Roopak Gangadharan
23-12-2010, 09:37 PM
A hot commodity in the Illegal Pet trade the Indian star tortoise is believed to fetch upto 1000 $ in the US. Even today illegal trafficking is very common and people have been caught trying to carry big live consignments by air.:ohmy:
500 D, 55-250, 55mm, SS 1/200, ISO 400, F5.6 AE
Here is an intresting peice from WIKI :
The shape of this creature is presumed to be specially adapted to naturally assist it to return to a stable stance after it has been turned over. Mathematicians Gábor Domokos of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Péter Várkonyi of Princeton University designed a homogenous object called Gömböc that has exactly one unstable balance point and exactly one stable balance point. Just as a bottom-weighted (non-homogenous weight distribution) sphere would always return to the same upright position, they found it was possible to construct a shape that behaves the same way. After that, they noted the similarity to the Indian Star Turtle and subsequently tested 30 turtles by turning them upside down. They found that many of them were self-righting
500 D, 55-250, 55mm, SS 1/200, ISO 400, F5.6 AE
Here is an intresting peice from WIKI :
The shape of this creature is presumed to be specially adapted to naturally assist it to return to a stable stance after it has been turned over. Mathematicians Gábor Domokos of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Péter Várkonyi of Princeton University designed a homogenous object called Gömböc that has exactly one unstable balance point and exactly one stable balance point. Just as a bottom-weighted (non-homogenous weight distribution) sphere would always return to the same upright position, they found it was possible to construct a shape that behaves the same way. After that, they noted the similarity to the Indian Star Turtle and subsequently tested 30 turtles by turning them upside down. They found that many of them were self-righting