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Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Friday, February 11, 2011

Happy Postcard Friday (meme)! Read from BBC: Lion (facts, pictures and stunning videos). My worldwide stamps and RSA maxicards with Lion (Panthera leo). Lions choose their 'Valentine' in a polygynandrous way (OMG!)

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Read the BBC article here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Lion and here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations/Polygynandry These a...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

My post for the "Sunday Stamps" meme: cool stamp from the Republic of South Africa, with WITRENOSTER/ WHITE RHINO (Ceratotherium simum)

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" The  White Rhinoceros  or  Square-lipped rhinoceros  ( Ceratotherium simum ) is one of the five species of  rhinoceros  that still e...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Read from BBC: "Your Good Samaritan stories". Let's see if I can illustrate, if only with a collateral symbolic reference, these 10 true stories.

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Read the whole article here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12122809 Let's see if I can illustrate, if only with a collateral sym...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

"BBC: African elephant is two species, researchers say". Also, Part 2: The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) - maximum card/ maxicard/ dorincard from the Republic of South Africa, and WWF maxicards about Uganda

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Thank you, my friend Fi from Jo'burg [Johannesburg, RSA], for creating this UNICATE (only 1 in the world in this configuration, AFAIK= &...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Triple-concordant maximum card from a DEAD COUNTRY, in philatelic terms (TRANSKEI, an ex-bantustan inside Republic of South Africa): The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), the second-best cursory hunter. The best (the ultimate) would be The Dhole, in my opinion.

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Notice the cool, pictorial, concordant, detailed, clean and clear postmark. If Transkei could do it (or their philatelic contractor...), the...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

"From Africa, with Love": Good Samaritan Hippo saves wildebeest, zebra babies - see this YouTube sensation

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Hippo saves wildebeest, zebra babies : "Videos showing a hippo rescuing a wildebeest calf and then a zebra foal from drowning in a stro...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Frog species from Africa (Part 4): is this The Big-eyed Tree Frog (Leptopelis vermiculatus), or one of the other similar 48 species from genus Leptopelis? - dorincard/maxicard from Venda

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Can YOU identify this species? " Leptopelis   genus  of  frogs  found throughout  Africa . They are medium sized, semi-arboreal f...

Frog species from Africa (Part 3): The Grey Foam-nest Treefrog or Southern Foam-nest Treefrog (Chiromantis xerampelina) - maxi card from Venda

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The  Grey Foam-nest Treefrog  or  Southern Foam-nest Treefrog  ( Chiromantis xerampelina ). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiromantis_xera...

Frog species from Africa (Part 2): The Angola River Frog or Common River Frog (Afrana angolensis) - maxicard from Venda

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I found it in wikipedia.org not as Rana angolensis, as on the postcard, but as The Angola River Frog or Common River Frog (Afrana angolens...