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Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degré, daughter of French wildlife photographers Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, was born in Namibia. During her childhood she befriended many wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant called Abu and a leopard nicknamed J&B. She was embraced by the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, as well as how to speak their language.

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Riding an ostrich like a fucking Chocobo.

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“It’s about the double standard associated with Japanese culture,” says Simon Baker, curator of photography at the Tate. “It’s an incredibly polite, formal society on the surface, [but it] has this hidden underside of sexuality. Araki very effectively works on this relationship.” Is it art or is it porn? To Araki it makes little difference. In the end, his subject is the everyday – or his everyday – the poignant and the touching, the messy and the disturbing. (via Is Nobuyoshi Araki’s photography art or porn? | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

“It’s about the double standard associated with Japanese culture,” says Simon Baker, curator of photography at the Tate. “It’s an incredibly polite, formal society on the surface, [but it] has this hidden underside of sexuality. Araki very effectively works on this relationship.” Is it art or is it porn? To Araki it makes little difference. In the end, his subject is the everyday – or his everyday – the poignant and the touching, the messy and the disturbing. (via Is Nobuyoshi Araki’s photography art or porn? | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

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Males claiming new territory have a “sound evolutionary reason” to kill cubs—it brings the mothers back into heat, allowing the males to sire their own cubs. “They can’t afford to be stepdads,” Hunter said. (via Rare Picture: Male Leopard Kills, Eats Cub)

Males claiming new territory have a “sound evolutionary reason” to kill cubs—it brings the mothers back into heat, allowing the males to sire their own cubs. “They can’t afford to be stepdads,” Hunter said. (via Rare Picture: Male Leopard Kills, Eats Cub)

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