Wildlife

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allam yaa...benim yaşam alanım:) - neferteti

"Scientists have discovered four new species of super-tiny chameleons in Madagascar, according to a new paper in PLoS ONE. The smallest of the new species, Brookesia micra, is found only on the small island of Nosy Hara and has been dubbed the smallest chameleon in the world, measuring from nose to tail 29 millimeters (1.14 inches) at its largest. Scientists believe it represents a notable example of island dwarfism. "The extremely small size of Brookesia micra could represent a 'double' island dwarf effect. In this scenario, Madagascar as a large island led to the evolution of the Brookesia minima group whereas the [...] islet Nosy Hara, might have favored the extreme miniaturization found in Brookesia micra," the researchers write. However they note it is also possible, given the shallowness of the sea between Nosy Hara and Madagascar, that populations of Brookesia micra survive on the mother island. With these four new species, scientists have catalogued 26 Brookesia chameleons in... more... - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

David loves chameleons. He said 'aaaaaaaaaaaw' - Pete

The Lake Van Monster (Turkish: Van Gölü Canavarı) is a legendary creature that lives in Turkey. The Lake Van Monster was not reported until 1995 in Lake Van, a large alkaline lake in Eastern Turkey. There are now more than 1,000 people claiming to have witnessed the beast which is reported to measure around fifteen meters long with spikes on its back and appears similar to a Plesiosaur or Ichthyosaurus. Following these reports the Turkish government sent an official scientific survey group to the lake who failed to spot the creature. - Halil from Bookmarklet

*bump* - Halil

Görsel: http://jootix.com/upload... - Ali Yolcu

Skyrim'in dereleri bu ya - Azze

eve gideyimde bi kaç dragon keseyim - Black irish

Tardigrades are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. Some can survive temperatures of close to absolute zero (−273 °C (−459 °F)),[7] temperatures as high as 151 °C (304 °F), 1,000 times more radiation than other animals,[8] and almost a decade without water.[9] Since 2007, tardigrades have also returned alive from studies in which they have been exposed to the vacuum of outer space for a few days in low earth orbit. ~ Tardigrades are one of the few groups of species that are capable of reversibly suspending their metabolism and going into a state of cryptobiosis. Several species regularly survive in a dehydrated state for nearly ten years. - Halil from Bookmarklet

^jejeje^ )) - ☆彡Jazzy-B

When crushed, the leaves have a strong fragrance, which has been described as pleasant and mint-like, but also as similar to that of blackcurrants, leading to the use of "Blackcurrant Sage" as an English name for this species.[2] It typically flowers in its first year, and reaches full size in the second year. It sometimes spreads underground, producing dense patches.[1] ~ Along with its cultivars and hybrids, S. microphylla blooms heavily in late spring and again in autumn, with sporadic flowering year-round in mild conditions. The flowers are arranged in whorls, with a wide range of color: magenta, red, pink, and rose.[1] - Halil from Bookmarklet

Will try to post more garden plants as it's almost planting time, so to speak. - Halil

Καλημέρα - добро јутро (dobro jutro) - おはよう (Ohaio Gozaimasu) - Buenos dias - Bonjour - Saharin hayr olsun - Guten Morgen - صبح به خیر - доброе утро ....... :-)) ||| Foto: http://jootix.com/upload... - Ali Yolcu

İyi akşamlar, İsmet :-)) - Ali Yolcu

Buenos dias - Bonjour - Saharin hayr olsun - Guten Morgen - صبح به خیر - доброе утро - Καλημέρα - добро јутро (dobro jutro) - おはよう (Ohaio Gozaimasu) ....... :-)) ||| Foto: http://jootix.com/upload... - Ali Yolcu

Günaydın İsmet, Şebnem, Eivind :-)) - Ali Yolcu

"The brown tree snake is native to the South Pacific, but is apparently a major pest in Guam, where it was introduced accidentally after World War II. It's nocturnal, lives generally in trees, has a wide variety of teeth (two of which inject venom, but the venom is not dangerous to adult humans), eats almost anything, and is generally between three and six feet long. In Guam it's been a major problem for causing power outages, apparently by weighing down powerlines. From the descriptions of the brown tree snake, I'm now getting the terrifying idea of a bigass snake that will cut the power, sneak up on you through the trees, and DROP ON YOUR HEAD FROM ABOVE AND ENVENOM YOU TO DEATH. Though apparently it's not that bad, just annoying (at least in Guam, where they use dogs to keep it from spreading to other islands and try to keep it away from people's pets and small children). But there is this threat...ladies, this snake likes your menstrual blood." - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? - Spidra Webster

"As it turns out, the moth was the Indian Meal moth (Plodia interpunctella). This moth also goes by other common names such as Pantry Moth and Flour Moth. Indian Meal is an old name for corn meal and these common names should start to paint a picture about the larval food sources. In fact, after a little research I found out that this moth is one of the worst pests of stored grains and dried food products there is. It is commonly found in homes as a pest on dry dog food and sunflower seeds or birdseed, and we have these in the pantry. The list of larval food sources is huge and includes dried fruits, grains, seeds, nuts, chocolate, candy, bird seed, dog food, powdered milk, dried red peppers, raisins, prunes, cat food, fish food, graham crackers, pastas, dried flowers, decorative wall hangings containing food products such as beans and spices and floral arrangements and wreaths with seeds. The caterpillars are even reported to be able to chew through plastic bags and thin cardboard to get at the food sources." - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

A few years ago, I had a major infestation of these little bastards. They are very difficult to eradicate once they're in your pantry. :((( - Kelli H.

добро јутро (dobro jutro) - おはよう (Ohaio Gozaimasu) - Buenos dias - Bonjour - Saharin hayr olsun - Guten Morgen - صبح به خیر - доброе утро - Καλημέρα ....... :-)) - Ali Yolcu

good morning! - moltogatto

TR - "Herşey bir güzelliğe sahiptir fakat bunu herkes görmez." (Konfüçyus) | Foto:http://imgfave.com/view... - Ali Yolcu

... Guten Morgen - صبح به خیر - доброе утро - Καλημέρα - добро јутро (dobro jutro) - おはよう (Ohaio Gozaimasu) - Buenos dias - Bonjour - Saharin hayr olsun :) - Ali Oz

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Neeson recently told reporters he had tucked in alongside other cast members after Carnahan asked for wolf stew to be prepared on set to help them get into character. "It was very gamey," said the Oscar-nominated actor. "But I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner." Unlike some colleagues who were apparently sick, Neeson said that he had been back for seconds. - Halil from Bookmarklet

Peta also criticised Carnahan for allegedly ordering wolf carcasses from a trapper for use in the film. "Many animals caught in traps chew off their own limbs in order to escape," said spokeswoman Jane Dollinger. "These animals go on to die of gangrene or other secondary infections, sometimes leaving nursing puppies abandoned to fend for themselves." - Halil

"wolf stew to help them get into character" - Achso... :[ - esther

"If you stand with your back to the sun and inspect the place on the ground where your shadow is cast, you might spot the tiny larvae of the threatened Bay checkerspot butterfly. “It takes some practice,” said Stuart Weiss, a conservation biologist from the Creekside Center for Earth Observation. “But when you see a little black object that stays black, that’s usually a checkerspot.” Dr. Weiss explained the technique as we hiked through the grasslands of Edgewood Park, a 500-acre nature preserve on the San Francisco peninsula where I have been volunteering. To reintroduce the checkerspot to the park, Dr. Weiss and his team placed 4,000 larvae, or caterpillars, here last winter. Over the next several weeks, he and several volunteers whom he refers to as “checker spotters” will be searching their shadows for signs of success: a new batch of larvae, descendants from last year’s transplants, that will be transformed into thousands of bright orange and black spotted butterflies in late... more... - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

"Using grant money from the San Mateo Parks Foundation to finance the work, Dr. Weiss and his team collected 4,000 Bay checkerspot larvae last winter from Coyote Ridge park in San Jose, the only remaining habitat for the species. They carried the larvae to Edgewood and placed them over 20 acres on the west side of the park, where its favorite meal, the native California plantain, is... more... - John (bird whisperer)

"The checkerspot is not the only threatened species that occupies his time. In a remote corner of the park, he points to a few square meters of ground that hold the only known remaining patch of the San Mateo thornmint, an endangered annual wildflower. The plant has also fallen victim to invasive Italian ryegrass, its population dwindling to a few hundred plants by 2008. Thinning the... more... - John (bird whisperer)

"Researchers found that older male white-crowned sparrows don't put much of a fight when they hear a young male singing in their territory -- probably because the older bird doesn't consider the young rival much of a threat. But a male sparrow will act much more aggressively if it hears a bird of the same age singing in a territory it claims as its own. "These male sparrows assess an opponent's fighting ability based on age. And for a mature sparrow, a young male is just not going to scare them," said Angelika Poesel, lead author of the study and curator of Ohio State University's Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics and the tetrapod division. Poesel conducted the study with Douglas Nelson, associate professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State and director of the Borror Lab. Their results appear online in the journal Biology Letters. This study is one of the first to suggest that some birds use each other's songs -- and not just plumage -- to help determine a potential rival's age and thus threat level." - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before." ROBERT WILSON LYND, The Blue Lion and Other Essays - Halil from Bookmarklet

Mycosphaerella is a genus of sac fungi. With more than 10,000 species, it is the largest genus of plant pathogen fungi. ~ I think we need a recount, any volunteers? :D - Halil from Bookmarklet

Aphalara itadori, the Japanese knotweed psyllid, is a species of psyllid from Japan which feeds on Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica). It has being licensed by the UK Government for the biological control of Japanese knotweed in England; this is the first time that biological control of a weed has been sanctioned in the European Union.[2] The specific name comes from itadori (虎杖, イタドリ?), the Japanese name for Japanese knotweed.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ~ Psyllids or jumping plant lice are small plant-feeding insects that tend to be very "host specific", i.e. they only feed on one plant species (monophagous) or feed on a few related plants (oligophagous) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Halil from Bookmarklet

Hope they've checked it out thoroughly. Here in the US, we're trying to avoid the Asian citrus psyllid because it can carry citrus greening disease. - Spidra Webster

Researchers found that seven out of the eight native British species they studied have declined, with issues also identified in Belgium and Switzerland. The harlequin is an Asian species brought in for pest control, but which has now become a pest itself. ~ Please note UK is currently thinking of introducing Japanese psyllids or jumping plant lice to manage Japanese Knotweed. Please read this http://ff.im/zylhx - Halil from Bookmarklet

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"Şelale'nin üzerinde gökkuşağı" - Ali Oz

great shot ...good color with strong detail... - ☆彡Jazzy-B

The first bird is in front of a bat box. The others were interested in this broken limb, which I assume had water collected inside because they kept going in and out. - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

I love seeing bluebirds. :) Thank you for sharing your bird pictures. We get blue-jays around here. Aggressive, but beautiful birds. - Jyl, Honorary Sifter

Oh, there were a lot of Blue Jays, too, but none were in spots where I could photograph them easily. - John (bird whisperer)

"So apparently this whole fear of bears loving the scent of your menstruating ladybits comes from an attack on two female hikers in 1967 by grizzly bears (today I learned the scientific name for Grizzly is Ursus arctos horribilis, how apt) in Glacier National Park. The women were both apparently menstruating (no one has the original source for that information, though, and neither girl lived to tell the tale). This made people panic, and people actually issued warnings to not hike in bear country while menstruating, even though both attacks took place where there was lots of trash around to attract bears for tourists, and several reviews of major deadly bear attacks have stated there's no evidence for menstruation being involved. But apparently it depends on the bear. The paper states that polar bears will willingly nosh on tampons soaked in menstrual blood and ignore tampons with normal blood. I'd like to see that one replicated, since there's no record of polar bear attacks being... more... - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

That won't be a problem for me. - John (bird whisperer)

"Few hummingbirds are as fancy as showy coquettes. Colorful, crested, frilled, tufted, and oh so festive, they are jewels of Central and South America." - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

Whoa! Those are much cooler than the ones we have here. I'm going to have to head down there and smuggle a couple hundred of these cuties in my pants. - Anika