Town Hall, Bensberg, Germany, 1965-67
(Gottfried Böhm)
male Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana)
Throughout most of the year older males are solitary. They join females during the rut and try to drive off other males. Males will follow individual females and try to disrupt female herds. During the rut courting males seldom feed and expend much energy fighting or mating, resulting in severe deterioration of their physical condition. Both sexes exhibit crouching behaviors, tongue-flicking, and scent marking on the tail, beard and chest as part of their reproductive behavior. Reproductive success of male goats is directly correlated with body strength and horn size. Males often engage in forceful fights, whereby they crash against one another with their horns and try to overpower their opponents. Nubian ibex will erect the long dark hairs of the back while fighting. Females typically mate two or three times during estrous, which typically lasts 24 hours. Males will often become excited during the rutting season, and spontaneous ejaculation has been reported, as well as masturbation via taking the penis tip in their mouths…
(read more: ADW) (photo: David Blank)
A multiple exposure photograph shows lightning striking above Maseru, capital of Lesotho, in southern Africa. (Photo: Alessandro Della Bella / EPA via the Telegraph)
Pool on the 57th floor of Marina Bay Sands Casino In Singapore
Shane Pitchford. I remember when my buddy hadleigh introduced me to this guy and after a few beers the tats started coming out. As soon as I saw that back piece I have never seen a more impressive piece of work since…nuts
Seeing Red
NASA image captured September 26, 2011
Many aurora appear green, but sometimes — as in this image from the International Space Station — other colors such as red can appear. The colors depend on which atoms are causing the splash of light seen in the aurora. In most cases, the light comes when a charged particle sweeps in from the solar wind and collides with an oxygen atom in Earth’s atmosphere. This produces a green photon, so most aurora appear green. However, lower-energy oxygen collisions as well as collisions with nitrogen atoms can produce red photons — so sometimes aurora also show a red band as seen here.
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