Things in Nature You Don't Know Exists

Rainbow Eucalyptus

This tree is located in Kailua, Hawaii. It can be named one of the most colorful trees in the world. The barks of the trees can take on yellow, green, orange, and even purple shading!

Rainbow Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus deglupta is a tall tree, commonly known as the rainbow eucalyptus, Mindanao gum, or rainbow gum. It is the only Eucalyptus species found naturally in the Northern Hemisphere. Its natural distribution spans New Britain, New Guinea, Ceram, Sulawesi and Mindanao.

The unique multi-hued bark is the most distinctive feature of the tree. Patches of outer bark are shed annually at different times, showing a bright green inner bark. This then darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon tones.

In the present day this tree is grown widely around the world in tree plantations, mainly for pulpwood used in making paper. It is the dominant species used for pulpwood plantations in the Philippines.

Blood Falls

Blood Falls

Geologists found the Blood Falls in Antarctica in 1911. The red color on ice is said to be caused by microbes living off sulfur and iron in oxygen-free water trapped beneath the ice for nearly two million years. How amazing Mother Nature is!

Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Boney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

Iron-rich hyper saline water sporadically emerges from small fissures in the ice cascades. The saltwater source is a sub glacial pool of unknown size overlain by about 400 m of ice at several km from its tiny outlet at Blood Falls.

The reddish deposit was found in 1911 by the Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, who first explored the valley that bears his name. The Antarctica pioneers first attributed the red color to red algae, but later it was proven to be due only to iron oxides.

Cocooned Trees

Cocooned Tree

In 2010, millions of spiders climbed into the trees to escape the flooding in Pakistan. Because of the scale of it, many trees became cocooned in spider webs. People have never seen such a phenomenon before. We bet, you too haven’t seen something like this until now! 

Lake Hillier

Lake Hillier in Australia is only 600 meters wide, but its rose pink color is seen from a far. Its color is still under investigation, but one of the reasons for that is the low concentration of Dunaliella Salina and Halo bacterium. Whatever the reason for all this, Lake Hillier looks absolutely incredible!

Lake Hillier, is a lake on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherché, Western Australia.

Lake Hillier

The most notable feature of this lake is its pink colour. It is such a significant distinguishing feature of the archipelago that air passengers often take note of it. The colour is permanent, and does not alter when the water is taken in a container. The length of the lake is about six hundred meters (3/8 mile). The lake is surrounded by a rim of sand and a dense woodland of paper bark and eucalyptus trees with a narrow strip of sand dunes covered by vegetation separating it to the north from the Southern Ocean.

The island and lake are thought to have been first charted by the Flinders expedition in 1802. Captain Flinders is said to have observed the pink lake after ascending the island's peak. John Thistle, the ship's master, collected some of the lake's water, which he found to be saturated with salt. Although the source of the pink colour has not been definitively proven in the case of Lake Hillier, the pink colour of other salt lakes (e.g., Pink Lake) in the region arises from a dye created by the organisms Dunaliella Salina and Halo bacteria. Another hypothesis is that the pink colour is due to red halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts.

Despite the unusual hue, the lake exhibits no known adverse effects upon humans. From above, the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the shoreline it appears more of a clear pink hue. The shoreline is also covered in salt crust deposits.

Spectacular Bird of Paradise....

Bird of Paradise

Cicinnurus Respublica:

The birds of paradise have long been recognised as beautiful and spectacular species, thanks to the variousness in decorative feathering, dazzling array of colours and the exaggerated, often bizarre, courtship displays, and Cicinnurus respublica is certainly no exception. Cicinnurus respublica belongs to Paradisaeidae family and also known as Wilson’s bird of paradise. The male is easily distinguished by the brilliant turquoise crown of bare skin on the back of its head, which is outstriped by lines of fine velvety black feathers with coppery-bronze iridescent glaze.

A semicircular cape of bright yellow on the upper overcoat contrasts with the crimson feathers on the rest of the back, while the upperwings are blackish-brown, with coverts edged paler brown, and with crimson tips to some of the feathers.

Bird of Paradise on Branch

The upper throat of the male bird of paradise is usually velvety black, and may have a coppery-bronze to purple gloss, while the patch of feathers on the upper breast is a glossy emerald-green, sometimes appearing blue-purple or red-purple. The central feathers of the tail are long and spiralled. The female is much less ornately embellished than the male, with the bare skin on the back of the head a much less radiant lilac-blue, and with olive to reddish-brown upperparts, dull brown wings and buff-coloured downside, with fine uniform brown-black stripes. The female also dearths the spiral tail feathers.  

Bird of Paradise Mating Rituals

Immature males are very similar in appearance to the female. The distinctive appearance of ‘Cicinnurus respublica’ is shown in full splendour during its courtship display. The male performs the display in an ‘arena’, a small, well-lit clearing surrounded by dense forest. The male carefully attends to the arena, ensuring it is free of leaf litter and other unwanted items, and also removing the leaves of sapling stems within the display area.When a potential mate arrives, the male initially adopts a characteristic ‘frozen’ stance on the stem of a sapling, before stumbling to the visiting female by performing a complicate courtship ritual, exhibiting the attractive breast shield, and keep track of the display with song and calls. Its very rare to know about the breeding behaviour of this slippery species. The first footage of the Wilson’s Bird of paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documentary ”Attenborough in Paradise”. He did so by dropping leaves on the forest floor, which irritated the bird into clearing them away.Cicinnurus republica feeds mostly on fruit and also some small insects.

Bird of Paradise

Range & Habitat:

The Wilson’s bird of paradise is endemic to the West Papuan islands of Waigeo and Batanta, off the coast of northern West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), Indonesia. Wilson’s bird of paradise mostly inhabits hill forest, usually at elevations of around 300 metres, although it has also occasionally been recorded calling in lowland rainforest and in higher montane forests, up to 1,200 metres.

Ratti Gali Lake - Queen of Lakes

Rati Gali Lake

Kashmir is the Heaven on earth and there is no doubt about it. Many place are still requires to be explored. For example take Ratti Gali Lake, maybe we are listening this name first time but it is one of the famous lakes in Kashmir. It is located in Neelum Vally and you need to travel through Muzafarabad and then Dowarian or Domail. Dowarian at a distance of 13 Km from Neelum at an altitude of 1615 meters is surrounded by mountains full of conifer trees. Over here a mule track up to Rattigali pass (about 30 Km) towards west, connects the Neelum and Kaghan Valley.

NIAGRA FALL

NIAGRA FALL

Niagara Fall is one of the most beautiful wonder of the world. It’s between America and Canada. The Niagara Fall is gigantic waterfalls on the Niagara River, on both sides of the international border separating the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. The measurements of the Niagara Falls are 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York, 75 miles (120 km) south-southeast of Toronto, Ontario, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls is composed of two key sections divided by Goat Island Horseshoe Falls. The smaller Bridal Veil Falls also is positioned on the American side divided from the main falls by Luna Island. Many visitors come in summertime to enjoy the beautiful scenes of Niagara Falls at daytime and night times. Niagara Falls is one of the most thrilling places in the world. They are considered as one of the most incredible wonders of the nature. Their beauty and their vastness can look attractive fear-provoking sometimes. Niagara Falls is showing us how nature sometimes can be extremely wild and beautiful in same time. This place is known by its appealing weather where you can experience all four seasons of the year in only one day. This fact gives Niagara Falls some special beauty. If you decide to visit this place expect to have some beautiful sights. There are  many fun loving places one of the most enjoyable thing at Niagara fall is boating it is really very amazing and the other place located at Niagara falls is the entertainment part which is really is best place to have fun and other thing you must enjoy at Niagara falls is mist and foggy weather. Niagara Falls is really very beautiful when there is rainbow appears in the mid of the waterfall it looks amazing and wonderful. Niagara Falls looks very much attractive in the night its night view is awesome and people love to watch the Niagara fall at night within the multi-color lights.

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