05 February, 2013

✿ Tiger ✿


The Endangered Tiger is native to much of Asia, from the coldest regions to the steamy rainforests of Indonesia. They are the top predator in every ecosystem they inhabit.



✿ Leopard ✿


✿ Leopard ✿

The most secretive and elusive of the large carnivores, the leopard is also the shrewdest. Pound for pound, it is the strongest climber of the large cats and capable of killing prey larger than itself. Leopards come in a wide variety of coat colors, from a light buff or tawny in warmer, drier areas to a dark shade in deep forests. The spots, or rosettes, are circular in East African leopards but square in southern African leopards.

04 February, 2013

✿ Desert Dwellers ✿


 Meerkat (Suricata suricatta), is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. They inhabit all parts of the Kalahari Desert (Botswana), much of the Namib Desert (Namibia) and southwestern Angola and South Africa 

✿ Prairie Dogs (Cynomys), burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America ✿
✿ Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), also known as the Dwarf Leopard, is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico ✿

Sand Cat (Felis margarita) is found throughout the deserts of northern Africa and southwest and central Asia

 Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda) in the Sahara; the smallest species of canid in the world. Their amazingly good hearing allows them to detect prey underground
The Sonoran Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis) is an endangered subspecies of pronghorn (antelope) found in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and Sonora

ღ Pandas ღ

Giant Panda Cub, San Diego Zoo 
The Panda, also known as the Giant Panda to distinguish it from the unrelated Red Panda, is a bear native to central-western and south western China. 




ღ Patagonia ღ

ღ Torres del Paine National Park ღ

Sunset casts a rosy glow over granite peaks around a glacial lake in Chile. The 598,000-acre national park is a mosaic of land-forms; soaring mountains, golden pampas, grinding ice fields. At the southern tip of South America, Patagonia includes parts of Argentina and Chile.

ღ Torres Del Paine National Park ღ

ღ Moreno Glacier ღ

Rising above Lake Argentino as a rugged wall, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and 200 feet (60 m) tall, this is one of 47 massive ice fields in Argentina's Patagonia Glaciers National Park. This grinding, groaning force of nature covers a hundred square miles (260 square km).

ღ Copahue Provincial Park ღ

One-hundred-foot (30m) tall Araucaria Trees surround a waterfall and reach for the stars in Argentina's Copahue Provincial Park. Living relics of the Jurassic period, these thousand-year-old giants stand as symbols of Patagonian tenacity in a severe and sublime landscape.

ღ Andes Mountain Waterfall ღ

The snowy peaks of the Andes spawn thousands of gushing streams and waterfalls in Patagonia. From majestic mountains to trembling volcanoes, Patagonia remains the unspoiled frontier of South America.

ღ The Maldives ღ


ღ The Maldives ღ
Crystal clear waters, beautiful white sandy beaches, swaying palm trees and fabulous dive sites. Situated in the Indian Ocean, The Maldives consist of 1,200 coral atolls grouped in a 'double chain' spread over 90,000 square kilometres. The atolls are composed of living coral reefs and sand bars atop a submerged ridge 960 kilometres long that rises abruptly in a north-south direction from the depths of the Indian Ocean. 












ღ Under the Sea ღ

ღ Clownfish and Bubble-tipped Anemone ღ
ღ Juvenile Batfish ღ
ღ Clownfish and Pink Anemone ღ
ღ Nudibranch ღ
ღ Mandarin Dragonet (Mandarinfish) ღ