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Zebra 2007-05-09 07:54:47
Zebra with white stripes mistake
The Zebra is a part of the horse family, Equidae, native to central and southern Africa. They are most well known for their distinctive black and white stripes.
Zebras are black with white stripes for camouflage purposes. These stripes are typically vertical on the head, neck, forequarters, and main body, with horizontal stripes at the rear and on the legs of the animal. The "zebra crossing" is named after the zebra's white on black stripes.
There are four extant species, as well as several subspecies :
Plains Zebra
Cape Mountain Zebra
Hartmann's Mountain Zebra
Grevy's Zebra
Sources : Wikipedia, Farid Radjouh - TrekNature
Encyclopedia of Life 2007-05-09 07:25:26 This is one of the most exciting scientific projects in the next 10 years : Encyclopedia
of life.
Here is a short video that describe well the project:
This is a project that I would have the time and means to do. Maybe if it's so opened that Wikipedia will I participate ? ;-)
Seen here
Butterfly 2007-05-07 07:48:06 Lycaenid
Birdfly
Palawan Birdwing
Blue Mormon
Blue Morpho
Cairns Birdwing
Iphiclides Podalirius
Pupation of Inachis Io
Ariadne Merione egg
Chrysalis of Gulf Fritillary
Gulf Fritillary
Fifth instar wing disk
Ant tending a Lycaenid caterpillar
A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. The scope of the term butterflies depends on how far the concept is extended. Currently, most experts include the superfamilies Hedyloidea (the American moth-butterflies), Hesperioidea (the skippers) and Papilionoidea (the so-called 'true' butterflies). This concept of butterflies including the Hedyloidea is an only recently expanded one. Like many Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form, and most species being day-flying, they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brigh Read more:Butterfly
Golden toad 2007-05-02 13:55:40
The Golden
Toad (Bufo periglenes) was a small, shiny, bright-orange toad that was once abundant in a small region high-altitude cloud-covered tropical forests, about 30 square kilometers in area, above the city of Monteverde, Costa Rica. For this reason, it is sometimes also called the Monteverde Golden Toad, or the Monte Verde Toad. Other common English names include Alajuela Toad and Orange Toad. They were described in 1966 by the herpetologist Jay Savage. Since 1989, not a single Golden Toad has been seen anywhere in the world, and it is classified by the IUCN as an extinct species. Its extinction is cited as part of the decline in amphibian populations, and attributed to climate change due to global warming.
Source : Wikipedia
Siberian Tiger 2007-05-02 13:48:36
Distribution map
The Siberian
Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is a rare subspecies of tiger (P. tigris). Also known as the North China Tiger, Manchurian, Amur or Korean Tiger, it is the largest naturally occurring member of the Felidae family.
On average, male Siberian Tigers weigh about 225 kilograms and female Amurs weigh about 160 kilograms. However, males can weigh as much as 350 kilograms or in rare cases 408 kilograms, a supposition based largely on the estimates of hunters. At these sizes, the Siberian Tiger is the largest natural creature of the cat family.
The Siberian Tiger is critically endangered. In the early 1900s, it lived throughout the northeastern China, Korean Peninsula, northeastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia. Today, it has virtually disappeared from South Korea and is largely confined to a very small part of Russia's southern Far East (the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorye and Khabarovsk, a location where it and the Amur Leopard are now being
Lily of the Valley 2007-05-01 12:33:31
Fruits
Convallaria majalis, commonly known as the Lily of the Valley
or Prolificans Lily-of-the-Valley, is one of two members of the genus Convallaria in the flowering plant family Ruscaceae. It is a woodland plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia and Europe and a small native population in eastern North America (Convallaria majalis var. montana.) It is a herbaceous perennial plant that forms extensive colonies by spreading underground stems called rhizomes. These send up numerous stems each spring. The stems grow to 15-30 cm tall, with two leaves 10-25 cm long, and a raceme of 5-15 flowers on the stem apex. The flowers are white (rarely pink), bell-shaped, 5-10 mm diameter, and sweetly scented; flowering is in late spring, in mild winters in early March. The fruit is a small orange-red berry 5-7 mm diameter that contains a few large whitish colored seeds.
Source : Wikipedia
Banff National Park 2007-04-26 10:25:55
Banff National
Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885, in the Canadian Rockies. The park, located 120 kilometres west of Calgary in the province of Alberta, encompasses 6 641 square kilometres of mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes. The Icefields Parkway extends from Lake Louise, connecting to Jasper National Park in the north. Provincial forests and Yoho National Park are neighbours to the west, while Kootenay National Park is located to the south and Kananaskis Country to the southeast. The main commercial centre of the park is the town of Banff, in the Bow River valley.
Map of Banff National Park
Source : Wikipedia
Mosquito 2007-04-16 12:05:39
The mosquito is a member of the family Culicidae; these insects have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and long legs. The females of most mosquito species suck blood from other animals. Size varies but is rarely greater than 15 mm. Mosquito
es weigh only about 2 to 2.5 mg. A single flight can last about 4 to 5 minutes. They can fly at about 1.5 to 2.5 km/h and most species are nocturnal or crepuscular.
Mosquitoes are believed to have evolved around 170 million years ago during the Jurassic era (206–135 million years ago) with the earliest known fossils from the Cretaceous era (144–65 million years ago). They supposedly evolved in the land mass that is now South America, spreading initially to the northern continent Laurasia and re-entering the tropics from the north. Ancestral mosquitoes were about three times the size of the extant species and they are a sister group to the Chaoboridae (biting midges).
Source : Wikipedia
Northern Lights 2007-04-11 13:21:36
The aurora (plural aurorae/auroras) is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone. For this reason some scientists call it a "polar aurora" (or "aurora polaris"). In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, which is named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Especially in Europe, it often appears as a reddish glow on the northern horizon, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis is also called the northern lights since it is only visible in the North sky from the Northern
Hemisphere. The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and from March to April. Its southern counterpart, aurora australis, has similar properties. Australis is the Latin word for "of the South".
Images of aurora borealis
Sources : Wikipedia, Aurores Boréales Read more:Lights
, Northern Lights
Piton de la Fournaise 2007-04-10 13:48:03
Piton de la Fournaise (French: "Peak of the Furnace") is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island (a French territory) in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world, along with Kīlauea in the Hawaiian Islands (Pacific Ocean) and Mount Erebus in Antarctica. A recent eruption began in August 2006 and ended in January 2007. The volcano erupted again in February 2007, and most recently on 2 April 2007.
Piton de la Fournaise is often known locally as le Volcan (The Volcano); it is a major tourist attraction on Réunion island.
Satellite map
Source : Wikipedia
Manatee 2007-05-25 12:30:44 Manatee
distribution map
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully-aquatic marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The name comes from the Spanish manatí, which itself comes from a Carib word meaning "breast." They comprise three of the four living species in the order Sirenia, the other being the dugong. The Sirenia is thought to have evolved from four legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living relatives being the Proboscidea (elephants) and Hyracoidea (hyraxes).
The Trichechidae differ from the Dugong in the shape of the skull and the shape of the tail. Dugongs have a forked tail, similar in shape to a whale's, while manatees' tails are paddle-shaped. They are mainly herbivores, spending most of their time grazing in shallow waters and at depths of 1-2 meters. Much of the knowledge about manatees is based upon research done in Florida and cannot necessarily be attributed to all types of manatees. Generally, mana
Mata mata 2007-05-30 07:42:06
Mata mata distribution map
The mata mata (binomial name Chelus fimbriatus) is a turtle found predominantly in South America. Its name comes from the spanish, and means "it kills, it kills".
The mata mata is quite visually distinctive: its head is triangular, large, and extremely flattened, with many tubercles and flaps of skin, most notably a 'horn' on the nose. There are two barbels on the chin and two additional filamentous barbels at the jaw. The snout is long and tubular. The upper jaw is neither hooked nor notched.
This animal has a brown or black oblong carapace to 44.9 cm. The plastron is reduced, narrowed, hingeless, shortened towards the front and deeply notched at the rear. Bridges are narrow. Plastron and bridge are cream to yellow or brown.
Head, neck, tail, and limbs are grayish brown on adults. The neck is very long, longer than the vertebra under the carapace, and is fringed with small skin flaps along both sides. Each forefoot has five webbed claws.
World Environment Day 2007-06-05 14:39:59
image : PNUE
Today 5 june 2007 it's the WorldEnvironment
Day. Please visit the UNEP site to know more about this special day. Special because it's an all about us day, not only nature, environment or animals. WE are all the Earth environment, and we do not have to forget it.
Do it yourself !
Gaur 2007-06-13 04:15:04
Gaurs distribution map
The Gaur (Bos gaurus, previously Bibos gauris) is a large, dark-coated ox of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The biggest populations are found today in India. It is also called seladang or in context with safari tourisms Indian bison, which is technically incorrect. The gaur is the largest of all wild cattles, bigger even than Asian wild Water Buffalo and Bison. The domesticated form of the gaur is called gayal or mithun.
Source : Wikipedia
Insects 2007-07-16 06:14:41 Do you like insects ? Especially when they're strange and coming from all over the world ?
The biggest insect trading company in North America is located in Canada, near the city of Quebec, in Lac-Beauport. Her name is Insect Trade, or Insectes Mondiaux in french.
They've an about half a million insects collection !
Guess how long this giant ant is ? 70 millimeters !!!
Morpho menelaus
You can buy all these insects, spiders, butterflies, and more. They're amazing !
The company is operated and created by Yves-Pascal Dion, a great "voyageur", and presents insects from over 70 countries. Insect Trade is also a fair-trade company, wich is great ;-)
The shop is open from thursday to friday : 17h-20h and from saturday to sunday : 10h-17h.
It's located in 996, boulevard du Lac, Québec, G2M 0G6 - QC - Canada.
If you like seeing something beautiful and amazing, go and visit their shop, it's awesome ! ;-) Read more:Insects
Insects 2007-07-16 06:14:41 Do you like insects ? Especially when they're strange and coming from all over the world ?
The biggest insect trading company in North America is located in Canada, near the city of Quebec, in Lac-Beauport. Her name is Insect Trade, or Insectes Mondiaux in french.
They've an about half a million insects collection !
Guess how long this giant ant is ? 70 millimeters !!!
Morpho menelaus
You can buy all these insects, spiders, butterflies, and more. They're amazing !
The company is operated and created by Yves-Pascal Dion, a great "voyageur", and presents insects from over 70 countries. Insect Trade is also a fair-trade company, wich is great ;-)
The shop is open from thursday to friday : 17h-20h and from saturday to sunday : 10h-17h.
It's located in 996, boulevard du Lac, Québec, G2M 0G6 - QC - Canada.
If you like seeing something beautiful and amazing, go and visit their shop, it's awesome ! ;-) Read more:Insects
Gaur 2007-06-13 04:15:04
Gaurs distribution map
The Gaur (Bos gaurus, previously Bibos gauris) is a large, dark-coated ox of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The biggest populations are found today in India. It is also called seladang or in context with safari tourisms Indian bison, which is technically incorrect. The gaur is the largest of all wild cattles, bigger even than Asian wild Water Buffalo and Bison. The domesticated form of the gaur is called gayal or mithun.
Source : Wikipedia
World Environment Day 2007-06-05 14:39:59
image : PNUE
Today 5 june 2007 it's the WorldEnvironment
Day. Please visit the UNEP site to know more about this special day. Special because it's an all about us day, not only nature, environment or animals. WE are all the Earth environment, and we do not have to forget it.
Do it yourself !
Mata mata 2007-05-30 07:42:06
Mata mata distribution map
The mata mata (binomial name Chelus fimbriatus) is a turtle found predominantly in South America. Its name comes from the spanish, and means "it kills, it kills".
The mata mata is quite visually distinctive: its head is triangular, large, and extremely flattened, with many tubercles and flaps of skin, most notably a 'horn' on the nose. There are two barbels on the chin and two additional filamentous barbels at the jaw. The snout is long and tubular. The upper jaw is neither hooked nor notched.
This animal has a brown or black oblong carapace to 44.9 cm. The plastron is reduced, narrowed, hingeless, shortened towards the front and deeply notched at the rear. Bridges are narrow. Plastron and bridge are cream to yellow or brown.
Head, neck, tail, and limbs are grayish brown on adults. The neck is very long, longer than the vertebra under the carapace, and is fringed with small skin flaps along both sides. Each forefoot has five webbed claws.
Manatee 2007-05-25 12:30:44 Manatee
distribution map
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully-aquatic marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The name comes from the Spanish manatí, which itself comes from a Carib word meaning "breast." They comprise three of the four living species in the order Sirenia, the other being the dugong. The Sirenia is thought to have evolved from four legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living relatives being the Proboscidea (elephants) and Hyracoidea (hyraxes).
The Trichechidae differ from the Dugong in the shape of the skull and the shape of the tail. Dugongs have a forked tail, similar in shape to a whale's, while manatees' tails are paddle-shaped. They are mainly herbivores, spending most of their time grazing in shallow waters and at depths of 1-2 meters. Much of the knowledge about manatees is based upon research done in Florida and cannot necessarily be attributed to all types of manatees. Generally, mana
Zebra 2007-05-09 07:54:47
Zebra with white stripes mistake
The Zebra is a part of the horse family, Equidae, native to central and southern Africa. They are most well known for their distinctive black and white stripes.
Zebras are black with white stripes for camouflage purposes. These stripes are typically vertical on the head, neck, forequarters, and main body, with horizontal stripes at the rear and on the legs of the animal. The "zebra crossing" is named after the zebra's white on black stripes.
There are four extant species, as well as several subspecies :
Plains Zebra
Cape Mountain Zebra
Hartmann's Mountain Zebra
Grevy's Zebra
Sources : Wikipedia, Farid Radjouh - TrekNature
Encyclopedia of Life 2007-05-09 07:25:26 This is one of the most exciting scientific projects in the next 10 years : Encyclopedia
of life.
Here is a short video that describe well the project:
This is a project that I would have the time and means to do. Maybe if it's so opened that Wikipedia will I participate ? ;-)
Seen here
Butterfly 2007-05-07 07:48:06 Lycaenid
Birdfly
Palawan Birdwing
Blue Mormon
Blue Morpho
Cairns Birdwing
Iphiclides Podalirius
Pupation of Inachis Io
Ariadne Merione egg
Chrysalis of Gulf Fritillary
Gulf Fritillary
Fifth instar wing disk
Ant tending a Lycaenid caterpillar
A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. The scope of the term butterflies depends on how far the concept is extended. Currently, most experts include the superfamilies Hedyloidea (the American moth-butterflies), Hesperioidea (the skippers) and Papilionoidea (the so-called 'true' butterflies). This concept of butterflies including the Hedyloidea is an only recently expanded one. Like many Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form, and most species being day-flying, they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brigh Read more:Butterfly
Golden toad 2007-05-02 13:55:40
The Golden
Toad (Bufo periglenes) was a small, shiny, bright-orange toad that was once abundant in a small region high-altitude cloud-covered tropical forests, about 30 square kilometers in area, above the city of Monteverde, Costa Rica. For this reason, it is sometimes also called the Monteverde Golden Toad, or the Monte Verde Toad. Other common English names include Alajuela Toad and Orange Toad. They were described in 1966 by the herpetologist Jay Savage. Since 1989, not a single Golden Toad has been seen anywhere in the world, and it is classified by the IUCN as an extinct species. Its extinction is cited as part of the decline in amphibian populations, and attributed to climate change due to global warming.
Source : Wikipedia
Siberian Tiger 2007-05-02 13:48:36
Distribution map
The Siberian
Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is a rare subspecies of tiger (P. tigris). Also known as the North China Tiger, Manchurian, Amur or Korean Tiger, it is the largest naturally occurring member of the Felidae family.
On average, male Siberian Tigers weigh about 225 kilograms and female Amurs weigh about 160 kilograms. However, males can weigh as much as 350 kilograms or in rare cases 408 kilograms, a supposition based largely on the estimates of hunters. At these sizes, the Siberian Tiger is the largest natural creature of the cat family.
The Siberian Tiger is critically endangered. In the early 1900s, it lived throughout the northeastern China, Korean Peninsula, northeastern Mongolia and southeastern Russia. Today, it has virtually disappeared from South Korea and is largely confined to a very small part of Russia's southern Far East (the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorye and Khabarovsk, a location where it and the Amur Leopard are now being
Jellyfish 2007-08-16 11:57:46 Jellyfish
life cycle and reproduction :
Images : Noaa Ocean Explorer, Wikipedia, Monterey Aquarium
Jellyfish are marine invertebrates of the class Scyphozoa, and can be found in every oceans in the world. The body of an adult jellyfish consists of a bell shape producing jelly and enclosing its internal structure, from which tentacles are suspended. Each tentacle is covered with cells called cnidocytes, that can sting or kill other animals. Most jellyfish use these cells to secure prey or for defense. Others, such as Rhizostomae, do not have tentacles at all.
Jellyfish lack basic sensory organs and a brain, but their nervous systems and rhopalia allow them to perceive stimuli, such as light and odor, and respond fast. They feed on small fish and zooplankton that become caught in their tentacles. Most jellyfish are passive drifters and slow swimmers, as their shape is not hydrodynamic. Instead, they move so as to create a current forcing the prey within rea
Toucan 2007-09-17 06:15:19
Toucans are near passerine birds from the neotropics. They are brightly marked and have enormous, colorful bills. The family includes five genera and about forty different species.
Source : Wikipedia
Nobel Peace Prize 2007-10-12 13:35:03 The 2007 NobelPeace
Prize has been attributed to both Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore today.
"For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" said the spokesman of the Nobel Institute.
It's a good news and I hope it could make some changes in lots of not convinced minds all around the world.
Popocatépetl 2007-10-25 11:37:49
Popocatépetl from space on January 23, 2001, with Iztaccíhuatl at right and the city of Puebla at left. View from the International Space Station.
Agrandir le plan
Popocatépetl is an active volcano located south of Mexico city. His elevation is 5 426 metres, and he is the second highest point in Mexico.
Source : Wikipedia
Sunflower 2007-11-02 10:18:33
The sunflower is an annual plant native to the Americas in the family Asteraceae, with a large flowering head. The stem of the flower can grow as high as 3 metres tall, with the flower head reaching up to 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds. The term "sunflower" is also used to refer to all plants of the genus Helianthus, many of which are perennial plants.
And here is perhaps the most known artistic representation of sunflowers by a painter, Vincent Van Gogh :
Source : Wikipedia Read more:Sunflower
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