangutans are also the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae, which also included several other species such as gigantopithecus, the largest primate known. Both species have had their genomes sequenced and appear to have diverged about 400,000 years ago. Orangutans diverged from the rest of the great apes is approximately 15.7000000 to 19.3000000 years ago.
Orangutans are the most arboreal primates and spend most of their time in trees. Your hair is typically reddish brown, unlike the fur of chimpanzees and gorillas. Males and females differ in size and appearance. Are between 1.10 and 1.40 m tall and weighs between 35 and 100 kg, while adult males generally weigh 200 kg, which makes it the third largest species of primate in the world, surpassed only by the gorilla and man- with whom he shares about 97% of genes. Orangutans are territorial animals, marking territory for the male gives a resounding cry that warns others not to orangutans entering their territory. They are more solitary species of great apes, with sociable ties that only occur mainly between mothers and their children independents who stay together during the first two years. Consequently adult males seeking females only once a year, during the dry season and mate frontalmente.Uma sexual remarkable feature is the growth of "tabs" on the sides of the forehead and neck of mature males, which gives them an aspect quite peculiar.
The main threats to populations of wild orangutans include hunting, habitat destruction and illegal trade of animals for pet use. According to scientists, remain little more than 100,000 orangutans in the world, [5] where the fast growing pace of devastation allows to forecast the extinction of the species occur in a few decades.
Females live in groups, but apparently without the same hierarchy found in other species of apes and learn how to care for puppies older females. Puppies are born after nine months of pregnancy, becoming cling to the long coasts of the mother. In the wild, the reproductive rate is low, which further contributes to the risk of extinction. The puppies are on average 8 years with the mother until they become independent, which makes mothers orangutans, the primates who care for their children more time (not counting humans.
Orangutans live on average 35 years to 40 years in the wild and 50 years in captivity.
Orangotango
Image by Digo_Souza
O orangotango (cujo nome vem de duas palavras da língua malaia que, juntas, significam "pessoa da floresta") é um género de exclusivamente duas espécies asiáticas de Grandes primatas. Nativo da Indonésia e da Malásia, os orangotangos são encontrados somente nas florestas tropicais do Bornéu e da Sumatra. Classificado no género Pongo, orangotangos foram considerados uma espécie. No entanto, desde 1996, eles foram divididos em duas espécies: o orangotango-de-bornéu (P. pygmaeus) e o orangotango-de-sumatra (P. abelii). Para além disso, a espécie do orangotango-de-bornéu está dividida em 3 subespécies. Os orangotangos também são as únicas espécies sobreviventes da subfamília Ponginae, que também incluiu várias outras espécies como o gigantopithecus, o maior primata conhecido. Ambas as espécies tiveram o seu genoma sequenciado e parecem ter divergido há cerca de 400.000 anos atrás. Orangotangos divergiram do resto dos grandes primatas há aproximadamente 15,7-19,3 milhões de anos atrás.
Os orangotangos são os primatas mais arborícolas e passam a maior parte do seu tempo nas árvores. O seu pêlo é tipicamente marrom-avermelhado, ao contrário do pêlo dos Gorilas e dos Chimpanzés. Machos e fêmeas diferem em tamanho e aparência. Têm entre 1,10 e 1,40 m de altura e pesa entre 35 e 100 kg, embora os machos adultos geralmente pesam 200 kg , o que o faz a terceira maior espécie de primata do mundo, superado apenas pelo gorila e pelo homem, com quem partilha cerca de 97% dos genes. Os orangotangos são animais territorialistas, para demarcar território o macho dá um grito estrondoso que avisa os outros orangotangos para não entrarem em seu território. São as espécies mais solitárias dos grandes primatas, com laços sociáveis que só ocorrem principalmente entre as mães e seus filhos independentes, que ficam juntos durante primeiros dois anos. Por consequência os machos adultos só procuram as fêmeas uma vez por ano, na época da seca e acasalam frontalmente.Uma característica sexual notável é o crescimento de "abas" nas laterais da fronte e no pescoço dos machos maduros, o que lhes dá um aspecto bastante peculiar.
As principais ameaças às populações de orangotangos selvagens incluem a caça, destruição do habitat e comércio ilegal de animais para uso de estimação. Segundo os cientistas, restam pouco mais de 100 000 orangotangos no mundo,[5] sendo que o rápido crescimento do ritmo de devastação permite fazer a previsão que a extinção da espécie ocorrerá em algumas décadas.
As fêmeas vivem em grupos, mas aparentemente sem a mesma hierarquia encontrada em outras espécies de antropóides e aprendem como cuidar dos filhotes com as fêmeas mais velhas. Os filhotes nascem após nove meses de gestação, passando a ficar agarrados aos pelos longos das costas da mãe. No ambiente silvestre, a taxa reprodutiva é baixa, o que contribui ainda mais para o risco de extinção. Os filhotes ficam em média 8 anos com a mãe, até se tornarem independentes, o que faz as mães orangotangos, as primatas que cuidam por mais tempo os seus filhos (sem contar com o ser humano.
Os orangotangos vivem em média 35 anos a 40 anos em ambiente selvagem e 50 anos em cativeiro.
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The orangutan (whose name comes from two words in the Malay language, which together mean "person of the forest") is a genus of only two species of Asian Great primates. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are only found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were considered a kind. However, since 1996, they were divided into two species: the orangutan-of-borneo (P. pygmaeus) and Sumatran orangutan-(P. abelii). Furthermore, the kind-of-orangutan borneo is divided into three subspecies. Orangutans are also the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae, which also included several other species such as gigantopithecus, the largest primate known. Both species have had their genomes sequenced and appear to have diverged about 400,000 years ago. Orangutans diverged from the rest of the great apes is approximately 15.7000000 to 19.3000000 years ago.
Orangutans are the most arboreal primates and spend most of their time in trees. Your hair is typically reddish brown, unlike the fur of chimpanzees and gorillas. Males and females differ in size and appearance. Are between 1.10 and 1.40 m tall and weighs between 35 and 100 kg, while adult males generally weigh 200 kg, which makes it the third largest species of primate in the world, surpassed only by the gorilla and man- with whom he shares about 97% of genes. Orangutans are territorial animals, marking territory for the male gives a resounding cry that warns others not to orangutans entering their territory. They are more solitary species of great apes, with sociable ties that only occur mainly between mothers and their children independents who stay together during the first two years. Consequently adult males seeking females only once a year, during the dry season and mate frontalmente.Uma sexual remarkable feature is the growth of "tabs" on the sides of the forehead and neck of mature males, which gives them an aspect quite peculiar.
The main threats to populations of wild orangutans include hunting, habitat destruction and illegal trade of animals for pet use. According to scientists, remain little more than 100,000 orangutans in the world, [5] where the fast growing pace of devastation allows to forecast the extinction of the species occur in a few decades.
Females live in groups, but apparently without the same hierarchy found in other species of apes and learn how to care for puppies older females. Puppies are born after nine months of pregnancy, becoming cling to the long coasts of the mother. In the wild, the reproductive rate is low, which further contributes to the risk of extinction. The puppies are on average 8 years with the mother until they become independent, which makes mothers orangutans, the primates who care for their children more time (not counting humans.
Orangutans live on average 35 years to 40 years in the wild and 50 years in captivity.
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Energy_animal Linear electric generator | solenoid
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The Energy_Animal is a device that produces renewable energy from the wind, the sun,
and the waves.
The Energy_Animal can produce energy is a variety of irregular weather conditions, producing a reliable output.
Mostly made of free recycled materials, attracting and concentrating marine life instead of repelling it.
One Energy_Animal can be part of an energy farm, or it can drift on its own.
It is going where there is more energy to be collected, or where energy is most needed.
It is cheap to build, the design of the Energy_Animal is open-source, so there can be many concurrent or merging versions of different Energy_Animals. There is no development time, generation after generation a better design is emerging.
The idea is to produce cheap reliable green energy evolutive devices for a rapidly changing world.
Download 3D model : sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=25f5eeb6a8075...
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Energy_Animal side view - Solar concentrator, wind turbine
Image by cesarharada.com
energyanimal.org
The Energy_Animal is a device that produces renewable energy from the wind, the sun,
and the waves.
The Energy_Animal can produce energy is a variety of irregular weather conditions, producing a reliable output.
Mostly made of free recycled materials, attracting and concentrating marine life instead of repelling it.
One Energy_Animal can be part of an energy farm, or it can drift on its own.
It is going where there is more energy to be collected, or where energy is most needed.
It is cheap to build, the design of the Energy_Animal is open-source, so there can be many concurrent or merging versions of different Energy_Animals. There is no development time, generation after generation a better design is emerging.
The idea is to produce cheap reliable green energy evolutive devices for a rapidly changing world.
Download 3D model : sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=25f5eeb6a8075...
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Orangotango
Image by Digo_Souza
O orangotango (cujo nome vem de duas palavras da língua malaia que, juntas, significam "pessoa da floresta") é um género de exclusivamente duas espécies asiáticas de Grandes primatas. Nativo da Indonésia e da Malásia, os orangotangos são encontrados somente nas florestas tropicais do Bornéu e da Sumatra. Classificado no género Pongo, orangotangos foram considerados uma espécie. No entanto, desde 1996, eles foram divididos em duas espécies: o orangotango-de-bornéu (P. pygmaeus) e o orangotango-de-sumatra (P. abelii). Para além disso, a espécie do orangotango-de-bornéu está dividida em 3 subespécies. Os orangotangos também são as únicas espécies sobreviventes da subfamília Ponginae, que também incluiu várias outras espécies como o gigantopithecus, o maior primata conhecido. Ambas as espécies tiveram o seu genoma sequenciado e parecem ter divergido há cerca de 400.000 anos atrás. Orangotangos divergiram do resto dos grandes primatas há aproximadamente 15,7-19,3 milhões de anos atrás.
Os orangotangos são os primatas mais arborícolas e passam a maior parte do seu tempo nas árvores. O seu pêlo é tipicamente marrom-avermelhado, ao contrário do pêlo dos Gorilas e dos Chimpanzés. Machos e fêmeas diferem em tamanho e aparência. Têm entre 1,10 e 1,40 m de altura e pesa entre 35 e 100 kg, embora os machos adultos geralmente pesam 200 kg , o que o faz a terceira maior espécie de primata do mundo, superado apenas pelo gorila e pelo homem, com quem partilha cerca de 97% dos genes. Os orangotangos são animais territorialistas, para demarcar território o macho dá um grito estrondoso que avisa os outros orangotangos para não entrarem em seu território. São as espécies mais solitárias dos grandes primatas, com laços sociáveis que só ocorrem principalmente entre as mães e seus filhos independentes, que ficam juntos durante primeiros dois anos. Por consequência os machos adultos só procuram as fêmeas uma vez por ano, na época da seca e acasalam frontalmente.Uma característica sexual notável é o crescimento de "abas" nas laterais da fronte e no pescoço dos machos maduros, o que lhes dá um aspecto bastante peculiar.
As principais ameaças às populações de orangotangos selvagens incluem a caça, destruição do habitat e comércio ilegal de animais para uso de estimação. Segundo os cientistas, restam pouco mais de 100 000 orangotangos no mundo,[5] sendo que o rápido crescimento do ritmo de devastação permite fazer a previsão que a extinção da espécie ocorrerá em algumas décadas.
As fêmeas vivem em grupos, mas aparentemente sem a mesma hierarquia encontrada em outras espécies de antropóides e aprendem como cuidar dos filhotes com as fêmeas mais velhas. Os filhotes nascem após nove meses de gestação, passando a ficar agarrados aos pelos longos das costas da mãe. No ambiente silvestre, a taxa reprodutiva é baixa, o que contribui ainda mais para o risco de extinção. Os filhotes ficam em média 8 anos com a mãe, até se tornarem independentes, o que faz as mães orangotangos, as primatas que cuidam por mais tempo os seus filhos (sem contar com o ser humano.
Os orangotangos vivem em média 35 anos a 40 anos em ambiente selvagem e 50 anos em cativeiro.
_______________________________________________
The orangutan (whose name comes from two words in the Malay language, which together mean "person of the forest") is a genus of only two species of Asian Great primates. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are only found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were considered a kind. However, since 1996, they were divided into two species: the orangutan-of-borneo (P. pygmaeus) and Sumatran orangutan-(P. abelii). Furthermore, the kind-of-orangutan borneo is divided into three subspecies. Orangutans are also the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae, which also included several other species such as gigantopithecus, the largest primate known. Both species have had their genomes sequenced and appear to have diverged about 400,000 years ago. Orangutans diverged from the rest of the great apes is approximately 15.7000000 to 19.3000000 years ago.
Orangutans are the most arboreal primates and spend most of their time in trees. Your hair is typically reddish brown, unlike the fur of chimpanzees and gorillas. Males and females differ in size and appearance. Are between 1.10 and 1.40 m tall and weighs between 35 and 100 kg, while adult males generally weigh 200 kg, which makes it the third largest species of primate in the world, surpassed only by the gorilla and man- with whom he shares about 97% of genes. Orangutans are territorial animals, marking territory for the male gives a resounding cry that warns others not to orangutans entering their territory. They are more solitary species of great apes, with sociable ties that only occur mainly between mothers and their children independents who stay together during the first two years. Consequently adult males seeking females only once a year, during the dry season and mate frontalmente.Uma sexual remarkable feature is the growth of "tabs" on the sides of the forehead and neck of mature males, which gives them an aspect quite peculiar.
The main threats to populations of wild orangutans include hunting, habitat destruction and illegal trade of animals for pet use. According to scientists, remain little more than 100,000 orangutans in the world, [5] where the fast growing pace of devastation allows to forecast the extinction of the species occur in a few decades.
Females live in groups, but apparently without the same hierarchy found in other species of apes and learn how to care for puppies older females. Puppies are born after nine months of pregnancy, becoming cling to the long coasts of the mother. In the wild, the reproductive rate is low, which further contributes to the risk of extinction. The puppies are on average 8 years with the mother until they become independent, which makes mothers orangutans, the primates who care for their children more time (not counting humans.
Orangutans live on average 35 years to 40 years in the wild and 50 years in captivity.
Orangotango
Image by Digo_Souza
O orangotango (cujo nome vem de duas palavras da língua malaia que, juntas, significam "pessoa da floresta") é um género de exclusivamente duas espécies asiáticas de Grandes primatas. Nativo da Indonésia e da Malásia, os orangotangos são encontrados somente nas florestas tropicais do Bornéu e da Sumatra. Classificado no género Pongo, orangotangos foram considerados uma espécie. No entanto, desde 1996, eles foram divididos em duas espécies: o orangotango-de-bornéu (P. pygmaeus) e o orangotango-de-sumatra (P. abelii). Para além disso, a espécie do orangotango-de-bornéu está dividida em 3 subespécies. Os orangotangos também são as únicas espécies sobreviventes da subfamília Ponginae, que também incluiu várias outras espécies como o gigantopithecus, o maior primata conhecido. Ambas as espécies tiveram o seu genoma sequenciado e parecem ter divergido há cerca de 400.000 anos atrás. Orangotangos divergiram do resto dos grandes primatas há aproximadamente 15,7-19,3 milhões de anos atrás.
Os orangotangos são os primatas mais arborícolas e passam a maior parte do seu tempo nas árvores. O seu pêlo é tipicamente marrom-avermelhado, ao contrário do pêlo dos Gorilas e dos Chimpanzés. Machos e fêmeas diferem em tamanho e aparência. Têm entre 1,10 e 1,40 m de altura e pesa entre 35 e 100 kg, embora os machos adultos geralmente pesam 200 kg , o que o faz a terceira maior espécie de primata do mundo, superado apenas pelo gorila e pelo homem, com quem partilha cerca de 97% dos genes. Os orangotangos são animais territorialistas, para demarcar território o macho dá um grito estrondoso que avisa os outros orangotangos para não entrarem em seu território. São as espécies mais solitárias dos grandes primatas, com laços sociáveis que só ocorrem principalmente entre as mães e seus filhos independentes, que ficam juntos durante primeiros dois anos. Por consequência os machos adultos só procuram as fêmeas uma vez por ano, na época da seca e acasalam frontalmente.Uma característica sexual notável é o crescimento de "abas" nas laterais da fronte e no pescoço dos machos maduros, o que lhes dá um aspecto bastante peculiar.
As principais ameaças às populações de orangotangos selvagens incluem a caça, destruição do habitat e comércio ilegal de animais para uso de estimação. Segundo os cientistas, restam pouco mais de 100 000 orangotangos no mundo,[5] sendo que o rápido crescimento do ritmo de devastação permite fazer a previsão que a extinção da espécie ocorrerá em algumas décadas.
As fêmeas vivem em grupos, mas aparentemente sem a mesma hierarquia encontrada em outras espécies de antropóides e aprendem como cuidar dos filhotes com as fêmeas mais velhas. Os filhotes nascem após nove meses de gestação, passando a ficar agarrados aos pelos longos das costas da mãe. No ambiente silvestre, a taxa reprodutiva é baixa, o que contribui ainda mais para o risco de extinção. Os filhotes ficam em média 8 anos com a mãe, até se tornarem independentes, o que faz as mães orangotangos, as primatas que cuidam por mais tempo os seus filhos (sem contar com o ser humano.
Os orangotangos vivem em média 35 anos a 40 anos em ambiente selvagem e 50 anos em cativeiro.
_______________________________________________
The orangutan (whose name comes from two words in the Malay language, which together mean "person of the forest") is a genus of only two species of Asian Great primates. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are only found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were considered a kind. However, since 1996, they were divided into two species: the orangutan-of-borneo (P. pygmaeus) and Sumatran orangutan-(P. abelii). Furthermore, the kind-of-orangutan borneo is divided into three subspecies. Orangutans are also the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae, which also included several other species such as gigantopithecus, the largest primate known. Both species have had their genomes sequenced and appear to have diverged about 400,000 years ago. Orangutans diverged from the rest of the great apes is approximately 15.7000000 to 19.3000000 years ago.
Orangutans are the most arboreal primates and spend most of their time in trees. Your hair is typically reddish brown, unlike the fur of chimpanzees and gorillas. Males and females differ in size and appearance. Are between 1.10 and 1.40 m tall and weighs between 35 and 100 kg, while adult males generally weigh 200 kg, which makes it the third largest species of primate in the world, surpassed only by the gorilla and man- with whom he shares about 97% of genes. Orangutans are territorial animals, marking territory for the male gives a resounding cry that warns others not to orangutans entering their territory. They are more solitary species of great apes, with sociable ties that only occur mainly between mothers and their children independents who stay together during the first two years. Consequently adult males seeking females only once a year, during the dry season and mate frontalmente.Uma sexual remarkable feature is the growth of "tabs" on the sides of the forehead and neck of mature males, which gives them an aspect quite peculiar.
The main threats to populations of wild orangutans include hunting, habitat destruction and illegal trade of animals for pet use. According to scientists, remain little more than 100,000 orangutans in the world, [5] where the fast growing pace of devastation allows to forecast the extinction of the species occur in a few decades.
Females live in groups, but apparently without the same hierarchy found in other species of apes and learn how to care for puppies older females. Puppies are born after nine months of pregnancy, becoming cling to the long coasts of the mother. In the wild, the reproductive rate is low, which further contributes to the risk of extinction. The puppies are on average 8 years with the mother until they become independent, which makes mothers orangutans, the primates who care for their children more time (not counting humans.
Orangutans live on average 35 years to 40 years in the wild and 50 years in captivity.
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Cheetah at Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre
Image by féileacán
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large-sized feline (family Felidae) inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws. As such, it is the only felid with non-retractable claws and pads that, by their scope, disallow gripping (therefore cheetah cannot climb vertical trees, although they are generally capable of reaching easily accessible branches). The cheetah, however, achieves by far the fastest land speed of any living animal—between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.
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Cheetah at Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre
Image by féileacán
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large-sized feline (family Felidae) inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws. As such, it is the only felid with non-retractable claws and pads that, by their scope, disallow gripping (therefore cheetah cannot climb vertical trees, although they are generally capable of reaching easily accessible branches). The cheetah, however, achieves by far the fastest land speed of any living animal—between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph) in short bursts covering distances up to 500 m (1,600 ft), and has the ability to accelerate from 0 to over 100 km/h (62 mph) in three seconds.
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