Pelecanus crispus – the Dalmatian Pelican – is one of several contenders for the “heavyweight title” among the world’s living, flying birds.
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Guess which of this post’s two key species is in a position to look down on the other?
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The next image – taken within seconds of the featured one – shows which of the feuding Griffon Vultures won their brief stoush.
(All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken February 2020)
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The greater part of February 2020 has just been wonderfully well spent in India – mostly in Gujarat and Rajahstan.
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Labahe Nature Reserve is most celebrated as a place where it is (relatively) easy for humans to see red pandas.
Too many of its visiting humans have eyes for nothing else!
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Most of the starkly magnificent Changtang is now within the world’s highest nature reserve, which is also one of the largest.
Its emblematic mammal has fur more precious than gold – a circumstance which very nearly led to the species’ extinction.
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Our China “expedition” had two other key destinations: nature reserves in environments much wetter, warmer – and lower – than the Tibetan Plateau.
Various aspects of Tangjiahe and Labahe will eventually be explored in individual posts on Pelican Yoga.
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The world’s largest and highest plateau is bigger than Western Europe. Many of its plains are more than twice as high as mainland Australia’s highest peak. The China-mislabelled “Tibetan Autonomous Region” contains less than half of it.
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“My” local daily paper – The West Australian – has recently become relentlessly parochial and adopted inane journalese as its house style.
Its headlines especially grate: almost all are prime examples of what smug dullards consider “clever”, of what twits mistake for wit.
The West‘s editor may or may not be a bona fide idiot; perhaps he is just a bright young lickspittle, fulfilling a brief to “dumb everything down, cut every cost and cross-promote the linked TV station, endlessly”.
So, it was a particular joy/relief to encounter some actual journalistic flair…
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Propithecus diadema – the Diademed Sifaka or Diademed Simpona – is a large, utterly distinctive lemur.
It is critically endangered, but relatively easy to see in the (rapidly diminishing) wild, only a few hours away from Madagascar’s capital city.
The next image will explain why many people regard the Diademed Sifaka as the loveliest lemur.
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