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Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
The Friendship of a man and his 1,200 pet pigs
Everyone loves their pets. But this Japanese farmer has great love for his, and they are not cats, dogs nor parakeets, but yes twelve hundred hogs.
The Japanese photographer Toshiteu Yamaji spent years documenting the life of Otchan, this friendly farmer who treats his pigs like his children, taking naps and walking them.
According Otchan, this treatment of pigs is his way to "compensate" the sad future of animals that go to slaughter.
This story was published in a book "Pigs and Papa".
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Meet the South African who plays with wild lions!
Kevin Richardson is an autodidact, "The Lion Whisperer", as he is known, learned to handle lions alone.
According to reports, from three years old, he already felt this attraction to wildlife.
In South Africa, Kevin started working at the Lion Park in Johannesburg which handles about 80 lions, working with them for about 11 years. The zoologist avoided traditional methods to train animals ,such as cages and chains, and used other weapons: love, understanding and trust.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Some Beautiful Orchids :)
Did you know that there are about 25,000 different species of orchids in the world?
Some are edible, others live underground, some grow on rocks and others on soil. However, most grow on trees and other plants. Orchids are found in almost all countries of the world, except Antarctica.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
The Island of the swimming pigs
Big Major Cay is one of the paradise islands of the Bahamas.
Crystal clear water, white sand... a true paradise!
So far so normal because it is a common thing in the Bahamas, but this island has something interesting about it...
The only difference is that this island is completely uninhabited, I mean uninhabited by humans, because this island, for a totally unknown reason, is inhabited only by pigs.
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| A swimmer pig in Big Major Island |
Surely a boat with pigs must have been shipwrecked near the island and the pigs, as excellent swimmers, managed to get there.
In fact, if even elephants can swim, why shouldn't a pig?
The island became a tourist attraction because when a boat approaches, the swimming pigs come looking for food, near the tourists.
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| swimming pig searching for food |
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| The three little piggies? |
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| Pigs taking a nap on the beach |
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| And they are cute! |
An interesting detail is that we think pigs are dirty, but notice how clean is this island, uninhabited by humans ...
A true paradox for an island full of pigs, I'm sure it would be different if it was full of humans.
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182 Years Old Giant Turtle
Although it may not be as fast as it used to be, 182 years old Jonathan, the giant tortoise, is still going strong. He may be the oldest living turtle, or even living land animal, in the world.
It is thought that Jonathan was taken to the island of St. Helena in 1882. A photo from 1902 shows his adult size.
It can take 50 years for a giant tortoise to reach its adult size, meaning that he could have been born in 1832!
Capture your best friend with GoPro Fetch
GoPro Fetch is an essential accessory for fanatic dog owners, by GoPro. With it you can record all the vicissitudes of man's best friend.
The accessory works with dogs 7-54 kg, and allows you to mount the camera facing forward, and thus capture the racing and digging, or facing backwards, stable for jumps, stunts and happiness of the dog when he wags his tail.
The holder can be used in mud or underwater to the delight of Labradors and Golden Retrievers.
The price of the GoPro Fetch is $ 60, learn more at GoPro.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
HUGE WASPS KILLING PEOPLE
In China, giant wasps are attacking people and doing many victims. More than 1600 people have been attacked in three months in which 42 people have died 205 were hospitalized.
The explanation of the recent attacks, would be that with the extinction of certain wasp predators such as certain birds or spiders, linked to climate change as the high abnormal heat in these last months that are the wasps specially nervous.
They mainly attack people who are running. In group, the wasp is known to be a ruthless hunter, the giant hornet attacks typically large insects like crickets and bees and is able to tear the heads of insects in a few seconds with their massive jaws.
The venom of the wasp and it's sting are extremely painful, and deaths are usually caused by an allergic reaction to the venom.
The Asian wasp known as Giant Hornet, is the largest in the world.
The explanation of the recent attacks, would be that with the extinction of certain wasp predators such as certain birds or spiders, linked to climate change as the high abnormal heat in these last months that are the wasps specially nervous.
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| THE ARM OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS |
They mainly attack people who are running. In group, the wasp is known to be a ruthless hunter, the giant hornet attacks typically large insects like crickets and bees and is able to tear the heads of insects in a few seconds with their massive jaws.
The venom of the wasp and it's sting are extremely painful, and deaths are usually caused by an allergic reaction to the venom.
Watch this video of a battle between giant hornet bees and european bees
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#002 - Eggs!
"Tales of an Elf Bard" Is a section where I write a fantasy story, post by post, about Kharis, the teen elf. Enjoy!
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#002 - Eggs!
I expect to climb the humble and wise tree, the branches seen strong enough to handle my weight, Hopefully I've always had great success in climbing, well, most of the times...
And so I jump, I hold, I upswing and I pierce through the tree crown! Birds and squirrels flee, alarmed by the creaks and squeaks caused due to all of the excitement I gave the tree's branches and leaves, on my ascent.
I'm now at the top of the tree, standing close to the yellow bird's nest I saw from the ground. It's bigger than I Imagined! mother bird flew away, because of the disturbance I created, leaving behind her fluffy, bushy nest, with 3 of her rather huge eggs, resting in it...
I feel it may be wrong to take any of the eggs, I can feel each one of those little living creatures inside of them...
From the top of the canopy I see a blueberry bush, filled with delicious berries, and... a friend!
Yellow River, the Wild River
Stunning images of the Yellow River in China, during the "sand washing".
The Yellow River is the second longest river in China that has the particularity to be very rich in a type of mud formed from the erosion of rocks of the great Chinese plains. The river is filled with yellow sand that ends up giving this color to the river.
To prevent the river from rising too much because of this excess mud and sand, the Chinese government decided to "empty" the river in the Yellow Sea. Millions of cubic meters of water are dumped, this way, getting rid of the excess mud of the river.
When this happens in the Yellow River offers stunning images:
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
The Colorful Azaleas in Japan
Shiofune Kannon-ji is a 1,300 years old Buddhist temple in Ome City, Japan.The temple is surrounded by hills covered with bushes of azalea.
Between April and May, the hills are covered with the colors of 20,000 bushes in full bloom.
The azalea festival is held during this period and the temple is visited by thousands of tourists who come to enjoy the view.
Check out some photos of the temple full of colors:
Animal Crossing with Photoshop...
The creativity of a person combined with Photoshop can be spectacular. Check out Gyyp's work, the virtual crossing of animals:
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Mike Libby and Cybernetic Insect Sculptures
Beetles, bees, grasshoppers, butterflies, spiders, scorpions are part of the artwork of the artist Mike Libby in his exposition: I, insects.
The artist transforms, equipping them with small mechanical parts that give them the cyber appearance. It is an opportunity to confirm that there are stunningly beautiful insects.
The idea of equipping the insects with mechanical parts occurred to Libby a few years ago, after having found a dead beetle.
The beauty of the animal and how its various parts were articulated were the starting point for this work...
Libby empties insects (in the case of beetles) and puts in small inner parts of the mechanisms of clocks,but also electronics and even sewing machines's parts and other equipment.
It is nature and art showing their beauty.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
Mother captures beautiful images of her children with animals
With a sensitive eye, Elena Shumilova of Andreapol in Russia captures images that show the essence of raising her children with the animals on a farm where they spend most of their time.
It all started in 2012 when she won a professional camera and began to record their children Yaroslav and Vanya playing with farm animals. The combination of children and animals, and even a beautiful landscape in the background result in beautiful images that show love and sensitivity.
