#oryx antilope

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Today's Schleich is:

14302 Oryx Antilope [2002 - 2003]

[lord-allo]

Spießböcke oder Südliche Oryx | Gemsbok or South African Oryx

Oryx gazella

[photographe-a-roulettes]

Oryx algazelle - Il est capable d'augmenter sa température corporelle et réduire le fonctionnement de ses reins pour diminuer ses urines pour économiser l'eau et rester sans boire sur de longues périodes.

Lieu : Pairi Daiza, Belgique

[trans-africa-2024]

We woke up around 7:00 and could hear the other cars were already fired-up for an early start. We decided to take it easy and left as one of the last ones at 8:45. Today‘s route was on gravel only and supposed to be hard on the cars. Sure enough after 7 km we turned onto a gravel road which was heavily corrugated. In order to drive on these roads you have to find a speed that makes the car fly over them. At the beginning this was almost impossible and the car rattled along so hard that at first we thought we would never make it to the day‘s finishing line! Eventually the road got a little better and we settled at an average speed of 80-90 km/h. The lock on the driver’s side did not particularly like the ripples in the road and decided to spring open every 10 minutes. A nuisance we shall deal with in the evening.

One thing really startled us and even the locals did not have an answer. The tracks furthest to the right were always the best ones. This was confirmed to us by various rally cohorts but no one offered an explanation!

Since we started at the end of the pack and usually drive a little faster we had to eat a lot of dust when overtaking fellow travelers. It always depends on the direction of the wind if there is wind. If it blows from the side the dust disappears immediately. Well, after half an hour and overtaking a couple of cars the car and we were baked in red dust. The dust gets into every crack of the car and everywhere all over the body.

The landscape once again was wide open. A desert but still there are farms and animals inhabiting these forlorn places. The temperature easily rose above 30 degrees Celsius! Lunch was at an incredible lodge which offered spectacular wildlife just in front of an outer deck right at a waterhole. A family of rhinos with a six weeks old baby was less than 100 m away anxiously watching us. Father bull then decided to come a little closer and send some of the rally cohorts running when he approached the deck. There were Oryx and Zebras and other antilopes. We stayed there for about 90 minutes before arriving after 50 km at the Desert Homestead Lodge for our overnight stay.

Tomorrow we shall visit the Dunes.

Best

L&C

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

We don't talk about Bruno:

Dolores: „It's like, AND I LITERALLY CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH, it's like I hear him now.“

94 notes - Posted March 5, 2022

#4

Isle kids visiting the Zoo!!

Because they live in my head rent-free

Yes, happy headcanons in our Descendants fandom

First of, it's Auradonian Zoo. It's security measures consist largely of „Hopefully, our visitors are not suicidal idiots,“ and the Isle kids will take advantage of that.

AKA the animals can't escape and harm people, but sufficiently reckless teens could totally climb into some exclosures.

Cut to all three Hook siblings jumping into the croc exclosure to show everyone how it's done. And leaving the employees and everyone not-Isle frozen and dumbfounded as they proceed to wrestle the crocks and win.

Unlike Jade. Yes, everyone will remind her of that.

*points at random lizard* „Mal, this is you.“ *another lizard* „Look, Mal! Here you are!“ *after looking for a reptile for slightly too long* „Finally, there she is! Everyone, come look, I found Mal!“

Mal: „WILL ALL OF YOU JUST KINDLY SHUT UP?!“

This was started by Uma and Jay.

On unrelated note, Uma's pirates enjoy finding the hiding reptiles in terariums entirely too much.

Uma's favourite is the Sea World exposition though, because, come on, people, there are sea ponnies!“

Harry would be happy to stay there with her all day, looking at the sea ponnies and sharks and fishes and totally not her reflection in the dark glass, how dare you even suggest that.

She also has to be physically dragged away from the manatee-petting-pool, because she kept chatting with them and attempted to climb into the pool, which is apparently not allowed.

Neither is allowed to jump into the bear's enclosure, not even if they „Look cuddly.“ Though to be fair, Uma, Harriet and Evie all pointed out that it looks like a safety hazard as soon as they saw that the railing is climbable-over and the drop is „not that high.“

Also, turns out that the Zoo keepers are not exactly amused by wild villain kids trying to race on the zebras, antilopes and camels:

Jay and Jade tried to persuade the camels into a race after climbing into their enclosure, a feat that the Isle kids agree could be accomplished by a sufficiently determined two years old. (The camels do not cooperate.)

Harry and CJ have better luck with the oryx gazelles, you know, the ones with the long sharp horns that could totally impale a person. („I'll bet you I could ride on that.“ „Bet's on.“ „What are you doing?! Miss?! Mister?! GET BACK HERE!!“)

The kids have too much fun comparing eachother to animals. Peacock is a fan favourite (All three Hooks, Evie, Anthony Tremaine); everyone agrees that Jay and Jade are some sort of big cat, only lying in the sun all day, and every single cute little animal you see? Yeah, that's Claudine. (She stopped finding it funny after the second time)

Everyone's favourite animals to watch are suricatas.

Everyone will deny it.

And by the way, did you know that you can't jump to them to pet them a bit?

Nor can you take the goats from petting zoo home. The employees will hear them making noise under your cloak.

Oh, and Harry attempts to steal a turtle. It's valuable and it's shell would make for pretty jewelry.

You know these walk-through monkey enclosures that have ropes in them for the animals to play on? CJ bolts from the tourist-route to climb on it too. The zookeeper protests that it's not safe, but Harriet just waves them away, stating that CJ will be fine. CJ is hanging upside down on the rope by this point and Harriet might or might not have spiked that cola she bought.

Oh, ice cream!

So much ice cream!

„Ben is paying for this, right?“ „Well, he better be.“

They are also very ready to ignore the no food inside rule until the Smee twins point it out. No one wants to be a bad example for the Smee twins.

Facilier sisters are good at pointing out the hiden animals. Like, freakishly good.

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101 notes - Posted August 26, 2022

#3

Weapons the VKs would use:

The Pirates

(Hey, these are mainly just notes I made so I wouldn't forget which weapons I gave them in Utopia of the Lost. So if something doesn't add up with the canon, that's why.)

So, the pirates largely favour sabers. For the drama, of couse, and also because of a hilarious translation I may share with you one day. All of the VKs know their way with a dagger and/or knife.

Now onto the characters:

Harry Hook - He uses his hook, of course. To quote: Nothing says I'll give you a second smile better than a razor sharp hook in your hand. He can fight with a saber in his other hand. The idea of using a shield didn't ever occur to him.

Harriet Hook - She has two sabers. The idea of using a shield did occur to her, but where would be the drama?? Besides, she has Sammy, her first mate, to guard her back. Also, two weapons are better than one, right? More efficient.

CJ Hook - CJ is absolutely willing and able to to fight with anything she finds. She trades with Sinclair children, as Helga Sinclair sends her kids something interesting in an unaddressed package every now and then. Also, she loves throwing things. Very sharp things. Oh, and one time, she found a gun: this lead to Harriet banning guns and riffles Isle-wide and dumping the gunpowder into the sea. She locked the machinery on her ship. Never let CJ have a gun. She practically lives to cause chaos and she has no idea how death is supposed to work.

Uma - Similarly as Harriet, she fights with two sabers. No shield: She has no regard for her personal safety and both Harry and Gil have her back. Spoiler!!! She finds Triton's trident and uses it in fights too, because while the magic doesn't really work, it still has three really sharp ends. And it looks impressive as Hell.

Gil - Look, if Gaston taught him something, it's fighting. He knew how to use regular sword, dagger and various knives, and as he joined a pirate crew, he picked up fighting with sabers too. He prefers to fight with his bare hands, though, or better yet, to not fight at all.

The de Vil cousins - Diego, Hunter and Ivy are a part of a pirate crew. They can fight with sabers, but they prefer to keep their distance from the enemy. Preferably with the use of some expolsives. Uma banned them from inventing and experimenting in the port, because the pirates and fire do not mix well, so they meet up with Carlos in the ruins of Hell Hall every now and then to invent together.

Claudine Frollo - Before she joined the pirates, she couldn't really fight. She knew the basics, of course: strike below the belt when needed, go for the eyes, scream "Fire!" instead of "Help!". She has an affinity for fire and arson, but, well, the pirates and fire do not mix. The de Vils are strictly banned of providing her with expolsives, unless the circumstances are dire and the Captain gives the command. Claudine finds sabers barbaric. She thinks of poison as dishonourable weapon. This sends the rest of her crew up the wall. The day the Hearts introduce her to a zweihander, however- That is an interesting one.

101 notes - Posted February 13, 2022

#2

Hey, I little list of stuff I like and don't like in D3!

So.

Stuff that I consider canon. Crazy enough to keep its rights, or something:

Audrey getting possessed by the scepter. Key words: getting possessed.

Any and all Huma moments that might have occurred.

Ben getting turned into a Beast, mirroring his father's story. I find it neat.

Jane being the awesome good fairy she is.

Celia Facilier. Yep, she's the whole point here.

Stuff I don't like and therefore did not happened:

Eh, the storyline in general?

CJ Hook and Freddie Facilier, who were in Auradon already due to Wicked World, NOT meeting their siblings the moment they crossed the barrier. We were robbed of the combined chaos of Harry and CJ and I'll not forgive that. Also, I refuse to believe they would have been caught by surprise by Audrey. Those girls have been hyperaware of their surroundings and any possible dangers since they learned how to walk. Well, Freddie was. CJ might have gotten distracted and attacked Audrey on the spot. You know what? That is a scene I wanna see. CJ Hook going headfirst at Queen of Mean, not even impressed by her evil laugh.

The whole "Mal is Hades's daughter" thing. Just, why??? Why not just introduce Haddie? Why not let Uma, actual Descendant of Greek Parthenon, handle it? Hell, Evie could have been Hades's daughter instead! She has blue hair! That's enough by Descendants logic!

Uma and Mal reconciling. Just. No. Not at this scale.

MAL AGREEING TO SEAL THE BARRIER FOR GOOD DAMNING INNOCENT CHILDREN TO LIFE IN DESPAIR AND CONSTANT FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES, BECOMING THE VERY THING SHE HATED IN D1!

MAL LYING ABOUT SEALING THE BARRIER TO JAY, CARLOS AND EVIE.

...Looks like I'm getting slighty off-topic.

Anyway, that's just my personal opinion, so, like, I mean no offence?

Unless that's offence to D3 version of Mal. All offence to her. And to King Beast whose fault it was anyway.

136 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Disney Descendants 🤝 Ever After High 🤝 School for Good and Evil: the holy trinity of middle grade fairytale retellings in which the children were doomed from the very start.

688 notes - Posted October 21, 2022

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Scimitar Oryx Antilope with newborn calf - Dublin Zoo

[petyolo]

Oryx, grote antilope met lange hoorns

[philoursmars]

Retour à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 52825 photos

2010. Ma mère avait toujours rêvé d’aller en Egypte. A 80 ans, elle concrétise ce rêve avec moi !

Kom Ombo, le Temple d’Horus et Sobek (le Faucon et le Crocodile)

Mais on y voit aussi Horus le Faucon et l’Ibis Anubis, un serpent couronné et un porteur d’offrandes animales, des gazelles, oryx et autres antilopes

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Lost in Space - Collage by Sona Shekoyan

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Spießböcke oder Südliche Oryx | Gemsbok or South African Oryx

Oryx gazella

[artnish]

Christopher Charbonnel - “Guerriere Oryx”

#todaysdiscovery

[photographe-a-roulettes]

Oryx algazelle - Il a totalement disparu à l'état sauvage dans les années 1980, décimées par la chasse. Il ne subsiste aujourd'hui que par quelques milliers d'espèces en captivité.

Lieu : Parc Zoologique de Paris

[panthera-tigris-venenata]

Isle kids visiting the Zoo!!

Because they live in my head rent-free

Yes, happy headcanons in our Descendants fandom

First of, it's Auradonian Zoo. It's security measures consist largely of „Hopefully, our visitors are not suicidal idiots,“ and the Isle kids will take advantage of that.

AKA the animals can't escape and harm people, but sufficiently reckless teens could totally climb into some exclosures.

Cut to all three Hook siblings jumping into the croc exclosure to show everyone how it's done. And leaving the employees and everyone not-Isle frozen and dumbfounded as they proceed to wrestle the crocks and win.

Unlike Jade. Yes, everyone will remind her of that.

*points at random lizard* „Mal, this is you.“ *another lizard* „Look, Mal! Here you are!“ *after looking for a reptile for slightly too long* „Finally, there she is! Everyone, come look, I found Mal!“

Mal: „WILL ALL OF YOU JUST KINDLY SHUT UP?!“

This was started by Uma and Jay.

On unrelated note, Uma's pirates enjoy finding the hiding reptiles in terariums entirely too much.

Uma's favourite is the Sea World exposition though, because, come on, people, there are sea ponnies!“

Harry would be happy to stay there with her all day, looking at the sea ponnies and sharks and fishes and totally not her reflection in the dark glass, how dare you even suggest that.

She also has to be physically dragged away from the manatee-petting-pool, because she kept chatting with them and attempted to climb into the pool, which is apparently not allowed.

Neither is allowed to jump into the bear's enclosure, not even if they „Look cuddly.“ Though to be fair, Uma, Harriet and Evie all pointed out that it looks like a safety hazard as soon as they saw that the railing is climbable-over and the drop is „not that high.“

Also, turns out that the Zoo keepers are not exactly amused by wild villain kids trying to race on the zebras, antilopes and camels:

Jay and Jade tried to persuade the camels into a race after climbing into their enclosure, a feat that the Isle kids agree could be accomplished by a sufficiently determined two years old. (The camels do not cooperate.)

Harry and CJ have better luck with the oryx gazelles, you know, the ones with the long sharp horns that could totally impale a person. („I'll bet you I could ride on that.“ „Bet's on.“ „What are you doing?! Miss?! Mister?! GET BACK HERE!!“)

The kids have too much fun comparing eachother to animals. Peacock is a fan favourite (All three Hooks, Evie, Anthony Tremaine); everyone agrees that Jay and Jade are some sort of big cat, only lying in the sun all day, and every single cute little animal you see? Yeah, that's Claudine. (She stopped finding it funny after the second time)

Everyone's favourite animals to watch are suricatas.

Everyone will deny it.

And by the way, did you know that you can't jump to them to pet them a bit?

Nor can you take the goats from petting zoo home. The employees will hear them making noise under your cloak.

Oh, and Harry attempts to steal a turtle. It's valuable and it's shell would make for pretty jewelry.

You know these walk-through monkey enclosures that have ropes in them for the animals to play on? CJ bolts from the tourist-route to climb on it too. The zookeeper protests that it's not safe, but Harriet just waves them away, stating that CJ will be fine. CJ is hanging upside down on the rope by this point and Harriet might or might not have spiked that cola she bought.

Oh, ice cream!

So much ice cream!

„Ben is paying for this, right?“ „Well, he better be.“

They are also very ready to ignore the no food inside rule until the Smee twins point it out. No one wants to be a bad example for the Smee twins.

Facilier sisters are good at pointing out the hiden animals. Like, freakishly good.

They also enjoy the Night Time pavilon too much. Celia climbed into the half-way open space for bats and stuff and have been petting them in peace, unnoticed, until Freddie realized her sister was missing about twenty minutes later. She then offered to read Cards for the zookeeper that went to fish her out.

Freddie and Diego get into a singing contest with parrots and/or ravens. Carlos dryly says that the birds are better and then has to escape the wrath of Facilier sisters and CJ Hook.

Carlos is constantly lagging behind because he wants to read all the info about all the animals. Every now and then, Evie or Jay come and drag him back to the main group so he wouldn't get lost.

On unrelated note, Freddie and Zevon linger too long on some of those. It is a complete coincidence if anyone finds themselves turned into these animals in the following weeks, of course.

They spend too much money in the souvenir shop. Gil gets Uma a stuffed shark and they name it Bartholomew Junior. Mal, of course, gets a lizzard. Long-suffering Anthony buys a stuffed suricata for Dizzy.

[lupitovi]

Illustration Mathilde Schmill  (source revue Soeurs)

Les yeux des oryx derrière les miens s’éclipsent. Les cours des antilopes derrière le mien fléchissent.

Je pare mon cou de sautoirs Mais, sublime, c’est mon cou qui les pare.

Je porte les plus lourdes peines avec aises, Ma taille ne se soucie que de mes seins qui pèsent.

Et si j’avais fréquenté le pays des Thamouds, La colère des cieux aurait épargné les Thamouds.

— Salma bint al-Qaratisi

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“When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.”