Yakov Podolny (Israel) / Alexander Altshuller (Kaliningrad region) / Alexey Paevsky (Ukraine)
FIRST ROUND: 1). ABC; 2).Men and women; 3). Flowers; 4). Musical instruments; 5). Islands; 6). …tooth…
1-300 S. Makarov developed a semaphore alphabet for the Russian fleet. AA+
PC: "... the Russian semaphore alphabet, the Latin one already existed"
1-400 4-volume "ABC" of stories - his - L. Tolstoy. YP+
PC: "Bravo!"
1-500 Bulgakov's Sharik and Mayakovsky studied the alphabet - from - signboards. YP+
2-500 in a survey of British families, the word babe ("baby") took first place - in the list - the most disliked references to wives. -
3-400 near the Peruvian city of Moyobamba there are 3500 species - flowers - orchids. YP+
3-500 is the national holiday of Tajikistan sair-lola - dedicated to flowers - tulips. -
In Uzbek, “lola” is also “tulip” (hence, a Persian borrowing), but I don’t understand how to take it without knowledge of regional languages. Well, it's true that tulips generally dominate among the natural flower flora of Central Asia, but this, I'm afraid, is a slightly simpler fact.
4-500 Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that Tonya's niece, like her grandmother, plays the balalaika. YAP-
/PC: “Ai-ai-ai. Nobody remembers…”
5-400 is perhaps the largest vehicle of J. Verne - in the novel - "The Floating Island". YAP-
/YP: "Uh... a flying island, if I'm not mistaken..."
PC: “No, no, no, the flying island is more like Swift’s” /
5-500 island-district of Arkhangelsk, where Peter I built a shipyard - Solombala. YP+
6-500 nickname of the 8th and 9th model "Lada" for the shape of the body - "chisel". AP+
PC: “Sometimes they also said “chisel””
4-300 auction.
+900 / +300 / +500
AP: "All-in"
YAP: "All-In"
PC: “Va-bank,” says Yakov Moiseevich. Understandable, understandable…”
In the autumn of 1941, according to the directive of the People's Commissariat of Defense, 60,000 of these instruments were sent to the front - to raise the spirit of the soldiers - harmonicas. YAP-
JP: “That makes sense…”
0 / +300 / +500
4-400 were made from boiled cow or goat ribs - their bones. -
6-400 three rocks form a crater shaft - a volcano on Urup - Trident. AP+
6-300 stage fright will not bring down if the actor has learned the role - so - by heart. AP+
2-400 the only man does not say a word - F. Ozon's film - "Eight Women". YP+
2-300, according to legend, penetrated to Caesar, ordering to wrap herself in a carpet - Cleopatra. YP+
5-300 cat for Alexander Altshuller. "Sculptures", 500.
sculpture "Russia" in 1996 - three objects under the shield - a crown, a scepter and an orb. AA-
1-200 agents of the secret organization "Azbuka" letters served - as - nicknames. AA+
6-200 tilacosmil - marsupial animal - (marsupial) saber-toothed tiger. -
The question is easy, probably, the wording of the players was knocked down. The saber-toothed tiger itself is obviously not a marsupial. It would be better to say “an analogue of this animal among marsupials” or “named after this, also a fossil animal” ...
6-100 Moscow Kremlin - 1045 "dovetails" - battlements of the wall. AA+
3-300 in contrast to Russia, in the USA and Western Europe considered to bring happiness - a bouquet - from an even number of flowers. AA+
2-200 Suvorov ordered to carry "as they carry chickens, but very safely" - a gift to serfs - brides. -
PC: “…Here's “how they carry chickens” – I don't know what was meant. As far as I remember, chickens are transported in cages.
AA (smiling): “Well, yes…”
4-200 1712 - made the cello of the Duke of Tuscany - A. Stradivarius. AA+
4-100 attribute of poets - lyre. AP+
1-100 letter codes were invented by Weil, a colleague of the inventor, S. Morse. YP+
3-200 popular song performed by N. Sazonova - "Daisies hid." YP+
/PC: "Yakov Moiseevich, of course"/
PC: "Bravo!"
5-200 Galeshnyak is nicknamed "the island of lovers" - it looks like a heart in shape. AP+
3-100 auction.
+1000 / +600 / +1500
AP: "1000"
In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the south wind of Shavondazi destroyed this flower - a dandelion. AP+
PC: "Bravo!"
+1000 / +600 / +2500
2-100 at the beginning of the play was unrequitedly in love with Rosaline - Romeo. YP+
5-100 "Communism off the coast of America" - jokingly deciphered the name - "Cuba". AA+
RESULTS OF THE FIRST ROUND: +1100 / +700 / +2500
SECOND ROUND: 1). bridges; 2). Fly hunting; 3). Questions from…; 4). Spiritual affairs; 5). Solar system; 6). Length.
6-600 is approximately equal to the length of a human step - the Russian measure is arshin. -
6-800 To calculate the circumference of a circle, you need to know the length of - its - radius. AP+
PC: “Remember the formula?”
AP: "If the length, then 2πr"
Diameter is exactly the same
5-600 asteroid number 274301 was named after the Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia. YP+
At the same time, the Russian Wikipedia argued for a long time whether this asteroid has any significance for the article. These are the harsh rules ...
1-800 Keshwa Chaka is the surviving (last) of the bridges built in the Inca empire. AP+
5-800 the land of Lada, the plain of the Snow Maiden, the Baba Yaga canyon - on the planet - Venus. AA+
6-1000 auction.
+1700 / +1500 / +4100
AA: "All in"
YAP: "All-In"
AP: "Pass"
This modern competitive discipline was also included in the program of the ancient Olympics - now the record is held by Mike Powell - long jump. YP+
PC: “And a record of 8.95. 8 meters 95 centimeters "
+3400 / +1500 / +4100
4-800 Piotr Njegos, canonized as Piotr Cetinsky, ruled the country of Montenegro. YP+
PC: "Cetinje - historical capital Montenegro»
4-1000 temple "on the blood" is in St. Petersburg and - Russian regional center- Yekaterinburg. YP+
PC: "... At the site of the execution of the royal family"
2-800, suspended from flying by the Maestro, took off without a command and shot down the "Messer" - Grasshopper (film "Only "old men" go into battle"). YP+
2-1000 fly up to 140 meters thanks to the fur membrane - inhabitants South-East Asia- woolly wings. AP-
/AP: "These are flying squirrels"
PC: “This animal is called “wool-wing”, it has nothing to do with squirrels” /
Flying squirrels, moreover, flying squirrels for all flying squirrels, are also found in Southeast Asia - taguans (and the winged wing is otherwise called very similarly - “kaguan”). In general, it somehow happened that in the region a lot of animals decided to fly - there is also a lizard, a flying dragon, and flying frogs, and even “flying” snakes (the latter only soften the fall a little, but it’s good for a snake). But colewings are, of course, the most "fancy" planners.
1-1000 cat for AA. "To remember", 1000.
For 60 years, millions of people have been visiting Anitkabir, the mausoleum of M.K.Ataturk, in Ankara. AA-
5-1000 for 4 years of work, he spotted more than a hundred planets outside the solar system - the space telescope - "Kepler". AP+
/AP: “Unfortunately, two out of three gyroscopes are now out of order…”/
PC: "...Failed out recently"
5-400 in the Voyager photograph from a distance of 6 billion km looks like a pale blue dot - the Earth. AP+
AP: “This picture is called “Pale Blue Dot””
6-200 the title of the smallest planet in the solar system passed from Pluto - to - Mercury. YP+
4-600 a dark-skinned statue of the Savior was brought to Manila by a ship on which, according to legend - this happened - a fire. -
JP: “It makes sense…”
1-600 1982 - 200 students, hastily assembled in Ostankino, participated in the first event - a teleconference (USSR - USA). AP+
Make-up artist Natalya Orekhova asks 3-200 questions.
checking the makeup of Josephine and Daphne, the director of the film "Only Girls in Jazz" forced them to go into an institution - a women's toilet. AA+
PC: "Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in women's make-up walked into a women's establishment, no one recognized them as men, and after that they started filming..."
3-600 if the actor's lower eyelid is smeared with a special pencil, then the actor will do it - cry. AP+
PC: "...There is such a special tear pencil"
AP: “But according to Stanislavsky, it’s not supposed to be like that!”
PC: “I know, I know… Well, what can you do. On some shootings, 15 takes are shot ... "
AP: "Yes"
PC: “... I went through it myself. Cry 15 times with your left eye ... "
/Aleksey Paevsky laughs/
PC: "...It's very hard, I think"
3-800 film "Spring": "Medium plump, sexy #4!" - about - lips. AP+
/AP: “Now they don’t wear such lips at all” /
3-400 special black varnish creates the illusion of a missing tooth. AP+
3-1000 adding talc, zinc oxide, chalk to starch - it will turn out - powder. YP+
/YP: "White"
PC: "White?"
YP: "Well, powder"
PC: "Powder, yes, Yakov Moiseevich, powder" /
I doubt the legitimacy of the account
2-600 in the photo - a stag flying two meters above the water - a slope. AP+
PC: "Bravo!"
1-200 microdistrict Khimki and a bridge to the ship - Skhodnya. YP+
2-400 was afraid of broom competition - J. Rowling: The Ministry of Magic banned the import into Britain - vehicles- flying carpets. AA+
PC: “Even though they obviously didn’t read or watch the movie”
6-400 Bible: 300 meters long gopher wood building - Noah's Ark. AP+
4-200 accompanied Muhammad during the ascension to heaven - the archangel - Jabrail (Gabriel). YP+
1-400 the Rotterdam nicknamed the "swan", and official name bridge - in honor of the great native - Erasmus of Rotterdam. -
4-400 Teffi: either they will crush the tail of the sacred cat, or they will poke at the sacred dog, or they will eat the holy fly in borscht - the ancients - the Egyptians. YP+
RESULTS OF THE SECOND ROUND: +8000 / +1100 / +7900
THIRD ROUND: 1). Factories; 2). I am sitting behind bars; 3). spices; 4). What from what; 5). The Bears; 6). Stairs.
4-900 in the photo - S. Stockwell collected a map of the world - from - microcircuits. AP+
As with the recent question about the bottle cap paintings, I could hardly distinguish any elements at all, let alone identify them. It looks different from the player's table, doesn't it?
4-600 ugali, hominy, polenta are made - from flour - corn. YP+
2-1200 during the Cold War, the 4 victorious powers jointly operated a prison in West Berlin - Spandau. YAP-
PC: "...In which the Nazi criminals sentenced by the Nuremberg trials were serving time"
2-1500 Louis XI called "daughters" - innovations in prisons - iron cages. -
1-1200 1922 - The Petrograd knitting and hosiery factory received a new name with the order - "Red Banner". -
From the wording of the question, one can understand that they did not just give the order and renamed it, but they named it after the order. Well, the order was the only one then. Not a bad question
1-1500 cat for AA. "Soups", 1500.
French bouillabaisse, Spanish gazpacho, Finnish lohikeitto, German bread soup - they are cooked in cast iron and infused for another day - lohikeitto. AA-
/AA: "Mmm..."
PC: "I'll remind you. French. German. Spanish gazpacho. Finnish"
AA: "Well, let it be gazpacho"
PC: What are you talking about? “Gazpacho… uh, well, at least the most famous in Russia, of all these soups. Well, at least bouillabaisse and gazpacho - I, for one, have some idea of what it is, yes.
Just having a general idea of what gazpacho is (“this is such a special soup that is cold”), I also answered him. Plus "Spanish gazpacho" among just "French", "German" and "Finnish" soups could seem like a clue
5-900 having got to the gypsies, he began to "go around the villages with a bear" - Pushkin's hero - Aleko. AA+
5-1200 "Bear Circus" was created by V. Filatov. YP+
PC: "Valentin Filatov, bravo!"
5-1500 taken under protection - bears from an island near Alaska - Kodiak. YP+
6-1500 six denominations agreed not to change anything without common consent - in the temple - the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. YP+
The staircase, which has been standing on the ledge for two centuries, is a very interesting and funny fact, thanks to the editors! But I’ll grumble a little: the question is clearly cheaper
3-1200 the road in front of Nero was sprinkled with water with an expensive spice - saffron. -
Well, the Romans could not have known so many spices, plus it looks like the raw materials are floral
3-1500 Guatemala is ahead in production even of its homeland, India - "green gold" - cardamom. -
4-1200 auction.
+11600 / +500 / +8800
YP: "8800"
PC: “Bravo, Yakov Moiseevich! Bravo"
For the manufacture of this in Venice, the purest sand from the Po River was used, and even imported - from Istria - Venetian glass. YAP-
/YP: "For the construction of this?"
PC: “Yakov Moiseevich, in my opinion, you are pretending to think a lot”
YP: "Beaches" /
Judging by the word “construction”, Jacob at first misunderstood the question, presented some kind of construction
+2800 / +500 / +8800
PC: "Sorry. Keep playing, don't get discouraged"
4-1500 from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts annually sent a steamer with rags to England, receiving paper back. AP+
6-900 the century before last - the world's first escalator appeared in a New York park on Coney Island. YP+
2-900 is now a museum and most popular place recreation near Cape Town - island - Robben. -
PC: "A very famous place"
1-900 auction.
+3700 / +500 / +10300
YAP: "All-In"
PC: "Alexey, take a chance"
AP: "No"
PC: “We are playing with Yakov Moiseevich. Let's try our luck again."
A century and a half ago, in the Menshikovs' estate near Klin, they began to make such toys - the factory still stands - Christmas trees. YAP-
/YP: “Uh, wooden, as far as I… They are called locally… Carved wooden…”
PC (without interfering for a long time): “No, Yakov Moiseevich ...” /
But this, IMHO, is a real complex auction, in which the answer can “click” if it is invented, but there are no obvious leads in its direction. This should be set at 1500 so that the players understand where they are going ..
By the way, it’s also interesting: how were toys made there during the New Year’s ban?
0 / +500 / +10300
3-900 the region of Liberia, from where the Portuguese exported the melegetu pepper, is called the Pepper Coast on old maps. YP+
PC: "Bravo!"
Personally, I know Pepper Coast. Are both options correct, or did Pyotr Borisovich, delighted with the answer, not even begin to correct?
5-600 in the house of the village of Jarfjord, a bear and three bear cubs destroyed sweets, drinking beer from cans. YP+
2-600 sent abroad academician of architecture A. Tomishko to study the prison business - the Ministry of Russia - the Ministry of Internal Affairs. AP+
6-600 at the third Odessa International Film Festival to live music showed "Lights big city- there - on the Potemkin stairs. YP+
/PC: "Odessa, give an answer!"/
PC: “An answer was given by a person who lived most of his life in the city of Grodno”
In, I came up with a toast to Yakov Moiseevich: so that the part of life lived in Grodno, from a larger one, becomes much, much smaller!
1-600, the Romans called the word fabrica a small enterprise - workshops. -
From the category of those questions where the answer is approximately clear, but you don’t understand what word they want to hear ...
3-600 is dried strips of bark - cinnamon. AA+
3-300 grow "organic food" by spraying an infusion of hot pepper - for the purpose - to protect against pests. AA+
PC: "...Instead of conventional insecticides, harmful"
5-300 the “youngest” species of bears, separated from the brown - polar bear. YAP-
PC: "... And it happened, according to biologists, from 150 to 250 thousand years ago"
AA: "Yesterday"
2-300 G. Efron called "Bottles" - Butyrskaya prison. AA+
PC: “As it was customary to say then -“ Butyrki ””
4-300 at the Winter Smile festival in Arkhangelsk region managed to kindle a stove made of snow. AP+
Cool!
6-300 drawing in the cave of Valencia, which is about 100 centuries old, is the progenitor of the stairs - stepladders. AA+
RESULTS OF THE THIRD ROUND: +1800 / +2000 / +11200
Players remove topics:
JP: "It's all rock 'n' roll"
AA: "Museums of Moscow"
AP: London
YP: "Everyone knows them"
AA: Encyclopedias
AP: "Signs"
The theme "Around the Music" is played
Tchaikovsky dedicated three for piano, violin and cello to his memory. And in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, his portrait occupies a central position - above the stage. What are we talking about?
Yakov Podolny: the answer is "Rubinstein" - right - the rate is 600 (2400)
Alexander Altshuller: answer "Cui" - incorrect - rate 2000 (0)
Alexey Paevsky: the answer "Beethoven" is incorrect - the rate is 1000 (10200)
PC: “... I would like to remind you that Nikolai Rubinstein had a direct, if not the most important, relation to the creation of the Moscow State Conservatory - that is why his portrait is located in the very center, in the Great Hall ...”
TOTAL GAME SCORE: +2400 / 0 / +10200
TOTAL TEAM ACCOUNTS: +5700 / +4600 / +32400
Cumulative prize fund:
1st place: 361.423
2nd place: 151.534
3rd place: 52.711
N. DOMRINA
Know how to fly! From time immemorial, man has dreamed of being free, subjugating air space. But, striving for flights, he managed to create for himself only "improvised" mechanisms. So far, he has not been able to take to the air himself. Birds and even insects are predestined to be skillful flyers, as they rely on the lifting force of the wings and a lightweight skeleton. But it turns out that there are other inhabitants of the animal world, who are not specially equipped for flights, but are able to lift themselves into the air and exist there for some time. A strange community of a wide variety of animal forms, including fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. The ability to actively fly, of course, is not peculiar to them. But they can hover, glide through the air, and then land softly. And do it boldly, purposefully or, conversely, slowly, as if enjoying your magnificent skill. From jumping to gliding, the range of aerial exercises performed by these unusual and mostly not-so-famous terrestrial creatures. Probably, this is how the birds once began their flights, eventually conquering the expanse of heaven. But now we will talk about animals living in forests, on trees. Jumping or, if you like, flying from one tree to another in search of food and shelter, these "smart" creatures simply save themselves the ascent and descent. In the same areas where trees do not grow too closely, ordinary jumps from branch to branch were not enough. And I had to master gliding flights - both for life and for survival.
With the help of its fluffy tail, the squirrel "steers" in the air.
While in the air, the flying squirrel stretches its leathery membrane between the front and hind legs, which gives the fur coat of a soaring animal a very elegant look.
The flying dragon is a rarity among reptiles.
The three-phase flight of the flying squirrel makes it possible to reveal multiple exposures.
Despite the large growth and the lack of special devices for flying, the sifaka from the island of Madagascar became the best aerial acrobat among his relatives - half-monkeys.
Having stretched the membranes between the fingers and toes, the flying frog with Borneo islands flies short distances.
In flight, a folded gecko from South Asia.
Flying Dragon. This small lizard of the genus Agamidae got its name for its unusual ability for reptiles for gliding flight. As a special device for moving through the air, flying dragons have something that partly resembles bird wings - two wide skin folds. These folds are located on the sides of the body and are supported by the highly elongated last five to seven false ribs, which ensure the mobility of the dragon's "wings". In the normal state, the "wings" are folded and adjacent to the body, only in the air the flying dragon spreads them like a braking parachute. Another pair of flat skin outgrowths is located on the sides of the neck.
Flying dragons live in tropical forests, the places of their main distribution: the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sumatra, Borneo, South India. Dragons spend most of their lives in trees. They descend to the ground only to lay eggs or if the flight from tree to tree is not successful, which, however, happens extremely rarely. As a rule, dragons climb the tops of trees. From there they jump down, then at a fairly high speed they go into controlled gliding flight, sometimes changing direction both vertically and horizontally, and after a deceleration phase they land accurately "in a given area." In open areas, flying dragons are capable of flying 60 meters or more in the air, although, as a rule, their flight range still does not exceed 50 meters.
Upon landing, flying dragons immediately climb up the tree trunks again, devouring the insects living there along the way.
Flying dragons are rarely seen by people, because they are remarkably adapted to the environment and can remain invisible.
Squirrels. Behind outstanding achievements squirrels, of course, cannot keep up with flying dragons in soaring in the air. They don't have a "sail," that special bodily attachment that most good fliers have. But squirrels have learned to do without such special devices.
Jumping from tree to tree is vital for a squirrel: this is how it finds food and escapes from enemies. The squirrel does not make long, power jumps and, having chosen a target, reduces the distance between the starting point and the “branching” to a minimum. For jumping, squirrels use the outer region of the crown, jumping from the thinnest branches that can barely support their weight. Therefore, it is quite possible to say that proteins travel through the air purposefully. The steering wheel is the tail. Having fluffed it, the squirrel slows down the free fall, keeping in the given direction. However, despite this, squirrel jumps always take place with a significant loss of height.
flying squirrels. In terms of living space and food requirements, flying squirrels living in Asia, Europe and North America are almost the same as ordinary squirrels. They also live in the forests, the same nutcrackers and lovers of fruits, just as curious, playful and good-looking. But as far as the ability to fly, there are significant differences. Despite all their acrobatic walks through the treetops, ordinary squirrels bear no comparison with flying squirrels.
The advantage of flying squirrels is the presence of a leathery membrane. It is located between the front and hind legs and, at rest, surrounds the body of the animal, like a coat. In preparation for flight, the flying squirrel protrudes special cartilage or crescent-shaped bones on the wrists, stretching the membrane.
In a weightless gliding flight, a dwarf squirrel (its body length is a maximum of 15 centimeters, weight 70 grams) flies 50 meters. The flying rodent regulates the flight altitude, its direction and speed by raising and lowering its "arms", as well as using a long fluffy tail.
The largest flying squirrel is the giant flying squirrel, or taguan.
The length of her body is more than 60 centimeters, the tail is the same length. In flight, the animal resembles a small airship. Like all flying squirrels, it is active mainly at night. Prefers to eat leaves. Taguan often settles in housing near a person: in gardens, in bird houses or on rooftops. But he behaves so secretly that almost no one notices him.
geckos. These prehensile-legged lizards are well-known for their upside-down climbing of sheer slopes, thanks to the microscopic bristles on their toes. There are half a million of these bristles on each foot, and each bristle is also covered with tiny hairs. Geckos are found throughout the tropics and subtropics.
Of course, one born to crawl cannot fly. And most of the 670 species of geckos adhere to this rule. Only the Madagascar flat-tailed gecko, as well as the lobe-tailed gecko from South Asia, are at risk for short-range gliding flights. The ability to fly is provided by wide folds of skin that border the torso and legs, and a flat leathery fringe on the sides of the tail.
Frogs. Speaking of frogs, they think about their ability to swim and jump, but hardly about their ability to fly. However, the Borneo flying frog and related tree frog can. Both have highly developed webs between their fingers and toes, which expand in the air and significantly reduce the speed of falling. A tree frog, whose body length is about 7 centimeters, can cover a distance of several meters in a gliding flight.
snakes. There are many adventure stories about reptiles, but flying kites do not have many pages. Only the decorated tree snake and the common ornamented snake from South Asia can fly. These snakes rush down from a height of 15-20 meters of coconut trees. During the jump, the snake flattens the body in a horizontal plane, strongly drawing in the stomach. At the same time, the ventral and tail shields, equipped with a sharp longitudinal keel on the sides, form a small air cushion, which slows down free fall so that fragile animals do not receive damage when they hit an obstacle.
The decorated tree snake performs its airborne exercise when it eats all the lizards and geckos on the palm tree where it sits. Having moved to another tree, the snake again rushes into the depths of the branches.
marsupial flying squirrels. The climbing marsupials of Australia took off in three different forms: the pygmy flying couscous, the marsupial flying squirrel and the giant flying couscous (aka the large flying possum).
Among all the marsupials capable of flying even in its homeland, the Australian pygmy flying couscous is a perfect baby, since this acrobatic is barely the size of a mouse. Despite the fact that he is not afraid of being close to a person, no one knows who is hunting insects in the garden in the middle of the night.
Much more noticeable are marsupial flying squirrels, like all flying marsupials with a typical membrane on the sides of the body. Like on an inflatable pillow, these cat-sized marsupials, by no means rare, glide up to 50 meters. And it happens that mothers fly with children on their backs or babies in a bag.
Even more than the marsupial flying squirrel, the giant flying cuscus is impressive, its body length reaches 50 centimeters. True, it does not belong to the marsupial squirrel, but to the koala family. In marsupial squirrels, the membrane is on the outer fingers, while in the "giants" it is only on the elbows. This determines a different flight path: in flying squirrels it is rather rectangular, in giant couscous it is closer to triangular.
half-monkeys. Among the lemurs, the most diverse family of prosimians in Madagascar, the sifakas (or crested indris) are absolute masters of jumping and flying. When making air travel, they do not rely on an inflatable pillow or sailing aids, but only on the strength of their legs. Head first, the sifaka flies swiftly from trunk to trunk and from branch to branch. Jumping 10 meters or more is not uncommon for him.
Woolwings. These animals, living in Southeast Asia, are isolated from all mammals. Their "airsuit" consists of a dense, fur-covered webbing that connects the neck, fore and hind limbs, and tail.
Wormwings live in trees in tropical and equatorial forests. Having climbed into the upper part of the crown, they rush into the air and soar silently, almost without losing height. They easily fly between trees growing one from the other at a distance of up to 70 meters. And the maximum flight range of woolly wings is 130-140 meters, while the height loss is only 10-12 meters.
We will continue the story about unusual flyers next time.
According to the materials of the magazine "Das Tier" (Germany).If you hear a contented grunt in the Philippine forest, this will not necessarily mean that a snout pig is hiding in the foliage. A very similar sound is made by the binturong, a rare inhabitant of Asian forests. He grunts not always, but only when he is pleased with something. If the bear is not happy, then he lets out alarming cries. Medvedkot is nocturnal and moves along the branches using a long tail. The bear cat feeds on eggs, leaves and other vegetation. Sometimes it can dine on small chicks. Lives in captivity for about 20 years. On the island of Palawan in the zoo near Puerto Princess you can see these funny little bears.
Flying lemurs live in the Philippines - one of the most amazing animals on the planet
The flying lemur is a very original animal living in the countries of Southeast Asia. He does not have wings, however, he can fly up to 100 meters in one jump. Like ordinary lemurs, the flying lemur is engaged in flights and other active life activities at night, and during the day it sleeps, gently hugging a tree. The head of a flying lemur is somewhat reminiscent of a dog, but the body is very similar to a flying Canadian squirrel. In Mindanao, flying lemurs are called "kagwangs". Representatives of this rare family of animals live in Malaysia.
An ordinary kagwang weighs from one to two kilograms. It has small ears and huge eyes so it can see better at night. Its membrane stretches from the front paws to the tail. She helps the flying lemur to escape from all kinds of predators, including the Philippine eagle.
The flying lemur lives in Basilan, Leyte, Samara, Bohol and Mindanao. The kagwang population has not been counted in our time, however, the Philippine government has included the flying lemur in the list of endangered animals on the planet and banned its commercial use.
Philippine tarsier, or maomag
The ghost tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) is a tiny animal that lives on several islands in the southern part of the Philippine archipelago, it is an endemic and endangered primate species.
Tarsiers have been on Earth for at least 45 million years and are one of the oldest animal species in the Philippines. Once tarsiers were widespread in Europe, Asia and North America, but now they can be found only in remote corners of the planet. The size of an adult tarsier is comparable to the length of a human finger.
The size of the Philippine tarsier is small, the body of an adult animal (except for the tail) is not larger than width human palm, about 100 mm. The tail of the tarsier is longer than the body. The average weight of males is about 134 g, females - 117 g.
The first thing that attracts attention in the appearance of tarsiers is their disproportionately huge eyes, adapted for hunting in the night forest. The rounded head of the tarsier can rotate more than 180 degrees in both directions, i.e. the tarsier can easily look behind itself. The ears are also very mobile, almost always in motion. The tarsier has facial muscles on its “face”, it can change the expression of its cute muzzle, which makes the animal very “human”.
Tarsier fur is thick and silky, grayish to dark brown in color. A long bare tail is used for balance. The fingers on both the front and hind limbs are developed and very long. The ends of the fingers are flattened, forming pads designed for climbing the branches of trees. On all fingers, except for the second and third, there are flat nails, on the second and third - sharp claws used by the animal when combing the fur. The fingers in the hand are not really opposed, but when climbing, the tarsier embraces the branch, leaving the thumb behind.
The hind limbs are more developed, the ankles of the "legs" are elongated. Tarsiers can jump sharply and far both in danger and when moving from tree to tree. The length of the jump can be several meters (and this is for such a crumb)!
If the tarsier is very dissatisfied with something, it emits a thin squeak. With the help of voice, tarsiers can communicate, report the boundaries of their territories and call on partners, but in general it is noted that tarsiers use their voice much less often compared to other primates. The maximum recorded lifespan of the Philippine tarsier is 13.5 years (in captivity).
Javanese macaque
The Javan macaque - Macaca fascicularis - is a medium-sized monkey. Body length from 40 to 60-65 cm. The weight of an adult male is 4 - 8.5 kg, females 2.5 - 3.7 kg. The tail is about half a meter long, the limbs are short. The coat is gray with a greenish tint, there is a dark tuft on the head, a light mustache and sideburns are characteristic. breed all year round. This species is famous for the fact that individuals living near sea coasts can dive in rivers and lagoons in search of crabs and other edible marine life, for this they are often called crab-eating macaques. Some individuals can even kill large crabs on land with stone blows. Monkeys of this species have well-developed cheek pouches in which food is carried. The basis of the diet is leaves, grass, insects, young shoots, flowers. In search of food, macaques raid rice plantations. Javanese are not as aggressive as other macaques.
Pilandok, Palawan mouse deer
Pilandok, Palawan mouse deer - Tragalus nigricans - an adult weighs only 2 kg, about 40 centimeters at the withers, this is the smallest ungulate. Its other name is kanchil. Contrary to its name, this deer is not a member of the deer family. Males do not have horns. For self-defense, he uses fangs on the upper jaw.
The body is like a hare, the fur is brown and white. A dark line runs from each ear past the eyes to the nose. The legs are slender, the size of a pencil, with small hooves at the end. The most notable feature is the pig's conical muzzle.
Pilandok is a solitary nocturnal animal that feeds at night on leaves, fruits, flowers, twigs, shrubs and other vegetation in forests or near mangrove swamps. During the day, he stays in the forest, often spending a long time motionless, sometimes resting in the branches of low trees. An extremely territorial animal. marks the territory with urine, feces, and secretions from the gland under the chin.
Philippine sambar
Philippine deer, or Philippine sambar- Cervus philippinus or Rusa marianna - larger than the Philippine Spotted, and its fur is dark, black-brown, without any spots.
Philippine sika deer
The Philippine sika deer - Cervus alfredi - is a close relative of the sambar. Its coat is a rich dark brown with yellowish-white spots. The height at the withers is 71 cm. The species is found on most of the islands of the Philippine archipelago.
The largest wild animal in the Philippines is the Tamoro bull.
Tamoro bulls are rare animals found only on the island of Mindoro. Outwardly, they are similar to carabaos living in other countries of Southeast Asia. Such a bull weighs about 300 kilograms. Its distinguishing feature is the ability to climb up the almost vertical ledges of mountains. Once such a bull was found at an altitude of 2 kilometers above sea level. Most often, tamoros like to graze somewhere in the vicinity of a water source.
buffalo carabao
In the Philippines, the water buffalo festival (carabao) is held. At this time, residents carefully clean the buffaloes, shave, cut, massage with aromatic oils and put on crowns of flowers. Then each family proudly leads the well-groomed buffaloes to the square in front of the church, which results in a colorful procession adorned with flowers, fruits and plants of a wide variety of colors. The priests bless the buffaloes, wishing them good health in the coming year. It is also interesting to see how the buffaloes "take in the mud" again.
Eastern clawless otter
Eastern clawless otter (Aonyx cinerea - In length (with a tail), it is slightly less than 1 m, weighing up to 5.5 kg. It is usually dark brown in color. Otters of this genus have unusually reduced claws on both pairs of limbs. They look like nails. The forelegs are brush-like and partially webbed, and the toes are used for catching prey in a way that other otter species do not have.
bearded pig
The bearded pig - Sus barbatus - is the same size as a wild boar, or a little smaller (body length 100-160 cm, weight about 100 kg), but relatively more high-legged. She got her name for the elongated light bristles that frame the muzzle from the corners of the mouth almost to the ears. The body is covered with sparse bristles, through which a gray or grayish-pink body shines through.
Kaguan, or woolly wing
Woolly wings - Dermoptera - are mammals capable of flight (or rather, gliding) at a distance of up to 140 m. Gliding is carried out due to the "wing" - a membrane covered with fur that connects the limbs, tail and neck of animals. An endemic species lives in the Philippines - the Philippine woolly wing, also known as the kaguan or "flying lemur". Body length (without tail) up to 42 cm, weight - 1.7 kg.
Fruit bats (flying foxes)
Fruit bats (flying foxes) - Pteropodidae - reach large sizes: body length up to 42 cm and wingspan up to 1.7 m (flying foxes). However, there are also small nectar- and pollen-eating forms only 5-6 cm in size, with a wingspan of 24 cm. The mass varies from 15 to 900 g. The tail is short, underdeveloped or absent; only in long-tailed fruit bats (Notopteris) is it relatively long. Fruit bats are active at night and at dusk. The day is spent in the crowns of trees, under the eaves of roofs, in caves, less often in large hollows. There may not be a permanent shelter, as fruit bats roam in search of food. From places of daytime to places of feeding, they can fly up to 15 km long, and in total fly up to 90-100 km per night. Smaller species are solitary; large ones usually accumulate on days in large groups. Thus, palm fruit bats (Eidolon) sometimes form noisy settlements of up to 10,000 individuals even in major cities. Some species are active during the day. During rest, the fruit bat usually hangs upside down, clinging with sharp claws to a branch or to an unevenness on the ceiling of the cave; sometimes hangs on one leg. The body is wrapped in wide leathery wings, as in a blanket; in hot weather, fanning them like a fan. Fruit bats, as a rule, do not fall into hibernation.
Dugong, sea cow
Dugong - Dugong dugong - aquatic mammal, body length up to 4 m, weight up to 600 kg. The name "dugong" comes from the Malay duyung, meaning "mermaid", "sea maiden". A small, inactive head passes into a massive spindle-shaped body, which ends in a tail fin located horizontally. The head is small, rounded, on a short neck. There are no auricles. The eyes are small, deep set. The nostrils are shifted upward more than other sirens; equipped with valves that close under water. The muzzle looks chopped off; ends with fleshy lips hanging down. The two lobes of its tail are separated by a wide middle notch and pointed at the ends. It is on the verge of extinction and is listed in the international Red Book. Can be found in the Philippines (more often in the province of Palawan).
Africa in miniature
Extinct animals
With the discovery of fossils in the last century, scientists believe that elephants, rhinos and stegodons (pygmy elephants) lived in the Philippines. Two species of elephant and one species of rhinoceros have been identified, namely Elaphas beyeri, Elaphas namadicus and Rhinoceros philippinensis. Four species of Stegodon are found in the Philippines: Stegodon trigonocephalus, Stegodon luzonensis, Stegodon sinensis and Stegodon mindanensis.
Southeast Asia attracts not only with its exotic traditions and way of life, but also with its nature. Some of the animals that live here are found nowhere else. We present to your attention a selection of animals that live only in Southeast Asia.
proboscis monkey
These unusual and rare monkeys are found only on the island of Borneo. From the local population, they received the nickname Dutch monkeys, because they noticed the same long noses and large bellies in the Dutch colonizers. Males are distinguished by a large fleshy nose, which allows these friendly primates to make bizarre sounds for communication: roars, squeals, grunts. The habitat of these monkeys is rapidly declining due to the fact that local residents arrange oil palm plantations on their territory.
Komodo monitor lizards
These largest reptiles in natural conditions can only be found on the islands of the Malay archipelago Komodo, Flores and Rincha. The saliva of a monitor lizard contains many bacteria, so it is not necessary for a monitor lizard to bite its prey to death. It is enough just to chase the bitten victim, who dies from blood poisoning within a day.
Hornbill
This bird is the symbol of the island of Borneo. She is so worried about her offspring that while incubating eggs, the female literally immures herself in a hollow. Building materials: branches and earth, are fastened with their own droppings. The result is a strong wall with a small hole through which the male passes food to the female. In such voluntary confinement, the female spends about three months, waiting for the babies to hatch and nursing them. Then he cuts through with his large beak a window in " Big world» 🙂
Binturong
This cat bear (eng. bearcat) is actually neither a bear nor a cat. He is a relative of civet, the very ones that make the most expensive coffee in the world. This is a very friendly animal, thanks to which they began to start it as a pet. This idea is especially popular in the USA. The powerful tail of the binturong serves as its fifth hand, with which it clings to the branches of trees. In addition, the binturong marks its territory with the help of odorous secretions. This oily substance has been used in perfumery for centuries to add durability to perfumes.
Lori or tarsier
These cute animals live in Southeast Asia, the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines. The tarsier's head can rotate almost 360 degrees. In the past, Indonesians believed that the head of the tarsier existed separately from the body, and were afraid to face them because they believed that the same thing could happen to people in this case.
Red panda
This beauty lives in the north of Myanmar, in the southern part of China and on the mountain slopes of Nepal. In English, the animal is called firefox and it is in honor of the red panda that the famous browser is named. The animal is listed in the Red Book, and is endangered because of its beautiful fur, which is used to make hats.
sun bear
The smallest member of the bear family lives on the islands of the Malay Archipelago. For its size, the local population gave it the nickname "bear-dog". And he got the name "sunny" for a bright spot on his chest. This bear has the longest claws and tongue with which it destroys termite mounds, and the shortest coat among bears, which allows it to easily endure tropical heat.
black-backed tapir
It lives in Myanmar, Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. Despite the brightness, the animal's unusual coloration is protective, helping it disorientate predators. In the dark, the white part stands out, and the outlines of the animal themselves are lost. The image of a black-backed tapir is guessed in a good spirit that saves people from nightmares in Chinese and Japanese mythology.
orangutan
These are the only Asian great apes found in Borneo and Sumatra. They are so similar to people that their name is translated from the Malay language as "forest man". We were lucky to watch them with our own eyes during.
flying dragon
This name was given to small lizards due to the ability to soar on their "wings", which they use not only for movement, but also to intimidate enemies. For people, flying dragons do not pose any danger and are so small that they fit in the palm of your hand. They are common in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines.
This was the promised ten amazing animals of Southeast Asia, and in conclusion, I would like to add a small bonus 🙂
Rafflesia
Almost all of the above animals are listed in the Red Book and are rare species that are under the threat of extinction. Have you seen any of these animals?
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