Sunday 31 July 2011

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Sarus Crane


Keoladeo National Park
Bharatpur (Rajasthan), India
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Tuesday 19 July 2011

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Friday 8 July 2011

Strangler Fig


Iguazu National Park, Argentina

These plants begin life as epiphytes, when their seeds, often bird-dispersed, germinate in crevices atop other trees. These seedlings grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. An original support tree can sometimes die, so that the Strangler Fig becomes a "columnar tree" with a hollow central core. (Wikipedia)

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Secretary Bird


Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Its common name is popularly thought to derive from the crest of long quill-like feathers, lending the bird the appearance of a secretary with quill pens tucked behind his or her ear, as was once common practice. A more recent hypothesis is that "secretary" is borrowed from a French corruption of the Arabic saqr-et-tair or "hunter-bird". (Wikipedia)
The long legs, which increases the bird’s height to around 1.3 m tall, help him catching his favourite prey: snakes.
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Sunday 3 July 2011

Intruder


I found this Baboon on my balcony. We stared at each other for a while and then he jumped to the next bungallow.


Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania