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Natural World-2016-2017: 8. Jasee programme guars: Brazil's Super Cats

Jaguars are South America's supreme predator, but they are also one of the most elusive animals on the planet. We follow a pioneering team in Brazil as they track and follow individual wild jaguars to gain amazing new insights into their lives. With jaguars increasingly under threat, every cat counts. So when two young jaguar cubs are tragically orphaned, the team needs to use all their new-found knowledge to help the cubs return to the wild.see programme

not a croc after all.

rspca officer was surprised when their got a called out on reports of a baby crocodile  on the loose by a roadside in winsford,cheshire .the creature found turned out too be just a plastic toy.

insects found in historic buildings

https://content.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/insect-pests-historic-houses-poster/insect-pests-historic-houses-poster.pdf/

Meet Angela Nikolau, The Russian Girl Who Takes The World’s Riskiest Photos

Angela Nikolau is a talented self taught photographer, adventurer and roofer based in Moscow, Russia. Angela was born in 1993, she shoots a lot of urban, street and underground photography. Nikolau’s Instagram feed contains plenty of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings.

h/t: photogristread more and see more photos

Britain’s last human cannonball

A HUMAN cannonball had a horrifying accident when he soared through the air at 50mph but fell short of the crash mat.

The circus crowd feared the worst when Shane Beare slammed into the ground.But there was a huge cheer when the daredevil bravely struggled to his feet and gave a bow, despite having two broken ankles.

Shane, thought to be the country’s last working human cannonball act, said: “My ankles smashed as I landed but I just had to stand up and give a bow because my family were in the crowd.

“The adrenaline kicked in and I hobbled over to a clown and lent on him.read more

tango r.i.p

A TIGER who starred in Esso’s much-loved fuel adverts has died of old age at a Lincolnshire wildlife park.

Tango, one of several big cats to appear in the famous ‘Tiger in Your Tank’ ads in the 1990s, passed away at the weekend.His tragic death comes just two years after he was rescued from an Eastern European circus.

Woodside Wildlife Park has received almost 1,000 messages of sympathy on its Facebook page since announcing the 22-year-old animal’s death.

Tango is thought to have been Britain’s oldest tiger.Park director Neil Mumby said: “A normal age for a tiger to reach would be approximately 15 – so at 22 he was over 100 years old in human terms.

“He had extremely good innings but he had a mixed life in his circus time on the continent.

“We were happy to give him a good, peaceful retirement for two-and-a-half years – we have seen him chasing butterflies, swimming and behaving like a tiger deserves to.”Mumby, who orchestrated a £250,000 project to re-home Tango in 2014, added: “From my point of view, we are extremely proud to have given him his retirement.”

Esso first used an image of a tiger in its ads following the end of rationing after the Second World War.

The long-running “Put a Tiger in Your Tank” campaign is regarded is one of the most successful in advertising history.see ad

2 Tone (music genre)

2 Tone (or Two Tone) was a late-1970s ska revival in the United Kingdom led by Jerry Dammers and The Specials. It fused traditional ska music with punk rock attitude, energy and musical elements.^[1][2] Its name came from the record label that Dammers founded, 2 Tone Records as well as a desire to transcend and defuse racial tensions in Thatcher-era Britain. Although 2 Tone's mainstream commercial appeal was largely limited to the UK, it influenced the North American ska punk movement (also known asthird wave ska) in the 1980s and 1990s.^[3][4]The 2 Tone sound was developed by young musicians in Coventry, West Midlands, England who grew up hearing 1960s Jamaican music.^[5] They combined influences from ska, reggae and rocksteady with elements of punk rock and new wave. Bands considered part of the genre include: The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers.^[3]

The term was coined by The Specials' keyboard player Jerry Dammers, who — with the assistance of Horace Panter and graphic designer John "Teflon" Sims — created the iconic Walt Jabsco logo (a man in a black suit, white shirt, black tie, pork pie hat, white socks and black loafers) to represent the 2 Tone genre. The logo was based on an early album cover photo of Peter Tosh, and included an added black-and-white check pattern.^[6][7][8]

Most of the bands considered to be part of the 2 Tone genre were signed to 2 Tone Records at some point. Other record labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff Records and Go Feet Records. The music was especially popular among skinheads, rudiesand some mod revivalists.wiki link-a music that was very much part of the music scene around southend-on -sea during the 80s and saw i lot of people coping style of clothes .