Anne marie bokslag
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I’m not sure about the name of. The closest I can find is Iguana Iguana. I made this picutre in Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, The Netherlands. There is a window between hem and my camera, so there still can be some dirt, though I tried to clean it a bit. Featured in the Alphabet Soup group and Winner of the I Challenge
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Northern Elephant Seal ( Mirounga angustirostris) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (I’m not sure if it’s still threatened, because they write the list needs to be updated). Elephant seals are large, oceangoing mammals in the genus Mirounga, in the earless seal (Phocidae) family. There are two species: the Northern Elephant Seal (M. angustirostris) and the Southern Elephant Seal (M. leonina). Both were hunted to the brink of extinction for their blubber by the end of the nineteenth century, but numbers have since recovered. Another thread for the Northern elephant seals is that they are preyed on by great white sharks, a significant cause of mortality in juvenile seals, and sometimes also by orcas (killer whales). The Northern Elephant Seal, somewhat smaller than its southern relative, ranges over the Pacific coast of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Elephant seals take their name from the large proboscis of the adult males (bulls) which resembles an elephant’s trunk. The bull’s proboscis is used in producing extraordinarily loud roaring noises, especially during the mating season. More importantly, however, the nose acts as a sort of rebreather, filled with cavities designed to reabsorb moisture from the animals’ exhalations. This is important during the mating season when the male seals rarely leave the beach to feed, and therefore must conserve body moisture, as they have no incoming source of water. Bulls reach a length of 16 ft (5 m) and a weight of 6,000 lb (3,000 kg), and are much larger than the cows, which typically measure about 10 ft (3 m) and 2,000 lb (900 kg). The largest known bull elephant seal weighed 5000 kg (11,000 lb) and measured 6.9 m (22.5 ft) in length. This makes the elephant seal the largest member of the order Carnivora. / Elephant seals spend up to 80 percent of their lives in the ocean. They can hold their breath for over 80 minutes—longer than any other non-cetacean mammal. Furthermore, elephant seals possess the ability to dive to 2000 meters beneath the ocean’s surface. The average depth of their dives is about 300 to 600 meters, typically for around 20 min for females and 60 min for males, as they search for their favorite foods, which are skates, rays, squid, octopuses, eels, and small sharks. Their stomachs also often contain gastroliths. While excellent swimmers, they are even more surprising on land, where they have a higher velocity than the average human when moving over sand dunes. The deepest recorded dive of a Elephant Seal is 1,581m by a male in 1989 – the deepest recorded dive by any air-breathing vertebrate. / Elephant seals are shielded from extreme cold by their blubber, more than by fur. The skin on top of this blubber and its hair molts periodically. It has to be re-grown by blood vessels reaching through the blubber. When molting occurs, the seal is susceptible to the cold, and must rest on land, in a safe place called a “haul-out.” The type of molt which an elephant seal undergoes is a catastrophic molt. While this is taking place, the bulls actually cease fighting with one another. / Elephant seals have evolved to have a very large volume of blood, allowing them to hold a large amount of oxygen for use when diving. They have large sinuses in their abdomens to hold blood and can also store oxygenated blood in their muscles. In addition they have a larger proportion of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. All these adaptions enable them to dive for periods up to 2 hours. / Female elephant seals have an average life expectancy of about 23 years, and can give birth starting at the age of 3–4. Males reach maturity at five years, but generally don’t achieve alpha status until the age of 8, with the prime breeding years being between ages 9 and 12. The average life expectancy of a male elephant seal is 20 years. (Source: Wikipedia) The northern elephant seal was previously listed as an Appendix II species under CITES but was deleted from the list in 1992. The species is protected in the U.S. under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Picture taken on the beach near San Simeon, California Featured in the Underwater & Sealife group.
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Northern Elephant Seal ( Mirounga angustirostris) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (I’m not sure if it’s still threatened, because they write the list needs to be updated). Saw these three resting on the beach near San Simeon, California For more information about the elephant seals see my picture “Hey….I’m here”.
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This picture is taken in Topanga State Park in California. / The Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) is a common lizard of California and surrounding areas. It is also known as the Blue-belly or Swift. / It is a member of the genus Sceloporus, and therefore is a spiny lizard. / Western fence lizards are about 8-10 cm long excluding their tail, and about 15 cm long with the tail included. They are brown to black in color (the brown may be sandy or greenish), but adult males have iridescent blue lateral patches on their flanks, and their entire bodies may be flecked with blue. Males may expose their blue stomachs in a territorial display. The blue is much less pronounced in females. / The western fence lizard eats insects and spiders. They are commonly seen sunning themselves on paths and rocks, and this behavior makes them vulnerable to predation by snakes and birds. / Although California is the heart of the range of this lizard, it is also found in eastern and southwest Oregon, southwest Idaho, Nevada, western Utah, and northwestern Baja California, and some of the islands off the coast of both California and Baja California. It is found in scrub and chaparral, up to heights approaching 2000 meters, but it is not found in the desert. Featured in the National Parks of the World group twice and in the # 12 Great Features – Challenge Themes Only group.
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This picture is included in the Giraffe calender Made for the contest Go Veg of the Voices for Animals group. ALSO AVAILABLE AS T-SHIRT Featured in the Voices for Animals group
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The European tree frog is a small frog that can grow to a maximum length of 4.5 cm. They are the only members of the widespread tree frog family (Hylidae) indigenous to Mainland Europe. Characteristic are the discs on the frog’s toes which it uses to climb trees and hedges. There are three or four species and many subspecies: / • Hyla arborea (Linnaeus, 1758) (common or European tree frog) / • Hyla meridionalis Boettger, 1874 (Mediterranean tree frog or stripeless tree frog) / • Hyla intermedia Boulenger, 1882 (Italian tree frog) (not always considered a species) / • Hyla sarda (De Betta, 1853) (Sardinian tree frog) The European tree frogs actually don’t live in forests, but rather prefer sunny forest edges, bushy heaths, wet dune pans, wet scrubland and extensively used meadows and parks with ponds rich in submerged vegetation without fish nearby. These habitats are increasingly influenced by human activity. Hyla arborea, the common tree frog, is endangered in western Europe (nearly extinct in Belgium) while the more common Mediterranean tree frog lives in wet gardens, treegarths, vineyards, campings, and near pine trees, but is also on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Common tree frog / Historically, tree frogs were used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking. They also croak in the breeding season, even when migrating to their mating pools. Depending on subspecies, temperature, humidity, and the frog’s ‘mood’, skin color ranges from bright to olive green, grey, brown and yellow. The head is rounded, the lip drops strongly, the pupil has the shape of a horizontal ellipse and the eardrum is clearly recognizable. / Males can be distinguished from females by their browny-yellowy, large (folded) vocal sacs in the throat region. The amplexus is axillary (in the armpits). Both adult males and females reach sizes up to 30-40 mm, rarely longer than 45 mm. The smooth, shining, usually leaf-green back and the white-yellowish to grey belly are separated by a dark stripe on its flank reaching from the nostrils, over the eye and the eardrum, to the groin, contrasting the green, and forming a dark spot near the hips. The hind legs are much larger and stronger than the fore legs, enabling the frog to jump rapidly. / Source: Wikipedia I made this picture in Miletus in Turkey. Though Turkey doesn’t belong to Europe, it’s on the European continent where the European tree frog lives. Isn’t it ladylike the way she holds her pinky?
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They are the only members of the widespread tree frog family (Hylidae) indigenous to Mainland Europe. Characteristic are the discs on the frog’s toes which it uses to climb trees and hedges. The European tree frogs actually don’t live in forests, but rather prefer sunny forest edges, bushy heaths, wet dune pans, wet scrubland and extensively used meadows and parks with ponds rich in submerged vegetation without fish nearby. These habitats are increasingly influenced by human activity. Hyla arborea, the common tree frog, is endangered in western Europe (nearly extinct in Belgium) while the more common Mediterranean tree frog lives in wet gardens, treegarths, vineyards, campings, and near pine trees, but is also on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. / Source: Wikipedia I made this picture in Miletus in Turkey. Though Turkey doesn’t belong to Europe, it’s on the European continent where the European tree frog lives.
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Sand everywhere, even on the elephant seal who is resting on the beach near San Simeon in California. / With all that blubber, their bodies are designed to keep warm in cold water. Sand flipping helps them keep cool on land by acting as a sun screen.
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Endangered or not endangered? On 1 February 2008, under mounting international pressure, the South African Government brought legislation into force to prohibit canned hunting. However, lions were specifically excluded from this prohibition, because of pressure from the canned hunting industry. As White Lions are particularly prized as canned hunting trophies, their future hangs in the balance. For many years, the Global White Lion Protection Trust has been lobbying the SA.Government to have South Africa’s unique White Lions listed on the Schedule of Threatened and Protected Animals of National Importance. The legislation makes absolutely no provision for the protection of the White Lions as a unique listing. Furthermore, no prohibition has been placed on lion hunting reserves within the White Lions natural endemic habitat (such as Timbavati and APNR), where the last surviving gene pool of this critically endangered animal is being eradicated. The white lion is not a distinct subspecies, but a special morph with a genetic condition, leucism, that causes paler colouration akin to that of the white tiger; the condition is similar to melanism, which causes black panthers. White Transvaal lion (Panthera leo krugeri) individuals occasionally have been encountered in and around Kruger National Park and the adjacent Timbavati Private Game Reserve in eastern South Africa, but are more commonly found in captivity, where breeders deliberately select them. The unusual cream color of their coats is due to a recessive gene. Reportedly, they have been bred in camps in South Africa for use as trophies for canned hunts. Confirmation of the existence of white lions only came in the late twentieth century. For hundreds of years prior, the white lion had been thought to be a figment of legend circulating in South Africa, the white pelage of the animal said to represent the goodness in all creatures. Sightings were first reported in the early 1900s, and continued, infrequently, for almost fifty years until, in 1975, a litter of white lion cubs was found at Timbavati Game Reserve. Picture taken from behind a glass wall in Ouwehands Animalpark in Rhenen, The Netherlands.
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A graceful creature of the seafloor, this sea pen resembles a plump, old-fashioned quill pen. Its colors range from dark orange to yellow to white. Each sea pen is a colony of polyps (small anemonelike individuals) working together for the survival of the whole. The primary polyp loses its tentacles and becomes the stalk of the sea pen, with a bulb at its base – the bulb anchors the sea pen in the muddy or sandy bottom. The various secondary polyps form the sea pen’s “branches” and have specialized functions. Some polyps feed by using nematocysts to catch plankton; some polyps reproduce; and some force water in and out of canals that ventilate the colony. Once plentiful in parts of Puget Sound, sea pen populations have declined in those areas. Large numbers of their predators – sea stars and nudibranchs – have also disappeared, leaving some sandy-bottom areas vacant. This affects populations of creatures at the top of the food chain, too. Scientists haven’t determined the cause or causes of the disappearing sea pens, but their absence can indicate an ecosystem in trouble. When disturbed, a sea pen forces water out of the colony, making it possible for the sea pen to retreat into its bulbous foot. / Sea pens are octocorals – each polyp has eight tentacles. / Sea pens glow with a bright-greenish light when stimulated. Picture taken in Monterey Bay Aquarium
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This picture is included in the Primate calender The Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata) is one of the two species of ruffed lemurs, the other being the Red Ruffed Lemur. Like all lemurs, it is native only to Madagascar. The Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur can grow up to 4 ft long, although typically a little smaller, and is about 7.3-8.4 lb. Its lifespan in captivity is about 18 years but many live to 20. It is quadrupedal. The Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur is black with white areas on its limbs head and back. Its neck has a mane and the face has a muzzle like a dog’s. Males and females look the same. It has the second loudest call of any primate, second only to the howler monkey.[citation needed] It is the only lemur known to have litters rather than solitary young. Its diet consists mainly of sweet fruits, leaves, nectar, flowers, seeds, and even dirt in some cases. It usually searches for food alone, rejoining its small group later to sleep. The Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur is preyed upon by boa constrictors, eagles and the Fossa. Because the Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur is diurnal, the nocturnal Fossa poses the biggest threat. The Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, where it is considered Endangered Picture taken in Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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On a walk in South Botanical Garden in Palos Verdes CA, this squirrel ran away from us, up into this tree. / He looked very surprised I found him there cleaning himself…lol. Camera used: Canon 40D / Canon Telezoom lens 100-400mm / Shutter priority 1/250s / Aperture value f/13 / ISO 1600 / Focal length 400mm / Handheld
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What am I?.... Solved by aspectsoftmk Coots , are medium-sized water birds which are members of the rail family Rallidae. They constitute the genus Fulica. Coots have predominantly black plumage, and, unlike many of the rails, they are usually easy to see, often swimming in open water. They are close relatives of the moorhen. The greatest species variety is in South America, and it is likely that the genus originated there. They are common in Europe and North America. They have prominent frontal shields or other decoration on the forehead, and coloured bills, and many, but not all, have white on the under tail. Like other rails, they have lobed toes. They tend to have short, rounded wings and be weak fliers, although northern species are nevertheless capable of covering long distances; the American Coot has reached Great Britain and Ireland on rare occasions. Those species that migrate do so at night. Coots can walk and run vigorously on strong legs, and have long toes that are well adapted to soft, uneven surfaces. These birds are omnivorous, taking mainly plant material, but also small animals and eggs. They are aggressively territorial during the breeding season, but are otherwise often found in sizeable flocks on the shallow vegetated lakes they prefer. A flock of coots is known in the US as a cover. / (Source: Wikipedia) Canon 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF 100-400mm 1: 4.5-5.6 L IS / Shutter speed 1/25s / Aperture value f/5.6 / ISO 200 / Focal lenght 320 mm
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Featured in the Giraffes-the long and tall of it! group. This picture is included in the Giraffe calender Picture taken in Animalpark Amersfoort, where they have only a male group of the Rothshild Giraffe and the Reticulated Giraffe Canon EOS 350D / Canon Zoom lens EF 90-300mm 1:4,5-5,6 USM / Exposure time 1/250s / Aperture value f/5,6 / ISO 200 / Focal length 260 mm
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.... and it’s not the end yet! Taken at Venice Pier CA. Canon EOS 40D / Canon Zoom lens EF 100-400mm 1: 4.5-5.6 L IS / Exposure time 1/1600s / Aperture value f/9 / ISO 400 / Focal length 400mm
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One of the “streets” on Cemitério do Prado do Repouso in Porto, Portugal For centuries, burials in Portugal were usually made inside the churches. But a complex conjugation of facts and ideologies condemned this dangerous habit: after many decades of failed intentions, Portuguese public cemeteries were officially created, in 1835. Therefore, inhumations inside the churches became prohibited. However, it took many years until this law was fully accomplished: popular resistance to outer cemeteries remained very strong. Oporto was not an exception. Nevertheless, Oporto has now several kinds of cemeteries: two public municipal cemeteries, a handful of public parochial cemeteries, eight private catholic cemeteries (six of it inside the municipal cemeteries), one private protestant cemetery (known as the British Cemetery) and a private catholic cemetery in catacombs (closed to burials more than a century ago). This picture I made on The Prado do Repouso Cemetery. / This was the first public cemetery in Oporto. It was established in 1839, inside a bishop’s farm. Curiously, for some years this cemetery stood partially as a farm, because Oporto citizens preferred private cemeteries. Only in the 1850s building of tombs became a regular practice here. Nowadays, the Prado do Repouso (which means “meadow of rest”) is one of the most important Portuguese cemetery, in terms of history and architecture. Canon EOS 40D
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Featured in the Statues and Such group. This statue of a Sunbathing Big Man I found on the roof of a parking garage at the marina of Sanxenxo on the Westcoast of Spain. Canon EOS 40D
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O Grove (Galician) , Ogrobe (Galician alternative) or El Grove (Spanish) is a municipality belonging to the province of Pontevedra, in Galicia, Spain. A peninsula that faces the Atlantic Ocean and the shores of O Salnés valley, enclosed by the southern Galician estuaries, the so-called “Rías Baixas”. On old maps, O Grove was an island. Today, it is joined to the mainland thanks to the south-westerly winds, which have slowly gathered sand to form the isthmus of the beach of A Lanzada. / O Grove is situated on the mouth of the Arousa estuary. The sight of its many-coloured boats forms an unforgettable image. As well as shellfish gathering and shallow-water fishing, the population lives from the farming of mussels, oysters and scallops on wooden platforms out in the water. A reason why it is impossible to leave without trying them in any of the local bars. The port of O Grove is devoted to fishing and mussel gathering and sits very near Illa de A Toxa, whose fame is derived from its medicinal mineral waters. The therapeutic properties for the skin and the respiratory passages of its water and mud, as well as the salts and soaps which are made from them, have turned the island into a major spa resort. A Toxa is the biggest of the islands, half a dozen of them, which emerge with the rhythm of the tides on the O Vao mud flats. Canon EOS 40D
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This picture is included in the Europe Porvoo (pronounced [ˈporʋoː]; Swedish: Borgå), is a city and a municipality situated on the southern coast of Finland approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) east of Helsinki. The town received its name from a Swedish earth fortress near the river Porvoonjoki which flows through the town (Swedish Borgå, borg meaning castle and å river). Porvoo is one of the six medieval towns in Finland, first mentioned as a city in texts from 14th century. Porvoo is the seat of the Swedish speaking Diocese of Porvoo of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Porvoo is the second oldest city in Finland. The current wave of settlement began in the 13th-14th centuries. Porvoo was grated city status in the mid-14th century. Porvoo has fought for its very existence on serveral occasions over the centuries. At the beginning of the 16th century, Danes arrived by sea to destroy the city. The Russians burned Porvoo twice. In 1760, a Porvoo housewife made fish soup, and the fire it caused destroyed the majority of the buildings in the city. The last misfortune was the arson in 2006 that greatly damaged a key landmark of Old Porvoo, the cathedral. At the beginning of the 19th century, Finland was annexed to Russia as an autonomous grand duchy. Tsar Alexander I convened the first diet in Porvoo in March 1809. In Porvoo Cathedral, he gave a sovereign pledge in which he ratified the country’s religion, its constitutional laws and the rights of the estates. Shore houses, cobblestone streets and idyllic gardens make Old Porvoo a uniquely historical urban milieu. Porvoo has been an important centre of trade since the 13th century. The buildings in Old Porvoo today were built according to a medieval town plan and are ofhistorical value in terms of their construction. The Old Porvoo district currently covers an area of 18 hectares, with 250 residential buildings and 300 outbuildings. Roughly 700 people live in this area. / The shore houses are now red, but they got their colour only in the late 18th century. Red ochre paint was used to paint the shore houses in honour of King Gustav III’s arrival from Sweden. All of the houses along his route were painted, in order to make them more beautiful. The red ochre also helped protect the logs from wind and sun damage. Exotic fruits, wines and spices were brought to Porvoo, and the shore houses also served as intermediate storehouses for coffee an tobacco. Today the shore houses are used as private living quarters and storage space. Canon EOS Digital Rebel / Canon Zoom lens EF-S 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 II USM
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This picture is included in the BIRDS!!!! Found this little hummingbird on her nest. Picture taken in a private garden in Manhattan Beach CA Canon EOS 40D
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One of the tomstones at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia (American Historic Heritage) has the shape of a Bible. It’s the grave of reverend Colton’s wife. / This is the backside of the tombstone with Arlington House in the reflection. Canon EOS 40D
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Featured in the The Photographer in Action group. Who’s shadows are these? Solved by Virginia N. Fred It might sound more difficult than it really is! Just try! Hints will follow! Hint # 1: It’s a photographer / Hint # 2: She is not a famous photographer (sorry !!!!), though she is well-known here at RB Canon EOS 40D
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Featured in The Dutch Connection group. Another picture taken from the Lincoln Memorial. In the opposite direction of the National Memorial you see Arlington Cemetery with Arlington House on top of the hill. / To get there you have to pass Memorial Bridge. Arlington Memorial Bridge connects Columbia Island with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. across the Potomac River. The eastern end of the bridge marks the western edge of the National Mall. The western end continues onto the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. (Source Wikipedia) Canon EOS 40D
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The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan (= Sun Sun) is an archaeological site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, five km east of Trujillo. Chan Chan covers an area of approximately 20 km², and had a dense urban center of about 6km². Chan Chan was constructed by the Chimor (the kingdom of the Chimú), a late intermediate period civilization which grew out of the remnants of the Moche civilization. The vast adobe city of Chan Chan was built by the Chimú around AD 850 and lasted until its conquest by the Inca Empire in AD 1470. It was the imperial capital of the Chimor until it was conquered in the 15th century. It is estimated that around 30,000 people lived in the city of Chan Chan. / Chan Chan was added as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1986. The city is severely threatened by tornados from El Niño, which causes heavy rains and flooding on the Peruvian coast. It is in a fertile, well-watered section of the coastal plain. The city’s ruins are additionally threatened by earthquakes and looters. Present-day visitors to Chan Chan can enter the Tschudi Complex, believed to be one of the later citadels built in the city. There are also several other Chimú and Moche ruins in the area around Trujillo. This site was discovered by the Conquistador Francisco Pizarro. / The remains of nine palaces (made of adobe brick walls) characterize the city. For every ruler they build a new palace (forming autonomous units), housing ceremonial rooms, temples, reservoirs, some residences and a cemetery. When the ruler died his 90 wives got buried together with the ruler and the palace turned into a mausoleum. Only the Tchudi complex is open for tourists. Chan Chan is a triangular city surrounded by walls 50-60 feet high. A distinguishable aspect of Chan Chan is that there are no enclosures which open to the north. The tallest walls shelter against south-westerly winds from Peru’s coast. Northern-facing walls gain the greatest exposure to the sun, serving both to block the wind and absorb sunlight where fog is frequent. The numerous walls throughout the city create labyrinth of passages. / The walls themselves were constructed of adobe brick and were then covered with a smooth surface into which intricate designs were carved. There are two styles of design present in these carvings: one is a ‘realistic’ representation of subjects such as birds, fish, and small mammals; and the other is a more graphic, stylized representation of the same subjects. The carvings at Chan Chan depict crabs, turtles, and nets for catching various sea monsters. Chan Chan, unlike most other coastal ruins in Peru, is located extremely close to the Pacific Ocean. In 1998, The “Master Plan for Conservation and Management of the Chan Chan Archeological Complex” is drawn up by the Freedom National Culture Institute of Peru with contributions from the World Heritage Foundation – WHR, ICCROM and GCI. The Plan is approved by the Peruvian Government, with involvement at the highest levels up until today. / Close to Chan Chan are some Huaca’s (In Quechua, a Native American language of South America, a huaca or wak’a is an object that represents something revered, typically a monument of some kind. The term huaca can refer to natural locations, such as immense rocks. Some huacas have been associated with veneration and ritual. Andean cultures believed every object has a physical presence and two camaquen (spirits), one to create it & another to animate it. They would invoke its spirits for the object to function.) such as Huaca del Dragón, Huaca del Arco Iris, Huaca Esmeralda, Huaca de la Luna en Huaca del Sol. Canon EOS 1000N / Canon 35mm lens
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