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Deer in the national parks can sustain heat.

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23251) 9 Jun

I have found in the different national parks and sanctuaries the deer can sustain heat. During the noon time when heat is high then they go to shade. At other hours they roam in the forests and eat...

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Has this seed pod just heard joke of the week?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382357) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Nov

We went for a walk at Lesmurdie Falls. Lesmurdie is a suburb of Perth and the falls are pretty insignificant really. But we had a pleasant time with our two Bavarian guests. The first people we met there were also from Germany....

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Yosemite is closed due to weather

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 1 Mar 23

The blizzard conditions have closed Yosemite national park. Unusual winter weather conditions have occurred throughout California, with snow at u usually low levels. Disneyland had snow like precipitation briefly, It is...

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In Myanmar the Keibul Lamjao grassland extend to India

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23251) 26 Sep 22

The two countries India and Myanmar are separated only by himalaya mountains. Very interesting enough, the Keibul Lamjao National Park or grassland begins in Myanmar and enters India in the state of Manipur. There are tall...

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I live in a national park

Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 3 Jan 21

I live and work in a national park situated in the heart of Africa. The park is immense and teeming with wildlife. Our organisation seeks to protect the park from poaching as we are located in a remote area. Apart from protecting...

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Badlands National Park

maezee @maezee (41985) • United States 18 Jul 20

I knocked this one off my list, Badlands National Park located in the western side of South Dakota. I had been there as a kid, but I was so young I didn't really remember it. Badlands National Park boasts of 75 million year old...

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A Terrible Disaster

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 21 Aug 19

Poor Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This small town has been hit by not one, but THREE major floods in its history (along with several other smaller floods). It’s easy to understand why the town floods so easily, given that...

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Koala-spotting in South Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382357) • Rockingham, Australia 31 Jul 18

While visiting our friends who live just outside of Adelaide, South Australia, she took us to a National Park and we went ‘koala-spotting’. After some time, we managed to see two. They are very difficult to spot. You have to look...

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A tough walk to MacKenzie Falls

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382357) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Jul 18

We spent last night at Halls Gap in the Grampians National Park in Victoria. It is 260 kilometres (160 mi) west of Melbourne and 460 kilometres (290 mi) east of Adelaide. Halls Gap is the largest service town in the area and seems...

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Anyone for tea?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382357) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Jan 18

We’ve been away for six days. When we first married we spent 18 months in Ravensthorpe, an isolated small town in south-east Western Australia. We then spent seven years in Esperance and returned to Ravy as we called it from 1980...

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We're now members of a very exclusive club

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382357) • Rockingham, Australia 22 Aug 16

Vin and I are now members of a very exclusive club and no, it's not my 'thick club' that I thought about starting. When we paid to go into the National Park at Kalbarri in Western Australia, we asked was there a discount for...

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The Cradle of the Country Music Hall of Fame

Four Walls @FourWalls (86812) • United States 13 Jun 16

I'm taking a mental health break, and that means a quick trip to my favorite getaway place: the Great Smoky Mountains. I love the natural beauty of the mountains, the numerous waterfalls, and the overall tranquility that I...

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Bison Calf Euthanized...

STOUTjodee @STOUTjodee (3670) • United States 17 May 16

I'm sure you'll all probably have seen the picture and heard the story of people putting a bison calf in their SUV. They were at a national park and saw the bison calf and they thought it was cold, so they put it in their SUV and...

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Book Your Own Safari for Kenya Trip

Alana Abel @alana12 (1) • New Delhi, India 15 Jul 14

If you are wondering to visit Masai Mara National Park of Kenya and don’t know how to start your journey from India then don’t worry because we have professional team name as The Earth Safari Team. We provide best guideline to...

are flemingos always pink?

sarath49 @sarath49 (761) • India 5 Aug 10

i always wonder why flamingos have pink co lour when they are in wild and look very beautiful in pink, but when they are captured and kept them in zoo they lose their pink co lour and turns to white. Have you ever wondered why...

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Croatia - a small country for a great vacation

fejzicjasmin @fejzicjasmin (61) • Croatia (Hrvatska) 31 Jan 10

Have any of you ever been to Croatia? No? You should. If you love diversity, Croatia is the place for you. Beautifull sea, more than 1200 islands, clean rivers, lots of mountains, plains, national parks and many other great...

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What is the prettiest national park you have ever been to?

thedaddym @thedaddym (1731) • United States 3 Aug 09

What is the prettiest national park you have ever been to? So far mine has been the Smokey Mountain National Park.

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End of the World

loveyevi @loveyevi (513) • United States 29 Jan 09

So lets say that tomorrow aliens invaded, nuclear winter was imminent, or maybe the super volcano erupted under Yellowstone National Park Erupted and put us in a new ice age (which some believe may happen soon.) Would you be...

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Montana Glacier National Park is losing all its glaciers

winterose @winterose (39887) • Canada 8 Jan 09

Yes because of global warmer glaciers that have been the whole reason for the name of Montana's Glacier Nationl park are melting away. These glaciers have been there for millions of years and soon they will not exist...

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Where and how did you celebrate your most memorable new year?

prasanna201 @prasanna201 (117) • India 30 Dec 08

My most memorable new year was way back in 1996. I had gone to Puri (A beach town in Orrisa, India) on a holiday with my family. There we visited a variety of places. We visited spiritual places like Sun Temple of Konark and...

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