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lemur

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Let me introduce you to one of the lemur species of Madagascar's rich fauna. This is the crowned lemur - it is easy to see where the species got it's name. Right?
Their scietntific latin name is 'eulemur coronatus'. This is the smallest species of the genus Eulemur they can weight about 1,5 to 1,8 kilograms. We both saw this species at 'National parc de montagen d'Ambre' as well as in 'Ankarana special reserve'.
At Ankarana they are even semi-tame and hang around the camp place waiting for a mango pith to be ignorantly thrown away.

They are classified as vulnerable and appear on the CITES I list. That is not a list of honor it means that they are seriously endangered. The dangers for these animals are los of habitat by logging , forest fires , development. They appear in 4 restricted areas that should be protected. (responsible tourism can bring in some needed cash to maintain the parcs)
For this species the Madagascar Fauna Group has set up a captive breeding program.


These animals can easely be seen since they are day active. If you wander through the forest you'll meet small family groups - 4 to 6 is an average group , but up to 15 individuals is possible. They feed on leaves , fruits and branches and sometimes on rare occasions on bird eggs and vertebrates.Mating occurs in May and June and 125 days later one of two youngsters are born. Two years later the cyclus can start again.
I like their long tails ,up to 49cm for an animal with a body lenght of 34 - 36 cm its huge.

Thirsty pumps

Image by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region
Suffolk, VA, August 2011:. High volume pumps drafting water from a ditch on the eastern side of Lake Drummond on Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge look like thirsty animals at a watering hole. The pumps, powered with the help of tractors, were to flood ditches to charge a water sprinkling system to douse the Laterl West Fire. Credit: Greg Sanders/USFWS

Carpet corallimorphs

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Carpet corallimorphs

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Frilled corallimorphs

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Giant Armadillo

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Giant Armadillo

Image by Smithsonian's National Zoo
Although it is difficult to tell its size from this photo, the giant armadillo deserves its name and can weigh up to about 32 kilograms (71 pounds) in the wild! With its impressive weight and enormous elongated front claws, it digs out and eats termite and ant colonies. Unfortunately, this animal has been extirpated from many parts of its range due to over-hunting and is now rare in most areas.

National Zoo scientists set up camera traps in a remote section of the Amazon rain forest to gather data about the variety of species that inhabit it. Learn more about the project here: nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MAB/research/ar...

Prarie Dog

Image by theobjectivesea photography
Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping quarters, and even toilets. They also feature listening posts near exits, so animals can safely keep tabs on the movements of predators outside. Prairie dogs spend a lot of time building and rebuilding these dwellings. Other animals benefit from their labors. Burrows may be shared by snakes, burrowing owls, and even rare black-footed ferrets, which hunt prairie dogs in their own dwellings.

BUCK

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BUCK

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Tiger drinking water

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Tiger drinking water

Image by Ben124.
Taken at Khristiansand Zoo (Dyreparken) in June 2009.

Meercat, Namibia

Image by Liv Unni Sødem

Mud lobster mounds (Thalassina sp.)

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Mud lobster mounds (Thalassina sp.)

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Mud lobster mounds (Thalassina sp.)

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370e I'm being good mom!

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croc

Image by kevinzim
Monsterious Crocodile, Kachikali, Bakau, Gambia.

Mooses

Image by Unhindered by Talent
And now we begin our first of two full days in Denali National Park. The park is huge, being over 6 million acres (roughly the size of Massachusetts, or something like 25,000 square kilometers). And, in all that vast space there is exactly one (yeah, like 1!) road into the park, a narrow (esp. by American standards) two lanes that dead end at either Wonder Lake (after 85 miles) or Kantishna (after 90 miles).

The highway between Anchorage and Fairbanks (the two largest cities in Alaska) was only completed back In 1972 (that's in my lifetime!). Correctly anticipating a significant increase in visitors, Park officials worried that increased traffic along the one and only road in the park would adversely both the environment of the park and the relationship between the wildlife and humans. Consequently they closed this road to general traffic and brought in a fleet of school buses to shuttle visitors in and out of the Park.

On our first day in the Park, we took on of these shuttle buses out to Wonder Lake and back, which is roughly an 11 hour round trip. The next gazillion photos will be from that trip... Aren't you excited?!?

This first shot was of some moose along the side of the road very shortly after we'd boarded, and before we'd really left the inhabited part of the Park around the Visitor's Center.

When there's a wildlife sighting, the buses stop to let everyone have a view. This often consists of one or more tiny specks in the far distance (pretty much all my bear pictures are of that variety), but occassionally something decides to pose up close in the hopes of being featured on a postcard :-). While these two look cute, moose are one of the most dangerous animals in the park, especially if you get between a mother and her calf. We were repeatedly told not to run if you encounter a bear (they'll think you're prey and give chase), but to run like the dickens if you encounter a moose...

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The grandeur of Lamar Valley

Image by Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits
Lamar Valley sits in Yellowstone National Park and has been called the Serengeti of the North because there is so much wildlife there to see. I was only there a short while, but during that time I saw a coyote eating a small animal that he had captured; I saw bison grazing - it's hard to avoid them in Yellowstone; and I saw a black wolf cruising around. It was amazing. The valley is surrounded by mountains and is a beautiful place. There is a single road that winds through the valley where it disappears back into the forest at the other end. The scenery there is incredible - I highly recommend seeing this place at least once in your lifetime!

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The mother of the previous fawn

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Rockpooling at Rhossili

Image by Visit Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower
The Independent's report on the best places in the UK to watch wildlife gave Gower a special mention:

"Our coastlines provide some of the richest wildlife habitats in the country, and the Gower Peninsula in Wales was the first area in the UK to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The wide variety of habitats - cliffs, sand dunes, marshes and woodland - attract a huge range of animals, including rare dune-dwelling insects, otters and badgers.

But the highlight is the birdlife, particularly around Worm's Head. The caves peppering the coastline are home to bats during spring. Walk from the visitors' centre at Rhossili to Rhossili Down Commons for fantastic views of Worm's Head."

...The Independent

Gower nature reserves and wildlife watching

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Bighorn ram

Image by GlacierNPS
Bighorn sheep move in groups in Glacier's alpine and east side. Rams grow enormous horns (which differ from antlers in that they do not drop off yearly) that they use to batter each other during the rut every fall in competitions for mates. Photo: David Restivo, NPS

Coyote, Yosemite National Park

Image by DaveWilsonPhotography
This coyote (Canis Latrans) was walking up and down by a rest stop near Glacier Point, begging for food from every car that slowed down. I was lucky enough to have the right lens attached and got several very close shots through the open car window.

Although there are strict rules against feeding the wildlife, I have to assume that these are ignored by enough visitors that animals like this one associate cars with food.

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Beaver

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Beaver

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Watching the watcher

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The nice thing about driving home along the Calaveras Road rather than along I680 (apart from the gorgeous scenery) is the possibility of an encounter with some sort of wildlife. Today's drive home had me in an encounter with some skittish deer. Most of them ran as soon as they saw me (like the one in the background) but this one stopped to watch me as I watched them.

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ruff

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Seal in B&W

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Seal spotted in Dierenrijk Europa Netherlands

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Mésange charbonnière (Parus Major)/Great Tit

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Konik horses at Oostvaardersplassen - The Netherlands.

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Bighorn ram

Image by GlacierNPS
Bighorn sheep move in groups in Glacier's alpine and east side. Rams grow enormous horns (which differ from antlers in that they do not drop off yearly) that they use to batter each other during the rut every fall in competitions for mates. Photo: David Restivo, NPS

squirrel

Image by John-Morgan
Squirrel enjoying a nut in St. James's Park

Common/Smooth Newt

Image by nembow
Highlights darkened, shadows lightened ever so slightly. Cropped.

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Stag (Elk and more Mule Deer in the Comments)

Image by ClickFlashPhotos / Nicki Varkevisser
I love deer. I have dreams about them.

Photographing wildlife is so exhilarating. I don't have that good of a zoom lens, I was extremely close to all of these animals and it is such a humbling experience. These were taken in Grand Canyon National Park where I guess the animals are fairly desensitized to tourists because they all seemed quite comfortable around me. It wasn't as if they had been fed either, none badgered me for food. It was almost eerie how they didn't run away at the sound of the shutter like the deer where I live.

Lion having a roll at Yorkshire Wildlife Park 2

Image by Joey's Dream Garden

Hyppo a riposo con ibis attento

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Hyppo a riposo con ibis attento

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Take out

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he he thats a lot of lunch to carry around

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Grazing

Image by Frank Peters
Near the picnic area on the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. She let me get very close (less than 25 feet).

Leaf cutter ant (Atta cephalotes)

Image by grytr
Leaf cutter ant taken in the Butterfly & Wildlife Park, Long Sutton, Lincs. This photo is not faked.

It has had treatment though. Crop, saturation, levels

See REF: (e.g.)...Size for size, their bodies are amazingly powerful, able to carry pieces of leaf that weigh at least 20 times their own body weight - that's the same as a human carrying a one ton load...

No Country for Old Men

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No Country for Old Men

Image by legends2k
Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary, Thekkady
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That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.


An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.


O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.


Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

~ Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats

Flying parakeets

Image by Tambako the Jaguar
We also saw this group of monk parakeets flying in the sky, the spectacle was really nice!
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Hidden in there

Image by IamNotUnique
Uroplatus, or leaf tailed gecko are all endemic to Madagascar. In the day they keep their heads down to watch for snakes or other predators.

Reflective Self Portrait!!!

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Reflective Self Portrait!!!

Image by PABaileyYork Photos
I was taking a macro of a horse's eye today at a local farm and due to the lovely sunshine saw how great the reflection was. I'm not keen on self portraits so thought this one was a bit different. Hope you like.

Walking in mud 4

Image by Carl_C
I suspect that this is a heron species of some sort. Picture was taken at the Occoquan Bay Wildlife Refuge/Veterans Park area during a warm day in March.

Location: Prince William County, VA, US

Set: Animal Life, Explore

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Eyes of a Thousand Days

Image by Xelcise
This is a photo of one of the old elephants at Paignton Zoo, in Devon. It's a good zoo, and my favorite animals have to be these beasts. So noble!