Wednesday 29 July 2015

Serengeti Migration-'THE WORLD CUP of Wildlife' aka 'The Greatest Show on Earth'






     The annual wildebeest migration in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park and Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the most spectacular wildlife events on the planet. The Great Wildebeest Migration is a movement of approximately2 million wildebeest throughout the Serengeti and Masai Mara ecosystems. 300,000 zebra and 250,000 gazelles accompany them along the way, making a total of over 2 million migrating animals!




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                                                         Serengeti Migration
   



Wednesday 15 July 2015

A ' murmuration 'of Starlings


A “murmuration” of starlings, , must be one of the most magical wildlife spectacles on display in winter. Impenetrable as the flock’s movements might seem to the human eye, the underlying maths is comparatively straightforward. 


Each bird strives to fly as close to its neighbours as possible, instantly copying any changes in speed or direction. As a result, tiny deviations by one bird are magnified and distorted by those surrounding it, creating 

rippling, swirling patterns. In other words, this is a classic case of mathematical chaos . Whatever the science, however, it is difficult for the observer to think of it as anything other than some vast living entity.

The logic behind this spectacular behaviour is simple: survival. Starlings are tasty morsels for peregrines, merlins and sparrowhawks. The answer is to seek safety in numbers, gathering in flocks and with every bird trying to avoid the edge where adept predators can sometimes snatch a victim.

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              Murmuration of Starlings

Wednesday 8 July 2015

Grizzly Man

    Timothy Treadwell ( April 29, 1957 – October 5, 2003) was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, amateur naturalist, and documentary filmmaker and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived with the grizzly bears of
Katmai National Park in Alaska for 13 summers. At the end of his 13th summer in the park in 2003, he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard  were killed by a 28-year-old brown bear.Treadwell's life, work, and death were the subject of Werner Herzog's critically acclaimed 2005 documentary film Grizzly Man

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                                    GRIZZLY MAN