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snototter · 6 months

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A pair of lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) hanging out in Mafra, Portugal

by Armando Caldas

#lesser horseshoe bat #bats #rhinolophus hipposideros #rhinolophus #rhinolophidae #chiroptera #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: portugal #wildlife: europe

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huitzilinf-art · 1 year

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Miragaia longicollum

Commission for Primal Creations https://twitter.com/Primal_Creation Miragaia longicollum skeletal referenced from Ashley Patch(Plastospleen) https://www.artstation.com/ashleypatch

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sitting-on-me-bum · 5 months

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Two animals locked in single combat, were taken by the same photographer, and were captured in the same national park in Portugal. However, this one features two ibexes somewhat precariously balanced on a rock outcropping.

Photo by Norbertoe, CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiki Loves Earth 2022

#norbertoe #photographer #wiki loves earth 2022 #ibex #animal #mammal #wildlife #portugal #national park #nature

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wingedjewels · 1 year

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Happy find - Hoopoe In Explore Dec 27/22

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Happy find - Hoopoe by Georgie Alexon Via Flickr: I do love these Eurasian hoopoes. We do not get these birds back home in Canada. They are always a treat to see here in Europe. -This was photograph was taken in Lisbon, Portugal -Upupa epops

#Upupidae #Upupa epops #eurasian #hoope #bird #oiseaux #outdoors #wildlife #nature #photography #canon #green #colors #Europe #Lisbon #Portugal #winter #countryside #flickr

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dandelionrevolution · 2 months

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Good News - March 8-14, 2024

Like these weekly compilations? Support me on Ko-fi! Also, if you tip me on here or Ko-fi, at the end of the month I’ll send you a link to all of the articles I found but didn’t use each week - almost double the content! (I’m new to taking tips on here; if it doesn’t show me your username or if you have DM’s turned off, please send me a screenshot of your payment)

1. Colorado could bring back wolverines in an unprecedented rewilding effort

2. heat pumps slash emissions even if powered by a dirty grid

“Installing a heat pump now is better for the climate, even if you run it on U.S. electricity generated mostly by fossil fuels. […] Across the 48 continental states, RMI found that replacing a gas furnace with an efficient heat pump saves emissions not only cumulatively across the appliance’s lifetime, but also in the very first year it’s installed.”

3. Bald eagles seen nesting in Toronto for first time in city’s recorded history

“Presence of birds proof of improving health of city’s green spaces, as they are highly sensitive to environmental disturbances”

4. Good news for coral reef restoration efforts: Study finds 'full recovery' of reef growth within four years

“"We found that restored coral reefs can grow at the same speed as healthy coral reefs just four years after coral transplantation," says Ines Lange of University of Exeter, UK. "This means that they provide lots of habitat for marine life and efficiently protect the adjacent island from wave energy and erosion."”

5. The rewilding project bringing back an ancient breed of cattle to Portugal

“For millennia, grazing aurochs created open spaces for other species to thrive. As the closest to the extinct auroch depicted on the prehistoric engravings, Goderie says tauros can fulfil [sic] a similar ecological function that is vital for biodiversity. "Natural grazing will lead to more natural processes that are missing from local ecosystems, more habitats and more biodiversity," he says.”

6. Sycamore Gap: New life springs from rescued tree

“The horticulturalists also successfully planted seeds from the Sycamore Gap tree, now its descendants. Five months on, they are looking after nine surviving grafted plants and 40-50 seedlings.”

7. Massachusetts library will excuse overdue book charges in exchange for cat photos: ‘Feline Fee Forgiveness’

““Some of the staff were in a meeting and they were coming up with ways to bring people back to the library, and they thought, ‘What if we removed as many barriers as possible and told people they could show us a picture of a cat, draw a picture of a cat or just tell us about a cat?'””

8. Lesbian couple give birth to each other’s baby in UK first

“Their success marks the first time the procedure – which allows lesbian parents to simultaneously share in the pregnancy process, with one supplying eggs and the other carrying the baby – has been carried out in the UK.”

9. Biden-Harris administration has established four new units in the National Wildlife Refuge System

“The new four-million-acre conservation area will provide crucial protected wildlife corridors, enhance outdoor recreation access to the public and bolster climate resilience in southwest Florida.”

10. New truck front to save lives

“[B]etter truck designs can reduce passenger car compartment deformations by 30-60 percent, which reduces the risk of injury for the car occupants. Deformation of the truck was also reduced in sensitive areas and improved truck driver safety and cargo security.”

March 1-7 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

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kelphiepx · 1 year

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Some local wildlife in Madeira 🐐 • • • #madeira #goat #coastline #coast #travel #photography #ukphotographer #madeiraisland #ukshooters #travelphotography #portugal #coastalphotography #opticalwander #wildlifephotography #wildlife #islandlife #sonyalpha #a7riii #tamron #sonyphotography #discoverunder5k #visitmadeira (at Madeira, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7BmjCj6Cu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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thoughtlessarse · 23 days

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A stork flies to its nest in the cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean in Cabo Sardão, Portugal - Photograph: Michael Probst/AP

click image link for more Week in Wildlife photos

#portugal #white stork #ciconiiformes #ciconia ciconia #cliff nesting #wildlife photography #michael probst

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natureineurope · 2 years

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Iberian red fox by José Prego || CC BY 2.0

#fox #foxes #red fox #iberian red fox #animals #wildlife #nature #mammal #mammals #portugal

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nunoxaviermoreira · 1 year

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Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal - 2021.09.2021 ---xPLUG mount for TK35----

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calochortus · 1 month

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Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina) 1 of 4 by Will Atkins Via Flickr: this species was on my Portugal wish list - the individual here is a little faded but it still thrilled me to see it.

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snototter · 2 months

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A European solifugid (Gluvia dorsalis) in Querença, Portugal

by stevenw12339

#european solifugid #solifuges #wind scorpions #camel spiders #arachnids #gluvia dorsalis #gluvia #Daesiidae #solifugae #arachnida #arthropoda #wildlife: portugal #wildlife: europe

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selidor · 5 months

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thetravellingvagrant · 5 months

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Day 3: In Which I Am Awed By Tentacles

To no one's surprise greater than my own, I was up early and raring to go, sticking - in what must be some kind of record - to my own rules re: leaving the house before 10:30 for more than one day in a row. So early, I was up, in fact, that I even had time for a fairly leisurely breakfast, made from the supplies I had purchased yesterday and mercifully not out of hot dogs and some old wraps; the former of which had all been eaten and the latter developing a nasty, crinkly texture.

I had, instead, purchased some cream cheese in anticipation of a couple of lovely slabs of morning toast. Upon returning to the hostel that night, I realized that the kitchen did not come equipped with a toaster, but that was fine, a lovely…open face cream cheese sandwich would suffice, I thought. I cracked everything open, salivating uncontrollably as I did and…nope. That was not cream cheese. I don't know what sort of cheese it actually was - my best Google suggests it may have been queso fresco - but it was crumbly and aggressively bland and did not spread well at all. Why the fuck can't I get any nice food, here? It must exist.

I choked down the first of two sandwiches I had made opting to quietly discard the second in the bin before begrudgingly making two more sandwiches for my lunch - this time with some salami which would, I hoped,though was entirely wrong, would mask the taste of the cheese and heading out into Lisbon once more.

My plans for the day were to take a little train just outside of the city to a town called Algés which housed the Vasco Da Gama aquarium. An aquarium for which every entry in TripAdvisor read “actually much better than the big, proper aquarium of Lisbon, actually” in what was either a real push to emphasize how good it was or, more likely, a half-inflated effort to convince themselves that the time taken to visit wouldn't have been better spent in a far superior fish-zoo. I hoped it was the former - pretty sure it was the latter.

Regardless, I had read on their website that they had an in-tact, embalmed giant squid on display - an incredibly rare creature with which I am mildly obsessed and one which I have never even heard of there being an in-tact specimen of, in a museum, let alone seen for myself - so to be honest, I didn't care if the aquarium was on fire or, worse, in Cumbernauld; I was going.

After a thirty five minute walk up and down and up about three hundred and fifty different hills, I found myself at the appropriate train station and effortlessly - to an almost suspicious degree - had purchased a ticket, passed the barriers and found myself pootling along the tracks to my destination, within minutes. Lisbon's infrastructure is very intuitive and really makes a converted effort to stop any self-conscious travellers having to embarrass themselves or speak to anyone. It is thoroughly appreciated. I hate both of those things.

On the other end of the trip, I walked for around ten minutes a long the edge of a ring-road, thereby legitimizing this vagrancy, and found myself in front of the big, intimidating, closed doors of the aquarium. Remembering my resolution, I steeled myself and headed towards them, like the very brave little soldier I am, ready, in the event they didn't open, to just turn away like “I was only looking at the nice signage anyway, actually” to any bemused onlookers, of which, there were none.

The doors did not stay shut, however, and instead whooshed open in a flurry of glorious victory. I'm just going to walk into every closed set of automatic doors I see from now on. So drunk on the power of entering a public building I was that I didn't even mind that the reception desk was manned by three big blokey men, all having a conversation about tits or something. I waded into their in depth discussion about areolas and loudly proclaimed “I want to see some ruddy fish!”. Cowed by my presence, poise and power, the weakest of the three men was left with no choice but to take my money and issue me with a ticket and safe passage to the exhibits within. God it's good being alpha.

Once inside and once my heavy breathing had abated (a tactic I often employ to intimidate weaker men), I started to have a poke around. The Vasco Da Gama aquarium is actually only half aquarium and half museum; a feature which I did not mind at all. I like getting to look at living animals as well as their badly stuffed counterparts and being able to do both in the same building represented a wild thrill for me, on par with killing a man or doing a really big Frisbee throw.

There were interesting elements to the museum, as well as a couple of choice examples of bad taxidermy

What the fuck are you supposed to be?

Though, on the whole, I found the experience a bit lacking. The exhibits and their descriptions were all a bit dull and dry and around 80% of read along the lines of “I tell you what, this Portuguese king really loved his boat!” Which, while delightful, isn't especially interesting on the third, fourth or subsequent reads.

The aquarium, sadly, also felt a bit sparse with very little variety in their fairly small collection. I sometimes take quick notes on my phone while I'm walking around for ease of blogging later. My single note for the aquarium read ‘...it's just some fish”. Which I know is the point of an aquarium, but I bet you know what I mean.

It didn't take me too long to look around and while I was quite enjoying the thrill of being the only person in an entire aquarium, and there were, admittedly, some pretty cool prawns to look at

Look at them lil legs go!

it just wasn't really doing it for me. All told, I didn't spend more than two hours in the Vasco Da Gama, even including the time spent to do a proper good colouring in with shading and everything on the interactive touch screen panel designed entirely for the use of bored or belligerent children

...Yes, a member of staff /did/ catch me doing this.

And so, after a genuinely really exciting and far longer than I'd care to admit gawp at the giant squid, which was admittedly really fucking cool and probably the most fascinating and great thing I've ever seen in any museum including the animatronic velociraptors in London’s natural history museum

Pictured: The most incredible thing you've ever seen

I was away.

I sat in the courtyard of the museum watching their collection of koi fish (which, squid excluded, were the most interesting thing about the place and the only ones which I could have seen for free) while I ate one of the two sandwiches I had prepared for the day's lunch, discreetly discarding the other in a nearby bin. The salami did nothing to dull the taste, or lack thereof, of the cheese. I'd really like to eat something nice, please.

I decided to undertake the forty five or so minute walk to the amusingly named St. Jeronimo’s cathedral which I had erroneously assumed was up a right big hill, though in reality was in perhaps the flattest portion of the city imaginable, winding past the Belém tower as I went.

The tower was really neat and really very photogenic

Pictured: Not the most incredible thing you've ever seen.

Though was absolutely lousy with tourists, selfie sticks and, probably, pickpockets, so after taking my pictures - with the correct phone orientation; a castle still counts as a landscape - I quickly moved along, with my hand planted firmly over my wallet as I went.

After not too long at all, I found myself outside of Jeronimo's, which my feet were delighted and my eyes dismayed to learn wasn't up a massive big hill. The cathedral was also neat and photogenic, though short of paying the substantial entry fee to go inside, the idea of which dismayed both my feet and my brain, offered little more to me than a brief photo opportunity.

Pictured: Eh...

By this point my feet were aching and I was all tired and thirsty. I had been out for close to six hours with only a single, awful sandwich for sustenance and so I opted to hop on the train back the Lisbon proper, with only another…thirty five minute walk separating me from a nice bed. Great.

With more than 45,000 steps on my pedometer over the previous two days, I made as brief a job of the walk back as my broken trotters would allow, dropping into a nearby lidl on the way to buy what I thought was Herby cream cheese but actually ended up being Herby laughing cow, instead - what the fuck is it with this country and food? - before I was finally home. A nap and a cry later, I hobbled through to the communal kitchen and had a weirdly spirited conversation about the weather with the receptionist who kept calling me “Mister Lawrence” two days prior which ended incredibly abruptly as I microwaved, what I must admit was quite a pleasant dinner: some traditional Portuguese dish made of all pork and beans and that. I forget it's name, but it was basically quite nice.

Basically quite nice dinner consumed and my reserves of energy running dangerously close to less than zero, I decided to turn in for the night, in preparation for a fairly early bus ride to Faro in the morning, having seen a nice giant squid today and I want everyone to know that.

#travelling #vagrant #travel #photography #lisbon #portugal #museum #vasco da gama #aquarium #fish #wildlife #prawns #fokken pronz #koi #crap cheese

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sitting-on-me-bum · 2 years

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Lynx Cub Licking.

Iberian lynx are one of the world’s most endangered cats because of habitat loss, decreasing food sources, car collisions, and illegal hunting. But thanks to conservation efforts, the species is recovering and can be found in small areas of Portugal and Spain. Antonio Liebana Navarro took this image while leading a conservation project based around photography in Peñalajo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Focusing on this cub, he was lucky enough to capture the moment it lifted its head from a waterhole, licked its lips, and gazed straight into the camera. #

#antonio liebana navarro #photographer #wildlife photographer of the year #lynx cub #iberian lynx #lynx #animal #mammal #portugal #spain #penalajo #castilla-la mancha #nature

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wingedjewels · 10 months

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European Robin by Georgie Alexon Via Flickr: European Robins are very territorial and you'll usually only see 2 together when they're mating. In fact, they're so territorial that they often fight to the death defending their area. Male European Robins are so aggressive and territorial that they will attack their own reflections. This photograph was taken in Fonte da Benémola which is in the Algarve region in Portugal. -Erithacus rubecula

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antoniorochafotografia · 8 months

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Zoo de Lourosa

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#video #zoo #zoodelourosa #portugal #birds #birdsrecovery #wildlife #Youtube

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