Showing posts with label ox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ox. Show all posts

Friday, November 26, 2010

WWF maxicards about Kampuchea/ Cambodia: The Banteng (Bos javanicus), The Water Buffalo or Domestic Asian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), The Kouprey (Bos sauveli), The Gaur (Bos gaurus)


Stay away (or at least stay alert) from the crowds...including celebratory crowds, pilgrims, rioters, etc.
Not only bulls can create a deadly stampede.

Best wishes to the people of Cambodia! 
A country whose history is written in deep blood, especially because of their own countrymen, The Khmer Rouge members.

Read about the genocide: it's mind-boggling how the local power-players (and several countries!) have shifted alliances among them. Foe-turned-friend-turned-foe-turned....
What a tragedy...The Killing Fields...

On a more peaceful note (but remember the Latin adage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum ):
UL(upper left image): The Banteng (Bos javanicus), also known as Tembadau, is a species of wild cattle found in Southeast Asia. Banteng have been domesticated in several places in Southeast Asia, and there are around 1.5 million domestic banteng, which are called Bali cattle. These animals are used as working animals, and for their meat.[2] Bali cattle have also been introduced to Northern Australia, where they have established stable feral populations.[3] *

UR: The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is a large bovine animal, frequently used as livestock in southern Asia, and also widely in South America, southern Europe, north Africa, and elsewhere. * 

LL: Kouprey (Bos sauveli, from khmer [kuː prej] 'wild ox', also known as Kouproh or Grey ox) is a wild forest-dwelling ox found mainly in northern Cambodia but also believed to exist in southern Laos, western Vietnam, and eastern Thailand. It was discovered in 1937. *

LR: The gaur (pronounced /ˈɡaʊər/) (Bos gaurus, previously Bibos gauris) is a large, dark-coated forest animal of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The largest populations are found today in India. The gaur belongs to the Bovinae subfamily, which also includes bison, domestic cattle, yak and water buffalo. The gaur is the largest species of wild cattle, bigger than the African buffalo, the extinct aurochs (the ancestor of domestic cattle), wild water buffalo or bison. It is also called seladang or, in the context of safari tourism, Indian bison. The domesticated form of the gaur is called gayal or mithun.

Thanks, Wikipedia.org - my most favorite website!

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Monday, June 28, 2010

Not a true ox: Muskox (Ovibos moschatus) maximum card (USA) and philatelic souvenir folded page















I like the maximum card, and I also like the philatelic souvenir folded page.
That page is very educational - all the interesting facts about the subject.
Much more than a simple postcard...:)

It is the mammal species with the longest hairs in the world.
"As members of the subfamily Caprinae of the family Bovidae, muskoxen are more closely related to sheep and goats than to oxen, but are in their own genus, Ovibos. Both sexes have long curved horns."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_ox

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Maximaphily blog oddity: reverse side dorincard/MC/maximum card, potentially




Some of the most beautiful American postcards are printed in Italy. Grazie! :)
Some of them have the same image (or a different one) on the reverse of the postcard (the address side), only much more faded. The above one is printed in USA, though. :)
Wild idea: what if I create a dorincard/maximum card, focusing on the reverse side? In the above images, I could have put the bison stamp on the address side, then have it postmarked there with the bison pictorial postmark.
"Heresy!"..."Outrageous!"...I hear voices of some of the ultra-purist maximaphilists.
What if I do a real mailing like this: I affix a white label on the picture side, with the address on it. Also, enough postage for the appropriate rate, also on the picture side (the clock stamp, in this case).
I transform then the initial address side into the new picture side: I put the matching stamp on the faded image, then obtain the matching postmark on it.
Think about it. Turning the sides.
Why?
Because the faded image allows much better visibility for the postmark.
I'll do it, for experimental purposes.
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Incidentally, but not accidentally, I have this bison pictorial postmark on Avery 8665 [almost] transparent mailing address labels rectangular cut-outs. I cut them from full-page sheets.
Yes, it's not FIP-compliant, 'cause I'm using a label; so the stamp is not "tied" to the postcard by the postmark.
So what?
I am not eager to exhibit offline, so I am not bound by any FIP rules for judging maximaphily exhibits.
:)










I still have most of the above pictorially-postmarked stamps on postcard-size labels, transparent or white.
I could even create a cachet/image on a label that has only 1 postmarked stamp, and create an original maximum card. 
Non-FIP, of course.
Experimenting is fun. :)

Friday, July 31, 2009

Maximum card: Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), from my friend F., in South Africa


This is a powerful animal, and a herd could easily cooperate to defend against predators, but...they just don't cooperate, usually.

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