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Hydnellum peckii, or Bleeding Tooth Mushroom
Source: duskofday
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A white kiwi is seen at Pukaha sanctuary in New Zealand. The male chick, named Manukura - meaning “of chiefly status” in Maori - hatched on May 1 at the sanctuary north of Wellington, becoming the first white kiwi ever born in captivity.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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TimelessCormorant fishing on the Li River in China.
The birds hang out with the fishermen. I saw it on Wild China.
Source: photo.net
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Male New Zealand Giraffe Weevil
New Zealand’s giraffe weevil is not a weevil at all, but a member of another family of beetles known as Brentidae. It is the longest native beetle (to New Zealand), at 8.5 centimetres. Half the male’s length is its snout, which has a pair of antennae near the tip. Females have their antennae midway.
(via: Encyclopedia of NZ Wildlife)
Source: rhamphotheca
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Erwin Blumenfeld, Solarized Portrait of a Woman, 1944.
—via regardintemporel
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“Ossifrage, from the latin ossifraga, meaning ‘bone breaker,’ is an archaic name for the bearded vulture, an Old World species once plentiful in the Alps, Himalayas, and Pyrenees, the only vulture to consume bone as the primary part of its diet. Ornithologists no longer sanction use of the bird’s other names, lamb vulture and lammergeyer, since it is incapable of killing lambs, let alone babies, despite the myths that have led to its near extinction.”
“…but feeding is less a competition than a collaboration, with each species dining on a different part of the animal. When larger vultures tear into mammals the size of horses or cows, they make the flesh available to the turkey, which has the weakest beak and on its own must content itself with animals the size of chipmunks and squirrels. The long necks of the largest vultures allow them to reach into the organs, while others feast on skin, tendons, and the tougher meat; the turkey, black, and hooded species take the scraps and pick the bones clean. In its habitat the bearded, the only vulture to have a feathered head, is the last to feed, for its specialty is bones, which it picks up with its feet, swooping down to crack them against a rock. It is reputed to prepare tortoises the same way; the ancient Greeks blamed it for the death of Aeschylus. As Wayne Grady retells the story, a bearded vulture with a tortoise in its talons mistook the bald head for a rock and dropped the tortoise to crack its shell, instead cracking the poet’s. I like the irony, but the image that enchants me is that of the feeding chimango, the caracara that Darwin observed to be the last to leave the table, lingering at the carcass so long that it might often be ‘seen within the ribs of a cow or a horse like a bird in a cage.’ I picture the cathedral of those bleached white ribs, inside it a dark canary without song.”
from the essay Buzzards by Lee Zacharias.
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Silent predator, hydrozoan Tubularia indivisa
by Alexander Semenov
Source: creepicrawlies
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Jellyfish parasite Hyperia galba
by Alexander Semenov
Source: creepicrawlies
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