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PIX4638402: Killer Whale hitting the beach to hunt - Orcs (Orcinus Orca) who live in groups have developed many hunting techniques. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary is the voluntary failure to catch young sea lions. This technique is used by the group of Mel (a male 9m) in peninsule Valdes. An Orca is coming on land to hunt sea lions. Valdes Peninsula, Argentina / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638440: Southern Right Whale - Southern Right Whale - Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis). Peninsule Valdes, Argentina. The drawings and shape of the southern right whale's tail identify it as a fingerprint. Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis). Valdes Peninsula, Argentina / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638549: Faux de Verzy - Marne - Dwarf Beech - Faux de Verzy - France - Hetres tortillards (Fagus Sylvatica var Tortuosa). These remarkable trees are a variety of rare beech trees with contorted branches and trunks, whose origin remains unknown. The Faux site has been classified nationally since 1932. It became a State Biological Reserve in 1981. Dwarf Beech (Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group). Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635629: Tourists admiring the waterfalls of Trenton Falls (New York, USA). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Tourists admiring the cataract of Trenton Falls, New York, America. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635735: Costumes of the natives of New Granada (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela). Below, a couple of Peruvians and a couple from Patagonia (Argentina). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Natives of New Granada (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela) in long capes, Peruvian man with feather headdress and axe, and Patagonians in tunics and tattoos. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635744: City view Buenos Aires (Argentina). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. View of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635751: An Indian rope bridge, used to cross the rio de la Plata (silver river) (Argentina, Uruguay). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Natives using a rope bridge to cross the Rio de la Plata, South America. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635826: Leaf-roofed habitat of Patacho Indians. Illustration of “” Journey to Brazil, 1815-1817”” by Maximilian von Wied Neuwied. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Patachos huts built of large palm leaves over branches. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4635846: The center of our galaxy, the Lactee Way - The center of our galaxy, the milky way - The central region of our galaxy, the Lactee Way, photographed from Chile. This wide field image shows the Galactic Center region in the Milky Way. It is a very rich region of the sky, and is located in the constellations of Scorpius and Sagittarius. Among the zones and objects of interest on this image are: the colourful Antares region, the Baade window region, the Lagoon Nebula region with, just above it, the Trifid Nebula. The large and dark Pipe Nebula sits in the middle of this field / Bridgeman Images
PIX4635908: Milky Way and Echinopsis Atacamensis - These cacti are Echinopsis Atacamensis between 6 and 8 metres high. In the background, the lactee track. Near the horizon, the planet Jupiter. San Pedro de Atacama Region, Chile. June 2008. The 3 cacti on the image are Echinopsis Atacamensis / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635940: A long canoe sailing through the white waters of Rio dos Ilheos (Brazil). Illustration of “” Journey to Brazil, 1815-1817”” by Maximilian von Wied Neuwied. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Navigating the white-water rapids on the Ilheos river on a long canoe. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636539: Sir James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, died 1629. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636765: Reverend James Palmer, founder of the Alms Houses (Maison Dieu) in Tothill Fields, Westminster. Died 1659. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4636779: The Lactee Way and the Zodiac Light - The Lactee Way and the Zodiac Light - Venus Planet sets at the top of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. The bright glow that surrounds it is called the zodiacal light. Comprising of interplanetary dust, she draws the plane of the Solar System. To its right, the Lactee Way / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636815: Cornelius van Dun, soldier with King Henry at Turney, Yeoman of the Guard, died 1577. Copperplate engraving by T. Trotter from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4636846: Voie lactee d'été- Sagittarius - Anaglyph - Summer Milky way with Sagittarius -Anaglyph - La voie lactee, August 7, 2007 in Brittany. In overprint, the mythological form of Sagittarius, extracted from the Uranographia of Hevelius. Summer milky way. August 7 2007 (Finistere-France). Sagittarius mythological form from “” Uranographia”” star atlas by Hevelius (1690) has been added / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636937: Emerald falcon. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Merlin, Falco aesalon, Falco columbarius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4637831: Sky horizon to horizon - Light pollution is visible on both horizons. The star Sirius is reflected in the sea. Higher, the constellations of Orion, and the Bull with the Pleiades. Near the zenith, a shooting star claws the sky not far from the round spot of Holmes comet right in Persee. Towards the other horizon, the double cluster of Persee, the Andromede Galaxy, the nebula North America (very low in light pollution) and finally the Lyre near the horizon. 16 November 2007, Combrit (Finistere). The light pollution is visible above both horizons. Sirius has just risen and reflects itself in the sea. Higher, are constellations of Orion, the Taurus with Pleiades. Near the zenith, a meteor scratches the sky near the round patch of Comet Holmes in the heart of Perseus. Down to the other horizon: the double Perseus Cluster, Great Andromeda galaxy, North America nebula (hard to spot in the light pollution) and constellation of Lyra near the horizon. November 16 2007, Brittany, France / Bridgeman Images