Bee-eaters
For a male bee-eater, mating depends on finding food…such as a dragonfly. :good :good :good 好幸福的俩口子哦:loveliness:
Herod the Great's three-tiered palace cascades down the north face of Masada, the work of a king long reviled as a villain but today recognized as a master architect. With Roman techniques and unique ambition, he created audacious masterpieces of stunning beauty.
To find new grazing, vicuñas dash across a corner of the Uyuni salt flat. Just three feet tall, these animals produce wool so soft it was reserved for Inca royalty. Hunted almost to extinction, they're now protected and making a comeback. 中午上来过，没看到有新帖子，还以为今天饼叔偷懒呢。:P 原帖由 泡沫 于 12-7-2010 23:24 发表 http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/images/common/back.gif
中午上来过，没看到有新帖子，还以为今天饼叔偷懒呢。:P
俺昨天上午请假，没上班:P
OCELOT (Leopardus pardalis)
195 (Estimated U.S. population is fewer than 100 wild, 95 captive)
Wild ocelots are gone from all U.S. states except Texas, driven out by human development. The elusive cats still roam the wilds of Central and South America, but there's little reliable data on their true numbers. 原帖由 四香油饼 于 13-7-2010 09:33 发表 http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/images/common/back.gif
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195 (Estimated U.S. population is fewer than 100 wild, 95 captive)
Wild ocelots are gone from all U.S. states except Texas, driven out by human development. The elusive cats still roam the...
虎猫是我最喜欢的猫科动物之一了。看起来像是个缩小的美洲虎。 原帖由 ozbird 于 13-7-2010 11:43 发表 http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/images/common/back.gif
虎猫是我最喜欢的猫科动物之一了。看起来像是个缩小的美洲虎。
俺觉得很像猫啊，跟俺家花花看起来差不多么:congra 原帖由 四香油饼 于 13-7-2010 12:24 发表 http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/images/common/back.gif
俺觉得很像猫啊，跟俺家花花看起来差不多么:congra
本来就是猫，自然是象猫多一些。不过脸更像猫，而身体的花纹比较像美洲虎。此外，体型要比普通的家猫大一些。
http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z257/americanwildlife/wildcat/Ocelot-3.jpg
http://research.biology.arizona.edu/mosquito/willott/323/project/endcats/ocelot2.jpg
http://byronled.myweb.uga.edu/Worlds/worldstree/Weres/ocelot_zoobabyB.jpg 爪子真粗，俺喜欢
Artsy Irritants
This colorized scanning electron micrograph shows pollens—Bermuda grass in green, maple in red, and ragweed in yellow—at roughly 3,000 times their itchy, sneezy life size.
Lighthouse Reef
Dark lens on inner space, a sinkhole in Belize's Blue Hole Natural Monument plunges 410 feet (125 meters). 前两天在city的一家相机店看到一个小地理摄影展，有个南极游。http://www.gapadventures.com/destinations/antarctica/antarctica/
有个好像是华人，anna zhu，在悉尼的，拍的照片很不错。可以去他的blog看看，www.annazhu.com
Two stallions fight at a wild horse conservation center in South Dakota. It's an equine echo of an ongoing struggle across the western United States, where mustangs compete for space with ranching and energy development. 居然能遇到喜欢National Geographic的，我自06年到澳洲来就一直在订阅。国内就向往看NGM了，可居然同Playboy一个待遇，不让卖。到澳洲后，不仅订阅，我还四处搜集过往的杂志，最早的可以追溯到60年代。的确是本好杂志。顺便顶LZ。 原帖由 dragonballz 于 16-7-2010 20:09 发表 http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/images/common/back.gif
居然能遇到喜欢National Geographic的，我自06年到澳洲来就一直在订阅。国内就向往看NGM了，可居然同Playboy一个待遇，不让卖。到澳洲后，不仅订阅，我还四处搜集过往的杂志，最早的可以追溯到60年代。的确是本好杂志 ...
我也很喜欢看，
既有自然知识，
还是摄影教材。
Chased off one goldfield in Prestea, Ghana, illegal miners shifted to this abandoned concession along the Pra River. An estimated quarter million small-scale miners, most of them operating without government permits or regulation, scrape for gold in this West African nation.
Wallace called "flying" frogs "very interesting to Darwinians." They showed how webbed feet for swimming had been adapted for gliding. :) :) :) :) :)
Lago Ypoa National Park
After grazing, these Brahma cattle thread through the rain-loosened Paraguayan marsh back to corral.
Today's internal combustion engines are inefficient at converting fuel to motion. Cars waste up to 85 percent of the energy from the fuel in their tanks, losing a big chunk as heat. 原帖由 四香油饼 于 20-7-2010 09:22 发表 http://www.freeoz.org/ibbs/images/common/back.gif
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Wallace called "flying" frogs "very interesting to Darwinians." They showed how webbed feet for swimming had been adapted for gliding.
著名的华莱士飞蛙呀。这期应该是介绍华莱士和达尔文同时期产生进化理念的故事的吧？
Indonesia—
On the first day of Ramadan, in a mosque filled with white-robed women, one child stands up and stands out. During the month-long holiday, Muslims seeking spiritual purification fast from dawn till dusk.
Nutrients also wash off the shore and drop from the sky into the ocean, nourishing vibrant anemones and soft corals.
President George W. Bush prepares to exit Cadillac One on the airport tarmac in Accra, concluding a state visit to Ghana. The Secret Service divulges few details about the custom-built limousine that travels the world with the Chief Executive, but the armored car is rumored to weigh some 10,000 pounds and carry its own oxygen supply to protect against poison gas attacks.
Philippines
Skilled fingers separate good seed from bad at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños. "Miracle rice" varieties developed here in the 1960s doubled yields in Asia. Further growth has stalled since the mid-1990s, as investment in agriculture has declined. "Governments thought we'd won the war on food security," says IRI Director General Robert Zeigler. "So they put money elsewhere."
Icon of Khmer civilization, Angkor Wat in Cambodia endures as a revered religious shrine. 饼叔
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