#artice

[jlassijlali]

Tunisian artice paint this on the wall but she was surprise when some people throw some red paint to her drawing 

what she did’ she just come back and Paint it again! 

and make it more beautiful! 

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Tiger Woods, who played in the last three, will return to the Emerald Isle, where he will be joined by best mate/worst enemy Phil Mickelson, as well as fellow golf superstars Rory McIlroy and Niall Horan. The four biggest names in golf in one tournament. What a coup.

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Lions Sync When They Ovulate—But People Don't

Kristin Hugo

The African big cats give birth around the same time so that they can take care of each other's cubs.

While researching lions in Zambia, biologist Thandiwe Mweetwa noticed that lionesses within a pride will all have cubs around the same time.

When she looked into it further, Mweetwa learned lionesses sync their fertility cycles so that they can all raise their young together.

There's a reason for that. “Synchronized estrus is thought to increase reproductive success in the pride,” says Mweetwa, a National Geographic emerging explorer and Big Cats Initiative grantee. Having cubs at the same time means that mother lions can rely on each other to nurse, babysit, and protect the youngsters.

This safety in numbers also allows more lions to survive to adulthood. Predation is a great threat to small, vulnerable babies in any species, but if all babies are born at the same time, there are only so many that predators can eat.

If young are born at different times throughout the year, predators could use them as a steady source of food.

Even so, many still die: More than half of all African lion cubs don’t make it past their first year. They're at risk from predation, disease, abandonment, starvation, and being killed by an outside male.

When male lions strike out on their own, they will challenge another male for control of his harem. If the interloper succeeds, he'll kill all the cubs, which brings the females into estrus, or heat, again. (See "Why Do Animals Sometimes Kill Their Babies?")

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

Though many other animals come into heat at the same time, fewer species go into heat when their young die. Instead, most go into heat seasonally, including most wild species of hooved mammals, which only give birth in the spring. Male deer testosterone peaks in fall, during the “rut,” when they will compete for and mate with females. Does are pregnant during the winter and give birth around May and June, when warmer weather helps fawns survive.

If lions had periods, lionesses within a pride might get them at roughly the same time. But lions don't menstruate: The only mammals that menstruate overtly the way that humans do are some other primates and a few species of bats and rodents.

A persistent myth is that people living in close proximity—such as several women sharing a dorm in college—synchronize their estrus cycles, which is evidenced by having periods around the same time. This idea, which caught on due to research by psychologist Martha McClintock in 1971, has been discredited in several studies since.

In 2006, Zhengwei Yang and Jeffrey C. Schank found the chance that a woman would share a cycle with someone living with her is about as likely as sharing it with anyone else. (Read "The Scientist Who Said Periods Weren’t a Big Deal.")

Because women have slightly different menstrual cycles, there is a good chance that, if two women spend enough time together, they will eventually match cycles.

“It’s just a mathematical property of irregular rhythms, and rhythms of different lengths,” says Schank. He adds that it’s human nature to notice when things match, but not to notice when they don’t match.

Since menstruation also wastes nutrients and can attract predators, with all the other problems that lion cubs face it’s lucky that at least lionesses don’t have periods.

[suga-ssi]

[NEWS] BTS Wins Artist Award At 44th Korean Broadcasting Awards

On July 31, the Korean Broadcasters Association announced the winners for the 44th Korean Broadcasting Awards, which were selected by a judge panel of 24 industry experts.

Of the various categories, BTS takes home the Artist Award, making them the only musicians to win at these awards this year. This is a result of the group’s achievements and influence both in Korea and worldwide.

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[heavyarethecrowns]

Something to Think About:

Dear Gossips,

Prince Harry’s interview with Newsweek with Angela Levy, have you read it yet? It’s generating a lot of headlines today for a comment that Harry made about being king:

“We are involved in modernizing the British monarchy. We are not doing this for ourselves but for the greater good of the people…. Is there any one of the royal family who wants to be king or queen? I don’t think so, but we will carry out our duties at the right time.”

When you combine that quote with the other parts of the interview in which Harry talks about how he and William want to be “normal” and “ordinary”, about buying his own groceries, and picking up his own meat, it definitely comes across as kind of precious. I mean, how many of you have had to stay late at the office and just want to go home after work but you still have to pull off the highway to get to the grocery store, otherwise there will be no dinner? How many times have you just wanted to stay in bed on a Saturday morning and read a book but you have to drag your ass over to the auto shoppe because it’s the only day you have time to get your oil changed before you burn out your engine? The activities that Harry calls “normal” and “ordinary” – like picking up groceries and taking the car in – are choices that he gets to make. For almost everyone else, they’re a necessity. For almost everyone else, they’re not standing at the meat counter waiting for their pork-chops thinking, “OMG this is so amazingly NORMAL, I love it so much!” They’re actually thinking, “F-ck me, what else do I need to get before everything closes and how bad is the traffic going to be, will I have time to get this into the oven before the kids have to start getting ready for bed?”

That said, focusing on just that one part of Angela Levy’s article, based on nearly a year of observing of Harry and speaking to him regularly, might be unfair. To be fair, perhaps the counterpoint to that ill-worded statement about no one wanting to be king or queen and preferring to be “normal” and “ordinary” is to consider how Harry’s privilege, while advantageous almost all the time, actually failed him in one big way – when Princess Diana died:

“My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television,” he tells Newsweek . His face hardens. “I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don’t think it would happen today.”

Harry was asked to do that, officially, by the family. Unofficially, though, if we are honest, he was compelled to do it by the public. The world felt so personally invested in Diana’s passing, it was almost as though we demanded to see our collective grief personified and performed by two boys, 15 and 12, who’d just lost their mother. Let’s not pretend that we didn’t want those close-ups of Harry’s card, “Mummy”, his handwriting unmistakably childlike, placed on the bed of flowers that sat atop her coffin. Let’s not pretend that the sight of them, walking with their heads down during the procession, didn’t comfort us in some way when, really, who would have needed more comforting? During that tragedy, their inherited duty required them to indulge our need to participate in their personal loss. William and Harry weren’t the ones who were entitled in that situation. Weren’t we the ones who felt entitled?

I wonder then if that memory balances out the privileged resentment in this article? Especially when, in the rest of piece, Harry speaks thoughtfully about mental health, about his work with veterans, and about how he’s refocused his life. And we have seen the evidence of that refocus over the last few years in his work with Heads Together and the Invictus Games, in how accessible he seems while representing the Queen, how he’s able to connect with those who have looked to him for support. When you take that comment about the royal burden in the context of the full article, do you still come away with an eyeroll? Or is he still your face?

Click here to read the full Newsweek profile on Prince Harry.

Yours in gossip,

Lainey

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No gorillas the Dian Fossey Fund tracks caught in snares this year!

“The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund maintains daily gorilla tracking and anti-poaching patrols not only to monitor the status of the gorillas but also to look for dangers and illegal activities in the forest, especially snares set by poachers. In Rwanda, these snares are mainly set for game animals, such as antelopes, but gorillas can and do get caught in them as well, which can cause serious injuries.

In 2016, we are extremely happy to report that none of the gorillas in the groups we monitor were caught in snares! This is only the second time in a decade that this has happened, so we are proud of our success. Still, our field staff find – and dismantle – up to about a thousand snares during the year, luckily before the gorillas reach them.

In fact, on Dec. 28, one of our tracking teams located some snares very close to a gorilla group, and a small antelope – called a duiker – had already been ensnared. Our trackers were able to free the duiker, which was still unharmed, all while the gorillas were observing.

Over the years, our field staff has observed gorillas dismantling snares themselves, including silverbacks and even a few juveniles. But this is very dangerous and can result in injuries. Still, it shows us that at least some gorillas are “snare aware” and know that these traps are dangerous.

When Dian Fossey began her studies nearly 50 years ago, poaching was at record-high levels and that is what led her to begin anti-poaching patrols. Today, we have special teams for this and our gorilla group trackers also look for and destroy snares. This type of daily monitoring has proven crucial to protecting the mountain gorillas and is a major factor in the doubling of their numbers since Fossey’s time. Still, their population is tiny and they remain a critically endangered species, requiring perpetual protection. The Fossey Fund hopes to make 2017 and subsequent years snare free!”

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Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ actress, dead at 39

Sources told The Post Wednesday that the actress’s death is not being investigated as suspicious.

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An Amazing Date In A Mundane World

A short story from my heart to your heart.

Photo by Tru1ea7n Long on Pexels.com It was close to 2 pm but lights are on in the office. Robin thought that the weather reports were never acurate .He didn’t bring his rain coat today and he had a lunch appointment today with his new girlfriend at 3 pm .His boss had just postponed his promotion due to some inadeqacies in the marketing proposal . Robin knew that is not true but he is the…

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