Category: Asia

• I’m not medicine: The race to save the five extant species of Rhinoceros

  

  “Only when the last of the animals, horns, tusks, skin and bones are sold, will mankind realize that money can never buy back our wildlife.” -WILD AT HEART It was the passing of Sudan on March 20, 2018, the last male Northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), in the world, that prompted this post, it…

  Perla Copernik

  April 11, 2018

  Africa, Asia, Black and White Photography, Conservation, Ilegal Trade, photography, Rhino, wildlife

• Part II: Nuts About Hornbills: What’s So Special About Them?

  

  “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” -William Blake There are many fascinating things about these amazingly weird looking birds; a couple of them are pretty obvious their colorful and in some species huge casques and large bills. The other one, which is not so obvious, but very interesting, is…

  Perla Copernik

  March 3, 2014

  Africa, Asia, Birds, Conservation, Evolution, Hornbills, Nature, photography, wildlife

  Bird Photography, Birds, Conservation, ground-honbills, Hornbills, nesting behavior, wrinkled hornbill

• Nuts About Hornbills: A Fascinating Evolutionary Story

  

  The extraordinary habit of the male, in plastering up the female with her egg, and feeding her during the whole time of incubation, and until the young one is fledged, is common to several of the large hornbills, and is one of those strange facts in natural history which are “stranger than fiction.” -Alfred Russel…

  Perla Copernik

  January 4, 2014

  Africa, Asia, Birds, Conservation, Evolution, Hornbills, photography, wildlife

  Birds, Conservation, ground-hornbills, Hornbills, photography, wildlife