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Tree House October 2010 Cats

Some cool animal humane society images:


Tree House October 2010 Cats
animal humane society
Image by Taekwonweirdo
Butterwort, Sequoia (Special Diet) Room, Uptown


Tree House October 2010 Cats
animal humane society
Image by Taekwonweirdo
Charm, Clinic Office, Uptown

Nice African Animals photos

A few nice african animals images I found:


African Wild Dog
african animals
Image by theoneandonlynadine
Lycaon pictus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Wild_Dog


African rhinos
african animals
Image by slworking2
The new Journey Into Africa tram ride at the San Diego Wild Animal Park

Nice Marine Animals photos

A few nice marine animals images I found:



n190_w1150
marine animals
Image by BioDivLibrary
Oceanic ichthyology. v.22 atlas.
Cambridge, U.S.A. :Printed for the Museum,1896.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4330873

20100803 1404 - Cape Cod - FAILED seal video - blurry, damn!! - MVI_1794 (31s)

Check out these video of animals images:


20100803 1404 - Cape Cod - FAILED seal video - blurry, damn!! - MVI_1794 (31s)
video of animals
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
On the way back, Vicky asked the captain if he would still take us to see the seals.

boating, laying, swimming.
boats, channel, clouds, seal, seals, sky.

August 3, 2010.


... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com



BACKSTORY: Carolyn's family reunion was at Cape Cod this year. We stayed at the Chatham Bars Inn. It was a lot of fun, and we were happy to see everyone.

For Vicky's recount of the trip, visit: tgaw.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/cape-cod-day-1/


20070429 - Camping - (by Casey) - 478995506_1d61416127_b - Kipp, Misfit
video of animals
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
"I put on my wizard hat..."

Read about this camping trip at: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/journal-camping-first-c...

6 videos were uploaded from this camping trip:
Clint Vs. The Hammock: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jToLR5O8KdA
Clint spazzing out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWoZIAI_gnw
Carolyn spazzing out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_li28WWh2Y
Eli bouncing on the tree: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pzgf9n7Bk
Axl Rose impersonations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SeZZFpdtE
Kipp: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7yLUxaMQOE

Kipp.
Misfit the cat.

Elizabeth Furnace, George Washington National Forest, Virginia.

April 29, 2007.
Pic by Casey.


... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com

... View Kipp's photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lurking444/
... View Casey's photos at www.flickr.com/photos/CaseyLea

... View my camping-related blog posts at clintjcl.wordpress.com/category/hobbies-activities/camping/

n145_w1150

Some cool marine animals images:


n145_w1150
marine animals
Image by BioDivLibrary
Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika /.
Frankfurt am Main :Gedruckt und in Commission bei Heinr. Ludw. Brönner,1826-1828..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140688


6197443243_1fc67fcca2_o
marine animals
Image by BioDivLibrary
Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht. Fasc. 54
[Monaco,Impr. de Monaco],1889- .
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/106592

Fear Factor #bhlib style: Imagine yourself deep in the ocean, facing this biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34178181 head on! #pod Happy Halloween Everyone!


n231_w1150
marine animals
Image by BioDivLibrary
Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika /.
Frankfurt am Main :Gedruckt und in Commission bei Heinr. Ludw. Brönner,1826-1828..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140774

Pink-backed Pelicans re-use the same trees 4 nesting every year until the tree collapses biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140774 #bhlib

Cool Animal Humane Society images

A few nice animal humane society images I found:


Art for Animals
animal humane society
Image by LollypopFarm


Some Adopted Animals
animal humane society
Image by Smitten with Kittens


we make spoon
animal humane society
Image by KCA
Photo by Blake

We are fostering kittens for the Washington Humane Society. They're super sweet and adorable. Please spread the word if you know anyone in the DC-area who would like to adopt a kitten...or two!

Update: Leela and Hippo have been adopted and will go to their forever home next week!

Cool Wildlife Animals images

Check out these wildlife animals images:


white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus
wildlife animals
Image by gr8dnes
white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, Shenandoah National Park; Big Meadows, Virginia, VA; mammals, {ruminants}; deer; herbivore, plant eater, ruminant, cud, ruminants, smallest deer in North America, grazing, nocturnal, crepuscular, speed, agile, abundant, animals; wildlife {undomesticated animals};


praying mantis, Mantis religiosa
wildlife animals
Image by gr8dnes
praying mantis, Mantis religiosa, Front Royal, Virginia, VA; animals; wildlife {undomesticated animals}; invertebrates; Insect;

Nice Photo Of Animals photos

A few nice photo of animals images I found:


kabfield
photo of animals
Image by qnr
Karen, Alinak and Boomer. Taken in a field outside of our place in Winnemucca, Nevada.


Close Up
photo of animals
Image by EJP Photo
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Pause
photo of animals
Image by EJP Photo

Cool Toy Animals images

Some cool toy animals images:


Floppy Bunny Thing
toy animals
Image by mrwalker
At the Glendale Toy Museum, Isle of Skye


toys r us
toy animals
Image by Wendkuni
DCIM6GOPRO

comes to life


toys r us
toy animals
Image by Wendkuni
DCIM6GOPRO

comes to life

Cool Video Of Animals images

Check out these video of animals images:


Sea Otter (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach 24 June 2010
video of animals
Image by mikebaird
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach near Northpoint bluff, Toro Lane and Beachcomber Dr., near the State Park Campground, Morro Bay, CA. recently shot and killed by someone, 24 June 2010, as determined by on site necropsy by Mike Harris of California Fish & Game. (ref. Michael Harris, Environmental Scientist/Sea Otter Biologist, Calif. Dept of Fish and Game, OSPR-Veterinary Services, 1385 Main Street, Morro Bay, CA 93442, 805.772.1135 office; 831.212.7090 cell; mikeharris [at} ospr.dfg.ca d o t gov. I (Mike Baird) found and reported this otter at 5:25 pm 24 June 2010. I pulled it from a rising tide at the waters edge to the highest adjacent point using a mutt mitt bag, and tagged the subject for Mike Harris’ attention. I left a message for him at 805.772.1135, emailed the first three images with GPS coordinates to him and to Flickr, and moments later Mike Harris responded and was on the scene. These graphic images document the on site necropsy process, and, as can be seen, a bullet (lead pellet?) was found in the skull of the baby otter and recent blood trauma was found around the wound under the skin and on the skull. By request, these graphic images and videos were not immediately published in public view here on Flickr, pending permission by Fish and Game, as they wanted to address how to best handle publication of such crime scene information to optimize their ability to prosecute this crime.
To use this photo, see access, attribution, and commenting recommendations at www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit -
Please add comments/notes/tags to add to or correct information, identification, etc.
Please, no comments or invites with images, multiple invites, award levels, flashing icons, or award/post rules.

Last week 6/24/2010 I found a sea otter that had been shot and killed on Morro Strand.
Mike Harris of CA Fish & Game came and performed an onsite necropsy, which I documented with an iPhone camera.
Until this moment I had been requested to withhold publishing these images and videos showing the cause of death.
The images and videos have now been approved for publication, and are exposed at Flickr.

Warning, these are graphic images showing blood and guts and the bullet/pellet projectile and hole in cranium.
they are posted for educational purposes, and hopefully to spur someone who might have witnessed this crime to report the culprit to the authorities.

The set is at
www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/sets/72157624227202983/

Here is a copy of the official press release.
********************
California Department of Fish and Game News Release

June 30, 2010

Contact: Warden Hank Hodel, DFG Law Enforcement, (805) 610-3920
Kirsten Macintyre, DFG Communications, (916) 322-8988

Information Sought on Sea Otter Shooting on Morro Bay Beach

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is seeking information about a
sea otter that was shot in Morro Bay on Thursday, June 24.

The young female otter was found just north of the Morro Strand
Campground along the beach in Morro Bay. Wardens estimate that the
animal was killed by a shot to the head between 9 a.m. and noon. A
necropsy was conducted and the weapon was determined to be a pellet gun.

DFG is seeking witnesses or any information related to the shooting.
Anyone with information is urged to contact DFG Warden Hank Hodel at
(805) 610-3920. An anonymous report can also be made by calling DFG’s
CalTIP line, 1-888-DFG-CALTIP.

Sea otters are federally protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act
and the Code of Federal Regulations. If convicted of shooting an otter,
an individual can face up to ,000 in fines.
###
Subscribe to DFG News via email or RSS feed. Go to www.dfg.ca.gov/news.

Cool Animals That Are Extinct images

Some cool animals that are extinct images:


Osage Orange, Bois D'Arc, Hedge Apple, Maclura pomifera...#6
animals that are extinct
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Taken on June 11, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America

Vietnamese named :
Common names : Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Horse-apple, Bois D'Arc, Bodark, Bodock.
Scientist name : Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid.
Synonyms :
Family : Moraceae / Mulberry family . Họ Dâu Tằm .
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Urticales
Genus: Maclura Nutt. – maclura
Species: Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid. – osage orange

**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MAPO

**** www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Maclura+pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.
SynonymsM. aurantiaca. Toxylon pommifera.
Known Hazards The milky sap can cause dermatitis in some people[200]. An extract and the juice of the fruit is toxic, though a 10% aqueous infusion and extract diluted 1:1 are not toxic[240].
HabitatsWoods, fields and thickets in rich bottom lands[73, 83].
RangeSoutheastern N. America - Arkansas to Texas.

Edible Uses
One report suggests that the fruit is edible[74] but this is surely a mistake - although very large, the fruit is harsh, hard, dry and astringent. The fruit does, however, contain an anti-oxidant which can be used as a food preservative, especially for oils[61]. The heartwood and the root yield a non-toxic antibiotic that is useful as a food preservative[240].

Medicinal Uses


Plants For A Future can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally.

Cardiac; Ophthalmic.

A tea made from the roots has been used as a wash for sore eyes[222, 257]. The inedible fruits contain antioxidant and fungicidal compounds[222]. A 10% aqueous infusion and an extract diluted 1:1 have cardiovascular potentialities[240].
Other Uses
Dye; Fuel; Hedge; Hedge; Preservative; Repellent; Shelterbelt; Tannin; Wood.

A yellow dye is obtained from the bark of the root and the wood[46, 57, 95, 149, 169, 257]. Green and orange can also be obtained from it[168]. The sap of the fruit is used as an insect repellent[95]. It is said to be effective against cockroaches[222]. The bark is a source of tannin[82, 149]. The plant is often grown as a hedge in N. America and Europe[1, 20, 50], it is very tolerant of severe pruning[200], makes an effective stock-proof barrier[200] and succeeds in maritime exposure[K]. A hedge in a very exposed position at Rosewarne in N. Cornwall has grown well (1989), though it is very bare in winter[K]. This species is also used in shelterbelt plantings[200]. Wood - coarse-grained, exceedingly hard, heavy, flexible, very strong, very durable, silky, lustrous. It weighs 48lb per cubic foot. One of the most durable woods in N. America, it is seldom used commercially, but is used locally for fence posts,piers, bows etc and makes an excellent fuel[46, 82, 95, 171, 200, 227, 229, 274].

**** www.gpnc.org/osage.htm : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE, please.

Are Osage Oranges edible?
Chop one in half and you will see a pithy core surrounded by up to 200 small seeds (smaller than sunflower seeds) that are much sought-after by squirrels. Try to harvest these seeds for yourself and you will get a clear understanding of how much the squirrels must like them! In addition to ripping apart the tough, stringy fruit, there is a slimy husk around each individual seed that must also be removed before the seed can be eaten. Nonetheless, Osage Orange trees are a magnet for every squirrel in the neighborhood. They typically sit on the ground at the base of the tree or on a wide branch up in the tree to disassemble their prize, making a big mess in the process. Piles of shredded hedge apple are a sure sign of squirrels in the area.
The seeds are edible by people, but one must do like the squirrels and pick them out of the pulpy matrix and remove the slimy husk. This is the only part of the fruit that people can eat. Cattle are sometimes tempted to eat the fruit and may choke on them if they do not chew them up sufficiently.

Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, many thousands of miles of hedge were constructed by planting young Osage Orange trees closely together in a line. The saplings were aggressively pruned to promote bushy growth. "Horse high, bull strong and hog tight." Those were the criteria for a good hedge made with Osage Orange. Tall enough that a horse would not jump it, stout enough that a bull would not push through it and woven so tightly that even a hog could not find its way through! After barbed wire made hedge fences obsolete, the trees still found use as a source of unbeatable fence posts. The wood is strong and so dense that it will neither rot nor succumb to the attacks of termites or other insects for decades. The trees also found use as an effective component of windbreaks and shelterbelts.

How do you grow Osage Oranges?

The tree is easily grown from the seeds, but it is a challenge to separate the seeds from the fruit. One technique for separating the seeds is to drop a fruit into a bucket of water and wait until it gets a little mushy, then do the separation. Late season freezes combined with damp conditions will accomplish the same task for ones left on the ground. Plant individual seeds taken from a fully mature fruit (wait until they start falling on the ground). You can start them in pots inside, but you can have good luck growing them outside in a planting bed too - its just more difficult to transplant them when they are started in the ground.

The trees will be either male or female, and only the females will produce hedge balls. The trees become sexually mature by age 10 and there is no easy way to determine the gender prior to then.

The trees can grow quickly in a good location with ideal growing conditions. They make a decent shade tree within ten years. If you are wanting to grow a hedgerow, plant them no more than five feet apart and plan to thin them as they get bigger.

If you are considering growing them, think twice and make sure you want to do this! The trees can spread and become a real problem in pastures. The thorny branches make pruning difficult, and the thorns can easily cause flat tires - even through the thick tread of a tractor tire. You certainly don't want to step on one barefoot!

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.

Osajin and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant also contains the flavonol morin.
It was once thought that placing an Osage orange under the bed would repel spiders and insects. This practice has declined with the rise of synthetic insecticides. However, scientific studies have found that extracts of Osage orange do repel several insect species, in some studies just as well as the widely-used synthetic insecticide DEET

...................................................................

Distribution
Osage-orange occurred historically in the Red River drainage of Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas and in the Blackland Prairies, Post Oak Savannas, and Chisos Mountains of Texas.[6] It has been widely naturalized in the United States and Ontario.

Ecological aspects
The fruit has a pleasant and mild odor, but is inedible for the most part. Although it is not strongly poisonous, eating it may cause vomiting. However, the seeds of the fruit are edible. The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source. This is unusual, as most large fleshy fruit serves the function of seed dispersal by means of its consumption by large animals. One recent hypothesis is that the Osage-orange fruit was eaten by a giant ground sloth that became extinct shortly after the first human settlement of North America. Other extinct Pleistocene megafauna, such as the mammoth, mastodon and gomphothere, may have fed on the fruit and aided in seed dispersal.[7] An equine species that went extinct at the same time also has been suggested as the plant's original dispersal agent because modern horses and other livestock will sometimes eat the fruit
...............................................................................
Uses

The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names, "hedge apple". It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Great Plains Shelterbelt" WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles (29,900 km).[9] The sharp-thorned trees were also planted as cattle-deterring hedges before the introduction of barbed wire and afterwards became an important source of fence posts.
The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is prized for tool handles, treenails, fence posts, and other applications requiring a strong dimensionally stable wood that withstands rot. Straight-grained osage timber (most is knotty and twisted) makes very good bows. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good Osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.[5] Additionally, a yellow-orange dye can be extracted from the wood, which can be used as a substitute for fustic and aniline dyes. When dried, the wood has the highest BTU content of any commonly available North American wood, and burns long and hot.[10][11]
The fruit was once used to repel spiders by placing one under the bed. Various studies have found elemol, an extract of Osage orange, to repel several species of mosquitos, cockroaches, crickets, and ticks.[12] One study found elemol to be as effective a mosquito repellant as DEET.[13] A patent was awarded in 2012 for an insect repelling device using Osage orange

History

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.[5] It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804. The samples, donated by "Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage Nation" according to Lewis's letter, didn't take, but later the thorny Osage-orange was widely naturalized throughout the U.S.[15] In 1810, Bradbury relates that he found two trees growing in the garden of Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers of St. Louis (apparently "Peter Choteau").[5]
The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by Native Americans.[5] Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many modern bowyers assert the wood of the Osage-orange is superior even to English Yew for this purpose, though this opinion is by no means unanimous. The trees are also known as "bodark" or "bodarc" trees, most likely originating from a corruption of "bois d'arc." The Comanches also used this wood for their bows.[16] It was popular with them because it is strong, flexible and durable. This tree was common along river bottoms of the Comanchería.


Osage Orange, Bois D'Arc, Hedge Apple, Maclura pomifera...# 10
animals that are extinct
Image by Vietnam Plants & The USA. plants
Taken on June 11, 2012 in Waco city, Texas state, Southern of America

Vietnamese named :
Common names : Osage Orange, Hedge Apple, Horse-apple, Bois D'Arc, Bodark, Bodock.
Scientist name : Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid.
Synonyms :
Family : Moraceae / Mulberry family . Họ Dâu Tằm .
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Hamamelididae
Order: Urticales
Genus: Maclura Nutt. – maclura
Species: Maclura pomifera (Raf.) C.K. Schneid. – osage orange

**** plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MAPO

**** www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Maclura+pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.
SynonymsM. aurantiaca. Toxylon pommifera.
Known Hazards The milky sap can cause dermatitis in some people[200]. An extract and the juice of the fruit is toxic, though a 10% aqueous infusion and extract diluted 1:1 are not toxic[240].
HabitatsWoods, fields and thickets in rich bottom lands[73, 83].
RangeSoutheastern N. America - Arkansas to Texas.

Edible Uses
One report suggests that the fruit is edible[74] but this is surely a mistake - although very large, the fruit is harsh, hard, dry and astringent. The fruit does, however, contain an anti-oxidant which can be used as a food preservative, especially for oils[61]. The heartwood and the root yield a non-toxic antibiotic that is useful as a food preservative[240].

Medicinal Uses


Plants For A Future can not take any responsibility for any adverse effects from the use of plants. Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally.

Cardiac; Ophthalmic.

A tea made from the roots has been used as a wash for sore eyes[222, 257]. The inedible fruits contain antioxidant and fungicidal compounds[222]. A 10% aqueous infusion and an extract diluted 1:1 have cardiovascular potentialities[240].
Other Uses
Dye; Fuel; Hedge; Hedge; Preservative; Repellent; Shelterbelt; Tannin; Wood.

A yellow dye is obtained from the bark of the root and the wood[46, 57, 95, 149, 169, 257]. Green and orange can also be obtained from it[168]. The sap of the fruit is used as an insect repellent[95]. It is said to be effective against cockroaches[222]. The bark is a source of tannin[82, 149]. The plant is often grown as a hedge in N. America and Europe[1, 20, 50], it is very tolerant of severe pruning[200], makes an effective stock-proof barrier[200] and succeeds in maritime exposure[K]. A hedge in a very exposed position at Rosewarne in N. Cornwall has grown well (1989), though it is very bare in winter[K]. This species is also used in shelterbelt plantings[200]. Wood - coarse-grained, exceedingly hard, heavy, flexible, very strong, very durable, silky, lustrous. It weighs 48lb per cubic foot. One of the most durable woods in N. America, it is seldom used commercially, but is used locally for fence posts,piers, bows etc and makes an excellent fuel[46, 82, 95, 171, 200, 227, 229, 274].

**** www.gpnc.org/osage.htm : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE, please.

Are Osage Oranges edible?
Chop one in half and you will see a pithy core surrounded by up to 200 small seeds (smaller than sunflower seeds) that are much sought-after by squirrels. Try to harvest these seeds for yourself and you will get a clear understanding of how much the squirrels must like them! In addition to ripping apart the tough, stringy fruit, there is a slimy husk around each individual seed that must also be removed before the seed can be eaten. Nonetheless, Osage Orange trees are a magnet for every squirrel in the neighborhood. They typically sit on the ground at the base of the tree or on a wide branch up in the tree to disassemble their prize, making a big mess in the process. Piles of shredded hedge apple are a sure sign of squirrels in the area.
The seeds are edible by people, but one must do like the squirrels and pick them out of the pulpy matrix and remove the slimy husk. This is the only part of the fruit that people can eat. Cattle are sometimes tempted to eat the fruit and may choke on them if they do not chew them up sufficiently.

Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, many thousands of miles of hedge were constructed by planting young Osage Orange trees closely together in a line. The saplings were aggressively pruned to promote bushy growth. "Horse high, bull strong and hog tight." Those were the criteria for a good hedge made with Osage Orange. Tall enough that a horse would not jump it, stout enough that a bull would not push through it and woven so tightly that even a hog could not find its way through! After barbed wire made hedge fences obsolete, the trees still found use as a source of unbeatable fence posts. The wood is strong and so dense that it will neither rot nor succumb to the attacks of termites or other insects for decades. The trees also found use as an effective component of windbreaks and shelterbelts.

How do you grow Osage Oranges?

The tree is easily grown from the seeds, but it is a challenge to separate the seeds from the fruit. One technique for separating the seeds is to drop a fruit into a bucket of water and wait until it gets a little mushy, then do the separation. Late season freezes combined with damp conditions will accomplish the same task for ones left on the ground. Plant individual seeds taken from a fully mature fruit (wait until they start falling on the ground). You can start them in pots inside, but you can have good luck growing them outside in a planting bed too - its just more difficult to transplant them when they are started in the ground.

The trees will be either male or female, and only the females will produce hedge balls. The trees become sexually mature by age 10 and there is no easy way to determine the gender prior to then.

The trees can grow quickly in a good location with ideal growing conditions. They make a decent shade tree within ten years. If you are wanting to grow a hedgerow, plant them no more than five feet apart and plan to thin them as they get bigger.

If you are considering growing them, think twice and make sure you want to do this! The trees can spread and become a real problem in pastures. The thorny branches make pruning difficult, and the thorns can easily cause flat tires - even through the thick tread of a tractor tire. You certainly don't want to step on one barefoot!

**** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera : CLICK ON LINK TO READ MORE , please.

Osajin and Pomiferin are flavonoid pigments present in the wood and fruit, comprising about 10% of the fruit's dry weight. The plant also contains the flavonol morin.
It was once thought that placing an Osage orange under the bed would repel spiders and insects. This practice has declined with the rise of synthetic insecticides. However, scientific studies have found that extracts of Osage orange do repel several insect species, in some studies just as well as the widely-used synthetic insecticide DEET

...................................................................

Distribution
Osage-orange occurred historically in the Red River drainage of Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas and in the Blackland Prairies, Post Oak Savannas, and Chisos Mountains of Texas.[6] It has been widely naturalized in the United States and Ontario.

Ecological aspects
The fruit has a pleasant and mild odor, but is inedible for the most part. Although it is not strongly poisonous, eating it may cause vomiting. However, the seeds of the fruit are edible. The fruit is sometimes torn apart by squirrels to get at the seeds, but few other native animals make use of it as a food source. This is unusual, as most large fleshy fruit serves the function of seed dispersal by means of its consumption by large animals. One recent hypothesis is that the Osage-orange fruit was eaten by a giant ground sloth that became extinct shortly after the first human settlement of North America. Other extinct Pleistocene megafauna, such as the mammoth, mastodon and gomphothere, may have fed on the fruit and aided in seed dispersal.[7] An equine species that went extinct at the same time also has been suggested as the plant's original dispersal agent because modern horses and other livestock will sometimes eat the fruit
...............................................................................
Uses

The Osage-orange is commonly used as a tree row windbreak in prairie states, which gives it one of its colloquial names, "hedge apple". It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Great Plains Shelterbelt" WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30,233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18,600 miles (29,900 km).[9] The sharp-thorned trees were also planted as cattle-deterring hedges before the introduction of barbed wire and afterwards became an important source of fence posts.
The heavy, close-grained yellow-orange wood is very dense and is prized for tool handles, treenails, fence posts, and other applications requiring a strong dimensionally stable wood that withstands rot. Straight-grained osage timber (most is knotty and twisted) makes very good bows. In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good Osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.[5] Additionally, a yellow-orange dye can be extracted from the wood, which can be used as a substitute for fustic and aniline dyes. When dried, the wood has the highest BTU content of any commonly available North American wood, and burns long and hot.[10][11]
The fruit was once used to repel spiders by placing one under the bed. Various studies have found elemol, an extract of Osage orange, to repel several species of mosquitos, cockroaches, crickets, and ticks.[12] One study found elemol to be as effective a mosquito repellant as DEET.[13] A patent was awarded in 2012 for an insect repelling device using Osage orange

History

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.[5] It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804. The samples, donated by "Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage Nation" according to Lewis's letter, didn't take, but later the thorny Osage-orange was widely naturalized throughout the U.S.[15] In 1810, Bradbury relates that he found two trees growing in the garden of Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers of St. Louis (apparently "Peter Choteau").[5]
The trees acquired the name bois d'arc, or "bow-wood", from early French settlers who observed the wood being used for war clubs and bow-making by Native Americans.[5] Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation "esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it." Many modern bowyers assert the wood of the Osage-orange is superior even to English Yew for this purpose, though this opinion is by no means unanimous. The trees are also known as "bodark" or "bodarc" trees, most likely originating from a corruption of "bois d'arc." The Comanches also used this wood for their bows.[16] It was popular with them because it is strong, flexible and durable. This tree was common along river bottoms of the Comanchería.


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Colca Canyon, seen from the Cruz del Condor mirador ...

From Wikipedia -
Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. It is located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Arequipa. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States at 4,160 m., and it is promoted as the "world's deepest canyon," although the canyon's walls are not as vertical as those of the Grand Canyon. The Colca Valley is a colorful Andean valley with towns founded in Spanish Colonial times, and still inhabited by people of the Collaguas and the Cabanas cultures. The local people still maintain ancestral traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces.

he Colca River starts high in the Andes at Condorama Crucero Alto; below the Colca canyon, as it crosses the plains of Majes it is known as the Majes River, and then is known as the Camana before reaching the Pacific Ocean at the town of that name. Parts of the canyon are habitable, and Inca and pre-Inca terraces are still cultivated along the less precipitous canyon walls. The small town of Chivay is on the upper Colca River, where the canyon is not so deep but where many terraces are present in the canyon, continuing for many kilometers downstream. As the canyon deepens downriver, a series of small villages is spread out over the approximately 35 miles (56 km) between Chivay and the village of Cabanaconde. The canyon reaches its greatest depth in the region of Huambo, where the river has an elevation of 3,497-ft (1,066-m); in contrast, about 15 miles (24 km) to the southeast of Cabanaconde rises the 20,630-ft (6,288-m) Nevado Ampato, a snow-capped extinct volcano.

The valley lies between the Callalli and Huambo districts of the Caylloma Province.

The canyon is home to the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus), a species that has seen worldwide effort to preserve it. The condors can be seen at fairly close range as they fly past the canyon walls, and are an increasingly popular attraction. 'Cruz del Condor' is a popular tourist stop to view the condors, an overlook where condors soar gracefully on thermals of warm rising from the canyon. The condors are best seen in the early morning, and late afternoon when they are hunting. At this point the canyon floor is 3,960 ft (1,200 m) below the rim of the canyon.

Other notable bird species present in the Colca include the Giant Colibri, the largest member of the hummingbird family; the Andean Goose; Chilean Flamingo; and Mountain Caracara. Animals include the vizcacha, a rabbit-sized relative of the chinchilla; zorrino, a member of the skunk family; deer; fox; and vicuna, the wild ancestor of the alpaca.

The La Calera natural hot springs are located at Chivay, the biggest town in the Colca Canyon. Other hot springs, some developed for tourist use, are dotted throughout the valley and canyon.
Archeological sites include: the caves of Mollepunko, above Callalli, where rock art (said to be 6,000 years old) depicts the domestication of the alpaca; the mummy of Paraqra, above Sibayo; the Fortaleza de Chimpa, a reconstructed mountaintop citadel below Madrigal; ruins of pre-Hispanic settlements throughout the valley; and many others.

Activities include hiking, mountain biking, trekking, mountaineering, rafting, fishing, and sightseeing.

Cultural attractions: festivals throughout the year, including the Wititi festival in Chivay, December 8-11; the Wititi has been declared the dance most representative of the Arequipa region, and named as a "cultural heritage" of Peru. The Colca is also well-known for two forms of crafts: goods knitted from 100% baby alpaca fiber (hats, gloves, etc.), and a unique form of embroidery that adorns skirts (polleras), hats, vests, and other items of daily wear and use.

Other attractions: the most distant source of the Amazon River is accessible from the Colca valley via Tuti, a one-day trip to a spring at 16,800-ft (5,120-m), where snowmelt from Nevado Mismi bursts from a rock face; the Infiernillo geyser, on the flanks of Nevado Huallca Huallca, accessible on foot, horseback, or mountain bicycle; and a number of "casas vivenciales," where tourists can stay with a local family in their home, and share in their daily activities.

Autocolca, an autonomous authority created by law in the 1980's, is responsible for tourism promotion and management in the Colca valley; they require purchase of a "tourist ticket" currently valued at 35 Nuevos Soles (roughly .50) from foreign visitors, half that for Peruvian nationals, to enter the Colca tourist zone.

The name Colca refers to small granaries of mud and stone, built into the cliffs in the valley and canyon. These repositories were used in Inca and pre-Inca times to store food, such as potatoes, quinoa, and other Andean crops. They were also used as tombs for important people.

The quechua-speaking Cabanas, probably descended from the Wari culture, and the Aymara-speaking Collaguas, who moved to the area from the Lake Titicaca region, inhabited the valley in the pre-Inca era. The Inca probably arrived in the Colca valley around 1320 AD, and established their dominion through marriage, rather than through warfare. The Spaniards, under Gonzalo Pizarro, arrived in 1540, and in the 1570's the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered the inhabitants to leave their scattered settlements and to move to a series of centrally-located pueblos, which remain the principal towns of the valley. Franciscan missionaries built the first chapel in the valley in 1565, and the first church in 1569 (Coporaque).

No passable roads existed between Arequipa and Chivay until the 1940's, when a road was completed to serve the silver and copper mines of the region. In the 1970s and 80's, the Majes Hydroelectric Project--which diverted water from the Colca River to irrigate crops in the Majes region--built roads within the valley, and opened the area to outsiders. Access today is usually via Arequipa.

In May of 1981, the Polish "Canoandes" rafting expedition made the first descent of the river below Cabanaconde, and proclaimed the possibility of its being the world's deepest canyon. It was so recognized by the Guinness Book of Records in 1986, and a National Geographic article in January of 1993 repeated the claim. The joint Polish/Peruvian "Cañon del Colca 2005" expedition verified the altitudes of the river and the surrounding heights via GPS in 2005.

Tourism has exploded since the publicity of the 1980's and 1990's, increasing from a few thousand visitors annually, to nearly 150,000 visitors in 2010.

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These pics were all taken @150mm focal length or greater.

i seperated these fro mthe rest as i discovered them to be extremely soft especially when taken with the widest aperture available. Some pics taken at F/8 or greater are useable but still soft.

cos of these pics i have replaced my kit 50-200mm pentax lens with a tamron 28-300 which seems to be sharp all the way through the focal length ... gosh darn it ... i guess i have to go back to Chester Zoo :)))))

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20060912 - Misfit savages a vole - 106-0650
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Misfit "plays" with his prey while getting tangled up in the leg of our outdoor fireplace.

For video of Misfit attacking the vole: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnhJWHpB1d4

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Winston is a nine year old German Shorthaired Pointer we met on the ferry from Chrisfield, MD to Smith Island. He's a very sweet, 110 pound, dog.


Coyotes in Jasper
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The color of the coyote's pelt varies from grayish brown to yellowish gray on the upper parts, while the throat and belly tend to have a buff or white color. The forelegs, sides of the head, muzzle and paws are reddish brown. The back has tawny-colored underfur and long, black-tipped guard hairs that form a black dorsal stripe and a dark cross on the shoulder area. The black-tipped tail has a scent gland located on its dorsal base. Coyotes shed once a year, beginning in May with light hair loss, ending in July after heavy shedding. The ears are proportionately large in relation to the head, while the feet are relatively small in relation to the rest of the body. Certain experts have noted that the shape of a domestic dog's brain case is closer to the coyote's in shape than the wolf's. Mountain dwelling coyotes tend to be dark furred while desert coyotes tend to be more yellowish in color.

Coyotes typically grow up to 30–34 in (76–86 cm) in length, not counting a tail of 12–16 in (30–41 cm), stand about 23–26 in (58–66 cm) at the shoulder and, on average, weigh from 15–46 lb (6.8–21 kg) .[5][12] Northern coyotes are typically larger than southern subspecies, with the largest coyotes on record weighing 74¾ pounds (33.7 kg) and measuring over five feet in total length.

The coyote's dental formula is I 3/3, C 1/1, Pm 4/4, M usually 2/2, occasionally 3/3, 3/2, or 2/3 × 2 = 40, 42, or 44.[14] Normal spacing between the upper canine teeth is 1⅛–1⅜ inches (29–35 mm) and 1–1¼ inches (25–32 mm) between the lower canine teeth.

The upper frequency limit of hearing for coyotes is 80 KHz, compared to the 60 kHz of domestic dogs.[16] Compared to wolves, and similarly to domestic dogs, coyotes have a higher density of sweat glands on their paw pads. This trait, however, is absent in the large New England coyotes, which are thought to have some wolf ancestry.

During pursuit, a coyote may reach speeds up to 43 mph (69 km/h), and can jump a distance of over 13+1⁄8 ft (4.0 m).

- Wikipedia

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Untitled
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Description: Thomas Smillie was the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography. He and his studio staff re-shot many of the photographs collected by the institution's scientists, including documentation of Smithsonian-sponsored expeditions as well as images of scientific phenomena.

Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie's duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum's installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie's documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution's art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.

Medium: Cyanotype

Culture: American

Date: 1890

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) - Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.

Accession number: RU95_Box76_055

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Feeding Bhopu the Greater one-horned male Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
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The Indian rhinoceros or the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is now found almost exclusively in Nepal and North-Eastern India. The Indian rhinoceros has thick, silver-brown skin which creates huge folds all over its body. Its upper legs and shoulders are covered in wart-like bumps, and it has very little body hair.

Bhopu is at the San Diego Safari Park in Escondido, CA. The rhino's single horn is present in both males and females, but not on newborn young. The black horn, like human fingernails, is pure keratin and starts to show after about 6 years. Bhopu's has been worn down naturally by rubbing on trees and rocks.

Photographed at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, CA


Feeding Bhopu the Greater one-horned male Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
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The Indian rhinoceros or the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is now found almost exclusively in Nepal and North-Eastern India. The Indian rhinoceros has thick, silver-brown skin which creates huge folds all over its body. Its upper legs and shoulders are covered in wart-like bumps, and it has very little body hair.

Bhopu is at the San Diego Safari Park in Escondido, CA. The rhino's single horn is present in both males and females, but not on newborn young. The black horn, like human fingernails, is pure keratin and starts to show after about 6 years. Bhopu's has been worn down naturally by rubbing on trees and rocks.

Photographed at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, CA


Feeding Bhopu the Greater one-horned male Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
about endangered animals
Image by warriorwoman531
The Indian rhinoceros or the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is now found almost exclusively in Nepal and North-Eastern India. The Indian rhinoceros has thick, silver-brown skin which creates huge folds all over its body. Its upper legs and shoulders are covered in wart-like bumps, and it has very little body hair.

Bhopu is at the San Diego Safari Park in Escondido, CA. The rhino's single horn is present in both males and females, but not on newborn young. The black horn, like human fingernails, is pure keratin and starts to show after about 6 years. Bhopu's has been worn down naturally by rubbing on trees and rocks.

Photographed at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, CA

Manchester Regiment on a road in France, marching past on their way to the line

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This striking image shows the Manchester Regiment marching up a road through heavily wooded countryside. The men are being led by the Regimental Band. Five officers on horseback are watching them pass. One of the officers is reassuring his horse, another is holding the Regimental colours. On the other side of the road horse wagons are travelling in the opposite direction.

Wilfred Owen, the World War I poet, was a lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment. This gallant but futile display on the way to the Front seems in keeping with many of his poems.

[Original reads: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. The Manchester Ret. on a road in France marching past on their way to the line.']

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20071010 - Beavis - 139-3971-3973-3974 (triptych) - climbing up the side of the box
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Beavis loved playing in the box, so finally we set it upright and let him learn to jump out of it. He learned pretty fast! After a few tries, he could get out of it in 1 jump!

climbing, jumping.
Beavis the cat, TV box.
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Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

October 10, 2007.


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20071228 - Our New Year's party - 146-4687 - Erin & Beavis
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Erin sits with Beavis, after Carolyn trying to convince her to make Beavis do the proper hand signs for the song "YMCA", as featured in the YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEC9BniVDZ4

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Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

December 28, 2007.


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Action in Rome (italy)
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2nd World Day for the Abolition of Meat - a Report from Italy

22 towns answered the call for the Abolition of Meat, planning events on January 30-31.
An extraordinarily large number of veg*ans participated by demonstrating against farming, hunting and fishing: 100 persons in Milan, 50 in Turin, 35 in Pordenone, 30 in Rome...
The activists created effective happenings, with masks and chains, forming lively representations of the objectification of animals and of mourning for their butchery, showing videos of animal exploitation and
filling the air with the victims' cries. We displayed the significance of this tragedy and brought it to public attention, in order to voice what we ourselves seldom dare to say: end the ongoing slaughter!

We handed out thousands of flyers and quizzes on the life of farmed
animals (available here: aboliamolacarne.blogspot.com/2010/01/materiali-per-la-sec... ).

The happenings were well covered by the medias: many newspapers and radios talked about the abolition of meat , reporting local demos, and the national TV followed the demos in Milan and Pordenone.

Complete reports with photos and videos from each town will be available on aboliamolacarne.blogspot.com. Photo gallery here: picasaweb.google.it/abolizionecarne

Some videos:
Pordenone (I): www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVro1DT9inE

Pordenone (II): www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWWDALVjqA
Pordenone (III): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxFyd9yvI4
Olbia (I): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dXy29DfqFk
Olbia (II): www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Qfi3_n7xI
Olbia (III): www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3-I8QHeY0

The Italian Network for the Abolition of Meat wishes to thank all the
activists for their contribution and hopes to see them soon.

We are happy to inform that Italy is planning another Day for the
Abolition of Meat on April 17-18!

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Beaver
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The North American Beaver (Castor canadensis), also called the Canadian Beaver (which is also the name of a subspecies), American Beaver, or simply Beaver in North America, is native to Canada, much of the United States and parts of northern Mexico. The chief feature distinguishing C. canadensis from C. fiber is the form of the nasal bones of the skull.] This species was introduced to the Argentine and Chilean Tierra del Fuego, as well as Finland, France, Poland and Russia.

The North American beaver's preferred food is the water-lily (Nuphar luteum), which bears a resemblance to a cabbage-stalk, and grows at the bottom of lakes and rivers. Beavers also gnaw the bark of birch, poplar, and willow trees; but during the summer a more varied herbage, with the addition of berries, is consumed. These animals are often trapped for their fur. During the early 19th century, trapping eliminated this animal from large portions of its original range. However, through trap and transfer and habitat conservation it made a nearly complete recovery by the 1940s. Beaver reintroduction in British Columbia was facilitated by Eric Collier as recounted in his book Three Against the Wilderness. Beaver furs were used to make clothing and top-hats. Much of the early exploration of North America was driven by the quest for this animal's fur. Native peoples and early settlers also ate this animal's meat. The current beaver population has been estimated to be 10 to 15 million; one estimate claims that there may at one time have been as many as 90 million.

-Wikipedia


Swimming Beaver
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The North American Beaver (Castor canadensis), also called the Canadian Beaver (which is also the name of a subspecies), American Beaver, or simply Beaver in North America, is native to Canada, much of the United States and parts of northern Mexico. The chief feature distinguishing C. canadensis from C. fiber is the form of the nasal bones of the skull.] This species was introduced to the Argentine and Chilean Tierra del Fuego, as well as Finland, France, Poland and Russia.

The North American beaver's preferred food is the water-lily (Nuphar luteum), which bears a resemblance to a cabbage-stalk, and grows at the bottom of lakes and rivers. Beavers also gnaw the bark of birch, poplar, and willow trees; but during the summer a more varied herbage, with the addition of berries, is consumed. These animals are often trapped for their fur. During the early 19th century, trapping eliminated this animal from large portions of its original range. However, through trap and transfer and habitat conservation it made a nearly complete recovery by the 1940s. Beaver reintroduction in British Columbia was facilitated by Eric Collier as recounted in his book Three Against the Wilderness. Beaver furs were used to make clothing and top-hats. Much of the early exploration of North America was driven by the quest for this animal's fur. Native peoples and early settlers also ate this animal's meat. The current beaver population has been estimated to be 10 to 15 million; one estimate claims that there may at one time have been as many as 90 million.

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Seminole Canyon State Park, Val Verde County, Texas. One of the more remote state parks, tucked into the southwest corner of Texas about an hour's drive west of Del Rio.

This area has been inhabited since the very earliest days that humans set foot in North America, going back nearly 12,000 years - back during the last Ice Age when the land was more verdant with now-extinct animals still roaming the surrounding prairies and forest. But over the millenia, the climate changed to its current, arid desert landscape - and the Indians adapted.

All through these years, the local Indians drew pictograms all over the surrounding canyon walls and caves. In the dry climate, protected by overhanging rock walls, many of these pictograms survived through the ages. Some of the more famous sites, such as the Fate Bell and Panther Cave, are the feature attractions of Seminole Canyon, and can be visited by guided tour through the park.

However, I have not yet visited these sites - instead focusing on other areas of the park. On the first visit (March 9th, 2008), I arrived after the park had closed for the day. I walked along the short 'Windmill Trail', a small loop near the visitor's center. This trail leads down to a small year-round spring and the ruins of a water catchment system that was used by local settlers over the past hundred years.

The return trip (September 27, 2008) was much more fruitful - I chose to hike the Rio Grande River Trail, a six-mile out-and-back loop that leads to the far corner of the park, almost a stone's throw from Old Mexico. With recent rains it was fairly lively and green, with countless butterflies passing through on their annual migration. The trail starts alongside the original 'Loop Trail', the 1882 railroad alignment that was abandoned a decade later when a less strenuous route was forged and the Pecos River High Bridge was built.

The trail itself is pretty boring - a flat, featureless hike across a nondescript desert plain. But the main highlight of the hike quickly comes into view. There is a mile-long spur shooting off to the left called the Pressa Trail, which leads to an overlook looking down at a three-way intersection in the Seminole Canyon below. Here, the waters from Lake Amistad many miles away along the Rio Grande peter out; to the right, the waters are wide and deep, muddied from the recent rainstorms. To the left, the two forks of Seminole Canyon are mostly dry. From the top of the overlook, sheer cliffs lead staight down over a hundred feet to the waters below. The view is, well, *breathtaking* - and worth the trip.

Back on the main trail, a few miles later it comes to an abrupt end at the junction where Seminole Canyon merges with the Rio Grande. The location overlooks the Panther Cave pictograms, on the opposite shore far below, accessible only by boat. To the right, a few hundred yards away, are the hills of Mexico. Here, the water is deeper, the canyons steeper, the chasm wider. An impressive view, although not as amazing as the Pressa Trail overlook.

From here, it is a straight hike back along the south portion of the loop, my only companion a great horned toad trying to hide in the gravel of the trail. I would like to return to this park to take the guided tours, and there are other tours available nearby on private land to other pictogram sites as well. And I am told this park is also fabulous for bird watchers as well.

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Allen's swamp monkey (Allenopithecus nigroviridis) is a primate species that is categorized in its own genus Allenopithecus in the Old World monkey family. Allen's swamp monkey lives in the Congo Basin. This species prefers to live in swamp forests. Its skin is grey green at the top side. Its face is reddish with long hair bundles at the cheeks. The slight webbing of the fingers and toes point to its partially aquatic way of life.


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Interesting video from the birds eye view of an exotic bird watching at the sea of epSos.de where hungry ocean gulls attack fishermen for not giving them enough fish.

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The big, scary animals are eating while flying under sunny conditions and a calm water waves at the hot beach in Ecuador.

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Fred is gone....
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