Pak Joni Tours

16/02/2023

03/02/2023

Le seul navire sur lequel Pak Joni a navigué était en clous de girofle...

04/12/2022

Le mont Semeru a craché un nuage de cendres haut de 1,5 km environ. Aucune victime n’a été signalée immédiatement après l’éruption, mais les habitants ont été appelés à se tenir à l’écart du cratère et du nuage de cendres volcaniques qui se déplace.

30/11/2022

Pinisi...

22 January 2023 - Sold out 22 January 2024 - 13 days for US $13,200 Alfred Russel Wallace was undoubtedly one of the greatest naturalists of all time. Not only did he jointly publish the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin in 1858, but he made many other major contributions....

28/11/2022

Trigger Warning (For those with Arachnophobia)!
The Goliath tarantula, also known as Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi).

The Goliath tarantula belongs to the tarantula family Theraphosidae, and is native to northern South America. It is the largest spider in the world by mass (175 g (6.2 oz)) and body length (up to 13 cm (5.1 in)). Also, it is second to the giant huntsman spider by leg span, with a leg span of up to 30 cm (12 in).
Although it bears the name Goliath birdeater, in fact this nocturnal species rarely preys on birds. In the wild, its diet consists mainly of a variety of insects, worms, amphibians and other small terrestrial vertebrates. Unlike other species of spider/tarantula, females do not eat the males during mating.

02/11/2022

Despite its name, the Sulawesi bear cuscus (Ailurops ursinus) isn’t actually a bear. So what is it?🤔

It’s an arboreal marsupial that lives in tropical forests throughout parts of Indonesia. It uses its long claws and prehensile tail to aid it in cruising between branches in the canopy. This critter moves slowly and spends a good deal of its time resting and digesting all of the fruits, flowers, and leaves that it eats.
Photo: Zweer de Bruin, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

07/10/2022

Finalement, une controverse centenaire est close : il n'y a qu'une sous-espèce de Toupaye nain ( Tupaia minor Günther, 1876) dans les îles de la Sonde.

Research from Maya Juman, Ananth Miller-Murthy, and Peabody curator Eric Sargis could directly impact conservation efforts in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, an arc of roughly 17,000 islands in Southeast Asia.

Using museum specimens, their findings shrink the number of Lesser Treeshrew subspecies from 4 to 1:
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyac080/6748716

📷 : Dr. Louise Emmons

30/09/2022

Are you planning on hanging out this weekend? So is the tree kangaroo! You might spot this arboreal marsupial “hanging out” in montane tropical forests throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia, where it spends its time snacking on leaves, flowers, and fruits in the treetop. It has strong arms for climbing, and unlike true kangaroos, its arms are about equal in length to its legs—perfect for life in the trees! There are more than 10 species of tree kangaroo, and all are extremely vulnerable to habitat loss from deforestation.
Photo: Tim Williams, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr

09/08/2022

Binturong

Popcorn anyone? 🍿 Might seem like an odd question to pair with a photo of an animal but sit tight; it will all make sense soon enough.

Meet Arctictis binturong AKA the "bearcat," a mammal native to South and Southeast Asia.

These "buttery binturongs" are often described as smelling like buttered popcorn because their urine contains 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, the chemical compound that gives popcorn its aroma.

These animals look like mask-less raccoons with tufty whiskers and eyebrows, wide, muscular bodies, and shaggy dark brown coats that shade to black on their snouts, limbs, and tails. Binturongs are mostly nocturnal and spend most of their time climbing and perching in high tree branches. During the day a binturong can be found curling its strong tails around a branch while it enjoys a rest.

08/08/2022

Meet the largest carnivore on Madagascar: the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox). This close relative of the mongoose feeds on birds, reptiles, and even lemurs. It uses its long tail for balance when chasing prey through the trees. Don't make this mammal angry: when aggravated, it releases a pungent odor from its scent glands. It also uses scent to mark its territory and possibly to signal reproductive status.
Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

03/08/2022

| Grupo de alpinistas |

Esta es una foto de 1904. Muestra a un grupo de alpinistas en el interior del cráter del volcán Popocatépetl. 🌋

01/08/2022

🌠🌠🌠🇵🇪 PÉROU 🇵🇪🌠🌠🌠

Le Misti est un volcan 🌋 du tronçon central de la cordillère des Andes au Pérou 🇵🇪.

Il s'agit d'un stratovolcan d'andésite, de dacite et de rhyolite situé dans le Sud du pays.

Cette superbe photo a été prise par Samantha Cristoforetti 🇮🇹.

Franz - ISS83 🌠
📸©️ Samantha Cristoforetti 🇮🇹

24/07/2022

The Bowerbird is an artist, creating elaborate structures to attract potential mates and placing a variety of bright objects they collect in and around a bower, spending many hours arranging the collection. ❤

Repost from
Arts, Artists, Artwork

07/07/2022

A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selection

06/06/2022

Wallace’s flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) doesn’t need wings to take flight. This frog, which inhabits the tropical forests of Malaysia and Borneo, has webbed feet that help it lift off! It can cover distances as far as 50 feet (15 meters), leveraging the webbing, or membranes, between each of its digits to help it glide on air—similar to a boat’s sail!
Photo: Rushen, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr

13/04/2022

Le Padda ou Moineau de Java.

Bienvenue chez My Padda

31/03/2022

INDONÉSIE
Parc national de Komodo.
La biodiversité continue de faire les frais des activités et des conditions de vie humaines sur la planète également menacée par le changement climatique:
La nature est en danger et le sort du dragon de Komodo, le plus gros lézard au monde, est l'illustration de ce constat.
Reportage à lire dans Image & Nature.
Texte de Marie-Emile Colle.
Photographies réalisées par Gilles Martin.

17/03/2022

15/02/2022

Do you think love stinks? If so, we’ve got the perfect flower for you this Valentine’s Day: the stinking co**se lily (Rafflesia arnoldi). Not only does it smell like rotting flesh, it’s also the largest flower in the world! The pungent smell is meant to attract carrion flies, which spread its pollen from flower to flower and help this South Asian rainforest plant reproduce. The parasitic co**se flower has no stem, leaves, or roots. Instead of using energy from the Sun to make nutrients, it draws all of its nourishment from its host, a species of vine in the grape family.
Photo: Neisyaranifauzia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

14/02/2022

Me in January 2018 in the doorway of a reconstruction of a hut Wallace lived in near Yenbeser village on Gam Island, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. It was built by SeaTrek Sailing Adventures, Bali. In his book "The Malay Archipelago" Wallace described this house as follows "It was quite a dwarf's house, just eight feet square, raised on posts so that the floor was four and a half feet above the ground, and the highest part of the ridge only five feet above the floor. As I am six feet and an inch in my stockings, I looked at this with some dismay; but finding that the other houses were much further from water, were dreadfully dirty, and were crowded with people, I at once accepted the little one, and determined to make the best of it. At first I thought of taking out the floor, which would leave it high enough to walk in and out without stooping; but then there would not be room enough, so I left it just as it was, had it thoroughly cleaned out, and brought up my baggage. The upper story I used for sleeping in, and for a store-room. In the lower part (which was quite open all round) I fixed up a small table, arranged my boxes, put up hanging-shelves, laid a mat on the ground with my wicker-chair upon it, hung up another mat on the windward side, and then found that, by bending double and carefully creeping in, I could sit on my chair with my head just clear of the ceiling. Here I lived pretty comfortably for six weeks, taking all my meals and doing all my work at my little table, to and from which I had to creep in a semi-horizontal position a dozen times a day; and, after a few severe knocks on the head by suddenly rising from my chair, learnt to accommodate myself to circumstances. We put up a little sloping cooking-hut outside, and a bench on which my lads could skin their birds. At night I went up to my little loft, they spread their mats on the floor below, and we none of us grumbled at our lodgings." Photo is by Karsten Otte.

04/02/2022

📷 A new eruption started at the Anak , or Krakatau, volcano on Rakata Island in Indonesia on 3 February, as seen in this image captured by Copernicus EU Sentinel-2 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/02/New_eruption_at_Krakatoa_Volcano