Category: Photo
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Capibara, South American rodent
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them The capibara is supposedly the largest rodent on Earth (and it really is much bigger than the usual grey mouse). You will find this placid animal anywhere water meets earth (swamps and rivers), in Matto Grosso as well as near the Amazonia.
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Amazonian panorama
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Amazonian landscape
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Online color thesaurus
Would you know what colour cerulean is? Or peach? Or spruce? Or watermelon? Or plum? Or rust? The HP online color thesaurus is a great way to identify these and to get the precise formal definition of such colours. You type in a name, and it will give you the color, similar ones and anonyms.
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Wriggling tropical life (macro photography)
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Shot in Brazil, 2007.
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The real web site of Yann Arthus-Bertrand
After showing you a fake Flickr web site for Yann Arthus-Bertrand, here is his true web site on Pikeo.com: Yann Arthus-Bertrand While we’re at that, let’s point you to the latest effort from Yann Arthus-Bertrand: a layer for Google Earth, that allows you to find his photos from “Earth from Above” on the map by…
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Amazonian landscape
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Scarlet-headed Blackbird
Will you be able to find the female bird in this flock? Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This small bird is quite difficult to approach, but we were lucky to meet several of them in Brazil this year. Scarlet-headed Blackbird (Troupiale à tête rouge, Amblyramphus holosericeus).
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Savanna Hawk
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Savanna Hawk (Buse roussâtre – Buteogallus meridionalis) in Brazil.