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  1. A few photos from a great falconry display we went to:

    Harris hawk:
    http://yfrog.com/h7w1djxj
    http://yfrog.com/h3cjgsfj

    Barn owl:
    http://yfrog.com/h3mtmotj
    http://yfrog.com/gzag9hzj
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      CommentAuthorBhelPuri
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2011
    Long time no see. Here's a pic from me-
    bhelpuri . imgur . com / rr
    Remove the spaces and paste that in the URL bar. Click on the pic to expand.
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2011 edited
    cheesy

    You got your Phd. Congrats Bhel!

    What will you do next?
    Kazoo
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2011
    punk beer
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorBhelPuri
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2011
    Thanks all! It's been a hectic few months and I'm glad that everything turned out fine.
    Now it's packing and moving within a few days to begin an internship.
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      CommentAuthorFalkirkBairn
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2011 edited
    Wrong topic!!
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  2. Stained glass Boba Fett!

    http://blastr.com/2011/05/image-of-the- … -fet-1.php
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  3. Wow!

    Picture from space of Atlantis re-entering the atmosphere taken from space:

    http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/5732 … 8_full.jpg
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2011
    WOW indeed! Awesome picture!
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  4. Doesn't really qualify as a shocked photo of the day but I wasn't sure where to put it.

    We managed to get a photo last night of one of the badgers that we have seen visiting our garden recently. This was taken about 12:15am but I have seen them snuffling around at the base of the bird feeders as late as 02:00am and as early as 11:30pm.
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      CommentAuthorStavroula
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011
    Wow Alan! It's so beautiful! smile
    Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better...
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011
    Yeah, but they can be deadly dangerous.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorStavroula
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011
    That's why we are meant to admire some things from a distance! wink
    Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better...
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011
    Nice picture Alan. I've never seen such animal. Is it common in your area? Here cats are the wildest thing we might encounter.

    Why is it deadly dangerous?
    Kazoo
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011
    It can get aggressive very easily, and it has a bite that can go through straight to your bone and beyond. In fact, I have an acquaintance who experienced just that.

    But it's nice to look at, for sure.
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011 edited
    Dangerous schmamerous! Okay, you wouldn't want to surprise one and corner it but a Badger will scarper once disturbed by humans.


    Howabout Foxes Alan? Here in Bristol, particularly my neck of the woods, there seems to be an explosion in the population of urban foxes, not one night goes by without seeing one and I've even seen five in a single evening. The big mystery for me is where the hell do they all go in daylight hours?
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  5. When I came across a badger in the garden it just took a look at me and just retreated away. I don't think they are too aggressive to us. But the species of badger in the US is very aggressive I believe - and photos I have seen of them suggest they are very bad tempered.

    I have seen a fox only the once here: crossing a nearby road late at night when I was driving home.
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2011 edited
    Yeah, the British species is very shy and retiring. Perhaps Norwegian badgers are more aggressive?

    As I said, there are a lot of Foxes around my way, some of them are the biggest I've ever seen. I haven't seen any Hedgehogs this year....yet.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMiya
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2011
    Nice photo Alan! smile
    Are they increasing there? I've heard a bit about the controversy over badger cull in the UK.

    And nice to know that your wife teaches biology and animal behaviour... now I followed her on Twitter wink
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      CommentAuthorMiya
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2011
    By the way, this is a Japanese badger I saw some years ago... it didn't notice me for a while so I could watch it feeding on the ground.
    https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/i … directlink

    And this is a photo taken by a "stealth cam" biggrin
    https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/d … directlink
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2011
    When I was a kid I was told that it would be a good idea to put egg shells in your boots when going out in the forest, because if a badger bites you it will normally continue until it has crushed your bones, but if it bites through the egg shells it will think it has crushed your bones and will cease biting.

    Of course this was probably just a story adults came up with to scare the hell out of us children.

    In any case, I'm reminded of this->

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

    Peter smile
  6. A video actually:

    http://fragileoasis.org/blog/2012/08/sn … rom-space/
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  7. A bit of a weird one this, but I was watching one of those programmes where they show you an animal dissection and I couldn't believe it when they showed the inside of a leatherback turtle's oesophagus:

    http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/images/turt … arumbe.jpg

    One of the weirdest sights in the animal kingdom?
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      CommentAuthorBregje
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2011
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    A bit of a weird one this, but I was watching one of those programmes where they show you an animal dissection and I couldn't believe it when they showed the inside of a leatherback turtle's oesophagus:

    http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/images/turt … arumbe.jpg

    One of the weirdest sights in the animal kingdom?

    I think it's weird there's not even one bit of lettuce left there... wink

    Seriously, I wouldn't even know how our own looks on the inside. And I'm not going to take a look with google.

    Ok, I just googled. It's different, yes.

    Speaking of wonders of nature. Watched an episode of Life last night on the TV. The one about plants. I loved the way they explained how slow plants live in our experience of time and I love the way they fastforward the plant life all the time so that they almost look like... animals.

    And, we have a passiflora in our garden and the children wondered what the curly parts were and that was so amazingly explained in this episode! The tentacles searching for branches to cling on to and then hold on tight looked so animal like watching that with the time-lapse photography.
  8. The programme dissecting the loggerhead turtle was called Inside Nature's Giants, shown on Channel 4 here in the UK.

    These spines start at the mouth and run right down their extended oesophagus leading down to their stomach (the oesophagus actually curves down past and under the stomach and back up the side before it connects with the stomach).

    Since their diet is almost exclusively jellyfish, and because jellyfish are >90% water, the turtles have to "stack up" the swallowed jellyfish in their oesophagus and then squeeze out the water with muscles lining the oesophagus. The spines down the length of the pipe prevent the jellyfish themselves being pushed back out of the animal during the muscle contraction.

    As you can see, it was a very educational programme!
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2011
    very interesting
    listen to more classical music!
  9. I saw this photo from composer Cody Westheimer's Facebook page.

    Some people may have already seen this - and will know all about it - but for those who have not, take a look and follow the following instructions to get the best out of the photo.

    Take a look at the camels in the photo:

    http://photos1.blogger.com/photoInclude … camels.jpg

    And then look closer at the lines below the "camels". WOW!! shocked
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2011
    BIG WOW! Stunning, stunning shot!
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  10. Timmer wrote
    BIG WOW! Stunning, stunning shot!

    Did you see the twist? wink
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2011
    There's a twist? o_0

    ...they're dinosaurs?