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Also named crested cariama
Red-legged seriema on the pathway
Tag: zoo
Little fall flower in the hand of the Buddha
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Photo made in Artis Amsterdam zoo, the Netherlands – October 28, 2014
Eyes of a sleepy white wolf
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Photo made in Artis Amsterdam zoo, October 28, 2014
Orang Utan – mother and baby bonding
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I hope you don’t mind that I’m posting another Orang Utan photo today, Even though it has just a slight motion blur, I didn’t want to withhold it from you 😉
More info about Orang Utan, you can find in my previous post here: Orang Utan – Read my thoughts
Tube dwelling anemones, wonderful creatures of the sea
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Today, I would like to show you one of my recent nature photographs. Let’s make Wednesday the #WonderfulNature day 😉
Photo of two tube dwelling anemones, a blue and a pink one, photographed in the Aquarium of Artis Amsterdam zoo, the Netherlands (August 31, 2014)
“Tube-dwelling anemones or cerianthids look very similar to sea anemones, but belong to an entirely different subclass of anthozoans. They are solitary, living buried in soft sediments. Tube anemones live and can withdraw into tubes, which are made of a fibrous material, which is made from secreted mucus and threads of nematocyst-like organelles, known as ptychocysts.
Cerianthids have a crown of tentacles that consists of two whorls of distinctly different sized tentacles. The outer whorl consists of large tentacles that extend outwards. These tentacles taper to points and are mostly used in food capture and defence. The smaller inner tentacles are held more erect than the larger lateral tentacles and are used for food manipulation and ingestion.” Source: Wikipedia
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
“The Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Goura victoria, is a large, bluish-grey pigeon with elegant blue lace-like crests, maroon breast and red iris. The bird may be easily recognized by the unique white tips on its crests.
It is distributed in the lowland and swamp forests of northern New Guinea and surrounding islands. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, figs, seeds and invertebrates. The female usually lays a single white egg.
Due to continuing habitat loss, being tame and easily hunted for its plumes and meat, the Victoria Crowned Pigeon is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ” (Source: Wikipedia)
It’s a beautiful bird indeed –
Due to the light reflection, the normally red eye turned partially purple here… amazing…
And this is the black-and-white version…
Two boys and the wolves
It’s already a few weeks on Saturdays that I’ve been following a photography course in Artis Amsterdam zoo. Last Saturday, it was the 3d out of 4 meetings, and our assignment of the day was to make a photo-story with a series of images. We had the first snow just a day before, so it was a special occasion to make photo’s on a snowy but sunny day in Artis. I had hoped that maybe I could go make some pics at the Arctic wolves’ enclosure that day, because I knew that a new group of wolves had arrived at the zoo some time last year, and some months a go, the news had been spread that three young wolves were born. So since I hadn’t been able to go see them yet, this assignment would make for a great opportunity to go see what was happening at the wolves’ .
I must say, I really was lucky with the photo-opportunities, and enjoyed my afternoon with the wolves, and those two boys, they did too 😉 …
“Two boys and the wolves…”
– Artis Amsterdam Zoo – a photo-story … :
Discovering Beauty 