Animalia
grrlscientist | July 20, 2007tags: Friday Ark, photography, animals, blog carnival
For those of you who enjoy looking at pictures of animals, domestic or wild, this is the blog carnival for you; Friday Ark. They published their 148th edition today and included a few submissions from me, too!
grrlscientist | July 20, 2007tags: albino dolphin, mammals, zoology
Image: Captain Erik Rue.
Captain Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service, located south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, has discovered himself to be a sudden celebrity because he took photographs of a pink dolphin recently. Rue and a boatload of guests saw the young dolphin on a charter trip on June 24.
El capitan Erik Rue se ha hecho famoso por haber captado unas fotografias de un delfin albino ( Rosa ) en Louisiana.
Rue published images of the pink dolphin on his website.
In a telephone interview last week, Rue said he has seen the extraordinary dolphin…
grrlscientist | July 13, 2007tags: animals, blog carnival
Calling all animal lovers .. the latest edition of the Friday Ark is now available. It's packed with lots of animal images for you to enjoy.
grrlscientist | July 9, 2007tags: snow leopard, kitten, Image of the Day
Askai, a 10-week-old snow leopard kitten, Panthera uncia, hisses at photographers during his first public appearance at Berlin Zoo, Germany.
Image: BBC News.
grrlscientist | June 15, 2007tags: polar bear cub, Knut, Image of the Day
Six-months-old polar bear Knut snoozes with his minder, Thomas Doerflein, at the zoo in Berlin. Hundreds of visitors still flock to Berlin zoo to get a glimpse of the little bear, who has become a global sensation after surviving rejection by his mother.
Image: AFP [larger]
grrlscientist | June 14, 2007tags: bowhead whale, whaling, aging whales
This bomb lance fragment, patented in 1879, was removed from the neck of a male bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, killed near Barrow, Alaska, in May 2007. The shiny scars are the result of a chain saw cut.
Image: AP.
Here's an interesting twist to a sad story: In May of this year, eskimos killed a 49-foot male bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, off the coast of Alaska and unexpectedly discovered that he had survived a similar hunt more than a century ago. While butchering the whale's body with a chainsaw, they found that he was carrying a 3 1/2-…
grrlscientist | June 8, 2007tags: slow loris, endangered species, conservation, CITES
The Slow Loris, from the genus Nycticebus, is a nocturnal animal endemic to Asia.
This animal's cuteness could very well be its undoing.
Image: Anna Nekaris, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Aww, isn't this cuddly little creature simply adorable??
Apparently thousands of people from around the world agree with you because the slow loris, a small nocturnal and arboreal animal that is endemic to much of Asia, is experiencing population declines due to habitat destruction and trapping for the pet trade.
They certainly make ideal pets…
grrlscientist | June 5, 2007tags: leopards, cell phones, ringtones, India
A leopard plays with a rubber tire inside its cage at a leopard rescue center in Madharihut, India, May 3, 2007. Forest guards in western India are using cell phones with ringtones of cows mooing, goats bleating and roosters crowing to capture leopards that have wandered into human settlements, officials said.
Image: Rupak De Chowdhuri.
Just image this: you live in a remote village in India and late one night, you awaken to find that a hungry leopard has wandered into town, and could attack people. What do you do? If you are one of the forest…
grrlscientist | June 1, 2007tags: animals, photography, blog carnivals
The 141st issue of the Friday Ark is now available. This blog carnival links to animal pictures that are published on blogs, or to blog entries that feature a large animal picture. They included several submissions from me in the (rather large) group they link to.
grrlscientist | May 31, 2007tags: cat, battle, Africa, streaming video
It's a little long, and it has been all over the internet by now, but this video shows a fascinating battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park while on safari [8:23].
grrlscientist | May 27, 2007tags: nonfat dairy cow, marge
To meet the demands of the health-conscious consumer, how about developing cows that produce skim milk? Well, scientists have identified a cow that does this, and they hope to establish herds of the animals to meet the increased health demands from the public. The cows, which carry a particular genetic mutation, were bred from a single female, named Marge, who was discovered by researchers when they screened milk from millions of cattle in New Zealand.
"Marge looks like an ordinary Friesian cow but has three key differences. She produces a normal level of protein…
grrlscientist | May 15, 2007tags: hummingbird, Gorgeted Puffleg, Eriocnemis Isabellaea, endangered species, ornithology, birds
A new species of hummingbird, the Gorgeted Puffleg, Eriocnemis Isabellaea, has been discovered in the Serrania del Pinche mountains of southwest Colombia.
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According to ornithologists, the Gorgeted Puffleg has been discovered living in the cloud forests of southwestern Colombia. Despite its recent discovery, this stunning rare hummingbird that has violet blue plumage and iridescent green on its throat, is already endangered by the environmentally damaging illegal drugs…
grrlscientist | May 6, 2007
Neoloboquadrina pachyderma, an amoeba Foraminifera that eats plankton in oceans' surface waters. The image was taken by a team that measured how much carbon sank below 500 meters in two regions of the Pacific Ocean. Writing in Science, they reported "striking differences" that could affect sequestration calculations.
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Image: BBC News.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a…
grrlscientist | May 1, 2007tags: preying mantis, mouse, streaming video
Do you think it is weird that an insect could eat a mammal? Well, it happens, although not commonly. In this case, I have a streaming video that shows a preying mantis hunting and then eating a mouse. I sure wish I had a flock of preying mantids in my apartment; they'd defintely be well-fed there!
grrlscientist | January 25, 2007
Herring Gull, Larus argentatus, eating a starfish.
Image: Drew Weber.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But if we decide to destroy these other life forms, the…
grrlscientist | January 17, 2007
A prairie falcon, Falco mexicanus.
This photo was taken on Christmas Eve in north-central Kansas.
Image: David A. Rintoul.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But…
grrlscientist | January 4, 2007
A juvenile Eastern Milk Snake Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum,
photographed near Mississagagon Lake in eastern Ontario.
Image: Bev Wigney.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
I am receiving so many gorgeous pictures from you, amigos bonitos, and I am overwhelmed by the beauty of these images and the creatures and places depicted. If you have a high-resolution digitized nature image (I prefer JPG format) that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email it to me, along with information about the image and how you'd like it to be credited.
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tags: Eastern Milk Snake,…
grrlscientist | December 25, 2006
White-tailed buck, Odocoileus virginianus,
with velvety antlers photographed through the bedroom
window at the photographer's farm in eastern Ontario.
As you can see, they're not into mowing the lawn around
their house!
Image: Bev Wigney.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
I am receiving so many gorgeous pictures from you, amigos bonitos, and I am overwhelmed by the beauty of these images and the creatures and places depicted. If you have a high-resolution digitized nature image (I prefer JPG format) that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email it to me, along with…
grrlscientist | December 21, 2006A giant sauropod, which is estimated to have weighed between 40 and 48 tons, was recently discovered in Spain. This animal, which is named Turiasaurus riodevensis, is estimated to have lived 150 million years ago.
In the past such large dinosaurs have primarily been found in Africa and the New World.
"The humerus -- the long bone in the foreleg that runs from the shoulder to the elbow -- was as large as an adult" human, Brooks Hanson, a Science deputy editor, said in a statement. The claw of the first digit of its pes, or hoof, is the size of an NFL football.
The researchers found several…
grrlscientist | December 20, 2006
Male Northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis.
Image: Bev Wigney.
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tags: birds, Northern cardinal, Aves, Ornithology, zoology