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Leguminous plants for feeding goats

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Leguminous plants for feeding goats
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Goats feeding on leguminous plants. Photo by IITA. (file name: CO_017). ONLY low res file available.

Shop for the Holidays and Support the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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Shop for the Holidays and Support the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
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Shop for the Holidays and Support the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

This holiday season, shop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for gifts your loved ones will give a hoot, whoop and roar about! Spot a great find for the animal person in your life during your next visit to the Zoo, or shop the online catalogue. By giving a Zoo gift, you become a conservationist—all proceeds support animal care, science and research at the National Zoo.

Adopt a Species
Earlier this year, visitors met Kavi, the National Zoo’s newest—and presently its only—male Sumatran tiger. Kavi arrived in early June and settled nicely into his new home at the Great Cats exhibit, where keepers are introducing him to the Zoo’s young female tiger, Damai. Hopefully, the two will breed and produce cubs this winter!
Celebrate his arrival this holiday season with an Adopt a Species package that supports these fascinating felines. With a donation of or more, your special someone will receive a gift set that includes a cuddly plush tiger, a colorful photo, an adoption certificate and more delivered inside an “animal carrier” box.

There are plenty of other Adopt a Species packages, including a new package that includes a certificate, replica paw print of your adopted species and letter of appreciation. Proceeds from Adopt a Species support animal care, habitat improvement and enrichment at the Zoo. Visit the Zoo’s website to view all 16 Adopt a Species packages.

Learn more: nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/AdoptSpecies/.

For Children
Plush Wolf:
Two beautiful gray wolves named Crystal and Coby made their debut over the summer at the National Zoo’s new American Trail exhibit. In celebration of their arrival, the Zoo invites kids of all ages to bring home an animal friend with this soft plush wolf pup. Its distinctive expressions and realistic features make this 16” cuddly arm-full a great friend for any canine fan.

Learn more: nationalzoostore.tamretail.net/NavPage.aspx?navid=1000008.

Animal Purse:
Animal prints will always be fashionable! Stay in style with colorful owl and butterfly purses. Made of designer fabric, each purse features working zippers, an inside pocket and a sturdy 10”strap.

Learn more: nationalzoostore.tamretail.net/NavPage.aspx?navid=1000009.

For Your Favorite Zoo Animal

Gift giving is for the birds…and the apes…and the bears! What better way to honor your friends and family than to give a gift in their name while enriching the life of a special animal at the Zoo? Enrichment items encourage animals to use problem-solving skills and help give visitors a glimpse into the natural behaviors of their favorite fauna.

Love to shop? Check out the Enrichment Giving Tree wish list and drop off your gifts at the Zoo’s Visitor Center for the animal care staff to distribute. Prefer shopping from home? Choosing your favorite item is as easy as the click of a mouse in the Zoo’s online store—we’ll deliver your gifts straight to our animals. Can’t decide? Make a donation to the Zoo’s animal enrichment program.

Learn more: nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/MakeDonation/GivingTree.cfm.

Munch Balls,
The munch ball’s natural wicker construction makes this chewable toy suitable for any bird. The Zoo’s parrots like this enrichment, especially when filled with delicious grapes and other treats.

“Kabob” Skewer,
Keepers spear delicious fresh fruit or vegetables on to the Kabob Skewer and hang them in various places in each exhibit, encouraging the Zoo’s birds to forage as they would in the wild.

Tough Tire,
The tough tire is a great enrichment item for many species at the National Zoo. It floats and is strong enough to endure a playful sea lion’s jaws. A version with holes can even make a handy puzzle feeder for elephants and bears.

Bungee Ball, 6
Our great apes and big cats have a ball with the Bungee Ball! Why add a bungee cord to a hanging toy? It offers the Zoo’s animals a new challenge every time they interact with this enrichment and keeps their day-to-day life interesting and exciting.

Ball-inside-ball, 6
The ball-inside-ball is a favorite toy of the Zoo’s bears, primates, and small mammals. Sloth bears are entertained by the challenge of getting the smaller ball out of the larger one, especially when there’s food inside.

Leave a Legacy: Elephant Trails Commemorative Brick

The National Zoo is almost ready to reveal Phase II of Elephant Trails! In spring 2013, this exciting new exhibit will open to the Zoo’s multi-generational herd of Asian elephants, giving them additional space for exercise, shelter and stimulation. Trumpet your support for the Zoo’s elephants by purchasing a 4” X 8” Commemorative Brick. With a gift of 0, a brick will be engraved with your name and/or personalized message, installed in the surrounding walkway and displayed for decades to come. Life-size elephant footprints are available for larger donations. All proceeds support the Zoo’s Asian elephant breeding and research program.

Learn more: nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/AnnualAppeal/ElephantTrek/defa....

Leave a Legacy: Zoo Carousel

This November, National Zoo visitors will delight in the Zoo’s latest attraction: the Conservation Carousel! Opening just in time for ZooLights, the carousel features beloved species such as giant pandas, African lions, and cuttlefish. Adorned with colorful scenery, the top of the carousel highlights some of the world’s most beautiful and majestic birds in flight. Your 0 donation will sponsor a beautiful hand-painted and hand-carved scenery panel, shield or mural. Donors or their honorees will receive recognition on a plaque beneath their figure for 10 years.
Learn more: nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/MakeDonation/carousel.cfm.
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Day One Hundred Fifty
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Image by Dustin Diaz
150/365. Meow meow meow

Everyone, if you haven't met her already, this is Meow meow meow. (That's really her name). I had adopted her after as one of my (only) own after I met Erin. She is 84 years old according to this human to cat years calculator. It was only appropriate that she gets a special day like 150 (seemed like a good round number).

But of course, even if you're not into the strobist stuff... it's worth watching the setup for this one.

Also, a couple other things I want to mention. I noticed some folks have been requesting the 'ol black and white diagrams for the setup info since they are easier to study. I agree. But this is FREE information. Free as in beer. Other folks have requested that I remove the qutoed text on each picture. No. I'll keep doing whatever I think feels right.

Ok..

setup, camera, strobist info: see the video

Shop for the Holidays and Support the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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Beaver
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Image by JayMilesPhotography
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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Image by JayMilesPhotography
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

C.Harper's Lady

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C.Harper's Lady
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Image by eyewashdesign: A. Golden
Charlie Harper hand-painted signature: for Todd Oldham by La-z-Boy Artist event: 27 Sep. 2006

ARTIST BIO:

Prolific illustrator, Mr. Charlie Harper, is an artist respected for his colorful & reductive illustrations of nature & animals. Charley-as he prefers-was born on August 4th, 1922 in Frenchtown, West Virginia and served in World War II during his tenure as a student at the Arts Academy of Cincinnati.

In 1947 Charley graduated from art school, married his college love, Edie, & received the first-ever Wilder Traveling Award. Charley & Edie honored the award by traveling for several months across the western United States. Upon returning from his inspirational travels, Harper began working for a commercial art studio in Cincinnati.
After only a few years, he set off on his own as a freelance illustrator for clients including the Ford Motor Company; Golden Press; Crosley Broadcasting Corporation & the National Parks Service.

Charley Harper is both an artist & a conservationist, having designed posters that shed light on our disappearing natural world. In 2005, Harper created a poster for Cornell University's Bird Laboratory. Charley, Edie & their son, Brett live in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art will feature a retrospective of his prolific work starting 01 November, throughout 2007.

The work which appears here (Painted Bunting), is a limited silk-screen produced in 1952 for 'Ford Times', a now defunct lifestyle magazine produced by the Ford Motor Company and then later compiled for the now out of print book, 'Birds and Words'. Not only is Charley's appealing style clearly of the spare & modern tone we associate with the mid - century moment in art & design, he is also a capable naturalist who has been called, "THE Audubon of his time."

His depictions of flora & fauna convey with only the most necessary marks the essences of his subjects. He is also a humorist, yet does not anthropomorphize the animals he chooses to show us. One gets the sense that Mr. Harper doesn't feel the remove of human distance or superiority toward his subjects, while also respecting with a keen observational power the intricacies & sublime design that is occurring before our eyes & at all times in nature.

I was fortunate to have been a part of hosting an art exibit with him in SoHo. After 50 years, the bird silkscreens he produced for 'Ford Times Magazine' have come full-circle to help bring his name to the lips of several new generations...Go Charles!

His book, Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life designed by Todd Oldham, will be launcing in Spring, 2007. It is a collection of Charley's life's work from 1947-2006. Included will be: illustrated work from Betty Crocker's 'Dinner for Two', 'The Golden Book of Biology', 'The Animal Kingdom', 'Ford Times', National Parks Posters, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and many more!

The limited edition book, sized 18.5" x 13" (the actual size of Charley's silk-screen prints), is hardcover with an embossed box, includes a silk-screen print, 385 pages and over 500 images. The Popular Edition book, sized at 12" x 8.5" with an embossed cover, has 385 pages and over 500 images. It will be available Autumn, 2007.

Place of Elijah's Sacrifice on Mt. Carmel
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Image by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The one great name associated with Mount Germel is that of the prophet Elijah, and the one great event in the prophet's sacrifices in the sight of all Israel, when the solemn choice of the nation was made between Jehovah and Baal. Near the foot of the mountain overlooking the plain, stands a rocky plateau which tradition has fixed upon as the site of the two rival altars. Around one altar stood the four hundred priest of Ball, shouting hoarsely for their god to send the fire upon the waiting sacrifice, but calling in vain. By the other altar stood Elijah alone, the prophet of Jehovah, lifting his solitary voice to God. In a moment his prayer was answered; the fire fell from the heavens;the offering was burned; the water in the trench around it was licked up; even the dust upon the altar was consume and its stones were destroyed under the intense heat; while the people shouted with one voice. "Jehovah, He is God!""

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 010 035

You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here.

Want more? You can find more digital resources online.

We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website, or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.

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Ryder IMG_0297
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Image by maplegirlie
Ryder was adopted on Jan 26, 2010
:)

Below is her original ad from the Salt Lake County Animal Shelter:

My name is *RYDER*. I am an unaltered female, black and white Pit Bull Terrier.

I have been at the shelter since Nov 21, 2009.

Ask for Animal ID# A334043. You will find me in kennel K15.

Salt Lake County Animal Shelter/Services
511 West 3900 South
SLC, Utah 84123

(801) 559-1100

Geraldo is adopted quickly/ Geraldo fue adoptado rapido

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Geraldo is adopted quickly/ Geraldo fue adoptado rapido
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Image by AmazonCARES
We all love him so, and he was such a SMART dog. Yet, we must be joyful when a pet finds a family of his own. All adoptees receive a beautiful, high quality collar and lead due to the generosity of lupinepet.com.

Geraldo is named for Gerald Pool, a supporter and Advisor for Amazon CARES. Thank you Gerald!

www.amazoncares.org

El era un perrito muy inteligente y hermoso, pero es maravilloso cuando ellos encuentran su propia casa. Todas nuestras adopciones llevan un collar y un leash, gracias a su generosidad.

Baby Cavendish's Dik Dik (Madoqua kirkii cavendishi)
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Image by warriorwoman531
This adorable baby was born at the San Diego Zoo in December 2010.

Dik-diks are a type of small antelope that is native to eastern and south-western Africa named for the alarm calls of the females, which make a dik-dik, or zik-zik sound. In addition to the female's alarm call, both the male and female make a shrill whistling sound.

Puddles

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Puddles
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Image by pirate johnny
After I put on my Froggy shirt, I got 3 frogs as neighbors! Puddles would have been a better name for a dog though.

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Tiger spider with lunch
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Image by net_efekt
The common name of this beautiful spider is Wasp Spider. This spider is, like all orb-weavers, not poisonous for us. The adult female has a shining silvery cephalothorax (head) and a yellowish abdomen with black and white bars across it.

The adult female is much larger than the male. The male measures between 4 and 6 mm while the female has a full grown size between 14 - 17 mm.
When the female is loaded with eggs she can become enormous in size.
Argiopes can be easily identified by the zigzag of white silk in their webs. Like all orb-weavers, they have ringed legs.
The function of the zigzag of white silk in their web is not clear. There are several ideas what the purpose may be.

It may be used to attract insects because it is radiating UV-light and that attract insects. Another explanation is that it is to frighten predators. The spider shakes the web vigorously when something large is approaching and that result in a blurry white spot.
Another explanation can be that the spider makes the web clear to see and that should avoid large animals to destroy the web.

Read more about them + pix at: www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Araneidae/Argiope/ArgiopeB...

Happy Tails: Joselle
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Image by LollypopFarm
I wanted to give you an update on Joselle (a 2-year-old Harlequin -- she was named Honey when I meet her). I met Joselle at the PetSmart in Henrietta and adopted her Sept 3rd. It was love at first sight. I had to bring her home to meet my other bunny (at that time), a 3-month-old Lionhead named Diamant (German for Diamond). I had read that bunnies do better when they have a bunny partner to hang with...so Joselle was coming home to be a big sister to Dia.

Joselle is an absolute joy. It didn't take her long to come out of her shell, after being given up. Before we knew it, Joselle was running through the house and doing binkies 2 feet in the air. Her favorite thing is having her forehead pet. She is a treasure that I am so glad I found.

Diana W.

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DSC06429
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Image by BethanyWeeks
Fisher (Martes pennanti)

It is a medium-size mammal native to North America. It is a member of the mustelid family, commonly referred to as the weasel family. The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American Marten (Martes americana). The fisher is a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern fringes of the United States. Names derived from aboriginal languages include pekan, pequam, and wejack. It is also sometimes referred to as a fisher cat, though it is not a feline. Fishers are omnivorous and feed on a wide variety of small animals and occasionally fruits and mushrooms. They show a preference for the snowshoe hare and are one of the few predators able to hunt porcupine. Despite their name, fishers seldom eat fish. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_%28animal%29

Northwest Trek
December 27, 2011

sammywater
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Image by galina75
This is my dog at Bowen Park, Nanaimo. My dog's not a lab-type water lover. He likes to wade in and out rather than swim. It was a sunny day and he is about to take a sip of the waterfall's offering.

If you want to use this image please provide my name and a link to my site, New View (http://www.nuvunow.ca) underneath, because it will help bring people to my website, which strives to create health and happiness for people and animals.

Tibetan wild ass

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Tibetan wild ass
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Image by grand Yann
The kiang (Equus kiang) is the largest of the wild asses. It is native to the Tibetan Plateau, where it inhabits montane and alpine grasslands. Its current range is restricted to Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, plains of the Tibetan plateau and northern Nepal along the Tibetan border. Other common names for this species include Tibetan wild ass, khyang, and gorkhar.

Diplo Trio
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Image by Furryscaly
They're nibbly, curious, and fast for millipedes. Orthoporus species.

Check out my group for centipedes and millipedes, Myriapoda :)

RIP Shamrock, a stray bully dog that did not survive...

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RIP Shamrock, a stray bully dog that did not survive...
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Image by Beverly & Pack
My Name Was Shamrock

My name was Shamrock.
You never knew me but I existed.
I may have been a family pet at one time.
Discarded like last years Christmas present after the new wore off.
I may have been someones symbol of macho manhood.
Fighting in a bloody pit hidden in a garage.
I may have been the dog digging through your trash,
that you cursed and threw rocks at.
How many of you looked at me
and turned your head away
not wanting to see the ugliness of my abuse and neglect.
Had you looked at me , into my eyes,
Oh what you may have seen and learned.
I had love and companionship to give, kisses to share,

feelings .....
and many many wags of the tail that I rarely got to use.
I became resigned to the fact that the life I was living
was just the cards I been dealt.
Thin, dirty, sick, and not by any fault of mine,
a breed people happen to fear and loath.
One day , as I lie alone and close to death I saw a glimps of life,
the way it should have been for me.
A gentle hand with the touch of an angel stroked my filthy fur.

I heard a gentle voice tell me that I was worthy of love,
and there was a better life to be had.
I was taken to a place where people were not afraid of me.
I was given the name Shamrock , for luck.
Oh how I wish these people could have found me sooner.
I wanted so much to experience this life.
I tried so hard to regain the vigor and hope I once had.
I tried , but it was just to late.
I know you did all you could for me.
The last days of my life made up for the horror I had
experienced.
I wanted you to know...
my crossing was peaceful. Thanks to you.
I left feeling loved , warm and safe
Not to bad for a mangy, skinny dog with no name.
My name was Shamrock.

-auther unknown, shared by photographer Rebecca Snook Young

Note: Shamrock: a stray picked up by the shelter, severely emaciated and anemic. Donations were made but we were too late.....Shamrock had to be euthanized.

animalshorse
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Image by galina75
This photo was also taken at Bowen Park. I really love horses, and these little guys-miniatures-seemed so peaceful and sweet.

If you want to use this image please provide my name and a link to my site, New View (http://www.nuvunow.ca) underneath, because it will help bring people to my website, which strives to create health and happiness for people and animals.

Cheery pilot and observer with their mascot pup ready for a flight over the German lines
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Image by National Library of Scotland
Pilot and observer inside the cockpit of a two-man biplane, in France, during World War I. Holding up the regimental mascot of a pet dog and with big smiles on their faces, a pilot and an observer are pictured before setting out on a journey over enemy lines. Note the old-fashioned flying helmets and goggles that both men are wearing. The machine-gun fixed beside the rear cockpit has a swivel attachment on it, so that it can provide the plane with all-round firepower.

During 'the war to end all wars', an aerial battle between two or more aeroplanes was called a 'dogfight '. At the start of the conflict, fighter planes had two seats, with the pilot sitting in the front cockpit and a gunner-cum-observer occupying the rear cockpit. As the war continued, however, single-pilot aircraft became more prevalent, since these planes were clearly more effective during a 'dogfight'. During a 'dogfight ', pilots used cloud cover as an aerial form of camouflage, and often swooped down on their prey from out of the sun.

[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A cheery pilot and observer with their mascot pup ready for a flight over the German lines.']

digital.nls.uk/74549010

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for Rocky
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Image by steve loya
I thought I'd do an Illo Friday piece for Drawing Day 2010, which is officially today, and dedicate it to an old friend. A few years ago while walking the W&OD Trail in Leesburg, VA, I saw an injured box turtle. He stood there at the side of the trail looking at me with one open eye, the other severly damaged. As speedy bikers whizzed on by oblivious to this small creature, I wondered what to do. A friend suggested I take it to the local animal hospital, which I ended up doing. They performed surgery on his eye, which he was now blind in. I wondered what had happened to the turtle, whose habitat was being rapidly destroyed and replaced by apartment buildings, shopping centers and storage spaces. I named him Rocky because he was a true fighter and his bloodied eye reminded me of Stallone in the first Rocky film. My wife wanted to keep him but I knew he wouldn't thrive in captivity, so after a week of care I released him into an area not far from where he was found, yet deep enough in the woods where he hopefully was protected. I hope Rocky's doing well today.

*watercolors, acrylics, Pigma Micron pens in A4 watercolor Moleskine, 6/2010

Upside-down
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Image by BlueRidgeKitties
Lisa trying to squeeze upside down besides her litter box for a little snooze

Update 11/7/09: Little Lisa has been adopted and renamed Sweetpea. Certainly a fitting name for such a sweet cutie!

at last
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Image by fallsroad
He has arrived. I'm exhausted and it's very late, so I'll write more about this tomorrow.

It's tomorrow. :)

This is my seizure response dog, courtesy of the very good folks at Paws With A Cause, who obtain and train these extraordinary animals for people with disabilities of all types. I don't generally solicit anything for anyone here on Flickr, but if you are feeling generous and want a tax write off, I can assure you, through my still very new experience and those of other people I know, that this is a very useful, worthy cause. Better than half the dogs are rescued animals, and if they are not suitable as working dogs are found homes in other ways.

His name is Rufus. The foster families have the pleasure of ascribing a moniker, and we recipients are stuck with them. :). He's a two year old Golden Retriever with a golden - red coat, silky and clean. He's eager and smart, and I am running to catch up. He is already trained, I now need to be trained to him. It may take as long as six months before I am certified, but the work ahead will be well worth it.

So we begin. :)

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Fennec
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Image by Fabrice ROSE
"Le fennec (Vulpes zerda) ou renard des sables du Sahara est une espèce de mammifère omnivore de la famille des canidés, cousin du renard."

The Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda) is a small nocturnal fox found in the north of the Sahara Desert of North Africa which has distinctively large ears. Its name comes from the Arabic fenek, a term for various fur-bearing animals.

Friguia Park | Tunisie

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Update On Bunny Rehabbers (From Litter Of 4)
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Image by audreyjm529
9/18/09 Sadly, we lost 2 of the 4 bunnies, but we had them at least a week before their eyes opened so we knew the statistics. We still wanted to try. These 2 remaining bunnies seem strong. We just hold our collective breath and do the best we can for them. They're very good eaters and they are gaining some weight. Send positive thoughts to them please.
Update 10/21/09 Unfortunately, I lost one of these sweeties because of them being so young when I got them, but the one surviver (on the right) grew to be healthy and beautiful and was released today in a safe location where we've released many others so it will have lots of companionship. This one was very hard to let go because I became very attached but it's the best thing for the bunny.

Grave story, no.2

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Grave story, no.2
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Image by angus mcdiarmid
"EIGHT DEATHS CAUSED BY LION" --Stevens Point Daily Journal, 11 May 1911

On the left, the grave of the Great Lafayette, in Piershill cemetery, Edinburgh; on the right, the grave of his dog, which, appropriately, sits at the foot of his stone.

We came upon this grave on our way back into town from Portobello at the weekend, and I've been reading up on Lafayette on and off all week. Interesting stuff...

The Great Lafayette was the most successful stage magician of the early 20th century. And he loved his dog.

Here's an extract from an article on him that I came across in an old Oakland Tribune:

"In his personality, Lafayette was dominating and peculiar to a degree. His most remarkable trait was his extraordinary affection for his dog, 'Beauty'. 'Beauty was a cream colored Tennessee hound which appeared in his performance and Lafayette demonstrated his love for the animal in bizarre manner. He had a gold collar studded with diamonds made for 'Beauty'. On one edge of the counterfoil of his cheques was a picture of 'Beauty' sitting on bags bursting with gold, surmounting the words, 'My two best friends'."

He indulged the dog terribly. Beauty shared five-course meals at Lafayette's table and, when it wasn't travelling in Lafayette's Mercedes, which had a silver statue of the dog as its hood ornament, it was transported in a special room in Lafayette's private train coach that was fitted with miniature doggy luxuries.

On 30 April, 1911, Lafayette, Beauty and their company arrived in Edinburgh to begin a two-week engagement at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh. Shortly after the run began, though, Beauty died (allegedly as a result of over-feeding, but that sounds like mean-spirited gossip to me). The dog was embalmed and laid out on silk cushions, surrounded by lilies, in Lafayette's suite in the Caledonian Hotel.

The sources I can find all repeat the same story, which is that the grieving Lafayette struck a deal with Piershill cemetery, who agreed to bury the dog on the condition that Lafayette was also buried there when he died. That's a strange condition, isn't it? A little searching uncovers a more likely story, as printed in the New York Times that year:

"[H]e went to a cemetery and bought a vault for 0. Being told that a dog could not be buried in consecrated ground, he said he would keep the grave for himself and would have the dog buried with him."

It's a fine difference of emphasis, I know, but that version makes much more sense. At least, up to a point. If the dog wasn't to be buried until Lafayette died, why buy a plot in Edinburgh at all? Given that Lafayette lived in London (in a house at 55 Tavistock Square, the facade of which was adorned with a portrait of Beauty, incidentally), wouldn't he have been better buying a plot there, rather than having both corpses shipped to Edinburgh when he died?

As it happens, the question never arose, because the Great Lafayette died before having a chance to leave the city.

Which is where the lion comes in.

The last act of Lafayette's spectacular stage show was an illusion called the Lion's Bride, which was set in a harem and involved a real lion, which menaced an oriental maiden after appearing to devour the magician.

Just after the scene's climax, which, from the sketchy descriptions of it, appears to have featured the magical transformation of the lion into the resurrected Lafayette, a fire broke out on stage.

Accounts of what happened next are, obviously, muddled and contradictory. Essentially, however, although the audience were able to escape easily, the members of the company had more difficulty, mostly because the exit from the stage was blocked by a huge, panicked lion -- I picture it pacing angrily back and forth at the stage edge with flaming curtains and scenery falling all around, its mane smouldering as cinders land on it, and roaring furiously at the group of exotically dressed people it can see creeping towards it through the choking smoke.

A newspaper report claimed that "Lafayette had a desperate struggle with the beast before he got him out of the way", but that might be hooey. In any case, most of the company somehow managed to get out, including Lafayette. However, once he was out on the street, he remembered that his horse, which had had a role in one of the acts, was still inside. He decided he couldn't leave it, and ran back into the theatre.

He didn't come back out, and the theatre burned for three more hours.

Among the 11 bodies that were eventually discovered, there were found to be two Lafayettes -- that is, two of the charred bodies were dressed in the Pasha costume that Lafayette had been wearing in the last act.

The first to be found -- which had, naturally, been assumed to be the one and only Lafayette and had been sent to a mortuary and cremated before the second was uncovered -- turned out to be a double who stood in for Lafayette as part of the Lion's Bride illusion. The second body was certainly Lafayette's, as it was wearing his diamond rings.

A few days later, on May 14 1911, a funeral cortege processed from the centre of Edinburgh to Piershill cemetery, the route lined with crowds. In the procession was Lafayette's Mercedes, which carried only one passenger: a Dalmatian hound, previously unmentioned in our story, but presumably an animal that had been promoted to number 1 dog in the household following Beauty's death but which now, rather sadly, found itself without a household at all.

Lafayette was Jewish (his real name was Sigmund Neuberger), but Edinburgh's rabbi refused to conduct any ceremony in which a man and a dog would be buried together, so the service was conducted by the local minister. Presbyterians clearly aren't the sticklers for orthodoxy they're sometimes made out to be.

And that's all there is to tell.

The Empire Palace Theatre was quickly refurbished, and it opened for business again three months later. It's still around today.

The Great Lafayette's grave is in the centre of the stonehenge-like circle of stones that you can see in this aerial view of Piershill cemetery.

You can read a pdf of the report of the disaster that ran in the New York Times here. It also has some interesting details about his London house.

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My New Obsession
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As you may already know, Me and Michael took the girls to the lake. One of the women who live down by the lake were telling us about how her neighbor was moving to the city, and didn't know what to do with her koi fish that were currently living in her front pond. So her husband dumped them into the lake the night before the move, and by the time the locals realized what had happened the couple had been long gone. The woman begged us to take them, and at least flush them away. But as you could imagine, the girls were deeply touched by the little koi's ill fate, so they pushed Michael into taking them home. So for about four hours we thrashed through the lake, catching koi. It was easy at first, because most of them stayed in the shallow region of the lake near the grassy area. A few big ones went as deep as eighteen feet. We caught sixteen koi, one of them completely "flipped out" when Lauren stuffed him in her bathing suit, and ended up dying of fright. I love these fish, they're are so elegant and friendly, except for one, who Anna Maria concluded was either pregnant or on her period. (the things kids learn). So all the girls are downstairs in the kitchen coming up with names for their fish. Of course, they named one Jake. So far we have Selena Gomez, Lil Wayne III, Kenan Thompson, and Cinderblock.

Eastern Fence Lizard
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With it still cool in the mornings, these guys are pretty easy to catch. It was about 50 degrees and this little one was not even moving till it warmed a bit in my hand,

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Phrynosomatidae
Genus: Sceloporus
Species: S. undulatus
Binomial name: Sceloporus undulatus

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Dreamtime series: No.7
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The Quokka. Quokkas are the size of a cat and like kangaroos have a pouch. Their natural habitat is restricted to a small part of Western Australia. The Dutch who in the 17th century arrived in Australia mistook them for rats and named the island where they live "Rottnest", meaning the "rat nest". I was so lucky to see these fascinating creatures on that wonderful island on the Indian Ocean!

BUMBLE BEE QUEEN
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A Queen "Orange Bellied"(my name) Bumble Bee. I have been seeing a lot of these lately. These are the very large spring Queens looking for a place to start a hive. Bumble Bees are nice and I have never been stung, despite my habit of petting them. I did once rake a nest on accident and they came after me, but I ran away very fast and didn't get stung.

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Fisher (Martes pennanti)

It is a medium-size mammal native to North America. It is a member of the mustelid family, commonly referred to as the weasel family. The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American Marten (Martes americana). The fisher is a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern fringes of the United States. Names derived from aboriginal languages include pekan, pequam, and wejack. It is also sometimes referred to as a fisher cat, though it is not a feline. Fishers are omnivorous and feed on a wide variety of small animals and occasionally fruits and mushrooms. They show a preference for the snowshoe hare and are one of the few predators able to hunt porcupine. Despite their name, fishers seldom eat fish. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_%28animal%29

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