#the bahamas

[pangeen]

“ queen Emma “ // taylor parent

Music:  Journey, Steve Perry - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Bryce Miller/Alloy Tracks Remix)

#The Bahamas #diving #scubadiving #caribbean #sealife #marinelife #sharks #tigersharks #whalesharks #reel #reels #explore #follow #discover

[whitefireprincess]

Nassau, Bahamas | Julia

#ocean #nature #tropical #pink #pastel #nassau #the bahamas #travel #uotd #whitefireprincess

[themakeupbrush]

Miss Universe Bahamas 2023 National Costume

Inspired by dolls from the Bahamian Straw Market

#miss universe #miss universe 2023 #pageant #national costume #national costume contest #the Bahamas

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about the Bahamas, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

#the bahamas #the caribbean #central america #country polls #polls

[travelbinge]

By Jacob

The Bahamas

#curators on tumblr #bahamas #travel #sea #ocean #the bahamas #caribbean #west indies #sharks #shark #landscape #animals #jacob #blue #north america

[princesscatherineblog]

Kate and William leaving the Bahamas at the end of their Royal Tour of the Caribbean in 2022.

#kate middleton #catherine middleton #duchess of cambridge #prince william #duke of cambridge #caribbean #the bahamas #royal tour #2022 #british royal family #royal style #british royal fandom #royal family

[namu-the-orca]

Has there been a case of a hybrid between a bottlenose and an Atlantic spotted dolphin?

Perhaps! No one knows for sure. There has been no definitive proof from DNA samples of wild animals, nor has it ever been confirmed in captive animals. However, there is much reason to believe it is plausible, and one possible hybrid has been observed.

Let me take you to The Bahamas. Specifically, Great Bahama Bank and Little Bahama Bank. They're sprawling sandbanks surrounding the islands, and many Atlantic spotted dolphins as well as coastal Common bottlenose dolphins make their home there. The spotted dolphins have been studied for more than 30 years by Denise Herzing and her associates. While by far the most encounters are with single-species groups, there have been dozens of mixed species encounters as well.

Many of these are aggressively sexual in nature, with males of both species sparring and trying to enter each other. Male bottlenose dolphins often seem to dominate the smaller spotted dolphins during these encounters, though the spotted dolphins have been seen retaliating, and it is speculated they don't actually experience the harassment as very negative. Since much of the action is male-on-male or involves juvenile animals not yet sexually mature, it seems in many cases the nature of these encounters is more social than sexual. However, multiple cases of interspecific male-on-female copulation have been observed.

With so much going on, the potential for hybridism is great. And since the two species are morphologically quite similar (especially when young), a hybrid could easily fly under the radar.

In February of 2003, Herzing and her team observed a female spotted dolphin with an unusual looking calf. The calf had a shorter rostrum than is normal for spotted dolphins in the area, but it was longer and more elegant than that of a Bahamian bottlenose. Herzing assumed it could be a hybrid calf. However, since no DNA testing was done and the calf was only observed for two days, this can't be confirmed. In 1989 and 1996 there have also been observations of female spotted dolphins mothering over bottlenose dolphin calves. In one case the calf was emaciated, and the spotted dolphin swimming with it wasn't lactating, so most likely the calf died. In another case it was only a temporary association and the bottlenose calf returned to their real mother after a while.

So a lot of interesting things going on. The studies are still ongoing. To my knowledge no large scale DNA testing has been done, nor any new "suspect" animals observed. Perhaps in the future a hybrid will be confirmed! Or perhaps it turns out this is one of those mixes that just doesn't work.

I highly recommend you read the study the photo comes from: "Interspecies interactions between Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis and bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, on Great Bahama Bank, Bahamas". And many of the other studies done by Denise Herzing's team can be read for free here: https://www.wilddolphinproject.org/media/scientific-publications/

#namtalk #hybridism #hybrid #dolphin hybrid #Common bottlenose dolphin #Tursiops truncatus #Atlantic spotted dolphin #Stenella frontalis #dolphin #The Bahamas #Great Bahama Bank #Little Bahama Bank #Denise Herzing #Wild Dolphin Project

[icedout-pacemaker]

Somewhere in the Bahamas...

#the bahamas #google maps #underwater #water #watercore #ocean

[princesssarisa]

In Cinderella Tales From Around the World, I've now read all the tales from the United States and Canada. Most of these variants are Native American; some scholars think the archetype of Cinderella spread to these tribes from French Canadian settlers, but the indigenous people made it their own. There are also some US and Canadian variants from non-indigenous sources, which the book follows with two similar versions from the West Indies.

*The first Native American variant in this book is an Ojibwe version. The heroine is abused by her stepmother and two stepsisters, but a manitou (spirit) gives her fine clothes and a magical box in which to secretly store them. Some time later, the stepmother sends her to fetch water, and along the way the girl meets her grandmother, who warns her that she'll hear music, but not to look back in its direction – if she succeeds in not looking back, she'll become more beautiful than ever. She does, so one of the stepsisters sets out to the same place to gain new beauty too, but she ignores the grandmother's warning, looks back, and turns ugly. Some time after this, a dance takes place, the heroine attends wearing the dress the manitou gave her, and the chief's son falls in love with her and marries her. But after she gives birth to a son, the stepmother sticks a magic pin in her that turns her into an elk, and one of the stepsisters takes her place. Yet as in similar European variants, every day the elk comes back to nurse her baby, and eventually her husband finds her and pulls out the pin, restoring her to human form. He then has the stepmother and stepsisters executed.

*Another variant, from the Mi'kmaq and Algonquin peoples, is one I grew up with: it's been adapted into two picture books, The Rough-Face Girl and Sootface, and as "The Indian Cinderella" in an episode of the cartoon series Adventures from the Book of Virtues. The heroine lives with her father and her two cruel older sisters, who destroy her beauty by burning her with hot coals, singing off her hair and leaving her face covered with scars. Meanwhile, near their village lives a great, mystical chief or warrior who is invisible, or who can make himself invisible. Every girl in the village wants to marry him, including the two sisters, and they all dress in their finest to go and meet him. But the Invisible One will only marry a maiden who can see him, so his (visible) sister meets each one of them, and tests them by asking what his sled-strap and bowstring are made of. All the maidens, including the heroines' sisters, tell lies and are sent away. But the heroine dresses herself in improvised clothes and goes too, despite all her neighbors jeering at how ugly and shabby she looks. When the Invisible One's sister asks the usual question, she replies that his sled-strap is the rainbow and his bowstring is the Milky Way. This is the true answer. The sister then bathes her, which makes her hair grow back and heals her burn scars to reveal her natural beauty, and she marries the Invisible One.

**There's also a Huron variant on this story, with long additional episodes where suitors court the two older sisters, but they disdain the men, set near-impossible tasks for them, and when they succeed, finally say they'll marry them only when they've finished embroidering fabrics for the wedding. They force their younger sister to do the embroidery for them, but every night, like Penelope in The Odyssey, they undo some of it. Eventually, however, a great invisible chief comes to call, and the older sisters lie that they can see him but describe him inaccurately, while the youngest sister describes his true, otherworldly appearance and becomes his bride.

*The Zuñi tribe has a variant called The Turkey Girl, which stands apart from most others by having a sad ending. The heroine is a poor orphan, who either lives alone or with abusive sisters depending on the version, and earns her living by herding turkeys. One day a sacred dance is held and she longs to attend, so her turkeys magically wash her and dress her in finery and jewelry. But they warn her to come back before sunset to lead them home and feed them. The girl promises to do so, but at the dance she enjoys herself so much that she doesn't bother to go home in time. She comes back after dark to find that all the turkeys have fled into the wild, abandoning her to loneliness and poverty. This tale seems to be an allegory, warning poor people whose fortunes improve not to forget their old friends or be ungrateful to those who helped them.

*The book also includes retellings of Perrault's Cendrillon from Canada, the Southern US (written in slave dialect), the Bahamas, and Martinique. They're not different enough from from Perrault's version to warrant descriptions, but it's interesting to see the story told with each of these places' local flavors and dialects.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @adarkrainbow, @themousefromfantasyland

#cinderella #fairy tale #variations #cinderella tales from around the world #heidi ann heiner #native american #ojibwe #mi'kmaq #algonquin #zuni #french canadian #southern usa #african american #the west indies #the bahamas #martinique

[xxoxobree]

Oh how I LOVE being Bahamian 🥰🥰

(This is a junkanoo parade.)

#junkanoo #Bahamas #the bahamas #Saxon superstars #my culture #junkanoo parade

[halzc]

Happpyyyy 50th Anniversary to my country!!!!🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🥳🥳🥳🥳👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

#the bahamas #better in the Bahamas

[b-each]

the bahamas

#my photo #beach #the bahamas

[cpahlow]

#Norman's Cay #The Bahamas #plane

[themakeupbrush]

Miss Supranational Bahamas 2023 National Costume

Embracing Cultural Threads. Honoring the vibrant heritage of The Bahamas in this stunning traditional costume for the National Costume segment of Miss Supranational. From the colorful plaiting of the maypole to the rhythmic beats of our cultural celebrations, this ensemble is a heartfelt ode to the rich traditions that weave our Bahamian Identity. Introducing "Goombay Mama".

#miss supranational #miss supranational Bahamas #the Bahamas #national costume #national costume contest #pageant

[earthglance]

The Bahamas

#the bahamas

[vintageviewmaster]

Caption: CORAL REEFS ABOUND WITH COLORFUL FISH

Brand: View-Master Packet Title: The Bahamas Reel Title: The Bahamas Reel Subtitle: Nassau and Harbor Islands Reel Number: B 0273, Reel Three Reel Edition: N/A Image Number: 7 Date: Undated

#sawyer's inc. #view master #view-master #the bahamas #b 027 #nassau #b 0273 #coral reef