Photos from around the world (23 photos)

Photos with informative and not so comments.

In the title photo - a landscape painting in a Chinese park - a portrait of Princess Taiping.





Photo from the Drone Photo Awards.

ghost mushrooms



Omphalotus Nidiformis is a species of bioluminescent fungus from Australia. They are hard to find as they only glow for a few weeks at a time. year.

Stalker in Australia





The migration of these colorful crabs follows its own scenario: males dig holes, after which females come there. after sex male crabs come out of prepared houses, while crabs remain on 12-15 days, spawn. Then all together migrate back to the shady places on the island. Spawning occurs near the Indian Ocean. Sometimes crabs travel several kilometers in order to pick up the perfect place for all of this.

Staircase in Huangshan mountains



Huangshan - a mountain range in Anhui province in the eastern part China. This area is known for its granite rocks covered with pine trees, praised by Chinese artists and poets since the Qin Dynasty. Three the highest peaks are: Lotus Peak, Light Peak and Heavenly Capital Peak. Huangshan - on the UNESCO World Heritage List, one of the most popular tourist places in China.

Dr. Aibolit



The dog is already lucky, the procedures are completed with him.

Volcanic lightning



Such lightning occurs during volcanic eruptions, and therefore called volcanic. It is known that outflowing magma has huge electrical charge. Perhaps it was he and several others. factors cause the appearance of volcanic lightning.

Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico before excavations and now



Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan. It is located on the trail of the dead. between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Citadel in the shadow of the massive mountain Cerro Gordo, part of a large temple complex.

Pyramid - 40 km from the capital of Mexico. "Teotihuacan" = "The place where the gods appeared."

African buffalo and buffalo starling



This is how the famous French ornithologist described this symbiosis Le Vaillant: "The dragging beak is arranged like strong tongs, which helps him to pull out from the skin of animals the larvae that the gadfly lays there. This bird is tirelessly looking for herds of oxen, buffaloes, antelopes - in a word, all quadrupeds, on whose skin the gadfly lays eggs. Clenched in claws a dense hairy skin of an animal in the place where a tubercle is visible on it, pointing at the larva, the starling squeezes it with all his strength, hits this place with its beak and successfully extracts the larva. Animals accustomed to such unceremonious treatment, patiently endure it all, it must be understanding what service the bird renders them ... "

Modern Art



Children are completely indifferent to abstruse explanations art experts about deep meanings in modern paintings, about which the author himself is often unaware of. They are so clear that this bullshit not worth wasting time on.

Snake: "We should remove this sign, no disguise"



And what did they write here?



This is a white American heron.

When this heron roams the water in search of something to steal and eat, then before putting her paw on the bottom, she shakes it in the water, agitating silt. Challenging wherever it appears.

swan feathers



British artist Ian Davey is lucky: next to his house there is a pond and nursery for royal swans, where the artist spends a lot of time, collecting feathers discarded by birds, which he then lets into work, prethoroughly cleaned, washed and dried. Usually the artist there are sketches and even sketches of those paintings that he plans to transfer from paper on pens, but sometimes he draws impromptu - so walks by the pond with swans inspire.

funny interview



Night fishing in Japan



Fishermen catch sirasa (glass eel), these are small white sardines that float in bright light. A fishing rod is not required, you can net.

Barcelona, Eiffel Tower - could be so



Still, Paris, 1888, the beginning of construction. Then there will be 1792 steps.

A 300-meter ("1000 foot") metal tower could be in Barcelona.

Eiffel proposed the project to the Spanish authorities, but they considered it not the best waste of money.

They should finish building the Sagrada someday ...

This transparent fish is a surgeon fish fry



When the fry grows up, it will no longer be so transparent.

It is called a surgeon because of the sharp "scalpel" on the tail, which exposed at the moment of danger to protect against predators and pestering divers, can cause a sharp wound.

This is the same type of fish as the Dory fish from Finding Nemo.

howling lesson



Specifically, wolves do not howl at the moon, without it there are enough reasons to howl, to tell what, where, when.

A fluorescent lamp glows next to the power line, free of charge



Due to the large potential difference with the ground under the wires of power lines a strong electric field arises, it accelerates the electrons inside lamps, they cause the ionization of mercury vapor filling the lamp (by knock out other electrons from mercury atoms), let there be light in the lamp. They say that if you rub a fluorescent lamp with wool in the dark, it will also will flicker slightly due to static electricity.

Teleradiola Zhiguli 59. Cool thing



This model has been produced at the Kuibyshev plant since 1959. "Screen", a combination of the Start-2 TV and the Zhiguli radiogram. Reception television programs were conducted on five channels of the meter range, the radio worked in four bands, player - three speeds. Acoustic system included four speakers: two broadband 5GD-14, located on front panel, and two high-frequency 1GD-9, located on the sides corps.

Cruel world: a heron takes food directly from the mouth of a poor hungry crocodile



When a long tail interferes with hunting



German police catch an escaped zebra



Don't wave the police baton now, the zebra may misunderstand.

Festival in Colombia, Barranquilla city



Carnival in Barranquilla is less famous than the Brazilian one, but but bright, mischievous, cheerful, reckless, his slogan "Those who lives are those who enjoy it" (Quien lo vive, es quien lo goza). Free translation - "One must live in a high"