Rimini Gallery

Bottlenose Dolphin - giving birth - showing new-born

Bottlenose Dolphin - giving birth - showing new-born having just been delivered (Tursiops truncatus). Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy. The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks. The male calf was born July 2nd 2010 at 8:02 am and started to take milk 2 and half hours after birth (feeding at an average of two/three times per hour). At birth its weight was roughly 16 kg and 120cm in length. After 20 days its weight was 31 kg. The mother is Blue, a female born in Delphinarium Rimini Italy in 1996. The father is Micha, 25 year old coming from Cuba (in Italy since 1989)

© Augusto Leandro Stanzani / ardea.com

Bottlenose Dolphin - mother is stimulating her

Bottlenose Dolphin - mother is stimulating her recently born calf after which the calf normally will feed (Tursiops truncatus). Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy. The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks. The male calf was born July 2nd 2010 at 8:02 am and started to take milk 2 and half hours after birth (feeding at an average of two/three times per hour). At birth its weight was roughly 16 kg and 120cm in length. After 20 days its weight was 31 kg. The mother is Blue, a female born in Delphinarium Rimini Italy in 1996. The father is Micha, 25 year old coming from Cuba (in Italy since 1989)

© Augusto Leandro Stanzani / ardea.com

Portrait of a Lady in Red, 1460-1470, (1934). Creator: Unknown

Portrait of a Lady in Red, 1460-1470, (1934). Portrait of an unknown woman in an embroidered cap decorated with pearls. Her high forehead, achieved by shaving or plucking, is emphasised by the prophile view. Painting originally acquired as a portrait of Isotta da Rimini by Piero della Francesca but probably by a Florentine artist, in the National Gallery in London. From "The Connoisseur", Vol 93, No 389, January 1934. [The Connoisseur Ltd., London, 1934]

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