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cringecorp · 1 year ago
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*beep beep* Yupp,as Suspected… “Lizartd.”
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raisunii · 1 year ago
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Palestine will be free.
Who Remembers the Armenians?, Najwan Darwish / Myth of the Vanishing Indian, Rena Priest / Shadow Procession, William Kentridge / The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon / Darfur (Jesus Wept), William F. DeVault / Srebrenica, Safet Zec
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spinus-pinus · 1 month ago
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Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
10/7/2023 San Diego Zoo, California
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arthistoryanimalia · 7 months ago
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For #InternationalChameleonDay :
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Chameleons by Robert Jacob Gordon (Dutch, 1743-1795), from The Gordon African Collection, 4 albums of natural history illustrations made during his Cape Colony (South Africa) expeditions (1777-86). Now in the Rijksmuseum collection.
1. Chamaeleo namaquensis (Namaqua Chameleon) RP-T-1914-17-99
2. Bradypodion pumilum (Cape Dwarf Chameleon) RP-T-1914-17-101
3. Bradypodion pumilum in three poses (Cape Dwarf Chameleon) RP-T-1914-17-100
drawings on paper, H 660mm × W 480mm ea.
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proton-wobbler · 1 year ago
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Battle Royale
Family Reunion (C-2)
Some families are more popular than others, you know? It's a miracle there wasn't a submission for ever single corvid that's ever existed. Instead, we have these guys.
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sitting-on-me-bum · 1 year ago
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Desert mountain adder (Bitis xeropaga)
Photographer Spends 10 Days Tracking Down Snakes in Namibia
Photographer: Marisa Ishimatsu
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Many-horned adder (Bitis cornuta)
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Horned adder (Bitis caudalis)
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Namaqua dwarf adder (Bitis schneideri)
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eggfeather · 2 years ago
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dovestar
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froggirleyeball · 1 year ago
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Namaqua Rain Frog
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AKA namaqua short-headed frog, Breviceps namaquensis
A round little fellow!
These guys live in Namaqualand and Namibia, in southern Africa. Their toes aren't webbed, and they spend most of their time underground, only coming out after it rains to look for tasty insects.
When threatened, they squeak and inflate to deter predators! I don't think I'd be deterred at all, they're such little cuties!
When they lay eggs, they cover them up in thick yolk-y fluid and the tadpoles live there until grown. Interesting tactic, that.
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drsonnet · 11 months ago
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The Herero and Namaqua Genocide : Photograph showing German forces gathered in GSWA to join in the conflict against the herero people in 1904.
The Herero and Namaqua Genocide was the massacre of approximately 50,000 – 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama between 1904 and 1907 by German military forces in German South West Africa (GSWA) – modern-day Namibia.
Background
Germany formally colonised GSWA in 1884. Prior to colonisation , several distinct native groups lived freely in the area, including the Herero, the Nama, the Damara, the San, and the Ovambo. Under German rule, many of these native groups were used as slave labour and had their land confiscated and their cattle stolen. As a result of this treatment, tensions between the native population and the ruling Germans continued to rise.
Uprising
In January 1904, the Herero population, led by Chief Samuel Maharero, carried out a large armed rebellion against the oppressive German colonial rule. The German ruling forces were unprepared for the attack and approximately 123 German colonial settlers were killed by the Herero. Over the following months, however, the Herero were slowly overwhelmed by the more modern, well-equipped German force under the command of Major Theodor Leutwin. By June 1904, Major Leutwin had cornered the Herero forces at the Waterberg Plateau and was attempting to negotiate their surrender.
The German government in Berlin were frustrated by Leutwin’s slow progress in dissipating the uprising, and in May 1904 appointed Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha Supreme Commander of GSWA. Trotha arrived in GSWA on 11 June 1904.
Genocide
On 11 August 1904, Trotha abandoned negotiations for a surrender and attempted an aggressive encirclement tactic, surrounding the Herero at the Battle of Waterberg  and killing between 3,000 – 5,000 Herero combatants. Yet, despite the brutal tactics of the Germans, most of the Herero managed to escape into the Omaheke desert.
Under Trotha’s command, the Schutztruppe  ruthlessly pursued the thousands of Herero men, women and children who were attempting to cross the desert to reach to British Protectorate of Bechuanaland (modern-day Botswana). Thousands of Herero died from being shot to death, drinking water from poisoned wells, or from thirst and starvation in the desert.
On 2 October 1904, Trotha escalated the violence against the Herero in an order: ‘Within the German borders, every male Herero, armed or unarmed […] will be shot to death. I will no longer take in women or children but will drive them back to their people or have them fired at. These are my words to the Herero people. [From] The great general of the mighty German Kaiser’ [Katharina von Hammerstein, ‘The Herero: Witnessing Germany’s “Other Genocide”’, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 2016, 20:2, 267-286, 276].
In November 1904, the German government in Berlin overturned General Trotha’s inhumane execution order, and instead commanded that the surviving members of the Herero population be incarcerated in concentration camps, such as the Shark Island Concentration Camp . By this point, however, many thousands of Herero had already been murdered.
The remaining Herero who were incarcerated in the concentration camps were subjected to lethal conditions (with a mortality rate of 47-74%), and prisoners endured poor hygiene, little food, forced labour and medical experiments.
In 1905, the Nama people in the south also rose up against the German rule and engaged the colonisers in guerrilla warfare for the following two years. Any Nama that were caught by the Germans were executed or incarcerated in the same concentration camps as the Herero, with extremely high mortality rates.
In total, by the end of the conflict on 31 March 1907, approximately 50,000 – 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama had been murdered by the German ruling forces.
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pro-prin-prinny · 1 year ago
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You know how effed up it is that no one talks about Germany's genocide before the holocaust because it was African people?
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columbidaecontest · 2 years ago
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[ID: two photos. the Namaqua dove stands in water. it has a brown body with a black face/front of neck. two Common emerald doves sit in a tree together. they have brown bodies. white stripes on their heads, and green wings]
there is such a wide diversity of beauty and animals in the world! look at all of these beautiful doves!!
the striking Namaqua dove, or the beautiful Common emerald dove? you decide!!!
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gergarnero · 7 months ago
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GANGA NAMAQUA
PTEROCLES NAMAGUA NOMBRE CIENTÍFICO: PTEROCLES NAMAGUA. LONGITUD: 28 CM. PESO: 175 A 200 GRAMOS. PLUMAJE: IGUAL PARA AMBOS SEXOS. MIGRACIÓN: NO MIGRATORIO. ESTADO: COMÚN. UBICACIÓN: SUR DE ÁFRICA. ESTA AVE COMPARTE MUCHAS DE LAS ADAPTACIONES ESPECÍFICAS AL DESIERTO QUE TIENE LA GANGA CORONADA. NECESITA POCO ALIMENTO O AGUA, Y SU DENSO PLUMAJE LA AÍSLA DE LAS TEMPERATURAS ALTAS Y BAJAS. CON SU…
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spinus-pinus · 1 month ago
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Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
10/7/2023 San Diego Zoo, California
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weirdkatharine · 1 year ago
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Namaqua chameleons are amazing. So chameleons are amazingly adapted to be arboreal, with prehensile tales and opposable toes. Even their bodies are leaf shaped. But Namaqua chameleons have for some reason evolved to walk out into the desert, and eat venomous snakes.
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Namaqua Chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis), threat display, family Chamaeleonidae, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia
photograph by Yathin S Krishnappa 
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frogspawned · 10 months ago
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i cannot think of a creature less suited to climbing than kangaroos. and yet the tree kangaroo endures
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make-this-into-a-pokemon · 11 months ago
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Namaqua Rain Frog
A circular frog, covered in sand? Famous for it's squeaky toy cry? Ground type obviously. Maybe dual with water as it's called the rain frog?
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