tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1219567993153204712024-03-05T12:35:44.088+00:00Sophie talks all things conservation Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-49772319931009346352015-05-29T15:49:00.001+01:002015-05-29T15:50:52.001+01:00#defendnature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u>Campaign Defend Nature</u></h2>
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#defendnature is a new campaign by the RSPB. This campaign has come about due to the EU wanting to weaken the Directives that protect many species in the UK as well as across Europe, that otherwise might not be there. </div>
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Having a good knowledge of both the Habitats Directive, the Bird Directive and the success stories that have come about because of them, I know how important they are for hundreds of species throughout Europe. </div>
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The Natura Network 2000 is made up of protected areas set out by the habitats directive. These sites have been shown to play a big part in the recovery of threatened species.</div>
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As well as protecting habitats, these directives protect many species of bird including the Red Kite which is now quite a common site in many parts of the UK because of measures set in place to protect them. </div>
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Many mammals are also protected from otters to water voles as well as bears, lynx and wolves which even though were hunted to extinction in the UK, still live in the wild in other countries in Europe.<br />
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Watch the following video to see the beauty of whats at stake:</div>
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Do your bit to try and protect the wildlife that doesn't have a voice to protect itself. </div>
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To show your support or if you want to find out any other information on this campaign visit<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/defendnature" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">rspb.org.uk/defendnature</a><span style="text-align: center;">.</span></div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-29614351803260419672015-02-17T09:51:00.001+00:002015-02-17T09:53:47.332+00:00I'm going to Borneo!!! Next month I am going to be jetting off to the wonderful island of Borneo!<br />
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This is for my Tropical Field Ecology module. This is one of the modules that I was most looking forward to this year.
I'm only there for 2 weeks and the trips split into 2 halves. The first half will be by the coast, looking at coral reefs and the second half will be based inland in the jungle/rain forests.<br />
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This trip has crept up on me a little bit, I have had a crazy workload recently and I've realised just how soon I actually leave! Luckily I have most of what I need for the trip, including a new Go pro to play around with!<br />
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So now I just have four weeks, four pieces of coursework, one lab book, two tests and two presentations to get out of the way before I leave! And then I'm allowed to get excited ;) !<br />
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Oh and so many fish to learn! </div>
<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-75734160141616293702015-01-10T13:39:00.000+00:002015-01-11T14:35:28.432+00:00Big Garden Birdwatch 2015<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So it’s that time of the year again! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Big Garden Birdwatch is a brilliant
way to see how wildlife is doing across the UK. About half a million people got
involved last year and over 7 million birds were recorded. This has been going
on for 35 years so the information collected can be compared to the past 35
years of results and see how wildlife across the UK is changing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's incredibly simple to take part, just spend an hour in your
garden between the 24-25th January and count which species of birds you see and
the highest number of each species that can be seen at the same time! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You don't need to be a member to take
part; you can either register for a free pack to be sent to you or download one
online at:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/">RSPB BGBW</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a great activity to do with
children, especially as it gets them outdoors and interested in nature! There
are instructions of how to make bird feeders on the website in order to attract
birds to your garden. Or just have look around on the internet there are LOADS
of tutorials of things to make. It can get a bit messy depending on which ones
you do, however I know from experience that kids love getting their hands dirty
and it really is a great way in getting them involved with nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't let the fact that there may not be
many birds in your garden stop you from getting involved. What isn't there can
be just as big of an indicator as what is there! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And it’s not just about counting birds!
The RSPB aren't just interested in birds, but in all of nature. So there is
also a section for badgers, squirrels, deer and a few others... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So 'Count the Wildlife that's Counting on
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For my 21st Birthday, I got asked if I wanted to do a Jessops Big Cat Photography Course.. Of course I did!!! </div>
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It's a day course based at the Cat Survival Trusts Sanctuary in Hertfordshire. They have lots of cats, as well as a couple of owls. The cats there include the Snow Leopard, Servals, Eurasian Lynx, Amur Leopard, Puma and Jaguar as well as some others. </div>
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The course was run by a handful of experienced, friendly, lovely people. The beginning of the day started with introductions and a talk about how your camera works and how to use it properly for wildlife photography. You then got a chance to go out and photograph the cats with your new knowledge. Lunch and beverages were provided and then more short talks, including one on the conservation efforts of the Cat Survival Trust. Then you were let loose for the rest of the day able to take pictures of the cats with the staff there to be able to lend a hand and help out anyone who needed it. </div>
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If your interested in doing this course head over to:<u> <a href="http://www.jessops.com/online.store/categories/Photography%20Courses/products/Jessops/Big%20Cats%20Experience-88833/Show.html" target="_blank">Jessops Big Cats Course.</a></u></div>
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The Cats are beautiful! It is horrible to think that these are endangered species that people kill for their fur and bones. The Cat Survival Trust is a registered charity run solely on volunteer staff. The cats here are surplus, unwanted zoo cats and impounded cats from unlicensed private ownership. this allows the cats to be able to live in an improved stressless environment.</div>
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The Cat Survival Trust is not open to the public as of yet; however a personal guided tour can be arranged for members, as well as for educational groups such as schools, which they encourage to visit them. </div>
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None of these photos are edited apart from the last two, so theyre not as good as they could be if i had time at the moment to go through my 700+ photos I took there.... </div>
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So now for A LOT of photos of Big Cats!!!</div>
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<u>Jaguar</u></h3>
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This jaguar was called Jagsy (not 100% sure on the spelling), the only cat there that responded to her name being called. </div>
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Balule.</h2>
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Balule is a dangerous game area, so we had to be extra careful and aware of our surroundings whilst doing work here. Balule Private Game Reserve is near Kruger National Park.<br />
This was by far my favourite place as it was a lot warmer, our accommodation was better and the wildlife there was beautiful!<br />
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<u>Lilac-Breasted Roller</u></h3>
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This bird was beautiful. the top of its head was turquoise, its breast lilac and it's tummy light blue. The pictures just don't show off how bold the colours were, especially when It was caught by the sun. </div>
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<u>White-Fronted Bee Eater</u></h3>
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Before we left I was really looking forward to seeing these birds. I thought the tufts on their heads were cute. How wrong could I have been. These birds were so very annoying. First of all their calls were really loud and annoying and not forgetting, you could hear them everywhere! Secondly, They were everywhere. Doing waterhole observation was when I really discovered how much they aggravated me. For the waterhole survey you have to record what animal is doing what at what time. Well, these birds, about 10-15 of them, were always at the waterhole and they would constantly be moving from tree to tree, which got tedious to write down, let alone going through it to write the results up. </div>
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Vervet monkeys live in the trees in and around camp. They were extremely cute (especially the baby ones). They did however get very brave as they were always looking for food, or anything really that they found interesting enough to steal.<br />
Whilst I was sorting out a mist net, a monkey decided to steal my orange I had left on my chair. My lecturer proceeded to chase it up the tree, by which point, the monkey had dropped the orange. It all happened so quickly that by the time I looked around all i could see was my orange on the floor and my lecture sat about 20m up a tree...<br />
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Olifants river was at the bottom of our camp. It was home to crocodiles as well as hippos, But more on hippos later...<br />
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<u>More Giraffes!</u></h3>
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There were a herd of Nyala that would always pass through our camp. These are by far my favourite antelopes. I love their markings and their little puffy tails that tuck between their legs. The males are even more lovely looking but I didn't get a snap of them until Balule...<br />
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<u>Animal Behaviour: Giraffe.</u></h3>
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I did my individual animal behaviour on an adult, female giraffe. This consists of basically watching a giraffe and writing down what its doing every minute for an hour. Giraffes don't really do much other than browse; eating leaves and just walking around. My giraffe went out of sight and so I then started observing the juvenile giraffe. I then could compare the two giraffes activities and see if they spent a similar amount of time doing each thing (eg. browsing).</div>
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Another of our animal behaviour sutdies was 'Herd Behaviour'. We did this on a large herd of Red Haartebeast. This was similar to the Individual behaviour with the giraffe, however its recordig what the herd was doing every minute. This included recording what percentages of the herd was doing what; running or grazing for example.</div>
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After we were done for the day we got a group photo of us in the truck!<br />
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<u>Manuha</u></h3>
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When we arrived at Manuha, there were lots of dogs running around for the first night, until the owners left the next day. My favourite was a Beagle. He was adorable, playful and a little soppy.</div>
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<u>Meercat Colony</u></h3>
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On our first walk, we saw a meercat colony. There's only one meercat colony on the reserve, however there are three burrow systems. Meercats are very clean and very territorial and so when ground squirrels move in their burrow (bringing external parasites with them), the meercats move off to another burrow. The squirrels will eventually follow. When they do, the meercats will then move on to another burrow system.</div>
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<u>Giraffes</u></h3>
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We couldn't believe our luck when we stumbled upon 6 giraffes almost straight away into our first walk. We were extremely close to them, the trick is to move around them slowly getting closer and not moving directly towards them. An easy way to distinguish between males and females is that bulls (males), normally have very little/no hair between their horns on their head. This is usually worn away from fighting.</div>
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Above: A Juvenile Giraffe checking us out.</div>
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These tracks were made by a small-spotted genet. The track is very circular and small, usually being easy to ID because you can usually cover the track with a single finger.</div>
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<u>Gemsbok, Kudu and Sable Antelope</u></h3>
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An antelope that I loved seeing was Greater Kudu. Kudu are brilliant antelopes. we usually saw small herds or bachelor herds. I love the way the males horns spiral round above their big ears.</div>
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These photos were taken of bachelor herds. Males will often travel together away from a breeding herd of females and they're young which will usually be driven by an alpha male. When the males of the breeding herd reach a certain age they will leave that herd and form new bachelor herds until they're older and begin to establish and defend a territory of their own.</div>
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We put up more mist nets and caught a lot more birds than we did in the Karoo.</div>
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This is a Red-Eyed Bulbul. We caught A LOT of these! They would often drink from a tap that was dripping in front of where we set up a mist net and so was common for them to fly into it.</div>
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Another bird we caught was a Speckled Mouse Bird (below). We saw probably, hundreds of these birds, however this was the only one we caught. Many of the flew into the net, but managed just simply fly out of it. This bird is grey and has a crest and although the name may suggest that it may have speckled, it has none at all.</div>
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When the next bird flew into the net, the person getting it out wasnt best pleased and let out a few bad words. This is an Acaia Pied Barbet and can b nasty if it wants to nibble you. </div>
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As the picture below shows nicely, its beak is sharp and can easily draw blood (and it did).</div>
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Below was another that I liked; a Cape Robin-Chat.</div>
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Today, 22nd September, is World Rhino Day! </h2>
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Rhinos are in serious danger of vanishing from the wild. 1004 rhinos were poached in South Africa alone last year. This number is increasing each year and soon the population numbers are going to go down and quickly.<br />
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Rhinos are one of my favourite animals and I cant understand why anyone would want to hurt these beautiful creatures. They're horns are worth more their weight in gold and it comes at a much greater cost. There is no Scientific evidence that their horns have any medicinal value what so ever. After all, their horns are mostly Keratin; the same thing that our fingernails are made out of!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Started by </span><a href="http://www.wwf.org.za/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.298039); background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WWF South Africa</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"> in 2010, World Rhino Day is celebrated every 22nd September.</span><br />
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World Rhino Day 2014 marks the launch of <a href="http://teamrhino.org/" target="_blank">Team Rhino</a>. This is launched by the <a href="http://www.rhinos.org/" target="_blank">International Rhino Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.savetherhino.org/" target="_blank">Save The Rhino</a> and <a href="http://www.asianrhinos.org.au/" target="_blank">Asian Rhino Project</a>. The picture to the left shows Dr. Jane Goodall supporting Team Rhino. Support #TEAMRHINO !<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">To celebrate World Rhino Day 2014, Save The Rhino are also</span> launching a ‘<b>Nail it for Rhinos’</b> campaign<span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Rhinos are being poached for their horns, which are made from keratin; the same material found in human hair and nails. So this year they are asking you to join in and make a stand for rhinos. Paint your nails on World Rhino Day to raise awareness and show the world that rhino horn is made the same substance as nails!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How to Nail it for Rhinos in 5 simple steps:</span></strong></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Paint your nails for rhinos - get creative!</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Upload your nail selfie to social media - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest and include the hashtag <strong>#nailit4rhinos</strong>, or send it to us <a href="mailto:info@savetherhino.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@savetherhino.org</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you're in the UK donate £3 to help save rhinos by texting NAIL14 £3 to 70070.<a href="http://savetherhino.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e7185c1be5d2a3f5962580b93&id=936bcb33ad&e=9a3493d02a" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">Or donate online from the rest of the world</a></span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Share your photo with friends</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Visit <a href="http://savetherhino.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7185c1be5d2a3f5962580b93&id=f528576753&e=9a3493d02a" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">www.savetherhino.org</a> to learn more and see if your nail selfie has been featured on our website as one of the best</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To find out what else is happening around the world this World Rhino Day and to show your own support; head over to: <a href="http://www.worldrhinoday.org/" target="_blank">www.worldrhinoday.org</a> to find out more! </span>Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-1629569845060678662014-09-22T10:42:00.001+01:002015-01-11T14:47:38.566+00:00LITTLE KAROO: Part Two!<h3>
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Our first survey was a vegetation survey in a quartz field. This area is an area of Scientific Interest. many plants can only grow here because the quartz can lower the t<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">emperature by about 10<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">°C. </span></span>As the area is semi-arid, it gets rather hot during the summer months. Spingboks are known to come lie in quartz fields to cool down during the hottest parts of the day.</div>
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Above: Easily distracted on breaks; especially when your lecturer is into ants and termites. This an entrance to a termite mound.</div>
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We ran out of water and beside from needing it for washing, we were starving and needed dinner! on the way back from sorting out the pump at the dam, we stumbled upon an aardvark burrow. This is a feeding burrow as it below a termite mound. The termite mounds are underground and the easiest way to distinguish where a mound is, is to see the ash bush that grows on the fertile soil of the mound. The aardvark (that feeds on termites), will burrow below a mound, use this mound for feeding for a while and then move on to another. </div>
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After getting it out of the net safely (this has to be done by somebody trained, or will risk injury to the bird). Its wings were checked for feather mites. If there was any, the number of mites and which feathers they were on were recorded and a small sample taken of one feather.</div>
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Springboks (<i>A</i><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">ntidorcas marsupialis); </i>are medium -sized antelopes. They are South Africa's national animal. They are easily distinguishable and we saw rather a lot of them, though not to complain as they are very graceful.</div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-64701275455125244052014-09-14T19:52:00.001+01:002015-01-11T14:48:06.780+00:00Finally put photos of South Africa on Flickr!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvPQFsKI_kXclrBiGTAik6pnq0_tI_GrnHinYXoYGw4YtScdMNMqQ2XFiCmixZGOyj6hhOq1hKUOLUJ-dz8HyelWCTrYExFReeur3Rmnpy7p5YVTebVXiqhpmkgtgmvtBWUcIPJECb_I/s1600/P1010323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvPQFsKI_kXclrBiGTAik6pnq0_tI_GrnHinYXoYGw4YtScdMNMqQ2XFiCmixZGOyj6hhOq1hKUOLUJ-dz8HyelWCTrYExFReeur3Rmnpy7p5YVTebVXiqhpmkgtgmvtBWUcIPJECb_I/s1600/P1010323.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>So unfortunately I've had some technical difficulties and so I have only just been able to put all of my South Africa photos onto Flickr.<br />
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<u>Finally in the Karoo</u></h3>
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Karoo was the first stop of three on our trip. Its a semi-arid area and essentially a desert. It was rather cold during the night, ended up sleeping in my sleeping bag! </div>
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The sunrise/sunsets were beautiful! and the nights sky was even more spectacular. Being 40km away from the closest town, there's next to no light pollution so the nights sky is glistening with thousands more stars. I was surprised at how many satellites are up there and how many can be seen gliding between the stars.<br />
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Our first close sighting of wildlife. Above is a Steenbok; a small antelope. They have large ears for how small they are.This individual was actually pregnant. </div>
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Above: A mantid nymph. I spotted many of them running from plant to plant. </div>
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For one of my modules I had to learn animal tracks. The track in the photo above is a baboon, one of the easiest as it has a significant resemblance to our own.</div>
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Off to the shooting range we went. We had a morning of firearm safety first and then got to go and do some shooting for ourselves. on the trip we obviously didn't carry firearms with us. However our guides did. This is purely for the safety of the group and is the last option. If an animal charges at you, shooting it is the last option. You stand your ground, try to look as big as possible and shout as loud and as foul language as possible. This is to show that you're not afraid of them and swearing and shouting is aggressive. Most animals will back off, however if they do not then a warning shot is fired in its direction away from any animals. Shooting an animal is ALWAYS the last thing you want to do. After all its usually only protecting itself or its cubs/young. A Rhino is something you dont want to run into on foot. Even if they charge at you, in South Africa anyway, no one can shoot it. like my guide said 'there are seven billion of you on the earth and only a few thousand of them'.<br />
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We shot four firearms. An air rifle, a rifle, an air pistol and a pistol. I did pretty well at aiming, even if I do say so myself....<br />
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We took a stroll down to the waterfront in search for the aquarium! on our way we passed through Nobel Square which is a place to pay tribute to South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. <a href="http://www.nobelsquare.com/" target="_blank">Nobel Square website</a>.</div>
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Two oceans aquarium has the worlds largest artificial kelp forest... and it was huge! I didn't quite realise how big the fish could be in that habitat. The aquarium was enjoyable with loads to do, touch tanks were pretty cool, with seaweeds, sea urchins, anenomies to name a few things. <a href="http://www.aquarium.co.za/" target="_blank">Two Oceans Aquarium Website</a></div>
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I saw the cubs and one of the adults. the cubs were almost fully grown though and very playful. They also didn't like the odd showers very much which made them very energetic. They usually let you see the meercats but on this particular afternoon you couldn't unfortu<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">nately. Cheetah Outreach is an education and community-based programme created to raise awareness of the plight of the cheetah and to campaign for it survival.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They also raise Turkish Anatolian shepherd dogs which are placed on South African farms to guard </span>the livestock. This is to try to eliminate the conflicts between farmers and cheetahs. <a href="http://www.cheetah.co.za/" target="_blank">Cheetah Outreach Website</a></div>
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Our hostel was amazing! I would recommend to anyone to stay there if travelling to Cape Town. Everyone was friendly and theyre so much to do as well as having comfy places to relax other than your room.<a href="http://www.atlanticpoint.co.za/" target="_blank">Atlantic Point Backpackers Website</a></div>
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When we left the last museum after being told to leave as it was closing, we finally saw table mountain clearly as the fog/mist around the mountain lifted. The peak to the left of table mountain is Devils Peak and the one to the right (which you cannot see in this photo) is Lions Head.<br />
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At the hostel we had our first Braai of the trip. A braai is essentially a South African barbecue. It was delicious! the toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches were oddly the most amazing thing Ive ever eaten! after we played some drinking games, including Flippy cup (or flip-a-cup? everyone called it something different). My team won overall! I think.... I'm pretty sure we did.<br />
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So after getting woken up by a friend coming into our room, surprisingly chipper considering the night before, shouting that table mountain was finally open again. As soon as everyone was awake and presentable we headed up. Two of the guys walked up whilst the rest of us took the cable car.<br />
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The next morning we were leaving to meet our lecturer at the airport and to get on our bus to Karoo. so we signed our names on the wall in the hostel with a string of inside jokes. Their were a few tears as goodbyes were said for some people. It was sad to leave as Cape Town was such a wonderful place, but more adventures were waiting for us!</div>
Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-77196484348928627362014-07-23T19:17:00.000+01:002015-01-11T14:49:32.496+00:00CAPE TOWN: Part One!<span id="goog_2119228564"></span><span id="goog_2119228565"></span>Firstly, apologies that this is so late! I was super tired/busy when I got back.... I'm gonna catch up and share all my lovely adventures with you soon!<br />
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Secondly, Cape Town was truly lovely and I would go back in a heartbeat if I could! There is so much to do that a week is just nowhere near long enough. That and the fact that the first half of the week the weather wasn't too great, so a lot of things such as shark diving and Robben Island weren't sending boats out :(<br />
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The following day we had a busy day ahead of us; to start everything off we had a full English breakfast at a small cafe in Simons Town, before heading to Cape Point. On the drive we saw some Zebras!!! Maybe not the most exciting animal in South Africa (especially with what was to come) but to an IWB student it was very exciting nonetheless! At Cape Point we had a short walk up to the light house you see in the distance. Its lots further up, up little winding paths, than it looks and after I'd broken my foot and only wore trainers, it was hard work! But it all paid off with the amazing views you see up there.<br />
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At cape point you can see where the Indian ocean and the Atlantic ocean. It was lovely weather compared to what it had been the day before and pictures just don't show how amazing some of these views were. </div>
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Following suit of other visitors we all signed our names on the rock and then did one all together on bottom of the post showing where some major cities were and also positioned it so it was pointing to London! </div>
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Then on to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve where we saw lots of ostrich and a few seals on a far out rock, lazing around in the sunshine. Then off to Boulders Beach to see the penguins. They were adorable, if i could have fit one in my bag, I definitely would have. There were a lot of juvenile penguins there, some loosing their baby feathers and others still curled up with their parents. </div>
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In the Afternoon we went to a township called Khayelitsha.We had lunch in a small food place that our tour guide took us to. Its quite dangerous for tourists to go into the township by themselves. Our tour guide worked at the hostel and lived in the township himself. Lunch consisted of maize, beans, gravy and chicken and of course we had to eat it with our hands. It was rather messy but once you've got the knack its easy! And it was delicious!</div>
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Juma (Our tour guide), gave us a tour around near where he lived. Below is a picture of his office, the artwork on it done himself. As well as doing tours and working at the hostel, he also works with both local and international artists, doing street art in the township to try and promote social change through art. Its amazing how much it brightens the area up. </div>
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Some were of wildlife and others symbolic or had meaning. The Kindergarten was also painted, the community got together and managed to paint the whole garden/play area and the school buildings in an afternoon. He said the community in this township is very strong and important to them. Before heading back as it was going to get dark soon, we had a beer (or a cider if you were more inclined) in a tavern near his house. It was daunting at first as you got funny looks as they knew you weren't from there, but Juma knew them all well and it was rather an enjoyable experience. </div>
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To find out more about Juma's art tours go to: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jumatoursmurals/timeline" target="_blank">JUMA ART TOURS</a></div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-58862886006382902722014-06-03T18:30:00.002+01:002015-01-11T14:49:50.189+00:00Finally in Cape Town! So I arrived in Cape Town on Saturday. I'm gonna do all my proper posts in detail when I get back as I don't have much internet, nor time. So for now here just a brief summary of some of the exciting stuff that I've got up so far.<br />
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I've seen some amazing views and done so much whilst I've been here.<br />
I met a some cheetahs today and got to stroke them! I also saw all the penguins at Boulders Beach, where the two oceans meet (Atlantic Ocean & Indian Ocean) at Cape Point and seen so many spectacular views that the pictures just do not do justice! So here are a couple of photos until I can properly write about everything!<br />
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Finished my exams and with only 9 days to go I can I'm extremely excited now for South Africa! I picked up my polo shirt and field journal and filled in the last few forms and now I'm pretty much ready to go! I cant believe how quickly its come. It crazy to think that I'm finally going after applying for University two years ago and thinking what an amazing experience this would be and I'm finally about to go! </div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-33155932117572548952014-05-04T20:04:00.003+01:002015-01-11T14:39:24.537+00:00Paratarsotomus macropalpis: New fastest land animal!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJ85PdyaXK7KiymdY32FCTsvC-rKhsMUlziWfzL5tQ4CJbsRcA_d2cZK_OI_Y1mVK_nY2cMLEvybsaYkPHYSbcR9yNqI4CZBps-wUApn90e8sEwO81j2sOXaTwtI7g9ZTlkZrEicPikI/s1600/83493_5612fd7d6dddde3fdf3e0992301ff35b_b0e33c1959f5c33c35dc96a8fb1d0cb5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJ85PdyaXK7KiymdY32FCTsvC-rKhsMUlziWfzL5tQ4CJbsRcA_d2cZK_OI_Y1mVK_nY2cMLEvybsaYkPHYSbcR9yNqI4CZBps-wUApn90e8sEwO81j2sOXaTwtI7g9ZTlkZrEicPikI/s1600/83493_5612fd7d6dddde3fdf3e0992301ff35b_b0e33c1959f5c33c35dc96a8fb1d0cb5.jpg" height="205" width="320" /></a>This Mite (<i>Paratarsotomus macropalpis</i>) has now bumped the Australian Tiger Beetle of being the fastest land animal relative to its size. It can move an amazing 332 body lengths per second. Its no bigger than a sesame seed and to put that into perspective the Cheetah running at 60 miles per hour, can only move 16 body lengths per second! It almost doubles the Tiger Beetle which could move 171 body lengths.<br />
The Mite, that was found in Southern California, was filmed using high speed cameras and the speed was then calculated from that. It was also found that it was good as changing direction extremley quickly, this is being research further.<br />
It was first discovered in 1916, however little is know about its food sources and habitats.<br />
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Links: <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/04/29/43862/tiny-mite-beats-out-cheetah-as-world-s-fastest-lan/" target="_blank">scpr</a> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140427191124.htm" target="_blank">sciencedaily</a>Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-4761151952702571102014-05-03T19:15:00.001+01:002015-01-11T14:39:58.481+00:00Rhino Poaching In South Africa<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqS3DJKmCEpoeyb9Csg6ZW8E47_etPG2Ja1JlBipj5s8MW7xqJaIgl0XgQjgMebOF0AfT1ISSGjiJ4yyVz5uig_O7Zta1nb1I-GdnG7nzN6sR2ycWLc-MxYtmlgNEWvb2npIkCXBbsUdc/s1600/Screen+shot+2014-05-03+at+19.12.42.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqS3DJKmCEpoeyb9Csg6ZW8E47_etPG2Ja1JlBipj5s8MW7xqJaIgl0XgQjgMebOF0AfT1ISSGjiJ4yyVz5uig_O7Zta1nb1I-GdnG7nzN6sR2ycWLc-MxYtmlgNEWvb2npIkCXBbsUdc/s1600/Screen+shot+2014-05-03+at+19.12.42.png" /></a>As many people know there has been a huge increase in the number of rhinos being poached in the last decade. This is an issue that I feel very passionately about, so when I had to do an oral presentation on a subject of my choice for one of my modules, this seemed like the perfect subject.
Africa is home to approximately 80% of the worlds rhino population and approx. 73% of Rhinos worldwide.<br />
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The white rhino (<i>Ceratotherium simum</i>), has a population of around 20,000 individuals. They are on the ICUN Redlist Classification as <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Near threatened</span>. With a population of only 4,880 individuals the black rhino (<i>Diceros bicornis</i>), is much more threatened. The black rhinos are on the ICUN Redlist Classification as <span style="color: red;"><b>Critically Endangered</b></span>.<br />
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Rhino horn is used in traditional Eastern medicine and in countries such as Yemen as Decorative items such as dagger handles. This grew in the 1970's and is worn as a status symbol. In recent years the value of rhinos horns has increased rapidly and the benefits to poachers far outweigh the risks of getting caught.<br />
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They have advanced technologies such as: night vision scopes, Silenced Weapons, Darting equipment, Helicopters, veterinary equipment. Some can be rather barbaric, by even putting poison into carcasses to not attract attention by vultures, or will just not kill them and cut off their horn and leave them alive. </div>
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It is worth more per kilo than cocaine. If caught with cocaine you will go to jail for a few years, whereas if you're caught with rhino horn, you are most likely going to get away with it. The number of people arrested is less than half of the recorded poachings and even less than that were actually convicted. This shows that there is a much higher incentive for poachers to do this as there aren't as many negative repercussions.</div>
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Could legalisation be the answer to stopping the number of rhinos being poached increasing even more? Well, the current ban obviously isn't working as well as it should be. By flooding the market, it would then decrease the value of them and so lowering the incentive for poachers to kill them in the first place. This in turn would then take the control away from criminal syndicates. </div>
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This could then increase the demand for the horns. It would be wrong to support the legal trade of the product and to try and dispel traditional beliefs at the same time. Also, how would it be legalised? If you cut off their horns in a humane way then it would still cause problems as they place a part in mating and dominance. Farming could also cause problems ethically. </div>
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To do you're bit to help, to adopt a rhino or to simply find out a bit more information about these lovely creatures head over to any of the following websites: </div>
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<li><a href="http://www.savetherhino.org/" target="_blank">Save the Rhino</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rhinos.org/" target="_blank">International Rhino Foundation</a></li>
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In just 33 days I'll be heading to South Africa and excited doesn't even begin to describe it! Although I'm not going to say that I'm not a little bit nervous; this is the longest I'm going to have been away from the UK. The last time I went away for longer than a few days was when I went to Kenya when I was still college. Kenya was a trip that I'll never forget and I can only imagine how many memories I'll have of this adventure. Remembering Kenya is really getting me pumped for this trip.<br />
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I've now only got my exams to go. So as much as I'm stressing about studying and squishing all the vast amounts of information into my brain, I know it will be worth it as I get to leave just over a week after my last exam. <br />
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I've got pretty much everything I need, I've just got to sort out a few last things at the doctors, get a map and pick up my International Wildlife Biology polo shirt and some equipment and I'm ready to go! <br />
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As I said before I'm very excited about going, although as it gets closer to the time I'm getting a little nervous, not only am I going to be away for a while, but I'm also going to be doing skydiving and a shark cage dive! I'm absolutely ecstatic about the shark diving, and as much as I am about skydiving, I'm a teeny , tiny bit scared! Diving with sharks doesn't phase me at all, however I'm a little nervous about getting to the point when I'm about to jump and being scared, so I'm essentially nervous that I'm going to be nervous? Which makes no sense whatsoever I know, but try telling that to my brain!<br />
As I said before, I'm doing the skydive for charity, I'm almost half way to my target! You can go see what its all about <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/sophierogers09" target="_blank">HERE!</a> Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-27964058687394178012014-04-20T13:17:00.000+01:002015-01-11T14:51:26.056+00:00Skydiving in Cape Town<div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-70758889596186865422014-04-17T15:53:00.001+01:002014-05-03T19:31:52.052+01:00Butterflies!!!One of my first projects this year was to do a bug collection. I had to collect 10 different species of insects, one of which had to be a butterflies or moth and then mount them and identify them. I then had to present them. The hardest one i found to do was the moth that I had.<br />
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I bought some butterflies (50 of them!! as I got a good deal) and then set out to practise. I made a spreading board and I already had the entomology pins. I had to rehydrate them first. I put in an air tight container a damp paper towel and some anti-fungal agent in with it to stop mould from occurring. </div>
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Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-2221590419857806602014-04-17T15:02:00.000+01:002014-05-03T20:35:27.598+01:00Microbiology practicalsThis was my first Microbiology practical. As it was the first practical, all we did was just practising the different techniques.<br />
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(Above: the top two are the E.coli, the one to the left is best as there are single colonies near the bottom of the petri dish which is what you want. the one in the bottom left is soil and there are things growing on it even though its hard to see. the last one on the bottom right is my fingers... You can see my four finger spots. There is bacteria on almost everyones hand and skin all of the time. The most common is Staphlococcus (a genus of bacteria of which most are harmless and live on the human skin). This is a good thing to have as this protects against pathogens from getting through the skin.) </div>
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-10967699061199141572014-03-10T15:02:00.002+00:002014-05-03T20:38:09.930+01:00UPDATE: Plants Under a Microscope & Rapid Cycling BrassicasIve almost completed my portfolio for diversity of life 1. I have to do drawings of samples of angiosperms:<br />
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After this I did 3 sections of gymnosperms to compare and contrast. All of my samples are from pine. I did an ovule, stem and a leaf. (below: left to right, stem, ovule and leaf)</div>
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I had to look at 3 live cultures of algae: Volvox, Spyrogyra and Chlamydomonas and make detailed drawings of them. </div>
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The third section is about rapid cycling brassicas. Each week they'd grow more and more and we had to draw detailed drawing of them at each stage every week. In the picture below you can see the development from when it had just started growing all the way to it producing fruit (seed pods). </div>
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I have done most of the drawings, now I just have to do the write up which is all about the process of growing the Rapid Cycling Brassicas and describing them etc. I will show my drawings once I've finished my portfolio.</div>
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I have more pictures on my Flickr of you want to look at the rest! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/116121685@N04/sets/72157640382619936/" target="_blank">Plants Down a Microscope & Rapid Cycling Brassicas</a><br />
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Its easy to distinguish what is a mayfly or stonefly without using any keys however I did so the first time, just to check and its all good practice I guess. A stonefly will always have two tails whereas a mayfly will usually have three (although some have two). then the gills are the second easy detector to see which it is.<br />
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The mayfly (photos below; under the microscope) was harder to identify than the stonefly. I narrowed it down to the family: HEPTAGENUDAE. It has a pronotum with flange-like extension and its eyes are dorsal. </div>
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If you want to see more of these photos go to my flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/116121685@N04/sets/72157641324985105/" target="_blank">Stream Diversity and Invertebrate ID's </a><br />
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<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-554794190773093162014-03-10T10:58:00.001+00:002014-05-03T20:40:51.251+01:00Botanical Gardens of WalesLast week I went on a field trip to the Botanical Gardens of Wales. This was for my Diversity of Life 1 module. Early Tuesday morning we set off to go there. Our next assignment is on Fynbos plants which before this trip I knew little about. this is what the trips main focus was on.<br />
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The first thing we did was get our complementary tea and welsh cake and were given a presentation about DNA barcoding and how they were progressing. after which we then went to the Great Glasshouse. this is a mediteranean house and is where we spent most of our day. We were given a talk and shown around (mainly the South African part) and were shown all the ways that these plants are adapted to their habitats.<br />
Many of them have lots of thin hairs on their thick leaves to potect itself from the sun and heat.<br />
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The king protea has big leaves. these leaves get bigger and waxier as they get older. as well as having big and hard leaves to protect it from the heat, it also moves throughout the day so that the leave edges are always facing the sun rather that the larger surface of the leaf. (Picture of King Protea; Protea cynaroides, on the right).<br />
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After we were finished with the talk we had a tour around the rest of the gardens. There was an installation called the 'ghost forest' which are parts of big tropical trees. The gardens are their final resting place, after travelling to various places. they will eventually rot and decompose here and will be interested to see what will grow there afterwards. They have a small Japanese garden, bee hives and vegetable patches to name a few of the things we saw, as well as lots of outdoor flower beds organised in families. the final thing we saw on out tour was the tropical house. I like this because of how diverse the plants are in it and how much brighter the plants are.<br />
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this bought us to lunch time so we had a break and then were free to look around anything we may have not been to or may want to go back to. I went to the 'amazing fungi' area and then back around the rest of the great glasshouse as it was big and it gave us a chance to look around and get some more information about the fynbos plants.<br />
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You can see more of the photos from my day on my Flickr : <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/116121685@N04/sets/72157641874642554/" target="_blank">Botanical Gardens photos</a><br />
<br />Sophiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541003556264839315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121956799315320471.post-61845979798143127212014-02-22T09:00:00.000+00:002015-01-11T14:39:36.551+00:00Flickr!!!So I've made a Flickr account!<br />
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Its got all my photos that you have seen on here and all the ones I haven't put on here! Including some of my photos from my Kenya trip! There's lots of pictures of cute baby elephants! (and me kissing a giraffe). So take a look!<br />
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