julian-kaye:

Led Zeppelin .

When Bonzo starts banging, this song goes to the fucking moon and back. 

He was the heart and soul of Led.

No two ways about it.

he-is-a-feather-in-the-wind:

Happy Birthday  John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948).

Explanation: Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffractdifferent colors of sunlight by different amounts. A more detailed picture of the same cloud shows not onlymany colors, but unusual dark and wavy bands whose origins are thought related to wave disturbances in the cloud.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110824.html 
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz503.htm 

llbwwb:

Iridescent Clouds-this is a natural phenomenon caused by ice crystals in the clouds aligning and acting as prisms to the sunlight shinig through. (by gainesp2003)

fairy-wren:

ferruginous babbler

(photo by benzquek)

I want to take beautiful photos like this..
Any willing models??

(via downtherabbitholeee)

Save some for the others!

(via thewaterrealm)

Part 1: Introduction
It is one of the most powerful ideas in all areas of science, and is the only theory that can seriously claim to unify biology.
It can give meaning to facts from the invisible world in a drop of rain, or from the many coloured delights of a botanic garden, to the thundering herds of big game.
As Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the twentieth century’s most eminent evolutionary biologists , remarked in often quoted but scarcely  exaggerated phrase “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”

funkysafari:

You can’t get much happier than a pig in muck, or so we are told.

But when this little piggy arrived in the farmyard she showed a marked reluctance to get her trotters dirty. While her six brothers and sisters messed around in the mire, she stayed on the edge shaking. It is thought she might have mysophobia - a fear of dirt.

Owners Debbie and Andrew Keeble were at a loss, until they remembered the four miniature wellies used as pen and pencil holders in their office. They slipped them on the piglet’s feet - and into the mud she happily ploughed. [x]

Oh man..

(via magicalnaturereblogs)

rhamphotheca:

Forest guards told to shoot poachers on sight after rash of tiger killings

India hits back against hunters who sell body parts to Asia for use in traditional medicines

by Andrew Bundcombe

Confronted by the killing of at least eight tigers in the state so far this year, officials in the western state of Maharashtra, whose capital is Mumbai, have told forest guards they will have the same legal protection as police officers who have to use their guns on duty.

According to a report in The Indian Express newspaper, the state’s Forest Minister, Patangrao Kadam, told officials this week that he wanted to do whatever was required to protect the guards. “Human rights groups come in the way if there is any such action, but there is a need to save the tigers,” he said. “If the staff spot poachers committing an offence, they have been given orders to shoot on sight. They should sound a warning asking them to surrender, but if the poachers fail to do so, they should be shot.”

The orders giving forest guards legal protection should they need to use weapons were apparently first issued in 2006, but reports suggest that a number of guards felt uneasy about using their guns. Most of the guards are poorly trained and badly paid and there had been cases where guards had been charged for firing a weapon…

(read more: The Independent)       (image: Wildlife Protection Soc. of India)