Phuket: The Park of Butterflies

Phuket: The Park of Butterflies

This park of butterflies represents a united complex consisting of a various insects museum, butterfly garden, butterfly farm and a museum of silk. All the halls have an interesting design and please the eye.

































Under these loupes you may watch the process of a butterfly's cocoon birth.















Butterfly cocoons

 

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A Turtle Farm In Sri Lanka

A Turtle Farm In Sri Lanka !!!!



This place shouldn't be missed. Here you may hold a turtle from a palm size to 1,5 m ones. However hardly you can lift the last ones...



On the farm turtle eggs are buried in the beach sand, preliminary dug out in the places where adult turtles make sets. And then they dig them up in order smugglers do not sell them to the countries where they are considered to be a delicacy.





Hatched turtles are put into pools where, while they are growing, they are moved to bigger capacities and then let out. These ones are little.



These ones are some months



An adult one





Albino turtle has been living on the farm for a long time, it is not let out because it will be immediately eaten there.





The farm territory

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The World's Most Colorful Snakes

 

The World's Most Colorful Snakes :)

Emerald Tree Boa

Most species of boas are colorful like the Corallus caninus, a non-venomous snake found in the rainforests of South America. Adults grow to about 6 feet or 1.8 m in length.. They have highly developed front teeth that are likely proportionately larger than those of any other non-venomous snake.

Coast Garter Snake

This species of snake is called Coast Garter Snake or Thamnophis elegans terrestris have toxins in their saliva and the bite can produce mild reaction in humans. They are not considered dangerous to humans, although they excrete a foulsmelling musk when handled.

 

Green Vine Snake

 

This snake with pretty geometrical color pattern is also called the Long-nosed Whipped Snake or Ahaetulla nasuta is a slender green tree snake found in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar,Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The green vine snake is diurnal and mildly venomous. They are slow moving, relying on camouflaging as a vine in foliage. The snake expands its body when disturbed to show a black and white scale marking. Also, they may open their mouth in threat display and point their head in the direction of the perceived threat.

Albino Burmese Python

 

This famous and colorful species of python, the Burmese Python or Python molurus bivittatus, is the largest subspecies of the Indian Python and one of the 6th largest snakes in the world. This snake is native to rain forest areas of Southeast Asia. The Burmese python average growing up to 5.5meters (18ft) and weighing up to 71kilograms (160lb). It continues to grow throughout life..

Morelia spilota

This species of python called Morelia spilota is a large snake found in Australia, Indonesia and New

Guinea. The subspecies are commonly named the Carpet and Diamond pythons. This species traps or constricts its prey until they suffocate.

Bitis nasicornis

This big viper known for its striking color pattern and prominent horns on its nose named Bitis nasicornis is a venomous snake found in Central Africa. It is a large and stout snake, ranging in length from 72 cmto 107 cm.

Amazon Tree Boa (Corallus enydris)

This brightly colored species of snake named the Amazon Tree Boa is found in Costa Rica, Panama,and northern South America, through most of Venezuela and Guyana, and south and westward through Amazonian Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

Red-tailed Green Ratsnake

This snake's color goes along well with the color of nature - green. Red-tailed Green Ratsnake or

Gonyosoma oxycephalum is a species of snake found in the region where I live - Southeast Asia. It is a thin snake with powerful and rough scales on its bottom, which makes it ideal to move and climb trees. Its tail is red hence the name. It lives and spends its life in the trees. It feeds mostly on small mammals. Its body can grow up to 2.3 meters and its average age is 15 years.

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Lions Lounging In the Trees

LIONS LOUNGING IN THE TREES







Photographer’s Description: 

 

Taken in June this year during a game drive at Nakuru National Park in Kenya. Rounding a bend on the track I came upon not one but seven of these magnificent young lions draped across the branches of an acacia tree. Some are dozing and some are looking disdainfully at me. I was transfixed by these superb, regal creatures. What a privilege for me to have witnessed this amazing moment. :) :)

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Escape Into Life

Escape Into Life :)


First the shell begins to crack. Then there's a flurry of activity as the tiny creature curled up inside the egg breaks a hole in the shell.

Next, a scaly, pink foot emerges, flailing wildly, before - bit by bit - the miniature damp bundle bursts forth from the broken shell, making its appearance in the world for the very first time.

These extraordinary sets of pictures show the young of four different species hatching from their eggs.

Ostrich...

 

Phew: It's not like breaking into a chocolate Easter egg - it's a lot tougher and requires a sheer muscle power

...and after a short rest, it's off to explore. After all, no good having one's head in the sand


Titled 'Escape Into Life', the series records the first moments of a newborn chick, the young of the African penguin (whose eggs are laid in caves padded with feathers and bits of wood), the ostrich (which breaks the shell not by pecking, but expanding the muscles of its throat) and, finally, the red footed tortoise (seen here popping out of its shell with mouth wide open as if in astonished rapture at what it can see).

The work of husband and wife team Heidi and Hans-Juergen Koch from Germany (who have specialised in animal photography for the past 20 years) they are the result of many days and weeks of patient observation - and provide a fascinating pictoral record of four creatures arriving into the world. African penguin...

 

Cracked it: My approach is to peck the shell into tiny pieces - from the inside out

...so that I'm soon ready for action in anyone's book. Penguin books, even Tortoise... 

 

Escape claws: 150 days after the egg is laid, a scaly red foot emerges

...and after being buried in the sand for so long, it's clearly turtley exciting to be here! Chicken...

Hen-pecked: Domestic chickens chip around the shell to remove the cap

Still wet: I may look bedraggled, but within minutes I'll look like your classic fluffy chick

 

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