The National Park covers a total area of 300 square kilometres, whilst the lakes join together over a distance of eight kilometres. There's also quite an altitude difference - the highest point is at 1,280m, the lowest at 380m - although the total height difference between the lakes themselves is only 135m. (Veliki Slap, the largest waterfall, is 70m tall.)
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Plitvice Lakes and Waterfalls
The National Park covers a total area of 300 square kilometres, whilst the lakes join together over a distance of eight kilometres. There's also quite an altitude difference - the highest point is at 1,280m, the lowest at 380m - although the total height difference between the lakes themselves is only 135m. (Veliki Slap, the largest waterfall, is 70m tall.)
Monday, July 17, 2006
What young animals are called? - pictures of baby animals
And a little elephant is called a calf?
Here are more names to add to your collection.
Antelope - calf
Bear - cub
Beasts of prey - whelp
Beaver - kit
Birds - fledgling, nestling
Cat - kitten
Codfish - codling, sprat
Cow - calf
Deer - fawn, yearling
Dog - pup, puppy
Duck - duckling
Eagle - eaglet
Eel - elver
Elephant - calf
Elephant seal - weaner
Fish - fry
Fowl - chick, chicken
Fox - cub, pup
Frog - polliwog, tadpole
Goat - kid
Goose - gosling
Grouse - cheeper
Guinea fowl - keet
Hawk - eyas
Hen - pullet
Hippo - calf
Horse - foal, yearling, or colt (male), filly (female)
Kangaroo - joey
Lion - cub
Owl - owlet
Partridge - cheeper
Pig - piglet, shoat, farrow, suckling
Pigeon - squab, squeaker
Quail - cheeper
Rabbit - bunny, kit
Rat - pup
Rhino - calf
Rooster - cockerel
Salmon - parr, smolt, grilse
Seal - pup
Shark - cub
Sheep - lamb, lambkins
Swan - cygnet
Tiger - cub, whelp
Turkey - poult
Whale - calf
Zebra - foal
But what do you call this little freak?
;)
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Through The Eyes Of The Bee
But, the neuroscientist adds, light that's reflected onto the eye from an object, such as a flower, is constantly changing. To perceive the flower or anything else, the brain must decipher that light. "If you can understand how something relatively simple like the bee solves these problems, then we can apply that to robotics," Lotto said. Developing a visual system that deciphers information, he added, "is the most significant obstacle facing robotics."
In the honeybee, four of the visual cells in each ommatidium respond best to yellow-green light (530 nm); two respond maximally to blue light (430 nm); and the remaining two respond best to ultraviolet light (340 nm), allowing the honeybee to distinguish colors (except red).
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Clouds and lightning, pictures by Goran Katic
And few more from Goran Katic. These beautiful photos are uploaded in 1024 x 768 resoulution so you can also use them as wallpaper.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Wood pictures by Goran Katic
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Grass pictures by Goran Katic
I just received this beautiful photos from my friend and great photo artist - Goran Katic.
Hope you like it!
Monday, July 10, 2006
Why are insects so important?
The value of crops pollinated by bees is $1590,000,000 per year! 30% of all human food is directly or in-directly dependent on pollination by bees.
Food for thought:
"Insects are everywhere and we need them. While many people in the over-developed world see insects as objects of disgust, we all depend on them for the largely unseen ecological services performed by these much-maligned, but often strikingly beautiful, animals"
Christopher O'Toole, Alien Empire
Friday, July 07, 2006
Fire rainbow, natural phenomena
June 19, 2006
Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington State border (map of Idaho).
The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground.
When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism. If a cirrus's crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors.
This particular arc spanned several hundred square miles of sky and lasted for about an hour, according to the London Daily Mail.
Lyrebird, The Amazing Mimic Bird
Thursday, July 06, 2006
The Ugly Bugs
This is a large family, with over 4,950 species in the world, of which 400 live in America. They have many habitats, most are wet or humid areas. Many specieis have regular flying paths and alight on favorite perches. Most damselflies are brightly colored, with shades including violet, green, red, black, blue, bronze, and orange. males are usually more brightly colored than females. Their wings are clear and many-veined. Most species are between 1 and 1 1/4 inches in length. The head is mostly occupied by large compound eyes. The antennae are short, bristly, and inconspicuous. They feed on other insects they capture while flying. Odonata are carnivourous, they have chewing jaws, and keep insect pests under control by feeding on mosquitoes, midges, etc. They may attempt to bite people, but only large dragonflies can inflict a painful bite.
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Centipede's are flat, wormlike creatures with one pair of appendages for each body segment. The antennae on a centipede has at least fourteen or more segments. The first set of appendages behind the head are clawlike, and are called poison jaws. These jaws are used to trap and paralyze their prey, usually small insects. Centipede's can easily be found in soil, under bark, rotting wood, and other debris. Small centipede's are harmless to man, but the larger ones can give quite painful bites. American centipede's can range in size from a few millimeters to just over six inches in length. Their color varies in species from pale yellow to dark brown. Two families make up the order Lithobiomorpha. The difference between the two families can be determined by using and comparing the eye structures of each.
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This is a large group of insects. There are more than 700 species in North America alone and the members can be found almost anywhere. The house fly breeds in filth of all kinds. It does not bite. The mouth parts are for sucking only. the fly secretes digestive juices on what it wants to eat, the digestive juices partially digetst the food, then the fly sucks up the liquid. Flies are soft-bodied, and go through complete metamorphosis.
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WASP
This is the largest family of insects. There are more than 3,000 species in North America. Many are brightly colored with black and yellow. Unlike some wasp families, these wasps do not sting. They lay their eggs in wood or in other insects. The family Ichnemonidae is divided into tribes, each tribe has a specific insect that it likes to prey on. Some species have been imported into American to control insect pests.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Amazing storms
These images are photographs of tornadoes and other extreme weather phenomena taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska and Kansas during the summer months of 2002 and 2004.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
For your EYES only
An eye is an organ of vision that detects light. Different kinds of light-sensitive organs are found in a variety of organisms. The simplest eyes do nothing but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark, while more complex eyes can distinguish shapes and colors. Many animals, including some mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, have two eyes which may be placed on the same plane to be interpreted as a single three-dimensional "image" (binocular vision), as in humans; or on different planes producing two separate "images" (monocular vision), such as in rabbits and chameleons.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Sunset, pictures from Croatia
Hvar
Brac
Vis
Zadar
Finally, one more thing should be said, that is "Zadar has s nicer sunset than California " - so said Alfred Hitchcock in 1964.