World's Largest Crocodile Dies in Philippines. MANILA: The world's largest saltwater crocodile in captivity has died in the Philippines, 17 months after the suspected man-eater was hunted down and put on display for tourists, his caretakers said on Monday.
"Lolong", who measured 6.17 metres (20.24 feet), died on Sunday night from a mystery illness inside his small enclosure in Bunawan, a backwater town in the country's remote south. "This is a very, very sad day for us. He had brought fame to our town. We are now thinking of having his remains preserved," town spokeswoman Welinda Elorde said. A government-sanctioned hunting party caught Lolong in a sprawling marsh close to Bunawan in September 2011 after it was suspected of biting the head off a young school girl and of eating a fisherman. Its capture made the town famous and Lolong, named after a local crocodile hunter, became a big tourist attraction. The Guinness Book of World Records last year officially declared Lolong the largest crocodile of its kind in captivity.
Did crocodiles descend from dinosaurs. Crocodiles are built to last.
Evolving around 200 million years in the Mesozoic epoch, crocodiles have far outlived the dinosaurs. Scattered across more than 90 countries, 23 species of the Crocodylia order haunt freshwater rivers, streams and marshes. Those 23 crocodilian separate into three families: alligatoridae (alligators and caimans), crocodylidae (crocodiles) and gavialidae (gharials). Voluble crocodiles exhibit a range of calls signaling anything from courtship to distress [source: Florida Museum of Natural History]. They swim through their habitats chomping on frogs, fish, turtles and other vertebrates. But if crocodiles and dinosaurs were living in the same time period, how closely were they related? If we take a closer look at the crocodile's family tree, some surprising animals are hanging out on the various branches. With a little more investigation into this unlikely bond between croc and bird, we can find out where dinosaurs fit into the prehistoric family portrait.
PechaKucha 20x20. PowerPoint Ninja Blog - Tips & Tricks for Effective Business Presentations. Creating Presentations That Persuade. Many moons ago, when I was just a young chap going through nursing school, I had an instructor whose entire class consisted of PowerPoint slides that she would quote.
In the years that have followed, I can’t count the number of bad presentations that I’ve sat through, but I’ve also seen some pretty great ones along the way. Today, we’re going to talk about the latter, and how to craft presentations that persuade. It doesn’t necessarily matter what tools you use, whether it be PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi or even something like Paper on the iPad. What counts is how you choose to compile your presentation, from the information through the visuals. The great presentations tell a story, and they tell it in a way that makes you want to know more, instead of being just another lackluster meeting through which you have to sit.
So how do you tell the story? Gather the Goods One of the hardest thing for presenters to do, from my experiences, is convey their message in a clear, concise manner. Templates. Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics. Create Presentation Slides with iPad Drawing App Paper. iPad drawing and painting app Paper isn’t short on praise.
It’s received a great response since it launched a few short weeks ago, having been downloaded over 1.5 million times in its first two weeks. Its success is with good reason – somehow, even if you’re not exactly the world’s best artist, it almost always manages to make your scribblings look beautiful. Earlier this month, I was watching a presentation at the SMC_MCR event I co-organise in Manchester, UK. Garry Byrne, Managing Director of digital agency Reading Room Manchester, did something inspired – he drew all his slides with Paper, and they looked great. So impressed was I that I copied the idea for a presentation I gave about the future of TV a few days ago. Now, I’m sure other people around the world have done this in the past few weeks too, but it’s far from commonplace at this point.
So, give it a try – and quickly before too many other people get the same idea.