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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>hey! i’m a biology undergraduate and to break up the more serious parts of my degree i post cool animals on here! all pictures are from flickr unless otherwise stated. if you object to me using them drop me an ask i’d be happy to credit you/remove them!</description><title>king of the wild frontier</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @kingofthewildfrontier)</generator><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>The Caracal, Caracal caracal, is a wild cat found across central...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/872bc5a6797c939299a164937e0be61f/tumblr_mlq2l33nX91soxn0ro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Caracal, &lt;em&gt;Caracal caracal&lt;/em&gt;, is a wild cat found across central asia, india, the middle east and africa, with large ears and eyes to track prey and powerful hind legs that enable it to jump 2m into the air to catch passing birds from a standing start&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t believe me? :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf1IJa5PlqU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf1IJa5PlqU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48709204993</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48709204993</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:10:00 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Mammal</category><category>cat</category><category>wild cat</category><category>caracal</category><category>africa</category><category>india</category><category>bird hunt</category><category>jump</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category></item><item><title>Dalmatian pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) fighting over food. They...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9c87fed318d5c518b3734b6f0a26d98/tumblr_mlhuainmL61soxn0ro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dalmatian pelicans (&lt;em&gt;Pelecanus crispus) &lt;/em&gt;fighting over food. They are amongst the biggest living birds, over five foot in length and 9-15kg in weight&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48345464720</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48345464720</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:30:18 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Birds</category><category>bird</category><category>pelican</category><category>food</category><category>fight</category><category>waterbird</category><category>lake</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>The Rüppells starling ( Lamprotornis purpuroptera) is found...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/64b66db62b99e04d053362e9c5b0aee2/tumblr_mlhtrzm2MU1soxn0ro1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/039039dd010cfb5006a463021f27931e/tumblr_mlhtrzm2MU1soxn0ro2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Rüppells starling ( &lt;em&gt;Lamprotornis purpuroptera)&lt;/em&gt; is found across east africa&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48345203190</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48345203190</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:19:11 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Birds</category><category>bird</category><category>starling</category><category>blue</category><category>purple</category><category>shinny</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>east africa</category><category>africa</category><category>ruppells starling</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

During winter red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx41b4HLoT1r961z7o1_r1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/15239209943/during-winter-red-foxes-vulpes-vulpes-hunt-small"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;During winter red foxes (&lt;em&gt;Vulpes vulpes&lt;/em&gt;) hunt small rodents by listening through the snow for the sound of movement and then executing an almost vertical jump so the animal has no idea they are being hunted until the last second.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297859730</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297859730</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:13:04 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Mammals</category><category>Fox</category><category>foxes</category><category>hunting</category><category>jump</category><category>snow</category><category>wildlife</category><category>nature</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>More on bats-&gt; they really are exceptional creatures</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15115206?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter"&gt;More on bats-&gt; they really are exceptional creatures&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297788111</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297788111</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:12:06 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Mammals</category><category>bats</category><category>bat</category><category>muscle</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>95% of the cells in your body are colonic bacteria</title><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297719987</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297719987</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:11:10 -0400</pubDate><category>Facts</category><category>bacteria</category><category>gut</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

This beautiful little creature is a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsafgd7zon1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/10806154882/this-beautiful-little-creature-is-a-brown-long"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This beautiful little creature is a brown long eared bat,&lt;em&gt; Plecotus auritus&lt;/em&gt;, only 4.5-4.8 cm long it’s small body makes its ears appear even more outlandish, with them being up to 3.9cm long. As with everything weird and wonderful in the natural world it is an adaptation to help it succeed and past on it’s genes; in this case those dashing ears are used in conjunction with high pitched clicks to make up echolocation. A trully amazing technique used by only a few animals to perceive what is around them; by emitting clicks and then listening to the echoes reflected back to them, and processing the amplitude, frequency and pattern of the echoes they understand the environment around them, in microbats this is used to seek out prey as it is far superior to their relatively poor vision.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297666386</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297666386</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:10:27 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Mammals</category><category>bat</category><category>echolocation</category><category>hearing</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

This is a rainbow...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lph7d521Bu1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8530237447/this-is-a-rainbow-lorrikeet-trichoglossus"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is a rainbow lorrikeet, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Trichoglossus haematodus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;, (whata beast of a latin name!) and is found across most of eastern australia, new guinea, new caledonia, the solomon islands and Vanuatu in tropical forests and coastal bush.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297560866</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297560866</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:09:01 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Birds</category><category>bird</category><category>Parrot</category><category>lorrikeet</category><category>australia</category><category>colourful</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

This is the flame angelfish, Centropyge...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpgp77hZpz1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8516372007/this-is-the-flame-angelfish-centropyge"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is the flame angelfish, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Centropyge loricula&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; it is a marine angelfish that is found in the pacific ocean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297462864</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48297462864</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:07:40 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Fish</category><category>angelfish</category><category>reef</category><category>coral reef</category><category>sea</category><category>oceans</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>orange</category><category>blue</category><category>colourful</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>Species of the day: Adder</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8492835593/species-of-the-day-adder"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1218/1342137827_7fd6adf372_z.jpg"/&gt;The adder, &lt;em&gt;Vipera berus&lt;/em&gt;, is the only venomous snake in britain, they use their venom to immobilise their prey such as lizards, amphibians and small mammals. after striking they wait for the venom to take affect, following the victims scent to find the body. the venom toxicity is relatively low compared to other viper species; meaning that it is generally not toxic to humans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While causing nausea and irritation is generally not fatal (although medical help should be sought if biten) the last person to die from an adder bite in britain was in 1975, and in the last 100 years only 12 people have died from adder bites, many of these either the very young or very old.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/5785456908_ba7b1a81d7_b.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Notice in the picture above of two male adders fighting, that on the back of their heads there is a very clear v shaped mark, this is how you distinguish between them and other species of snake in britain. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interesting facts about adders:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adders hibernate when temperatures dip bellow 9 degrees&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They are the only snake species to occur within the arctic circle&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adders are very hard to provoke, most of the time you will actually have to had to stand on it to have it bite you&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3609/3475756871_3016b5e0db_z.jpg?zz=1"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296587384</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296587384</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:55:53 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>reptiles</category><category>snakes</category><category>adder</category><category>viper</category><category>uk</category><category>england</category><category>scales</category><category>poison</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

The galah, Eolophus roseicapilla, is one...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpf4jiBasy1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8480533528/the-galah-eolophus-roseicapilla-is-one-of-the"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The galah&lt;em&gt;, Eolophus roseicapilla,&lt;/em&gt; is one of the most common and widespread cockatoos and is found in open country in almost all parts of Australia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296500232</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296500232</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:54:39 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Birds</category><category>bird</category><category>parrot</category><category>cockatoo</category><category>australia</category><category>pink</category><category>red</category><category>colourful</category><category>wildlife</category><category>nature</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>Debate of the day: wild boar in the UK</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8473385973/debate-of-the-day-wild-boar-in-the-uk"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Wild boar,&lt;em&gt; Sus scrofa, &lt;/em&gt;majestic beast or dangerous pest? This is the question on many peoples lips across europe and further afield, and increasingly in britain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/3164015442_3b6d30f0e0_z.jpg?zz=1"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wild boar originally roamed Britain for hundreds of years before the arrival of humans, part of the ‘wildwood’ ecosystem that thanks to man is now all but gone. With the arrival of the romans hunting of wild animals became more popular, one by one the great beasts that used to inhabit britain were exterminated, by the middle ages, bears, wolves, lynx beavers and of course the wild boar were absent from most of britain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However recently (by which i mean the last couple of decades) wild boar have again colonised parts of britain, having escaped from farms where they were being reared for their meat (more on that later) there is now an esimated population of 200-300 roaming areas in britain, these areas include dartmoor, kent, sussex, gloucestershire, herefordshire, dorset and The Forest of Dean.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/6941811049_69b69e2626_b.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think now is a good point to state my position, i think that this is a great thing to happen. Wild boar have just as great a right (if not greater) to inhabit britain as humans do (as you can probably tell i subscribe to speciesism, at least as much as a meat eater can). However there are calls by both angry countryfolk and the health and safety brigade to stop this recolonisation in it’s tracks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest problems with wild boars is that they are perceived as dangerous, a reputation that the media does &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8188966/French-woman-rescued-by-helicopter-from-wild-pigs.html" title="why on earth did you run?"&gt;everything to perpetuate&lt;/a&gt;. In the forest of dean where they have been reported there have been one or two stories of local residents being chased or barricaded in their houses by wild boar, however according to the forestry commission this is actually very uncharacteristic of boar; they believe that because the boar were raised in captivity they do not behave like truly wild boar, they are more agressive towards humans and are more active during the day. It is suspected that as successive generations of boar are raised in the wild they will become much like their continental counterparts, i.e much for timid and wary of humans and much less agressive as well as more nocturnal. This would mean they would not be much more of a threat to public health than say deer. However it is easy to see why the media finds wild boars so easy to vilify, when fully grown they can be remarkably larger than comercial pigs (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla" title="even i would be a bit scared by this"&gt;witness hogzilla&lt;/a&gt;, even though this was an extreme case) and with their bristly brown fur and long sharp tusks on males it is easier to see why their reputation isn’t as glamourous as that of doe eyed deer!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another perceived problem with boar roaming wild again is that they are vectors for disease, &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/bovine-tb-found-in-wild-boar?INTCMP=SRCH" title="TB in boar"&gt;it has been said&lt;/a&gt; that just like badgers they can carry bovine TB, however so far it appears that this is not yet common enough to be a sufficient problem, and that they pose the same level of threat as say cats, dogs and camelids (camels and llamas etc) which while increasing is not yet a major problem to the cattle industry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally the most devastating problem with boar recolonising areas of Britain is that without a top predator in the ecosystem to keep populations down their numbers rapidly explode, &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/19/france-wild-boar-numbers-rise" title="boar-ing article get it?!"&gt;in europe and further afield their numbers have ballooned to huge levels.&lt;/a&gt; In france although hunting of them has increased dramatically they are still on the increase, this is bad news as they run out of habitat in the large cultivated expanse of europe and so stray into urban and agricultural areas causing damage to crops and property, causing road accidents and eating contaminated food. This has all become such a large problem because they are no longer controlled by their natural predators such as wolves, bears and lynx and so are free to breed without any natural control, causing the ecosystem to become imbalanced, this can lead to the destruction of their habitat as a large boar population puts to much strain on it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Week in Wildlife: Wild boar piglets in the Forest of Dean" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/4/30/1241099540175/Week-in-Wildlife-Wild-boa-010.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So what are the solutions to this? One is the route that france has gone down which is to increase hunting seasons and issue more licences, although hunting teaches a flawed example to people about the respect the natural world is due and also seems to legitimise the game hunting and illegal poaching of more endangered animals abroad. while i don’t think this is the ideal answer it may well be the most practical in britain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another, perhaps more obvious, solution to the biologists among you is the reintroduction of the boars traditional predators, wolves, bear and lynx, i would say in the most rural areas of france this would be their best solution as it would both keep the boar population down and also restore a keystone species meaning ecosystems would be much richer in biodiversity. i would love to think that this solution would work in the uk as i am all for the rewilding concept, however thanks to the overpopulation of the uk, the relative small size of wild areas like The Forest of Dean and the power that health and safety wields in this country would make this unfeasible in all but &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5005213/Born-to-be-wild-again.html" title="alladale"&gt;the far north of scotland&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="wild boar LM" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/9/29/1285758887144/wild-boar-LM-006.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translocation of individual boar from overpopulated areas would be another solution, however translocation is an expensive and time consuming process, it could provide some relief if populations in britain become to dense in the future, and animals could be transported to areas where their rooting behaviour could be exploited, for example in scotland they are being used to dig up the monoculture of heather so that the local caledonian pine can sow its seeds and recolonise areas that it used to dominate before the ecosystem collapsed following the removal of traditional species.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So unfortunately it appears that for now the best solution would be to cull boar populations, if this could become a feasible way of procuring wild boar meat then this may be a less environmentally damaging solution. although wild boar meat only has a incredibly small market in the UK is much popular overseas with it having a far stronger flavour than traditional pork and being used to produce cured meats such as &lt;a href="http://www.therealboar.co.uk/news.html" title="not your boar-ing old salami!"&gt;salami&lt;/a&gt;. Even though this would never produce enough meat to be a substitute for pork it would certainly go some way to assuaging the current food crisis. Although this is all hypothetical as it is not known whether wild caught boar meat would pass health checks so that it can be sold over the counter due to the possibility it could carry bovine TB.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/7088209885_39193315ee_o.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For now we do not yet need to worry about boar populations, instead we can only celebrate the beneficial effects they will have on our british habitats, restoring them to their original condition, and indeed in places like dartmoor this is already happening, with the boars rooting up the overgrown moorland plants, even if it is &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jan/11/ruralaffairs.guardianletters?INTCMP=SRCH" title="boar-land!"&gt;to the distaste of local residents&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I shall leave you with the words of Susan Bailey referring to a lady who let her dachshund frighten a boar and used this as a case against wild boars:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Only in Britain were wild boar hunted to extinction; they have maintained a constant presence in the rest of Europe. One could argue they have more place in the Devon countryside than a dachshund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Undated handout photo issued by the Wildwood Trust of new piglets born to wild boar" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2010/5/21/1274430974016/Undated-handout-photo-iss-006.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296404956</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296404956</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:53:18 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Mammal</category><category>Wild boar</category><category>boar</category><category>pig</category><category>england</category><category>debate</category><category>countryside</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

This is the gilt edged tanager, Tanagara...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpegqxlrLL1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8467987049/this-is-the-gilt-edged-tanager-tanagara"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is the gilt edged tanager, &lt;em&gt;Tanagara cyanoventris, &lt;/em&gt;found only in eastern brazil between Bahia and Sao Paulo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296146397</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296146397</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:49:39 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Birds</category><category>bird</category><category>tanager</category><category>brazil</category><category>south america</category><category>yellow</category><category>blue</category><category>colourful</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

The blue-faced honeyeater, Entomyzon...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpd3vcqrS11ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8432743290/the-blue-faced-honeyeater-entomyzon-cyanotis"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The blue-faced honeyeater, &lt;em&gt;Entomyzon cyanotis, &lt;/em&gt;also know as the bananabird is the only member of its genus. It is found in open woodlands parks and gardens across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296065193</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48296065193</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:48:32 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>Birds</category><category>bird</category><category>banana bird</category><category>australia</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>blue</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

this impressive creepy crawly is...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpd2j6V4oe1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8431776464/this-impressive-creepy-crawly-is-eudicella-grallii"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;this impressive creepy crawly is &lt;em&gt;Eudicella grallii&lt;/em&gt; and is found in the primary forests of the Congo and Uganda.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295971764</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295971764</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:47:12 -0400</pubDate><category>beetle</category><category>insect</category><category>animals</category><category>green</category><category>colourful</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>africa</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

The rainbow bee eater, Merops ornatus,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpcz58OOj01ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8429622906/the-rainbow-bee-eater-merops-ornatus-is-the-only"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The rainbow bee eater, &lt;em&gt;Merops ornatus&lt;/em&gt;, is the only species of bee eater found in Australia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295879465</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295879465</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:45:53 -0400</pubDate><category>Animals</category><category>birds</category><category>bird</category><category>bee eater</category><category>colourful</category><category>australia</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>Species of the day: Red shanked douc langur</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8429116871/species-of-the-day-red-shanked-douc-langur"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://www.sharewallpapers.org/d/7485-2/Getting-The-Gossip---Red-Shanked-Douc-Langur-Monkey-1.jpeg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This fantastically coloured monkey is the red shanked douc (pronounced dook) langur, &lt;em&gt;Pygathrix nemeaus. &lt;/em&gt;Among the most colourful of monkeys, with its grey upper body, black legs and red shins coupled with its white hands and ruff has led it to being called the ‘costumed ape’&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1077/5099136312_e70cc671df_b.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The red shanked douc is only found in northern and central vietnam and laos, in lowland to montane rainforest, were it lives in the upper to mid levels of the canopy. Although a member of the langur family the doucs are more closely related to the proboscis monkeys of borneo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/88/53/b307c9704a7a8e1ca4d0b14587aa.jpeg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately as with most beautiful and exotic creatures now a days it is threatened by man, with humans being its main predator. during the vietnam war it suffered greatly as a species, with much of its habitat being destroyed by chemical warfare such as the use of agent orange and napalm; they were also supposedly used as traget practice for soldiers. Still today it is hunted for its meat and body parts which are used in traditional medicines; additionally it is trapped and its young are forcibly seized so that they can be sold on the black market as exotic pets.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295758172</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295758172</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:44:09 -0400</pubDate><category>animals</category><category>monkey</category><category>monkeys</category><category>vietnam</category><category>wildlife</category><category>primate</category><category>douc</category><category>orange</category><category>endangered</category><category>nature</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

The Majestic Angelfish Pomacanthis...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp5y17Tqq21ql3v2ho1_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8268497408/the-majestic-angelfish-pomacanthis-navarchus-is"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Majestic Angelfish &lt;em&gt;Pomacanthis Navarchus &lt;/em&gt;is from the indo pacific,  including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Great Barrier Reef and Micronesia. where is is often collected for fish tanks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295630314</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295630314</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:42:22 -0400</pubDate><category>animals</category><category>fish</category><category>angelfish</category><category>blue</category><category>orange</category><category>reef</category><category>coral reef</category><category>oceans</category><category>sea</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>kingofthewildfrontier:

Aphelorrhina tibialis, a flower scarab...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp5sm2dXwk1ql3v2ho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8264613964/aphelorrhina-tibialis-a-flower-scarab-from-east"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aphelorrhina tibialis&lt;/em&gt;, a flower scarab from east africa, is 2.5cm long, and comes in two forms, the red that you see here and a metallic green form. It is a member of the sub family &lt;em&gt;Cetoniinae&lt;/em&gt; which is in turn part of the scarab beetle family, of egyptian fame. There are over 4000 species in the &lt;em&gt;Cetoniinae&lt;/em&gt; sub family, many of them undescribed, this huge variety coupled with the lack of knowledge is indicative of insects, with them being relatively under-researched compared to say mammals or birds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295478654</link><guid>http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/48295478654</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:40:13 -0400</pubDate><category>animals</category><category>insects</category><category>beetles</category><category>africa</category><category>red</category><category>orange</category><category>colourful</category><category>nature</category><category>wildlife</category><category>kingofthewildfrontier</category></item><item><title>Why everyone should despise gillian mckeith</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/feb/12/advertising.food"&gt;Why everyone should despise gillian mckeith&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://kingofthewildfrontier.tumblr.com/post/8213390576/why-everyone-should-despise-gillian-mckeith"&gt;kingofthewildfrontier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This so called doctor is nothing more than a huge fraud, with a phd she bought from a college in america and serious misunderstandings about even the most basic GCSE science she is a threat to the public health, pushing redundant supplements and litigating anyone in her way, this woman must be stopped.&lt;/p&gt;
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