Mom!

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In spirit of Mother's Day weekend, I would like to share the special page I've just found called Mom's Gallery, created by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF previously known as World Wildlife Fund).

In nature, perhaps no other bond is stronger than that between a mother and her young. A mother feeds, nurtures, teaches, protects, and sacrifices to ensure the survival of her children.

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Click the picture to go to Mom's Gallery and see other beautiful and touching animal Mom&Kid photos, guarantee to melt your heart. You might also like to have a nosy around and learn a thing or two about the WWF (as I did.)

Photograph caption:
Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) gently carries young cub in her mouth.
© naturepl.com /Edwin Giesbers / WWF

Mom's Gallery was originally found through WWF twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/WWF/status/66553573135228928

Photograph is used according to the provision sipulated by WWF:
'WWF is supported by a marvellous group of generous photographers who let us to use their images for free to help promote our work. They do this even though they depend on their images in order to make a living and earn an income.

'This is why we cannot authorize you to use any images from this site UNLESS you use them in the original context in which you found them i.e. about WWF and mentioning WWF, and making sure you include the image copyright information.'
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  1. Yeah, ya gotta just love it, mind you fathers day is more important :whistle:

  4. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    fathers day is more important

    You should tell the WWF to make Dad's Gallery page for Father's day. There are some dedicated animal fathers like emperor penguin dads that keep the egg warm until hatching and the fish dad that keeps eggs in his mouth to protect them. 😀

  5. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    There are some dedicated animal fathers

    Let's not forget the father seahorses who *give birth* to their offspring :up:

  6. Originally posted by ersi:

    the father seahorses who *give birth* to their offspring

    :yes:

  7. Originally posted by debplatt:

    a non-peer reviewed paper released by them precipitated Amazongate.

    And I'm sharing a non-peer reviewed photo page about animal mom&kid bonds maintained by WWF. What a crime! :lol:I assure you, Deb, that I am an anthropogenic climate change sceptic myself. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to the anti-climate change lobby had had secret funding from the nuclear power industry to promote nuclear power generation as a "clean" (yeah right!) alternative energy source. :rolleyes:From the article you linked, it looks like WWF's crime is hiring a writer with dodgy/dubious/unsound writing practice who made probably intentionally misleading citations in the report he co-wrote for them. Bad judgement by WWF, yes. Was there more to it? The article did not say. IMHO, despite that bad look in recent climate change debate, WWF still deserves respect for their work in wildlife conservation in their early years.

  10. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    …maintained by WWF. What a crime!

    I feel that the WWF misrepresents their agenda and convinces people into backing them financially with their cute wildlife photos. But no, it's neither a crime that you liked their photo gallery not that you are encouraging people to visit their site. I'm just sharing the fact that I don't think much of them. They have been a conduit for non-scientific, non-peer-reviewed literature appearing in IPCC analyses as though it were science. Besides Amazongate, they also played a role in "glaciergate" (the non-scientific claim that global warming would cause the glaciers in the Himalayas to melt by 2035). And they have promoted the misinformation that global warming is causing Antarctic ice to shrink (which is not so). And so on and so on. But having said that, I will exit stage left.

  11. Originally posted by ersi:

    Happy Mothers' Day, mothers!

    :yes: :heart:

  12. Originally posted by debplatt:

    convinces people into backing them financially with their cute wildlife photos.

    I think you are mistaken. There is no request for donation or anything in that photo page. And those organisations are making "plea for donation" all the time anyway. I bet no one, who has not made donation to WWF, will make one just because they visit the WWF site via the cute animal photo page.You are my valued friend and always welcome to make your view known at my site. Will you at least accept our Happy Mother's Day wish? 🙂

  14. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    Will you at least accept our Happy Mother's Day wish?

    Certainly. Thank you. 🙂

  15. This is a nice idea from you MM, much much better than the usual news of this world … Did you you that the tiger mom brings up its cubs ( I don't know if it's the right word, but you will probably correct me) as single ? So a full time mom 😀 .

  16. Yes, I did. There was a very good nature doco from BBC called Tiger: Spy in the Jungle. It captured how a litter of four tiger cubs grew up in the Indian Jungle, using cameras disguised as logs and stumps carried and planted by elephant. It was very very good. :up:

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