April trip to Southeast Asia (36 photos). The best flyers from the world of animals The largest wild animal in the Philippines is the Tamoro bull

Yakov Podolny (Israel) / Alexander Altshuller (Kaliningrad region) / Alexey Paevsky (Ukraine)

FIRST ROUND: 1). ABC; 2).Men and women; 3). Flowers; 4). Musical instruments; 5). Islands; 6). …tooth…
1-300 S. Makarov developed a semaphore alphabet for the Russian fleet. AA+
PC: "... the Russian semaphore alphabet, the Latin one already existed"
1-400 4-volume "ABC" of stories - his - L. Tolstoy. YP+
PC: "Bravo!"
1-500 Bulgakov's Sharik and Mayakovsky studied the alphabet - from - signboards. YP+
2-500 in a survey of British families, the word babe ("baby") took first place - in the list - the most disliked references to wives. -
3-400 near the Peruvian city of Moyobamba there are 3500 species - flowers - orchids. YP+
3-500 is the national holiday of Tajikistan sair-lola - dedicated to flowers - tulips. -
In Uzbek, “lola” is also “tulip” (hence, a Persian borrowing), but I don’t understand how to take it without knowledge of regional languages. Well, it's true that tulips generally dominate among the natural flower flora of Central Asia, but this, I'm afraid, is a slightly simpler fact.
4-500 Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that Tonya's niece, like her grandmother, plays the balalaika. YAP-
/PC: “Ai-ai-ai. Nobody remembers…”
5-400 is perhaps the largest vehicle of J. Verne - in the novel - "The Floating Island". YAP-
/YP: "Uh... a flying island, if I'm not mistaken..."
PC: “No, no, no, the flying island is more like Swift’s” /
5-500 island-district of Arkhangelsk, where Peter I built a shipyard - Solombala. YP+
6-500 nickname of the 8th and 9th model "Lada" for the shape of the body - "chisel". AP+
PC: “Sometimes they also said “chisel””
4-300 auction.
+900 / +300 / +500
AP: "All-in"
YAP: "All-In"
PC: “Va-bank,” says Yakov Moiseevich. Understandable, understandable…”
In the autumn of 1941, according to the directive of the People's Commissariat of Defense, 60,000 of these instruments were sent to the front - to raise the spirit of the soldiers - harmonicas. YAP-
JP: “That makes sense…”
0 / +300 / +500
4-400 were made from boiled cow or goat ribs - their bones. -
6-400 three rocks form a crater shaft - a volcano on Urup - Trident. AP+
6-300 stage fright will not bring down if the actor has learned the role - so - by heart. AP+
2-400 the only man does not say a word - F. Ozon's film - "Eight Women". YP+
2-300, according to legend, penetrated to Caesar, ordering to wrap herself in a carpet - Cleopatra. YP+
5-300 cat for Alexander Altshuller. "Sculptures", 500.
sculpture "Russia" in 1996 - three objects under the shield - a crown, a scepter and an orb. AA-
1-200 agents of the secret organization "Azbuka" letters served - as - nicknames. AA+
6-200 tilacosmil - marsupial animal - (marsupial) saber-toothed tiger. -
The question is easy, probably, the wording of the players was knocked down. The saber-toothed tiger itself is obviously not a marsupial. It would be better to say “an analogue of this animal among marsupials” or “named after this, also a fossil animal” ...
6-100 Moscow Kremlin - 1045 "dovetails" - battlements of the wall. AA+
3-300, unlike Russia, in the USA and Western Europe is considered to bring happiness - a bouquet - from an even number of flowers. AA+
2-200 Suvorov ordered to carry "as they carry chickens, but very safely" - a gift to serfs - brides. -
PC: “…Here's “how they carry chickens” – I don't know what was meant. As far as I remember, chickens are transported in cages.
AA (smiling): “Well, yes…”
4-200 1712 - made the cello of the Duke of Tuscany - A. Stradivarius. AA+
4-100 attribute of poets - lyre. AP+
1-100 letter codes were invented by Weil, a colleague of the inventor, S. Morse. YP+
3-200 popular song performed by N. Sazonova - "Daisies hid." YP+
/PC: "Yakov Moiseevich, of course"/
PC: "Bravo!"
5-200 Galeshnyak is nicknamed "the island of lovers" - it looks like a heart in shape. AP+
3-100 auction.
+1000 / +600 / +1500
AP: "1000"
In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the south wind of Shavondazi destroyed this flower - a dandelion. AP+
PC: "Bravo!"
+1000 / +600 / +2500
2-100 at the beginning of the play was unrequitedly in love with Rosaline - Romeo. YP+
5-100 "Communism off the coast of America" - jokingly deciphered the name - "Cuba". AA+

RESULTS OF THE FIRST ROUND: +1100 / +700 / +2500

SECOND ROUND: 1). bridges; 2). Fly hunting; 3). Questions from…; 4). Spiritual affairs; 5). Solar system; 6). Length.
6-600 is approximately equal to the length of a human step - the Russian measure is arshin. -
6-800 To calculate the circumference of a circle, you need to know the length of - its - radius. AP+
PC: “Remember the formula?”
AP: "If the length, then 2πr"
Diameter is exactly the same
5-600 asteroid number 274301 was named after the Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia. YP+
At the same time, the Russian Wikipedia argued for a long time whether this asteroid has any significance for the article. These are the harsh rules ...
1-800 Keshwa Chaka is the surviving (last) of the bridges built in the Inca empire. AP+
5-800 the land of Lada, the plain of the Snow Maiden, the Baba Yaga canyon - on the planet - Venus. AA+
6-1000 auction.
+1700 / +1500 / +4100
AA: "All in"
YAP: "All-In"
AP: "Pass"
This modern competitive discipline was also included in the program of the ancient Olympics - now the record is held by Mike Powell - long jump. YP+
PC: “And a record of 8.95. 8 meters 95 centimeters "
+3400 / +1500 / +4100
4-800 Piotr Njegos, canonized as Piotr Cetinsky, ruled the country of Montenegro. YP+
PC: "Cetinje - the historical capital of Montenegro"
4-1000 temple "on the blood" is in St. Petersburg and - the Russian regional center - Yekaterinburg. YP+
PC: "... At the site of the execution of the royal family"
2-800, suspended from flying by the Maestro, took off without a command and shot down the "Messer" - Grasshopper (film "Only "old men" go into battle"). YP+
2-1000 thanks to the fur membrane fly up to 140 meters - the inhabitants of Southeast Asia - woolly wings. AP-
/AP: "These are flying squirrels"
PC: “This animal is called “wool-wing”, it has nothing to do with squirrels” /
Flying squirrels, moreover, flying squirrels for all flying squirrels, are also found in Southeast Asia - taguans (and the winged wing is otherwise called very similarly - “kaguan”). In general, it somehow happened that in the region a lot of animals decided to fly - there is also a lizard, a flying dragon, and flying frogs, and even “flying” snakes (the latter only soften the fall a little, but it’s good for a snake). But colewings are, of course, the most "fancy" planners.
1-1000 cat for AA. "To remember", 1000.
For 60 years, millions of people have been visiting Anitkabir, the mausoleum of M.K.Ataturk, in Ankara. AA-
5-1000 for 4 years of work, he spotted more than a hundred planets outside the solar system - the space telescope - "Kepler". AP+
/AP: “Unfortunately, two out of three gyroscopes are now out of order…”/
PC: "...Failed out recently"
5-400 in the Voyager photograph from a distance of 6 billion km looks like a pale blue dot - the Earth. AP+
AP: “This picture is called “Pale Blue Dot””
6-200 the title of the smallest planet in the solar system passed from Pluto - to - Mercury. YP+
4-600 a dark-skinned statue of the Savior was brought to Manila by a ship on which, according to legend - this happened - a fire. -
JP: “It makes sense…”
1-600 1982 - 200 students, hastily assembled in Ostankino, participated in the first event - a teleconference (USSR - USA). AP+
Make-up artist Natalya Orekhova asks 3-200 questions.
checking the makeup of Josephine and Daphne, the director of the film "Only Girls in Jazz" forced them to go into an institution - a women's toilet. AA+
PC: "Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in women's make-up walked into a women's establishment, no one recognized them as men, and after that they started filming..."
3-600 if the actor's lower eyelid is smeared with a special pencil, then the actor will do it - cry. AP+
PC: "...There is such a special tear pencil"
AP: “But according to Stanislavsky, it’s not supposed to be like that!”
PC: “I know, I know… Well, what can you do. On some shootings, 15 takes are shot ... "
AP: "Yes"
PC: “... I went through it myself. Cry 15 times with your left eye ... "
/Aleksey Paevsky laughs/
PC: "...It's very hard, I think"
3-800 film "Spring": "Medium plump, sexy #4!" - about - lips. AP+
/AP: “Now they don’t wear such lips at all” /
3-400 special black varnish creates the illusion of a missing tooth. AP+
3-1000 adding talc, zinc oxide, chalk to starch - it will turn out - powder. YP+
/YP: "White"
PC: "White?"
YP: "Well, powder"
PC: "Powder, yes, Yakov Moiseevich, powder" /
I doubt the legitimacy of the account
2-600 in the photo - a stag flying two meters above the water - a slope. AP+
PC: "Bravo!"
1-200 microdistrict Khimki and a bridge to the ship - Skhodnya. YP+
2-400 frightened of broom competition - J. Rowling: The Ministry of Magic banned the import into Britain - vehicles - flying carpets. AA+
PC: “Even though they obviously didn’t read or watch the movie”
6-400 Bible: 300 meters long gopher wood building - Noah's Ark. AP+
4-200 accompanied Muhammad during the ascension to heaven - the archangel - Jabrail (Gabriel). YP+
1-400, the Rotterdamers nicknamed the "swan", and the official name of the bridge is in honor of the great native - Erasmus of Rotterdam. -
4-400 Teffi: either they will crush the tail of the sacred cat, or they will poke at the sacred dog, or they will eat the holy fly in borscht - the ancients - the Egyptians. YP+

RESULTS OF THE SECOND ROUND: +8000 / +1100 / +7900

THIRD ROUND: 1). Factories; 2). I am sitting behind bars; 3). spices; 4). What from what; 5). The Bears; 6). Stairs.
4-900 in the photo - S. Stockwell collected a map of the world - from - microcircuits. AP+
As with the recent question about the bottle cap paintings, I could hardly distinguish any elements at all, let alone identify them. It looks different from the player's table, doesn't it?
4-600 ugali, hominy, polenta are made - from flour - corn. YP+
2-1200 during the Cold War, the 4 victorious powers jointly operated a prison in West Berlin - Spandau. YAP-
PC: "...In which the Nazi criminals sentenced by the Nuremberg trials were serving time"
2-1500 Louis XI called "daughters" - innovations in prisons - iron cages. -
1-1200 1922 - The Petrograd knitting and hosiery factory received a new name with the order - "Red Banner". -
From the wording of the question, one can understand that they did not just give the order and renamed it, but they named it after the order. Well, the order was the only one then. Not a bad question
1-1500 cat for AA. "Soups", 1500.
French bouillabaisse, Spanish gazpacho, Finnish lohikeitto, German bread soup - they are cooked in cast iron and infused for another day - lohikeitto. AA-
/AA: "Mmm..."
PC: "I'll remind you. French. German. Spanish gazpacho. Finnish"
AA: "Well, let it be gazpacho"
PC: What are you talking about? “Gazpacho… uh, well, at least the most famous in Russia, of all these soups. Well, at least bouillabaisse and gazpacho - I, for one, have some idea of what it is, yes.
Just having a general idea of what gazpacho is (“this is such a special soup that is cold”), I also answered him. Plus "Spanish gazpacho" among just "French", "German" and "Finnish" soups could seem like a clue
5-900 having got to the gypsies, he began to "go around the villages with a bear" - Pushkin's hero - Aleko. AA+
5-1200 "Bear Circus" was created by V. Filatov. YP+
PC: "Valentin Filatov, bravo!"
5-1500 taken under protection - bears from an island near Alaska - Kodiak. YP+
6-1500 six denominations agreed not to change anything without common consent - in the temple - the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. YP+
The staircase, which has been standing on the ledge for two centuries, is a very interesting and funny fact, thanks to the editors! But I’ll grumble a little: the question is clearly cheaper
3-1200 the road in front of Nero was sprinkled with water with an expensive spice - saffron. -
Well, the Romans could not have known so many spices, plus it looks like the raw materials are floral
3-1500 Guatemala is ahead in production even of its homeland, India - "green gold" - cardamom. -
4-1200 auction.
+11600 / +500 / +8800
YP: "8800"
PC: “Bravo, Yakov Moiseevich! Bravo"
For the manufacture of this in Venice, the purest sand from the Po River was used, and even imported - from Istria - Venetian glass. YAP-
/YP: "For the construction of this?"
PC: “Yakov Moiseevich, in my opinion, you are pretending to think a lot”
YP: "Beaches" /
Judging by the word “construction”, Jacob at first misunderstood the question, presented some kind of construction
+2800 / +500 / +8800
PC: "Sorry. Keep playing, don't get discouraged"
4-1500 from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts annually sent a steamer with rags to England, receiving paper back. AP+
6-900 the century before last - the world's first escalator appeared in a New York park on Coney Island. YP+
2-900 is now a museum and the most popular holiday destination near Cape Town - the island - Robben. -
PC: "A very famous place"
1-900 auction.
+3700 / +500 / +10300
YAP: "All-In"
PC: "Alexey, take a chance"
AP: "No"
PC: “We are playing with Yakov Moiseevich. Let's try our luck again."
A century and a half ago, in the Menshikovs' estate near Klin, they began to make such toys - the factory still stands - Christmas trees. YAP-
/YP: “Uh, wooden, as far as I… They are called locally… Carved wooden…”
PC (without interfering for a long time): “No, Yakov Moiseevich ...” /
But this, IMHO, is a real complex auction, in which the answer can “click” if it is invented, but there are no obvious leads in its direction. This should be set at 1500 so that the players understand where they are going ..
By the way, it’s also interesting: how were toys made there during the New Year’s ban?
0 / +500 / +10300
3-900 the region of Liberia, from where the Portuguese exported the melegetu pepper, is called the Pepper Coast on old maps. YP+
PC: "Bravo!"
Personally, I know Pepper Coast. Are both options correct, or did Pyotr Borisovich, delighted with the answer, not even begin to correct?
5-600 in the house of the village of Jarfjord, a bear and three bear cubs destroyed sweets, drinking beer from cans. YP+
2-600 sent abroad academician of architecture A. Tomishko to study the prison business - the Ministry of Russia - the Ministry of Internal Affairs. AP+
6-600 at the third Odessa International Film Festival, "City Lights" was shown to live music - there - on the Potemkin Stairs. YP+
/PC: "Odessa, give an answer!"/
PC: “An answer was given by a person who lived most of his life in the city of Grodno”
In, I came up with a toast to Yakov Moiseevich: so that the part of life lived in Grodno, from a larger one, becomes much, much smaller!
1-600, the Romans called the word fabrica a small enterprise - workshops. -
From the category of those questions where the answer is approximately clear, but you don’t understand what word they want to hear ...
3-600 is dried strips of bark - cinnamon. AA+
3-300 grow "organic food" by spraying an infusion of hot pepper - for the purpose - to protect against pests. AA+
PC: "...Instead of conventional insecticides, harmful"
5-300 the "youngest" species of bears, separated from the brown one - the polar bear. YAP-
PC: "... And it happened, according to biologists, from 150 to 250 thousand years ago"
AA: "Yesterday"
2-300 G. Efron called "Bottles" - Butyrskaya prison. AA+
PC: “As it was customary to say then -“ Butyrki ””
4-300 at the Winter Smile festival in the Arkhangelsk region, they managed to melt a stove made of snow. AP+
Cool!
6-300 drawing in the cave of Valencia, which is about 100 centuries old, is the progenitor of the stairs - stepladders. AA+

RESULTS OF THE THIRD ROUND: +1800 / +2000 / +11200

Players remove topics:
JP: "It's all rock 'n' roll"
AA: "Museums of Moscow"
AP: London
YP: "Everyone knows them"
AA: Encyclopedias
AP: "Signs"

The theme "Around the Music" is played

Tchaikovsky dedicated three for piano, violin and cello to his memory. And in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, his portrait occupies a central position - above the stage. What are we talking about?

Yakov Podolny: the answer is "Rubinstein" - right - the rate is 600 (2400)
Alexander Altshuller: answer "Cui" - incorrect - rate 2000 (0)
Alexey Paevsky: the answer "Beethoven" is incorrect - the rate is 1000 (10200)
PC: “... I would like to remind you that Nikolai Rubinstein had a direct, if not the most important, relation to the creation of the Moscow State Conservatory - that is why his portrait is located in the very center, in the Great Hall ...”

TOTAL GAME SCORE: +2400 / 0 / +10200
TOTAL TEAM ACCOUNTS: +5700 / +4600 / +32400

Cumulative prize fund:
1st place: 361.423
2nd place: 151.534
3rd place: 52.711

With the set of groups in the Middle Kingdom, things have not been going very well lately, and God himself ordered to move further south and east in my study of the Asian part of the world.

The route I chose is the following:

Novosibirsk - Vladivostok - Singapore - Manila - Palawan Island (Philippines) - Hong Kong - Macau - Novosibirsk.

He (the route) began to look like this due to the numerous sales of air tickets.

For example, the section Vladivostok - Singapore, with a transfer in Hong Kong, cost me only 10,000 rubles. Well, how can you resist? Other flights also indulged in low cost. Flying within Asia is generally cheap. You only need to catch one of the sales on local low-cost airlines, and for this, in turn, you need to constantly monitor the sites of several airlines for a long time.

Singapore.

In my opinion, everything has already been written about this miracle city. I will announce my opinion about a three-day stay in this city-state.

I did not apply for a visa, since 96-hour visa-free transit is provided for citizens of the Russian Federation. In principle, this time is enough to explore the main attractions of Singapore.

I would like to especially note the airline "Singapore Airlines". Flight Hong Kong - Singapore, I mastered the largest Airbus A-380. Flying it is pure pleasure. The level of comfort in the local "economy class" is much superior to our domestic "business class" in everything.

In my opinion, the statement that Singapore is a very clean city is a little overstated. The city center is polished, but it is worth visiting the Indian quarter - and everything will become clear. Dirty and stink.

Everyone smokes only in designated areas. These places can be identified by the presence of urns in them. How unusual and wild!

Prices in Singapore are very high for everything. After China, it was very unpleasant for me to pay 15-20 singadollars (1 dollar - 27 rubles) for lunch or dinner. And this is in an ordinary eatery. I didn’t drink beer at all, because 250 rubles for a jar of this drink is crazy price!!!

Where have I been...

Sightseeing tour by bus around the city, swept on the local Ferris wheel, the "Magic Gardens" of Marina Bay, the beaches of Sentosa Island, which I reached by cable car, and, of course, the casino of Singapore!

The casino at the Marina Bay Hotel left the most pleasant impressions. This is both the environment and the outcome of the Poker Game. I won't reveal how much I won, but Singapore cost me free...

By the way... Not a bad option for traveling. I arrived, admired the sights, rested, played in a casino, won - I left with my friends. But for such an option, the main thing is the last ... Then how lucky.

Also got caught in the local kind of rain! It's certainly SOMETHING... A solid wall of water falling from the sky! It rains every evening in Singapore!

Well, a couple of photos for the Pleziru.

If you hear a contented grunt in the Philippine forest, this will not necessarily mean that a snout pig is hiding in the foliage. A very similar sound is made by the binturong, a rare inhabitant of Asian forests. He grunts not always, but only when he is pleased with something. If the bear is not happy, then he lets out alarming cries. Medvedkot is nocturnal and moves along the branches using a long tail. The bear cat feeds on eggs, leaves and other vegetation. Sometimes it can dine on small chicks. Lives in captivity for about 20 years. On the island of Palawan in the zoo near Puerto Princess you can see these funny little bears.

Flying lemurs live in the Philippines - one of the most amazing animals on the planet

The flying lemur is a very original animal living in the countries of Southeast Asia. He does not have wings, however, he can fly up to 100 meters in one jump. Like ordinary lemurs, the flying lemur is engaged in flights and other active life activities at night, and during the day it sleeps, gently hugging a tree. The head of a flying lemur is somewhat reminiscent of a dog, but the body is very similar to a flying Canadian squirrel. In Mindanao, flying lemurs are called "kagwangs". Representatives of this rare family of animals live in Malaysia.

An ordinary kagwang weighs from one to two kilograms. It has small ears and huge eyes so it can see better at night. Its membrane stretches from the front paws to the tail. She helps the flying lemur to escape from all kinds of predators, including the Philippine eagle.
The flying lemur lives in Basilan, Leyte, Samara, Bohol and Mindanao. The kagwang population has not been counted in our time, however, the Philippine government has included the flying lemur in the list of endangered animals on the planet and banned its commercial use.

Philippine tarsier, or maomag

The ghost tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) is a tiny animal that lives on several islands in the southern part of the Philippine archipelago, it is an endemic and endangered primate species.

Tarsiers have been on Earth for at least 45 million years and are one of the oldest animal species in the Philippines. Once tarsiers were widespread in Europe, Asia and North America, but now they can be found only in remote corners of the planet. The size of an adult tarsier is comparable to the length of a human finger.

The size of the Philippine tarsier is small, the body of an adult animal (except for the tail) is not larger than the width of a human palm, about 100 mm. The tail of the tarsier is longer than the body. The average weight of males is about 134 g, females - 117 g.

The first thing that attracts attention in the appearance of tarsiers is their disproportionately huge eyes, adapted for hunting in the night forest. The rounded head of the tarsier can rotate more than 180 degrees in both directions, i.e. the tarsier can easily look behind itself. The ears are also very mobile, almost always in motion. The tarsier has facial muscles on its “face”, it can change the expression of its cute muzzle, which makes the animal very “human”.

Tarsier fur is thick and silky, grayish to dark brown in color. A long bare tail is used for balance. The fingers on both the front and hind limbs are developed and very long. The ends of the fingers are flattened, forming pads designed for climbing the branches of trees. On all fingers, except for the second and third, there are flat nails, on the second and third - sharp claws used by the animal when combing the fur. The fingers in the hand are not really opposed, but when climbing, the tarsier embraces the branch, leaving the thumb behind.

The hind limbs are more developed, the ankles of the "legs" are elongated. Tarsiers can jump sharply and far both in danger and when moving from tree to tree. The length of the jump can be several meters (and this is for such a crumb)!

If the tarsier is very dissatisfied with something, it emits a thin squeak. With the help of voice, tarsiers can communicate, report the boundaries of their territories and call on partners, but in general it is noted that tarsiers use their voice much less often compared to other primates. The maximum recorded lifespan of the Philippine tarsier is 13.5 years (in captivity).

Javanese macaque

The Javan macaque - Macaca fascicularis - is a medium-sized monkey. Body length from 40 to 60-65 cm. The weight of an adult male is 4 - 8.5 kg, females 2.5 - 3.7 kg. The tail is about half a meter long, the limbs are short. The coat is gray with a greenish tint, there is a dark tuft on the head, a light mustache and sideburns are characteristic. They breed all year round. This species is famous for the fact that individuals living near sea coasts can dive in rivers and lagoons in search of crabs and other edible marine life, for this they are often called crab-eating macaques. Some individuals can even kill large crabs on land with stone blows. Monkeys of this species have well-developed cheek pouches in which food is carried. The basis of the diet is leaves, grass, insects, young shoots, flowers. In search of food, macaques raid rice plantations. Javanese are not as aggressive as other macaques.

Pilandok, Palawan mouse deer

Pilandok, Palawan mouse deer - Tragalus nigricans - an adult weighs only 2 kg, about 40 centimeters at the withers, this is the smallest ungulate. Its other name is kanchil. Contrary to its name, this deer is not a member of the deer family. Males do not have horns. For self-defense, he uses fangs on the upper jaw.

The body is like a hare, the fur is brown and white. A dark line runs from each ear past the eyes to the nose. The legs are slender, the size of a pencil, with small hooves at the end. The most notable feature is the pig's conical muzzle.

Pilandok is a solitary nocturnal animal that feeds at night on leaves, fruits, flowers, twigs, shrubs and other vegetation in forests or near mangrove swamps. During the day, he stays in the forest, often spending a long time motionless, sometimes resting in the branches of low trees. An extremely territorial animal. marks the territory with urine, feces, and secretions from the gland under the chin.

Philippine sambar

Philippine deer, or Philippine sambar- Cervus philippinus or Rusa marianna - larger than the Philippine Spotted, and its fur is dark, black-brown, without any spots.

Philippine sika deer

The Philippine sika deer - Cervus alfredi - is a close relative of the sambar. Its coat is a rich dark brown with yellowish-white spots. The height at the withers is 71 cm. The species is found on most of the islands of the Philippine archipelago.

The largest wild animal in the Philippines is the Tamoro bull.

Tamoro bulls are rare animals found only on the island of Mindoro. Outwardly, they are similar to carabaos living in other countries of Southeast Asia. Such a bull weighs about 300 kilograms. Its distinguishing feature is the ability to climb up the almost vertical ledges of mountains. Once such a bull was found at an altitude of 2 kilometers above sea level. Most often, tamoros like to graze somewhere in the vicinity of a water source.

buffalo carabao

In the Philippines, the water buffalo festival (carabao) is held. At this time, residents carefully clean the buffaloes, shave, cut, massage with aromatic oils and put on crowns of flowers. Then each family proudly leads the well-groomed buffaloes to the square in front of the church, which results in a colorful procession adorned with flowers, fruits and plants of a wide variety of colors. The priests bless the buffaloes, wishing them good health in the coming year. It is also interesting to see how the buffaloes "take in the mud" again.

Eastern clawless otter

Eastern clawless otter (Aonyx cinerea - In length (with a tail), it is slightly less than 1 m, weighing up to 5.5 kg. It is usually dark brown in color. Otters of this genus have unusually reduced claws on both pairs of limbs. They look like nails. The forelegs are brush-like and partially webbed, and the toes are used for catching prey in a way that other otter species do not have.

bearded pig

The bearded pig - Sus barbatus - is the same size as a wild boar, or a little smaller (body length 100-160 cm, weight about 100 kg), but relatively more high-legged. She got her name for the elongated light bristles that frame the muzzle from the corners of the mouth almost to the ears. The body is covered with sparse bristles, through which a gray or grayish-pink body shines through.

Kaguan, or woolly wing

Woolly wings - Dermoptera - are mammals capable of flight (or rather, gliding) at a distance of up to 140 m. Gliding is carried out due to the "wing" - a membrane covered with fur that connects the limbs, tail and neck of animals. An endemic species lives in the Philippines - the Philippine woolly wing, also known as the kaguan or "flying lemur". Body length (without tail) up to 42 cm, weight - 1.7 kg.

Fruit bats (flying foxes)

Fruit bats (flying foxes) - Pteropodidae - reach large sizes: body length up to 42 cm and wingspan up to 1.7 m (flying foxes). However, there are also small nectar- and pollen-eating forms only 5-6 cm in size, with a wingspan of 24 cm. The mass varies from 15 to 900 g. The tail is short, underdeveloped or absent; only in long-tailed fruit bats (Notopteris) is it relatively long. Fruit bats are active at night and at dusk. The day is spent in the crowns of trees, under the eaves of roofs, in caves, less often in large hollows. There may not be a permanent shelter, as fruit bats roam in search of food. From places of daytime to places of feeding, they can fly up to 15 km long, and in total fly up to 90-100 km per night. Smaller species are solitary; large ones usually accumulate on days in large groups. So, palm fruit bats (Eidolon) sometimes form noisy settlements of up to 10,000 individuals, even in large cities. Some species are active during the day. During rest, the fruit bat usually hangs upside down, clinging with sharp claws to a branch or to an unevenness on the ceiling of the cave; sometimes hangs on one leg. The body is wrapped in wide leathery wings, as in a blanket; in hot weather, fanning them like a fan. Fruit bats, as a rule, do not fall into hibernation.

Dugong, sea cow

Dugong - Dugong dugong - aquatic mammal, body length up to 4 m, weight up to 600 kg. The name "dugong" comes from the Malay duyung, meaning "mermaid", "sea maiden". A small, inactive head passes into a massive spindle-shaped body, which ends in a tail fin located horizontally. The head is small, rounded, on a short neck. There are no auricles. The eyes are small, deep set. The nostrils are shifted upward more than other sirens; equipped with valves that close under water. The muzzle looks chopped off; ends with fleshy lips hanging down. The two lobes of its tail are separated by a wide middle notch and pointed at the ends. It is on the verge of extinction and is listed in the international Red Book. Can be found in the Philippines (more often in the province of Palawan).

Africa in miniature

Extinct animals

With the discovery of fossils in the last century, scientists believe that elephants, rhinos and stegodons (pygmy elephants) lived in the Philippines. Two species of elephant and one species of rhinoceros have been identified, namely Elaphas beyeri, Elaphas namadicus and Rhinoceros philippinensis. Four species of Stegodon are found in the Philippines: Stegodon trigonocephalus, Stegodon luzonensis, Stegodon sinensis and Stegodon mindanensis.

The twenty-seventh game of the Second Team Tournament.

Members

Alexander Altshuler

Alexey Paevsky

Yakov Podolny, pediatrician from Karmiel (Israel)
Alexander Altshuler, economist from Kaliningrad
Alexey Paevsky, science journalist from Odessa (Ukraine)

Game progress

First round

Themes:

ABC
Men and women
Flowers
Musical instruments
Islands
…tooth…

ABC (300)

In 1895, Vice Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov developed exactly this for the Russian fleet.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Semaphore alphabet

ABC (400)

The stories from his 4-volume "ABC" have been included in anthologies and primers for 140 years.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

ABC (500)

Bulgakov's Sharik learned the alphabet from them. Mayakovsky admitted the same.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: signboards

Men and women (500)

In a recent survey of British families, the word babe - "baby" took first place in this list.

Correct answer: The most disliked addresses to wives

Flowers (400)

Peruvian Moyobamba is nicknamed the city of these flowers: up to 3500 species are found in the district.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: orchids

Flowers (500)

The national holiday sair-lola, dedicated to these flowers, is celebrated in Tajikistan at the beginning of summer.

Correct answer: tulips

Musical instruments (500)

General Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that his found niece Tonya masterfully plays this instrument - just like her own grandmother, Tonya is not known.

Jacob answers.
Player response: Piano.
Correct answer: Balalaika

Islands (400)

In this novel, perhaps the largest of the vehicles born of the fantasy of Jules Verne operates.

Jacob answers.
Player response: "Floating island".
Correct answer: "Floating Island"

Islands (500)

From the shipyard built by Peter I on this island, 500 ships left for three centuries; now the island has become a district of Arkhangelsk.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Solombala

…tooth… (500)

The eighth and ninth Zhiguli models received this nickname for their body shape.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: "Chisel"

Musical instruments (300)

Auction. In the autumn of 1941, according to the directive of the People's Commissariat of Defense, 60,000 of these tools were sent to the front to raise the spirit of the soldiers.

Jacob plays. Rate - 900.
Player response: drums.
Correct answer: Harmonicas

Musical instruments (400)

Initially, they were made from boiled cow or goat ribs. Nowadays, they are mainly made from solid wood.

Correct answer: Bones

…tooth… (400)

The crater rampart of this active volcano on the Kuril Island Urup is formed by three rocks.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Trident

…tooth… (300)

If the actor learned the text of the role in this way, then no stage fright will bring him down.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: by heart

Men and women (400)

In this film by François Ozon, the only man doesn't say a word; even the audience hardly sees the face.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: "Eight Women"

Men and women (300)

According to legend, she secretly entered Caesar from her brother, ordering him to be wrapped in a precious carpet. Plutarch clarifies: not in a carpet, but in a modest bed bag.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Cleopatra

Islands (300)

Sculptures (500)

Cat in a bag. Subject: sculptures. The sculpture "Russia", created in 1896, is a masterpiece of Kasli casting. What 3 items are under the shield?

Played by Alexander. The bet is 500.
The player does not respond.
Correct answer: Crown, scepter and orb

ABC (200)

At the end of 1917, the secret organization "Azbuka" was created in Kyiv to fight against Bolshevism. The letters of the alphabet served the agents in this capacity.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Underground nicknames

…tooth… (200)

In the Miocene, this marsupial, or tilokasmin, lived in North America.

Correct answer: Saber-toothed tiger

…tooth… (100)

The Moscow Kremlin has 1045 of these "dovetails".

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Battlements of the wall

Flowers (300)

In the USA and Western Europe, unlike in Russia, it is believed that such a bouquet brings happiness.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: With an even number of colors

Men and women (200)

Suvorov ordered to carry this "gift", bought for his own serfs, "as they carry chickens, but very safely."

Correct answer: Brides

Musical instruments (200)

In 1712 he made a cello for the Grand Duke of Tuscany; now the American Yo-Yo Ma plays the instrument.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Stradivarius

Musical instruments (100)

Poets consider it their attribute, even if they don’t understand anything about music.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Lira

ABC (100)

Letter codes, that is, the alphabet itself, were invented by his colleague Weil, which the inventor himself denied.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: morse

Flowers (200)

This popular song performed by actress Nina Sazonova was first heard in the TV movie "My Street".

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: "Daisies hid"

Islands (200)

The Croatian island of Galesnjak is shaped like this; No wonder it is called the "Island of Lovers".

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Heart

Flowers (100)

Auction. In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the south wind Shavandase destroyed this flower.

Played by Alex. The rate is 1,000.
Correct answer: Dandelion

Men and women (100)

At the beginning of the play, he was unrequitedly in love with the beautiful Rosalina, but the new love turned out to be stronger.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Romeo

Islands (100)

The name of this island was jokingly deciphered as "Communism off the coast of America."

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Cuba

Round result

Jacob - 1 100
Alexander - 700
Alexei - 2 500

Second round

Themes:

Bridges
fly hunting
Questions from…
Spiritual Affairs
solar system
Length

Length (600)

This Russian measure was approximately equal to the length of a human step.

Correct answer: Arshin

Length (800)

Its length must be known in order to calculate the circumference of a circle.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Radius

Solar system (600)

This year, asteroid number 274301 was named after this online encyclopedia.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Wikipedia

Bridges (800)

The Keshwa Chaka Rope Bridge over the Apurimac River is the last surviving bridge built by the inhabitants of this empire.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Inca

Solar system (800)

On this planet you can find the land of Lada, the plain of the Snow Maiden and even the canyon of Baba Yaga.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Venus

Length (1 000)

Question-auction. This modern competitive discipline was part of the program of the ancient Olympics. Now the record belongs to Mike Powell.

Jacob plays. Rate - 1 700.
Correct answer: Long jump

Spiritual Affairs (800)

Peter Negosh, who ruled this country at the beginning of the 19th century, was canonized by the Orthodox Church as Peter Tsetinsky.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Montenegro

Spiritual Affairs (1,000)

There is a temple "on blood" not only in St. Petersburg, but also in this Russian regional center.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Ekaterinburg

Fly hunting (800)

Maestro Titarenko removed him from flying, and during a German raid, without a command, he took off on a commander’s plane and shot down a Messer.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Grasshopper

Fly hunting (1 000)

These inhabitants of Southeast Asia fly up to 140 meters thanks to the fur membrane between the paws, tail and neck.

Alexey answers.
Player response: flying squirrels.
Correct answer: Wormwing

Bridges (1,000)

To remember (1 000)

Cat in a bag. Subject: To remember. The project of Turkish architects was preferred, and for 60 years Anitkabir in Ankara has been visited by millions of people, and not only Turks. What is Anitkabir?

Played by Alexander. The rate is 1,000.
Player response: National Museum.
Correct answer: Mausoleum of Ataturk

Solar system (1,000)

This space telescope, which orbited the Sun, managed to “look out” for 4 years of work more than a hundred planets outside the solar system.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: "Keppler"

Solar system (400)

In a photograph taken by Voyager from 6 billion kilometers away, it appears as a pale blue dot.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Earth

Solar system (200)

After Pluto was excluded from the planets, the title of the smallest planet in the solar system passed to him.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Mercury

Spiritual Affairs (600)

Filipinos carry a dark-skinned statue of the Savior around the capital three times a year; According to legend, this is exactly what happened on the ship that brought the statue to Manila four centuries ago.

Correct answer: Fire

Bridges (600)

This event first took place in 1982, although it did not go on the air. From the Soviet side, 200 students, hastily gathered in Ostankino, participated.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Teleconference with the USA

Questions from… (200)

Questions from the makeup artist

Make-up artist Natalya Orekhova asks questions. Checking the makeup of Josephine and Daphne, the director of the film "Only Girls in Jazz", forced the actors to go to this institution and only then began filming.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Women's toilet

Questions from… (600)

If the lower eyelid of an actor is lightly smeared with a special pencil that looks like lipstick, then the actor will do it.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: will cry

Questions from… (800)

In the film "Spring" Rina Zelyonaya as a make-up artist of the film studio commands: "Average plump, sexy number four!". What is she talking about?

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Lips

Questions from… (400)

A special black lacquer helps to give the viewer the illusion that the actor does not have this.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Tooth

Questions from… (1,000)

Take starch, add talc, zinc oxide, chalk. What will happen?

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Powder

Fly hunting (600)

Who flies two meters above the water and immediately flops back?

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: stingray

Bridges (200)

This is the Khimki microdistrict, and a swing bridge for entering the ship.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Gangway

Fly hunting (400)

According to J.K. Rowling, the Ministry of Magic banned these "vehicles" from being brought into Britain. Not otherwise frightened of the competition brooms.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Flying carpets

Length (400)

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: noah's ark

Spiritual affairs (200)

This archangel accompanied Muhammad during his miraculous ascension to heaven.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Jabrail

Bridges (400)

The people of Rotterdam have nicknamed this graceful bridge "the swan". The official name of the bridge is in honor of this famous native of the city.

Correct answer: Erasmus of Rotterdam

Spiritual Affairs (400)

According to Teffi, these ancient steps could not be taken without blasphemy: either they would crush the tail of a sacred cat, or they would poke at a sacred dog, or they would eat a holy fly in borscht ...

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Egyptians

Round result

Jacob - 8 000
Alexander - 1 100
Alexei - 7 900

Third round

Themes:

Factories
I'm sitting behind bars
Spices
What from what
The Bears
stairs

What of what (900)

British artist Susan Stockfen put together a map of the world from this. The work took a year, you can admire it at the University of Berkfordshire.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Microcircuits

What of what (600)

African ugali, Romanian hominy, Italian polenta… All three porridges are made from this flour.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: corn

I am behind bars (1,200)

Even during the Cold War, this West Berlin prison was jointly run by the four allied powers.

Jacob answers.
Player response: Muabit.
Correct answer: Spandau

I am behind bars (1,500)

These "innovations" introduced in the Bastille and other prisons to aggravate the suffering of prisoners, King Louis XI affectionately called "daughters."

Correct answer: iron cells

Factories (1 200)

In 1922, the Petrograd Knitting and Hosiery Factory, founded by the merchant Natus, received the order and with it this new name.

Correct answer: Red flag

Factories (1 500)

Soups (1 500)

Cat in a bag. Subject: Soups. Here are French bouillabaisse, Finnish Lohikeito, Spanish gazpacho and German bread soup. Only this soup is supposed to be cooked in a cast-iron and left for another day.

Played by Alexander. Rate - 1 500.
Player response: gazpacho.
Correct answer: lohikeyto

Bears (900)

This Pushkin hero, having got to the gypsies, began to "go around the villages with a bear", which extremely outraged the romantic Ryleev.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Aleko

Bears (1 200)

The “Bear Circus” created by him was filmed in the films “Arena of the Brave”, “Michelle and the Bear”, “Not all bears sleep in winter”.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Valentin Filatov

Bears (1 500)

These bears from an island near Alaska are taken under state protection - their numbers have declined sharply.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Kodiak

Stairs (1 500)

Six denominations agreed not to change anything in this temple without a common consent. So the stairs, who knows how to get on the ledge, do not touch for two centuries.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Spices (1 200)

Correct answer: Cardamom

What of what (1 200)

Auction. The purest sand from the Po River, or even imported sand from Istria, was used to make this in Venice.

Jacob plays. Rate - 8 800.
Player response: Yarn.
Correct answer: Glass

What from what (1 500)

From the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts every year they sent a steamer with dirty rags to England, and they received exactly this back.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: drawing paper

Stairs (900)

In the century before last, the first in the world appeared in a New York park on Coney Island for the amusement of the public. It acquired its modern look 27 years later. What are we talking about?

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Escalator

I'm behind bars (900)

Spices (900)

The Portuguese exported pepper miguetta from the coast of present-day Liberia. On old maps, the region is called that way.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Pepper Coast

Bears (600)

In the Norwegian village of Jarfjord, a she-bear and three cubs broke into a house in the absence of their owners, destroying honey and chocolate and washing down canned sweets with these contents.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Beer

I'm behind bars (600)

In the century before last, this Russian ministry sent the academician of architecture Anthony Tomishko abroad. To study the prison case.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: MIA

Stairs (600)

At the third Odessa Film Festival "City Lights" Chaplin was shown there to the live music of the Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: On the Potemkin Stairs

Factories (600)

The Romans called the word fabrica such a small enterprise.

Correct answer: Workshops

Spices (600)

This spice is dried strips of bark.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Cinnamon

Spices (300)

Farmers who grow "organic food" spray hot pepper infusion for this purpose.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: For pest control instead of conventional insecticides

Bears (300)

This species, separated from the brown bear, is now the "youngest".

Jacob answers.
Player response: Grizzly.
Correct answer: Polar bear

I'm behind bars (300)

The son of Marina Tsvetaeva Georgy Efron in his diary calls this institution, where both his father and sister were "Bottles".

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Butyrskaya prison

What of what (300)

At the Winter Smile festival in the Arkhangelsk region, the local team not only built a stove out of it, but also managed to flood it.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Snow

Stairs (300)

The image of the progenitor of just such a staircase was found in one of the caves of Valencia. The drawing is about 100 centuries old.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Ladder

Round result

Jacob - 1 800
Alexander - 2 000
Alexei - 11 200

Final round

Subject: Around the music

Tchaikovsky dedicated a trio for piano, violin and cello to his memory. And in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, his portrait occupies a central position above the stage. What are we talking about?

Jacob's answer: Nikolai Rubinstein
Rate - 600.

Alexander's answer: Cui
The rate is 2,000.

Alexey's answer: Beethoven
The rate is 1,000.

Correct answer: Nikolai Rubinstein

Outcome of the game

Jacob - 2 400
Alexander - 0
Alexei - 10 200

Aleksey Paevsky is declared the winner of the game. The Ukrainian team advances to the final games.

In the numerous and diverse world of the fauna of mammals that are able to "fly", or rather plan, there are only a few. The most famous are flying squirrels, spiketails, marsupial flying squirrels and woolly wings. Here we will talk about the latter. Kaguan (Cynocephalus volans), flying maquis, or Philippine woolly wing, or simply woolly wing.

This unusual animal belongs to arboreal mammals that live in the tropics of Southeast Asia. There are only 2 extant genera and 6 fossil genera in the Colleopteran order. Of the living, in addition to the Filipino, the Malay (lat. Cynocephalus variegatus) woolly wing is known.

From the name it is not difficult to guess about the areola of their habitat. The first chose the Philippines, or rather, the islands of Leyte, Bohol, Mindanao, Samar and Basilan. The second is Thailand and the islands of the Indonesian archipelago.

It is difficult to say who this animal resembles more - to someone a cat, to someone. Its dimensions are small - up to 65 cm along with the tail, weight is about 2 kg. On a small pretty muzzle there are large round dark eyes and rounded small ears.

The small limbs of the woolly wing are equipped with sharp claws, so that it is more convenient to climb trees and hang on branches. But to plan between the trees, it is helped by a dense flying membrane that connects all the limbs, tail and neck of the animal. There are also small webs between the toes on the paws.

By the way, the flying membrane of the woolly wing is the largest among other "flying" mammals. From above, she, like his whole body, is covered with small, soft and thick fur, which is why they called this animal a woolly wing. The coat of the kaguan varies from brown-red to grayish-brown, the light belly and the same light spots on the sides stand out only against the general background.

Kaguanas are nocturnal animals that spend most of their lives in trees. On the ground, they can be found very rarely, since they crawl along it and can easily become prey to predators. Colleopterans spend their days in hollows, getting out of them after sunset. It is at this time that you can see their flights. In the jump, they spread their paws in different directions and stretch their tail, thanks to which the membranes are stretched as much as possible.

The flight range of woolly wings is up to 140 m, with a height loss of only 10 m. Smaller distances (20-30 m) they actually fly in a straight line. But that's not all. By changing the tension of the membrane, the kaguan can control the direction of flight. They land in the same way as, for example, flying squirrels or. Taking a vertical position at some distance from the target, they land on the tree with all 4 limbs.

The diet of these flying animals is purely vegetarian: buds, leaves, flowers and fruits of various trees. Interestingly, the breeding features of the woolly wings are similar to representatives of marsupials, so they are sometimes referred to as them. The female brings, as a rule, one (rarely two) small, naked and blind babies. For the first 5-6 months, he lives, firmly clinging to his mother's belly. Hanging on a branch or just sitting on a tree, the female bends her tail to her abdomen and creates a kind of protective bag for the cub. The cubs will be ready for independent life only after 2-3 years.