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 Mammal long thought extinct in NSW resurfaces in state’s west ... A Crest-tailed Mulgara, a small carnivorous marsupial known only from fossilised bone fragments and presumed extinct in NSW for more than century, has been discovered in Sturt National Park north-west of Tibooburra. A team from the UNSW Sydney's Wild Deserts project made the unexpected discovery during recent scientific monitoring. [hidden image - please register] UNSW scientist and Wild Deserts ecologist Dr Rebecca West says it is particularly exciting to find a Crest-tailed Mulgara alive for the first time in NSW. “The Crest-tailed Mulgara was once widely distributed across sandy desert environments in inland Australia, but declined due to the effects of rabbits, cats and foxes,” West says. [hidden image - please register] “The species weighs around 150 grams and has pale blonde fur and a thick tail with a distinctive black crest.” The discovery comes at a great time, according to UNSW scientist and Wild Deserts project co-ordinator Reece Pedler. [hidden link - please register] |
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Hey Guys, The Delightful Highlands of Scotland!!
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Hey Guys, Delightful Lochs in Scotland!!
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BEST PHOTOS OF 2017 ... [hidden link - please register] 57 best images of the year—curated from 88 photographers, 112 stories, and nearly 2 million photographs. In this collection - the best shots from the world of animals, mammals and fish. [hidden image - please register] As darkness falls on Guassa, geladas break into a run down a slope toward their sleeping cliffs. They will spend the night perched on narrow rocky ledges, trying to stay safe from leopards, hyenas, and feral dogs. PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY KERBY AND TREVOR BECK FROST, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Colin Murdoch, who manages the deer population at Reraig Forest, near Loch Carron, feeds stags to spur antler growth. In addition to offering stalking, the property hosts wilderness tours. PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM RICHARDSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Fireflies dart in the forest at Santa Clara Sanctuary. PHOTOGRAPH BY KIRSTEN LUCE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Rose Dena, 85, attempts to clean what is left of her home in the mountains of southern Haiti more than a month after Hurricane Matthew made landfall in October 2016. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREA BRUCE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Emperor penguins head for the open ocean in search of food. The brownish patches above them are microalgae that cling to the sea ice and start to photosynthesize in spring. The photographer’s day camp was on one of these floes. Aptenodytes Forsteri (penguins) PHOTOGRAPH BY LAURENT BALLESTA, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Geladas huddle for warmth. Getting enough calories from grass, herbs, and seeds takes a lot of work, so geladas spend most of their days scooting around on their buttocks. This frees up their hands to pluck more grass. PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY KERBY AND TREVOR BECK FROST, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Two marine iguanas seem unfazed by the presence of one of their mummified brethren, dead likely from starvation, on Isla Fernandina. Endemic to the Galápagos, these raccoon-size lizards forage for algae along the shore; larger males dive into the ocean. The algae they eat die in warm water, rendering Darwin’s “imps of darkness” susceptible to climate change. PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] A hunter carries the pelt of a mountain lion he shot this year in southern Utah. Winter is prime hunting season because the cats are easier to track on snowy ground. Each season the state sets a hunt quota, a number determined in part by how many livestock lions killed the year before. In 2016 they killed 416 sheep and other farm animals, and during the 2016-17 season hunters took 399 lions. PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID CHANCELLOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] A California sea lion hunts for fish on a kelp paddy at Cortes Bank, a seamount off San Diego. It’s a trove of marine life that deserves protection, conservationists say. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN SKERRY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Hippos, abundant in the delta and in the rivers that feed it, graze by night on land and rest by day in water. Males fight over territory, females protect their young—and their long, self-sharpening canine teeth can be lethal to intruders. PHOTOGRAPH BY CORY RICHARDS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] A 10-month-old jaguar cub is caught in the infrared beam of a camera trap as it returns to the safety of a tree in Brazil’s Pantanal region, the world’s largest tropical wetland and one of the last bastions for jaguars. Mothers coax cubs into climbing trees early on so they can learn to avoid predators. PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE WINTER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Roger Matthews (left) and Aaron Rodwell stand next to a 15 foot, approximately 1500 pound, male saltwater crocodile that they legally caught and killed in the Northern Territory of Australia. PHOTOGRAPH BY TREVOR BECK FROST, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Had Dian Fossey not so fiercely protected the gorillas and their habitat, these apes, resting on the high-elevation slopes of Mount Karisimbi, probably wouldn’t exist today. But her methods earned her the enmity of many locals. PHOTOGRAPH BY RONAN DONOVAN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] A great white shark swims in the Isla Guadalupe Biosphere Reserve, 160 miles off Baja California. As one of two places in the world where these sharks congregate in clear water, it’s a magnet for adventurous dive tourists. Ecotourism in Baja brings hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexico. PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Writer Mark Synnott scales a cliff in Uzbekistan’s Boysuntov Range. Within this limestone wall lies a winding underworld. So far, eight missions have explored Dark Star. No one knows how far the cave extends. PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBBIE SHONE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [hidden image - please register] Hummingbirds often brave downpours to gather the nectar needed to avoid starvation. This Anna’s hummingbird shakes off rain as a wet dog does, with an oscillation of its head and body. According to researchers at UC Berkeley, each twist lasts four-hundredths of a second and subjects the bird’s head to 34 times the force of gravity. (Sources: Victor Ortega-Jimenez and Robert Dudley) PHOTOGRAPH BY ANAND VARMA, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC |
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HI Guys, Delightful Highlands of Scotland !!
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Hey Guys. Delightful Brecon Beacons, Wales!!
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Hey Johnbirracchio!! thank you my Friend!!
I Just ran out of new ideas!! Hey Guys, Some more of the delightful Faroe Islands!! [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] |
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Hi Bigalathome,
how come this abrupt braking? Your friends never made you miss their like. We always appreciate your work in the forum and certainly not for sympathy since we do not know you. So strength and courage! That these Christmas holidays and the birth of Jesus bring you so much luck and satisfaction. Kind regards. Johnbirracchio |
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Hey Guys, Some more Animals from the Amazon Rain Forest!!
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Meet the cutest animal you’ve never heard of ... Ever heard of an aardwolf? Meet this little critter is a baby aardwolf [hidden image - please register] It comes from the same family as the hyena, which explains why they look so similar, but unlike their bone-chomping cousins, aardwolves prefer to munch on termites, much like an aardvark (the word “aard” actually comes from the Dutch word “aarde” by the way, which means earth). [hidden image - please register] They’re native to East and Southern Africa, where they live in underground burrows. They often don’t dig the holes themselves however, preferring to inhabit abandoned burrows of other animals. [hidden image - please register] They’re shy and nocturnal creatures, although during the winter they’ll conserve energy by sleeping at night and feeding during the day. They have long sticky tongues which they use to lap up thousands of termites. [hidden image - please register] A single aardwolf can eat up to 300,000 termites per night! An adult aardwolf grows to roughly the same size as a fox, and being monogamous creatures, they stay with the same mate for their entire lifetime. [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] |
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Have you tried google images ilian62. It's very easy to do. Type in anything you want, view image and then simply paste address code into image icon which is located on the right hand side of underscore. Say for example you want to look at castles in Scotland then the result would go as follows:
[hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] And there you have it. It looks very glossy and it looks like I have put a lot of hard work into my post but in reality it took me less than a minute to do. Is this a Thread I care about, not really as in It's current format its just a cluster of google images, why none of you can't see this already I will never know. I merely posted here to illustrate a point that it isn't rocket science and an explanation on how any member could also post images too. Credit to the above images goes to visitscotland. theculturetrip, scotsmagazine and heritagedaily. All credit to these photographers for providing the source material for google images. PS - I am not trying to piss on or off any members that like to contribute to this Thread. I am merely explaining how you too could add in any contributions which you might like. Call it a tutorial if you wish Also some discussion on the images, the history of what makes its interesting etc would put in some much needed scope back into this Thread. Something that takes just a wee bit of thought, that's all I am saying. |
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Hey Guys. Delightful Isles of Scilly
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