Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Neotropic Cormorant
The Cormorant is clearly a bird easy to find anywhere you can find some water. In Pantanal, the Neotropic Cormorant lives along rivers and is easily seen spreading its wings in the sun while not diving for fishes. Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Cormoran vigua). Brazil, 2007.
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Northern Jaguar Project
When it comes to saving animals from extinction, many efforts are needed. Some of them seem very interesting to me. This is the case of the Northern Jaguar Project. They try to protect a large piece of land in Northern Occidental Mexico in order to ensure a large zone where jaguars could survive in a…
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Saffron Finch
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola, Sicale bouton-d’or). Brazil, 2007.
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PDF day of applications
The PDF file format is a little gem invented by Adobe that brought the enormous advantage of a portable file format able to display a document on nearly any kind of display and computer. Unfortunately, the Adobe PDF format and free player are not exempt from problems and this generated a wealth of applications worth…
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Please, remove the little frog
In a Pantanal fazenda, inside the room, we could find those information signs. In addition to the most usual “Do not disturb” and “make the room”, we could notice the most unusual “Please remove little frog from bathroom”. As a matter of fact, the little guy was waiting in the shower. Brazil, 2007.
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Vulture
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Vulture (in flight). Brazil, 2007.
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Graphics card shoutout
When you’re searching for the best mid-range graphics card (200€ or $200, with the usual conversion rate for computer-software dollar), it is often difficult to find one’s way. This is why a big graphics cards comparison like the one from The Tech Report is more than welcome. But if you want to run for the…