Biodiversity
For the last ten years on every first weekend in June GEO initiates a so called „GEO-Day of Biodiversity“. Around one hundred biologists, specialised in different groups of plants and animals, gather under a predefined heading to find as many species as possible in an according area. At the end of the day the species [...]
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Meerkat
Meerkats (Suricata suricatta) definitely range at the top end of the charts of charismatic animals. Their social life – snuggling together in chilly evenings, sun-bathing with the whole group in the morning sun, standing guard for the others with this unmatched look in their face – makes them simply irresistible, as does their manlike appearance [...]
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Mayflies
Long-tailed Mayfly (Palingenia longicauda) Triggered by water temperature and other environmental conditions thousands of mayflies, called “flowers of Tisza” emerge from the surface of the Tisza river in Hungary. On the riverside vegetation the males have to molt another time before they go ahead for a quick mating – and perish. It is only the [...]
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Rockhopper penguins
Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) The Rockhopper Penguin at the Falkland Islands is one of the many penguin species that do not live in snow and ice. However, at the breeding colonies and in the waters surrounding the stunning archipelago they face rough winds and extreme weather changes. During low tide they do not only have [...]
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Deep Sea
The pictures of deep sea creatures were taken at the reseach vessel FS Polarstern of the AWI (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany) during its cruise ANT XXIV/1 from Bremerhaven to Capetown. The scientific work on board was part of the “Census of Marine Zooplankton” (CMarZ), an oceanic field project of the [...]
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Arribada – Sea turtle
Many female olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) are swimming from the open ocean towards the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean to gather for an mass nesting event. The arrival of one olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) at the beach, can be the beginning of an arribada (mass nesting event) of the [...]
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Namib Desert ecosystem
The windswept sand dunes of the Namib Desert are alive. Some inhabitants as the Ostrich or the Oryx are obvious, but many more go unseen by the average visitor to the hills. The researcher of the Gobabab Training and Research Station know better – some are even able to tell apart the approximately two hundred [...]
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