Animal patterns: Aix galericulata
On lake Zurich there were also some black cormorants, greenish ducks and brownish sparrows … but somehow this mandarin duck was more attractive…
Urgency in a changing world: the ant case.
I don’t have all the time in the world to collect the flower nectar I need …
… I work in a fast changing environment which turns from juicy and colorful …
… to white and dry …
… so dry that it vanishes with the weakest blow! Click to magnify each picture shot with a Nikon 16-35 mm f/4
Of notorious red birds and broken twigs at Masoala Rain Forest Zurich
I know it is childish giving human feelings to animals… However, the recent notoriety this broken red bird acquired pushed me to entirely unveil its bad mood of that day. It’s a pity I cannot document if its apparent shower was voluntary or not. Click on the post picture to magnify
Not all what flies has feathers in the Masoala Rain Forest at Zurich Zoo, Switzerland
… and not all what flies at Zurich Zoo is in the Masoala Rain Forest. Pay a visit to this Swiss wonderful rain forest if you pass by! And click each picture for a full view. All birds shot with a Nikkor 70-200 mm VR II: do you know their names ?
What beauty lies in the eyes of elephants
What beauty lies in youth
yet ever so fleeting!
Let him who wants to, be happy
for there is no certainty in tomorrow.
Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-1492)
Pictures (click to magnify) of Druk, Indi and Chandra (more or less three generations of elephants) at the Zurich Zoo, Switzerland
