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Category: Wildlife in CaptivityA grazing Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) captured at the Copenhagen Zoo. From Wiki:
The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa. Although the okapi bears striped markings reminiscent of the zebra, it is most closely related to the giraffe.
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Wow, that's really a masterful shot. Really amazing!
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You're very welcome.
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Beautiful shot of a really cool animal!
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they are wondeful animals, and if you ever get to feed them or watch them eat, they have a LONG purple tongue!
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It's not allowed to feed them at the zoo, but I've seen them eat. And that tongue is indeed long
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Wow, the colors here are amazing!
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Thank you. Glad you like it
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It looks so peaceful and soft
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it's a beautiful animal
and a great shot as well!
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Thanks very much, Daniel
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Very unique indeed. Looks like a cross between a Zebra and a Giraffe
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Yeah...I like the quagga too.Some years ago some scientist "resurrected" this extinct species [link]
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Very interesting. Never heard of the Quagga before, but now you've enlightened me
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Really?I've heard of this animal thanks to several naturalistic book.One of those it's from WWF and I have received it on a Christmas when I was young...I mean more young than now XD
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You really got me there, Chiara. I knew you were more clever than me - at least regarding floral and fauna life. But I'm always prepared to learn, so thanks a lot for the info
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Ahahah...count that I started to learn some naturalistic thing at the young age of 8 thanks to my grandmother...and at the age of 9 I received a book called "What flower is it?"(Italian:"Che fiore รจ?") author:Aichele Dietmar.I have used and I use that book for identify several flowers and for me it's the most valuable and complete flower book that I have.And i have many flower book along with other naturalistic book.And there's internet too XD
Someone compared me to a sponge...and it's true...I have learned a lot of things...not only naturalistic...and sometimes I think that someday my brain will explode with all these information in it...but I hope not...
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I mostly rely on the internet. Every time I shoot a new flower or animal, I will look it up on Google to read about it. But as you know, I sometimes have problems identifying plants and flowers, so I'm always glad to get some help from you or somebody else.
Don't worry about your brain to explode. It can contain much more information than any computer. But sometimes it can be difficult to remember everything
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Th internet is very useful but if you don't know almost the species or the class of the flower or animal it's practically useless.
I do forget a lot things...so I constantly watch over and over again my classified picture of flowers and animal/insects for remember everything.There's some species that I remember because I like it(like the Paradisea Liliastrum)or because I saw so many times that I remember well...but other species are sometime difficult to remember...maybe because I don't see very often or they have a difficult name to remember.
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Yes, you're right about the internet, but sometimes I'm lucky to find the right species by searching on the colour. There might also be other ways to search, but "colour" has worked for me a few times.
The Paradisea Liliastrum looks very beautiful, but I don't think it can be found up here
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The book I told you is based on a color/ambient/numbers of petals of the flower/plant...so it's easy to use and there are illustration of the flowers that they are more detailed than a picture.I have another book like this bought recently and both are useful for me.
For the Paradisea I have checked and I found that it's common in Italy over the Alps(where I am)and Apennines and in Pyrenees.
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I will look for the Paradisea when I go to the Botanical garden. Hopefully next week
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Good luck then...look for the Cypripedium calceolus too...it's a beautiful orchid that grows in the Alps too.Sadly I never saw this flower.Ah...and look for the Silene elisabethae too...that is a splendid type of Silene...very big and colorful.
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Thanks, Chiara. I'll be looking for all three of them
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Ahahah...no problem.They are three beautiful species.I saw the Silene elisabethae once and he was told me that it's a very rare specimen.In my region there are only two mountain spot where you can find this beauty.
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Okay then, if I don't find them in the Botanical garden, I'll come down to look for them in the Alps
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Ahahah...well...that's a long way...but if you are really interested to make some good picture of beautiful flower then come to the Alps...maybe I will suggest you some place to go and the period of the year it's important too ^_^
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Spring or summer time is probably the best, I suppose. I have passed over the Alps a few time by aeroplane and it looked fantastic. But I didn't see any flowers from that height, though
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Let's see...I think that end of spring-beginning of summer is the best period...but some flowers bloom only on early spring or at the end of winter.Like the Galanthus nivalis or the Soldanella alpina.Though one year I saw the Soldanella and a species of Primula that they don't belong in the same period because the snow retreated from the mountain in the period of the bloom of this Primula...that was a spectacular view!
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I talked to somebody who went to the Pyrenees just to look for (and photograph) special flowers growing only there. She said it had become a kind of tourist attraction to trek in the mountains to look for these flowers. Sounds like a good idea, I think
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Oh yeah...this is a good idea!I hope that the tourist respect the flora...
Sometime when I went to some botanical trip in the mountain or wood some stupid people took some rare or endangered flower like the Leontopodium alpinum only because "they are beautiful"...geez!Oh yeah...they are beautiful indeed but why they don't understand that they are more beautiful if you keep them in the right environment and not picking them up for taking them home and they slowly die...this is so sad...
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You're absolutely right, Chiara. Tourists sometimes behave very stupidly, but I think that most people who go trekking in the mountains know that the flowers and plants are only for looking. Or at least I hope so
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Yeah...I agree...the sad thing it's that these "tourists" were in our group...but they don't have interest in botanic and they were very ignorant...they come only for climbing the mountain...and they were the type "fast climbers"...that means that they don't enjoy the view either...very sad...
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You gotta go and fight them with your machine gun or knife
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Ahahah...that will be a good idea...and when I go to a mountain excursion I take always with me my Swiss knife...but not for hurting people...XD
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No, not hurting them. Just chasing them away with your cardboard knife
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