"Notre DAMA". ERROR: Not n'dama, as inscribed on the stamps (that's a cattle type), but: The Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama; formerly Gazella dama). WWF maximaphily items (maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards) from Senegal.

Nobody's perfect - not even a great organization like WWF:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature

Here's a stamp designing mistake that somebody made, and it went uncorrected, despite the best efforts of several editors, presumably. :)

But we know better, don't we?

Who the hell is WE?

We, The People. :)

ERROR: Not n'dama, as inscribed on the stamps (that's a cattle type), but: The Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama; formerly Gazella dama)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27dama

It "is a species of gazelle. 

It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and migrates south in search of food during the dry season. 

Their habitat includes open steppes, bushy, grassy steppes, semi-desert, and deserts, while their diet includes grasses, leaves, shoots, fruit, and especially Acacia leaves. 

After the rains return and the desert plants turn green, the gazelles move north back to the Sahara. 

Poaching and destruction of their habitat have greatly diminished their numbers, and they no longer live in large herds." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanger_dama

"Senegal is located on the west of the African continent. It lies between latitudes 12° and 17°N, and longitudes 11° and 18°W.

The Senegalese landscape consists mainly of the rolling sandy plains of the western Sahel which rise to foothills in the southeast. 

Here is also found Senegal's highest point, an otherwise unnamed feature [they DIDN'T name this] near Nepen Diakha at 584 m (1,916 ft). 

The northern border is formed by the Senegal River, other rivers include the Gambia and Casamance Rivers. 

The capital Dakar lies on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of continental Africa.

The Cape Verde islands lie some 560 kilometres (350 mi) off the Senegalese coast, but Cap Vert ("Cape Green") is a maritime placemark, set at the foot of "Les Mammelles" , a 105-metre (344 ft) cliff [at least they DID name this]

resting at one end of the Cap Vert peninsula onto which is settled Senegal's capital Dakar, and 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) south of the "Pointe des Almadies", the western-most point in Africa."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal, except the comments in red, of course.

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Does the Dama Gazelle suffer from fear of failure 

(= Atychiphobia)

...to find food every day, to find water, to escape predators?

God knows - let's ask him.

Well...he's unavailable for comment.

Atychiphobia...

in other words:  Kakorrhaphiophobia

http://www.zazzle.com/what_stamp_postage-172780532697535446?gl=dorinco&rf=238693463283865848

Atychiphobia

"Atychiphobes generally gather a defeatist attitude out of fear of failing, making them avoid trying to achieve anything due to potentially failing at it. 

They may also subconsiously undermine or sabotage their own efforts to prevent having to continue to try, and therefore preventing any potential failure. 

This strategy is known as avoidance behavior. 

Atychiphobes may also suffer from an inordinate sense of perfectionism, and may only try something that is guaranteed perfect and successful, or may try but will encounter excessive anxiety in the process due to unrealistically perfectionistic standards."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakorrhaphiophobia

I'm telling you, man (and woman, too): perfectionism is a trap.

Don't fall into it!

:)

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