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Free as a bird! Kapotwe the Shoebill appears to smile as she is released into the wild after being rescued from poachers
- Evil poachers steal chicks to sell on to zoos and private collectors
- Giant birds stand up to 4ft tall and their beaks can be a risk to humans
by Kate Bevan
This is the heartwarming moment that Kapotwe, a young female shoebill, first spread her wings in Zambia’s Bangweulu wetlands after having been rescued as a chick from poachers.
The thieves steal the giant birds, which can stand up to 4ft tall, as chicks to sell to sell to the zoos and private collectors, who will pay up to $20,000 for a single bird.
Kapotwe was kept in a small grass hut in a fishing village, where she found and rescued by Zambia Wildlife Authority scouts before she could be sold on by the shady traders…
(read the whole story: Telegraph UK)
(photos: Morgan Trumble)
These two wild foxes were lured to the window of Igor Shpilenok’s remote log cabin by the smell of his cooking.
Picture: Igor Shpilenok / Barcroft Media
Lucho…. salgamos a jugar, jajajaj
fairy-wren: Brown-hooded Parrot (Pyrilia haematotis)
- Central and South America
(photos by myer bornstein)
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Las flores del Ártico
Este fenómeno sucede cuando amanece sin viento, la temperatura del agua es de -2ºC y la del ambiente de -22ºC aproximadamente. Entonces el agua se evapora y el aire se encarga de enfriarla rápidamente. Así el vapor de agua se sublima y se convierte en estas extrañas esculturas de hielo naturales.
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