If I look at that, I want to be a penguin. But I'm a sloth. 😁⠀ ⠀
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Are the zoos or even public swimming pools open for you?
Most of our zoos in Germany are open since the beginning of May.
Now I have read that the swimming pools are reopening too.

🌊🌊🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧💕🌞 All ready for an early swim?😁 I forgot my swimming trunks.😳
Hmm.. maybe it wouldn't have been necessary...😏 Do penguins bathe naked, or in a dress coat?🤔💭⠀ ⠀
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Incidentally, these are Humboldt penguins. The same species that I saw in the wild in Peru (Islas Ballestas).💙

Yesterday I went to the zoo with my girlfriend. Doesn't she look adorable? 🐧💕🐜 ⠀ ⠀
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Corona is such a 💩!
Can't meet my real girlfriend...
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The zoo visit was very nice. Only a few people... sunshine... I could make a lot of photos and videos... 😁🌞

So what is that? Weird animal! This is not a human being! 😲
I smell flowers! 🌻💕
Weird animal and flowers... I have to go there! ❤
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Kalusho is the only black rhino at Frankfurt Zoo.
His female companion Tsororo died of a complication of the uterus in 2016.
Together they had three daughters. All of their daughters were released into the wild in Africa.
The eldest daughter Akura became a grandmother four years ago in the Marakele National Park.


Kalusho, now 33 years old and originally from Zimbabwe,
should actually be released together with Tsororo 8 years ago.
However, it failed.


For most of the 20th century the continental black rhino was the most numerous of all rhino species.
Around 1900 there were probably several hundred thousand living in Africa.
In the early 1990s the number dipped below 2,500, and in 2004 it was reported that only 2,410 black rhinos remained.
By 2019 the population of 5,500 was either steady or slowly increasing.



🎼Music: "African meditation dance" by Stefan Kartenberg (2017 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

The sloth enjoyed a sunny Sunday along with Mother Nature! 🌞🌼🐝 ⠀
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🎶 Music: "Delta Blues"
👤 by Stefan Kartenberg 🔖 2020 - Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)

🔎🐧💡 At Centro de Interpretación, Paracas, Peru:
In the coastal desert around Paracas, numerous fossils were found. Including various penguin species, such as the Inkayacu pictured here. It lived around 36 million years ago. The 2008 discovered skeleton is the first one with fossilized feathers attached to it. The feathers are so well preserved that it's even possible to draw conclusions about the coloring. They had similar feathers as modern penguins, but more gray or brownish.


The other prehistoric bird in the picture is a pseudotooth bird (pelagornithid). These birds reached a wing span of up to 6 meters and were thus about twice as large as the Andean condor. They were probably related to pelicans or storks and lived all around the world. The fossils found around Paracas are attributed to the same era as the Inkayacu.

💕🐧🐧🐧💕 African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are the only penguin species of Africa. Their wild population has decreased by 90 percent since 1956. At this rate of decline, the African Penguin is expected to be extinct in the wild by 2026. You can help the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (@sanccob , sanccob.co.za) with a donation.

Some may ask why, I ask why not! This is a fish with a palm in its mouth (drawn 2007).🌴🐟 Any questions?😝😝😝

As a kid, I always loved to watch the "Bionic Six" on TV. "Bionic, Bionic Six uh-oh-uh-ooh!" 😆😆😆
In 2007, I just invented the "new BIONIC 2.0"! 🤔😅🙃

This is a titmel. It's been first described in 2007. Other than camels, it lives in the mangroves only. When the flood comes, it sticks its long trunk inside a tight and wet hole. The thickening at the tip of the trunk serves as an anchor. At the back it has two huge humps which always float on the surface. They feel very nice. Because the titmel can't breathe underwater, there's a nose on each hump. It can't flee in water, so it follows a very interesting defense strategy. If an enemy appears (mostly sea cucumbers), it sprays milk out of its noses. That's very confusing for the enemy, because milk signals offspring. Every predator knows not to fight a feeding mother. When living at land, this weird animal behaves almost like a common rabbit. Always hopping around, looking for huge carrots and fresh holes. Scientists still try to figure out the reproductive system of that species. There's no evidence for sexual reproduction yet. It seems as if they just appear out of random holes in the swamp. Scientists definitely need to dig much deeper, harder and faster!