BIRDS AND BATS

Sule One evening over dinner with photographer friends we were talking about taking a trip. Some of them had al- ready been to the Shetland Islands and their stories had fascinated me so much that we decided to go back to- gether. So in June we organised the trip. It was an unfor- gettable experience.

Domination Lappet Faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) attacking one of the White Backed Vultures (Gyps africanus), there were more than 15 White Backed Vultures eating a dead animal when this Lappet Faced Vulture came, attacked them all and claimed the dead animal for himself! His size was such that everyone was afraid of him!

Pipistrello dal Nettare I took this photo of an Orange Nectar Bat (Glossophaga soricina) in Costa Rica. For the lighting I used three fla- shes to stop the movement of the animal as it flew over the banana flower in the middle of the night to suck the nectar. It is a small bat of

Parenting Goals With its height of 115 centimetres, the emperor pen- guin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest out of the 18 existing penguin species. It is the undisputed symbol of Antarctica, where it lives by enduring extremely cold temperatures of up to -60°C. However, climate change and the presence of man are now a threat