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Bee that Survives by Sucking up a Turtle’s Tears !!!…Action Captured In Photo !!!

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Incredible photo captures bee that survives by sucking up a turtle’s tears for the first time ever
Incredible pictures show bee sucking up turtle’s tears
Believed to be the first time the phenomenon has been witnessed
The bees absorb nutrients and salt through the unusual process.

These incredible pictures show a crying turtle having its tears wiped away – by a thirsty bee.

The endangered yellow-spotted river turtle cannot easily brush the salty liquid away, while the solitary bee needs sodium in its diet.

It is believed to be the first time this incredible natural phenomenon has been caught on film and was captured by Dr Oliver Dangles, 39, in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.

Incoming: A solitary bee drinks the tears from a yellow-spotted river turtle in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.

Breakthrough: The picture is believed to be the first time the phenomenon has been witnessed

He said: ‘Sodium is an essential nutrient for the survival and reproduction of living organisms. It helps maintain blood volume, regulates the balance of water in the cells, and keeps nerves functioning.

‘Plentiful in the oceans, this element is in short supply on land, especially in plants. Many terrestrial animals that depend on plants therefore crave sodium.’

The French ecologist, who has been living in South America for seven years, has long studied the animals of the Amazon.

He said some species of butterflies have specialised in tear-feeding, mainly on placid animals such as deer, crocodiles and sleeping birds which cannot easily remove their own.

In addition to sodium, tears also contain proteins that could represent a high-quality resource throughout the year, he added.
Feed: The bee gets essential salt and proteins from the turtle's tears

Feed: The bee gets essential salt and proteins from the turtle’s tears.

Symbiotic: A number of animals in the region indulge in the mutually-beneficial behaviour

Dr Dangles took the photographs as part of a book on the biodiversity of Ecuador, one of the most bio-diverse habitats in the world.

He slowly waded waist-deep into a river full of caiman – small crocodile-type creatures – to get close to the shy turtle.

He added: ‘While I was shooting, the bee came started to feed on the turtle’s tears.

‘To our knowledge this series of photographs is the first to document tear-feeding behaviour by solitary bees on river turtles.’
source::::mailonline

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Stuck in A Very Tight Spot!!!! ….Who is To Be Blamed !!!!

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Stuck in a very tight spot: Chinese builders give up waiting for driver and demolish multi-storey around his parked car
Demolition of Taiyuan car park goes ahead around the one parked car left in bay used by local company
Builders held off for ten days for owner to return to vehicle but couldn’t delay street-widening project any longer.

It is not the only example of Chinese authorities pushing ahead with building projects before all obstacles are out of the way.

Residents have been pushed out of their homes by builders digging moats around their properties and ripping out their staircases.

But in the case of this part-demolished Taiyuan car park, it is a driver who has been backed into an impossible corner.

The lone car is parked in a bay, surrounded by the debris of the flattened car park.

It is said that the car park in Taiyuan, Shanxi was scrapped as part of a street-broadening project.

Stranded: The parking bad is perfectly intact, but the piles of rubble surrounding the car mean it will have to be removed with a crane

Strange sight: A woman and baby survey the bizarre view. The car is facing a row of shops and is though to be owned by someone working for a local company

The site was used as for parking by a local company.
Builders went ahead with demolishing the area after waiting for the car to be moved for ten days. When the owner failed to return to the car, workers were told they couldn’t wait any longer.
The bizarre sight of the white vehicle stranded in a sea of stone has stopped passers-by in their tracks. The piles of rubble and large chunks of concrete leave no clear path for the car to be driven out.
It is not known whether drivers were informed of when the car park was to be flattened, but the owner of this vehicle seems to be none-the-wiser.

Anyone in there?: A security guard peers into the abandoned car. its owner had not claimed it in the 10 days before the demolition. Builders were ordered to go ahead with their work as the project couldn't be delayed further

source::::mailonline

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Animal Photos Of The Week !!!!

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Animal photos of the week: 3 May 2013

Relaxing at the Walter Zoo in eastern Switzerland, Brigitte the chimp begins to monkey around when she sees passers-by and sticks out his tongue in an almost human expression

Pictures of the day: 3 May 2013: A baby monkey, a lion cub and tigers cubs play at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang

A baby monkey, a lion cub and tigers cubs play at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang, China

Tortoise-lover Katie Bradley has been crocheting wooly designs for her seven pet tortoises. But after posting pictures of the cosy critters on her tortoise blog, she was soon inundated with requests to make them for tortoises around the globe. And now, dozens of tortoises around the world are being decked out dressed as dinosaurs (above), sharks, pumpkins - or just in pretty patterns.

A 7-year-old white tiger sits with one of her cubs at Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, near Tokyo. Four newborn white tiger cubs made their first public appearance at the zoo.

Wildlife photographer Dale Morris created this multiple exposure photo of a lemur scampering across the ground in Madagascar, Africa

A Jezebel butterfly in Sri Lanka

A Jezebel (Delais Eucharis) butterfly in Sri Lanka’s Dimah Conservation Butterfly Garden, home to some 125 species of butterfly

Orangutans find shelter from the sun at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Park in Jersey, Channel Islands.

Photographer Sergey Gorshkov watched theis grizzly bear tire herself out fishing for salmon in a river before taking a well-deserved break in the Kronotskiy Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia

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A giant panda rests on a tree ‘panda kindergarten’, a refuge for baby pandas, inside Bifengxia giant panda base in Ya’an, Sichuan province after an earthquake hit Lushan last weekend. According to local reports, more than half of the pandas in Bifengxia were resettled from Wolong panda base after an 7.9 earthquake in 2008 killed nearly 70,000 people.

source::::The Telegraph UK

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Yakutsk: The Coldest City on Earth!!!!

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Yakutsk, a remote city in Eastern Siberia along the Lena River, is the coldest city in the world. Located 1840 km away from Irkoustk and 5000 km away from Moscow, this city founded in 1632 by the Cossacks imposes upon its inhabitants an extreme way of life. And yet, despite particularly harsh conditions, Yakutsk boasts a population of 270,000, or a quarter of the entire population of Siberia. No other place on the planet experiences the temperature extreme found here: in winter, the temperatures regularly fall to minus 40° (the coldest temperature recorded was –64°C) and in summer often reaches temperatures above 30°C. Photos: January 2013. A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world.

January 2013. A scene in Yakutsk, Siberia, the coldest city in the world. (Photo by Steeve Iuncker/Agence VU)

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Message For The Day….Mother is God …

May 6, 2013Natarajan1 Comment

Respect your mother, obey her commands. Give her the utmost importance in human life. There may be a wicked son, but not a wicked mother. It is because of the noble feelings of the mothers that children become virtuous, intelligent, attain exalted positions and earn name and fame. The mother fosters you, nourishes you, knows your choices, preferences and fulfils all your needs. So, be grateful to your mother always. Mother protects and helps her children always, in many ways and even after her death. Never disrespect your mother or disappoint her or hurt her feelings. Try to satisfy her in all respects. Only then will the seed of devotion sprout in you. Everyone should follow the dictum, Mathru Devo bhava (Mother is God) in letter and spirit and receive their mother’s love. Also never look down upon women. They are embodiments of Nature and most virtuous. With all the sacred feelings in your heart, respect women and be respected.

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Breathtaking Images Captured By Canadian Astronaut From ISS !!!

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Morning has broken: Breathtaking image of the first light of dawn creeping over the horizon is captured by astronaut
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has wowed Twitter with his pictures taken from the International Space Station
His latest image is of dawn breaking over the south west of the United States last week.

A breathtaking image of the moon rising above the United states as dawn breaks have been posted on Twitter by an astronaut on the International Space Station.

The stunning shot, which bears striking resemblance to the beginning of the opening credits of a Universal film, was posted by Canadian Chris Hadfield who has gained a cult following on Twitter for his images of the Earth from space.

The image was shot over southwestern America and will be one of Hadfield’s last tweets from space after he announced that his return to earth will commence later this month.

One of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s latest pictures from the International Space Station shows a darkened south-eastern United States just before dawn, with the moon rising above

Some of the snapshots of Astronaut Chris Hadfield…..

Snapper: The stunning image of the Earth at dawn was the latest picture from space captured by Commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield

Beautiful: Chris Hadfield has posted dozens of pictures from space online since he arrived at the ISS in December including this taken over Africa

Seaside shot: Most of Commander Hadfield's pictures of the UK were taken at night, but this one shows the beautiful blue sea surrounding the coast of Bournemouth in Hampshire

Emerald Isle: The silhouettes of Ireland and Wales were captured in this beautiful picture taken from the ISS by Commander Hadfield

Green green grass: It may look tiny, but this expanse of UK land encompasses Exeter and Cornwall all the way to Land's End

Down under from up above: The astronaut tweeted this shot of what he described as the 'endless beaches of Australia', adding 'That's where I'd go for Australia Day!'

'In the lee of the rock - protecting an island of humanity in a sea of orange sand.' Some of the pictures look as if they are from a different planet

Unmistakable: The Thames can be clearly seen snaking its was through the giant urban sprawl of London in this picture

Unmistakable: The Thames can be clearly seen snaking its way through the giant urban sprawl of London in this picture

Commander of the International Space Station, Chris has gained an army of followers on Facebook and Twitter with his daily updates from space which feature beautiful pictures and news on the progress of the various missions he and his colleagues carry out.

Hadfield has been taking the Twitterverse by storm from aboard the ISS, which orbits the Earth at 8km a second, since he arrived back on December 21.

The astronaut, who has also posted a variety of amusing videos showing what it is like to shave, vomit and brush your teeth in space, uses a long lens camera to capture the stunning detail of the Earth.

Among his favourite places to photograph is the Sahara in Africa and he explains that he waits until the sun is directly over the desert to get the best shot.

He says: ‘The beauty of space station, though, is if it’s not here this time, tomorrow it might be, or maybe a month from now.

‘There’s not a race to get a picture. You can be patient, like a hunter.’

He says that it’s not Instagram, it’s ‘Space-a-gram’ and that the key steps are: ‘Focus, frame, and fire’.

He added: ‘We orbit 400km above the earth, so if you want to get a good detailed picture of something you need a long lens. I have one velcroed to the wall.’

Chris uses a special setting on his camera to deal with the bright glare of light from the Earth against the pitch black backdrop of space.

He takes pictures in as high a resolution as possible, so his camera’s memory card gets full very quickly.

The first Canadian to walk in space, Commander Hadfield, 53, a former air force fighter pilot, has previously flown two Space Shuttle missions in 1995 and 2001.

Hadfield has amassed 226,000 fans on Facebook and 740,000 followers on Twitter.

He announced that his ‘fiery fall’ to earth will commence on May 13 after the arrival of a new Russian commander.

source::::mailonline

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Best Friends Forever!!!!..A Chimp and a Bear Cub !!!!!

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Bam Bam the grizzly bear cub and Vali the chimp have become firm friends

Five-month-old grizzly bear cub and 16-month-old chimp are firm friends
But Bam Bam the bear will soon grow to nine times the size of chimp pal

Like most youngsters, their play can get a little wild. But five-month-old grizzly bear Bam Bam and 16-month-old chimpanzee Vali are the most unlikely friends.

For while together they resemble a pair of cuddly toys, they would normally live on different continents.

And when they grow up, Bam Bam is likely to be about nine times the size of his chimp pal. But the young males have been inseparable since being introduced at the Myrtle Beach Safari park in South Carolina, where they were born.

The pair love to play together and have been best of friends since they were introduced

Staff are not sure how long the friendship will last as Bam Bam will quickly grow into a 56st adult bear, while Vali will reach only 9st

Visitors delight in watching them wrestling and playing tag. In the wild, Bam Bam would live in the wilds of North America, while Vali’s natural home is the jungle of central Africa.

Park owner Bhagavan Antle said staff decided to see whether the pair would hit it off when Bam Bam reached the same size as Vali – even though bears grow much faster than chimps.

‘We got them out there playing on a sunny day and they went on and on for hours,’ he said. ‘Neither of them wanted to quit. They would lie down and fall asleep at our feet, wake back up and start wrestling again.’

source:::::mailonline

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காஞ்சி சுவாமி ….கஞ்சி சுவாமி. !!!…காஞ்சி பெரியவரின் சிலேடை !!!!

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காஞ்சிபுரத்தில் வேத பாஷ்ய பரிட்சை நடந்தது.ஏராளமான பண்டிதர்கள் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.

அந்த நாள்களில்,ஸ்ரீ மடத்தில் டீ,காபி கொடுக்கும் வழக்கம் இல்லை.வித்வான்களுக்கு மோர்க் கஞ்சி,பால் கஞ்சிதான் கொடுப்பது வழக்கம்.

ஒரு பக்தர்,வித்வான்களுக்கு கஞ்சி கொடுத்துக்கொண்டிருந்தார். கூட்டம் அதிகமாக இருந்ததால் எல்லாரும் கஞ்சிக்காக நின்று கொண்டிருந்தார்கள்.

ஒரு வித்வான் கஞ்சி கொடுத்துக்கொண்டிருந்த நபரைப் பார்த்து,[தனக்கு உடனே கொடுக்க வேண்டும் என்பதற்காக] ‘கஞ்சி ஸ்வாமி….கஞ்சி ஸ்வாமி”என்று உரத்த குரலில் அழைத்துக் கொண்டிருந்தார். [கஞ்சி கொடுங்கோ ஸார் என்பதைப் போல கஞ்சி ஸ்வாமி!]

சற்றுத் தொலைவில் உட்கார்ந்தபடி ஸ்ரீ பெரியவாள் இதைக் கேட்டு ரசித்துக் கொண்டிருந்தார்.

அந்த சமயம் பார்த்து, ஒரு வித்வான் [கஞ்சி கேட்டவரின் குரலைக் கேட்டு] பரபரப்புடன்,”கஞ்சி ஸ்வாமிகள் எக்கட உன்னாரு?” என்று[பெரியவாள் தரிசனத்துக்காக] ஆவலுடன் கேட்டார்.

இரண்டையும் கேட்டுக் கொண்டிருந்த பெரியவாள் மெல்லச் சிரித்தபடியே……

“தெலுங்கில்தான் ‘கஞ்சி ஸ்வாமி’யாக நான் இருந்தேன். இப்போது தமிழிலும் ‘கஞ்சி’ ஸ்வாமியாக [கஞ்சி கொடுக்கும் நபர்] ஆகிவிட்டேன்.ரொம்பப் பொருத்தம்” என்று கூறி, பொருள் சிலம்பம் செய்தார்கள்.
Jaya Jaya Shankara, Hara Hara Shankara !

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Giant Rubber Duck In Hong Kong !!!!

May 5, 2013Natarajan1 Comment

Ahem, excuse me Captain, but I think we’re being followed. This is the world’s largest rubber ducky, seen here floating around Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. Designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, its aim is to “spread joy around the world.” The duck has also been caught ducking off in Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Osaka, Japan. Where it’ll be next is anyone’s guess, but Hofman says he just wants to make people smile. “The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation,” he wrote on his website. “The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!” [Daily Mail]

Rubber Duck in Hong Kong

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman says “Rubber Duck” reminds grownups of their childhood.!!!!!

A visit from a giant, inflated “Rubber Duck” turned Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour into a bathtub on Thursday.

Thousands of Hong Kong citizens looked on as the 54-foot inflatable structure made its long-awaited entrance into the city’s harbor, CNN reports. The highly anticipated arrival came after two weeks of intense hype from local media outlets.

For Florentijn Hofman, the Dutch artist behind the beloved Rubber Duck, Hong Kong’s response to the floating art display was nothing short of overwhelming. The 36-year-old told CNN he was happy to be visiting Hong Kong, though his inflatable friend got there first.

“I’ve wanted to come for years — and my duck made it here before me!” Hofman said.

The yellow duck came to rest beside the harbor’s Ocean Terminal, with a brass band and thousands of camera shutters providing the soundtrack.

“Hong Kong has been changed forever,” Hofman said, as Rubber Duck became a temporary part of the city’s skyline.

The giant bath toy is quite the world traveler. Since beginning its international journey, Rubber Duck has made appearances in Osaka, Sydney, San Paolo and Amsterdam, CNN reports. It will remain in Hong Kong’s harbor until June 9, and then it heads to the United States.

Despite the duck’s youthful evocations, Hofman insists that his art project is for grownups, too.

“I see it as an adult thing. It makes you feel young again. It refers to your childhood when there was no stress or economic pressure, no worry about having to pay the rent,” Hofman told CNN.

While the duck has elicited laughs and delighted responses from onlookers, Hofman acknowledges that his project isn’t for everyone.

“If it makes you smile, then that’s OK, but maybe it makes you cry because of the urban environment. I make work not to give answers but to question things.”

The father of three initially conceived the art display in 2001, but he’s not done thinking about it just yet.

“It’s getting complex because I have so many thoughts about it and so many minutes of talking and thinking about it,” he told CNN.

Hofman urged everyone to formulate their own opinion on the free art display.

“Be amazed, be creative. Look at it with your eyes and absorb the energy of the work in this location,” he said.

When it finishes its stay in Hong Kong, Rubber Duck will be headed to the United States, but Hofman isn’t giving away the exact location.

“In the States, it will stay a secret until the last week.”

source::::International Business times

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Boeing…..A Retrospective Look !!!

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A Pan American Airways flying boat aircraft passing over a clipper ship on the Spanish coast. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). January 1938

Colonel Roscoe Turner, the pilot of an American Boeing plane, showing his wife a model of the plane, at the airfield in Mildenhall. (Photo by R. Wesley/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 19th October 1934

The Boeing B-17-C-type Flying Fortress, known to the RAF as a Fortress I bomber, in flight. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950

Three Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs over North Korea. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1952

The Pan-American World Airways clipper “Flying Cloud”, the first of a fleet which will fly between New York and London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1949

Interior of a giant Boeing 707 jet airliner which can take up to 165 economy class passengers. Owned by Pan-Am she is carrying a service crew for noise test flights over Britain. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 8th September 1958

A Boeing 720 crash lands on a runway with a faulty nosewheel. (Photo by Stroud/Getty Images). 1962

The hijacked Boeing 707 of Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines, with the safety chutes down, at Lydda Airport, Israel. The plane was hijacked by a whisky-drinking Libyan, armed with two pistols, soon after its take-off from Nicosia, Cyprus, en route to Beirut, and diverted to Israel. Israeli commandos stormed the plane and rescued the 109 passengers and 10 crew. (Photo by Daniel Rosenblum/Keystone/Getty Images). 17th August 1973

A Pan-American 747 jumbo jet on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, where it touched down after carrying 380 people, a new world record for the number of people ever to fly in one aircraft. (Photo by Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images). 12th January 1970

After completing its second successful mission into space, the STS-2 Orbiter Columbia begins its return flight to the Kennedy Space Centre aboard the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1981

source:::avaxnewsnet

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