Pattern, ornament, tracery, mosaic ethnic, folk, national, geometric for fabric, interior, ceramic, furniture in the Arabian style.
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Round 3, Poll 16
Arabian Babbler vs Groove-billed Ani
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Arabian Babbler
“I spend lots of time in the Desert and see them around a lot!”
“in Hebrew, they are called ”“Zanvan”“ which means ”“Tail haver”“! They have a habit of lifting their long tail up and wagging it a bit like wagtails :) Also I often see them in the morning and they are so cute that they almost make living in the middle of the desert worth it despite the giant camel spiders everywhere.”
They have private sex. We still don’t know why because it’s typically the main mated pair doing this, so it’s not like it’s a competition thing. They just like to be private.
Y'all they are So Complex with their social grouping, I would need an entire post to describe them. They’ve been studied as a particularly altruistic species with many helpers to the breeding pair.
Groove-billed Ani
“Silvery lacing…funky beak…love-filled eyes…”
All Ani have the same, super cool breeding system. The social group is made up of 1-5 pairs which all defend a group territory. Multiple nests are built, but only one becomes the communal nest in which all the females will lay their eggs. Ironically, they also have the habit of kicking out any eggs in the nest before they’ve laid their first eggs. Because of this, there is a theory that this nesting strategy began as a form of self-parasitism (as Ani are cuckoos), so the removal of eggs that a female knows aren’t hers could be a holdover from a time before this breeding strategy existed. Regardless of all that, all members of the group incubate the eggs and raise the chicks within the nest.
Images: Babbler (Itamar Donitza); Ani (Jeff Hapeman)
Birds of the World: both species
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BETTIE PAGE WEARING PANTS -- NOW, THERE'S A SHOCKER.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on a pin-up of the late, great Bettie Page (1923-2008), from the pages of "Good Girl Art Quarterly" Vol. 1 #8, an independent comic-book dedicated to vintage Golden Age "Good Girl Art" comics of the 1940's. Published by AmeriComics.
This one's pretty kool, and different, as it's not as revealing as some of her other more well known pin-up work. Was the photographer going for an "Arabian Nights" feel with those pants (and yellow sash), I wonder? Or am I just using my own imagination about the whole thing?
Source: https://neet-stuff.myshopify.com/products/good-girl-art-quarterly-8-betty-bettie-page-matt-baker-phantom-lady-torchy-sky-gal-femforce-leg-art-bdsm-pin-up-comic-book.
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Beautiful golden perfume bottles by Swiss Arabian
Left to right:
Rasheeqa
Shadha
Yulali
Kawthar
Kashkha CPO
Nour
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