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The Boston Globe has posted the 50 Best Photos from the Natural World taken in 2011. This is number 8, a mama Amur tiger licking the face of its 7-week old at the Royev Ruchev Zoo. This awesome mother/cub moment was captured by Reuters photographer Ilya Naymushin. The cub is learning exactly how difficult it is to look fierce while your mom is kissing you. Click through below to see all 50 awesome and inspiring photographs!
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The Boston Globe has posted the 50 Best Photos from the Natural World taken in 2011. This is number 8, a mama Amur tiger licking the face of its 7-week old at the Royev Ruchev Zoo. This awesome mother/cub moment was captured by Reuters photographer Ilya Naymushin. The cub is learning exactly how difficult it is to look fierce while your mom is kissing you. Click through below to see all 50 awesome and inspiring photographs!
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Russian biologist Alexander Semenov graduated in 2007 from Moscow State University’s zoology department where he studied invertebrate animals. Specifically: squid brains. [For which he wins extra awesomeness points!] Now he works as the chief of his diving team at the White Sea Biological Station, camera always in-hand, where he’s captured some of these extraordinary photographs of jellyfish and other wildlife. You can see more images in his photo galleries or you can follow him on Flickr.
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There is no way I can dislike Alan whatshisname with the voice like a cello.
Ursula K. Le Guin, in an interview at the end of The Wild Girls, obviously in re: Alan Rickman
obsessed with this house.
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“An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitoes than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods.”
Photo courtesy of Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development
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“An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were less mosquitoes than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods.”
Photo courtesy of Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development
[via My Modern Metropolis]
finally!
