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2009: the cave amphipod Niphargus

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the home in our Karsgebiet cave amphipod is the cave animal Niphargus 2009!

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The Association of German caves and karst researchers decided at its 2008 annual meeting, choose the first for the year 2009, a "cave animal of the year." This is to be noted in underground habitats in the public and authorities to the little-known zoological species.

The source of all life is water and so it is no surprise that many of our species that inhabit the ground water and the cave waters. One of these inhabitants of the cave amphipod Niphargus. It is a cancer type that includes a variety of styles. For this purpose, it is a key provision in the year 1942, but leaves many questions unanswered. Revised versions based on this provision currently using lists 15 different Species for Germany. The most common are Niphargus Aquilex, Niphargus schellenbergi and Niphargus puteanus. To date it has not been the many variations of cave amphipods to separate clearly morphologically or genetically. This fact led to the cave amphipod has been chosen as the "cave animal 2009. The Association of the German Association will cave and karst scientists to point out that just in the exploration of underground ecosystems and the species is occurring, there is still an enormous need for action.

Source: www.hoehlentier.de, Photo: Stephen Green

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falling rocks in the quarry ravine!

upon inspection of the outer, accessible to all Entrance area of the cave gorge was now established that there has been remarkable movements and shifts in the quarry wall.

The risk of collapse or falling rocks at the entrance slit of the canyon around is not impossible!

walkers and sightseers are strongly advised to avoid this area!

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cave friends at Wispertal research camp

found at this weekend's annual research camp held in Wispertal. About 20 Höfos of the National Association for Cave and Karst Research Hesse, supported by friends from the Bat Conservation searched for mining tunnels, which according to old documents in certain valleys the Wispertal still should be present. If the tunnels were actually found, the coordinates were calculated by means of GPS, a bio-speleologic sampling, photo documentation and possibly a quick survey. In the evening of course was not the social part too short and there was a lively exchange between some who traveled from Hamburg and Regensburg researchers.

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Video: Weingut thunder mill in Mainz-Kostheim"



Video: Weingut thunder mill in Mainz-Kostheim "of" ancient "on Youtube
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estate thunder mill in Mainz-home food (Prague Wiesbaden) in Hessen. Here once lived the revolutionary Adam Lux (1765-1793).

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Adam Lux (1765-1793) was a poor but unusually intelligent Farmer's son from the upper castle. His parents allowed him to study at the University of Mainz, where he - not yet 20 years old, Phil with a dissertation in Latin on the enthusiasm of Dr.. PhD. The poor academics worked as a tutor in the family of the Mainz merchant Dumont. His wife was a daughter of the short-mainz Hofgerichtsrats Reuter's and had a sister named Sabine, who married Lux. His wife had purchased the home in food "Lammerzsche house." Thanks to the substantial dowry, which had brought his wife into the marriage, Lux could buy the "thunder mill" in home cooking. On 16
October 1786 wore Lux Kostheim citizens into a log. In the following years he worked as a farmer and philosopher and father of three daughters, one of which soon died. In the "thunder mill", he led economic experiments in the spirit of the French author and cultural philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) by. Early on, he devoted himself to the ideas of the "French Revolution" (1789-1799) and for a brotherhood and the connection to France. He invited the residents of a home food on three successive days for information. On the fourth day, 24 November 1792, was documented by signing the consent to the brotherhood in a red book. In Kostheim time were 223 men from 21 Age of voting, of which 213 for brotherhood and connection, and two voted against and eight men were on business trips. They were celebrating the successful coordination of music and Lux had a tree in his yard and dig up in a public place as the tree of liberty. Each Kostheim citizen received at the expense of the municipal treasury "a bottle of wine and 14 cruisers with a note written on the was:" This gift will make you the nation as a memento of the day of freedom ... "Adam Lux and his family moved to Mainz, lived in the house of a veterinarian, and the deputies were of the "Rhenish-German National Convention" is selected. On 21 March 1793 joined the National Convention together in Mainz and discussed about having the little "Mainz Republic" on the left of the Rhine in the large country of all Republicans, so in France, rise. In return, Lux also in his speech. He was sent with the merchant Potocki and the naturalist and writer George Forster (1754-1794) as deputy of the "Republic of Mainz and enthusiastic supporter of the" French Revolution "in Paris. But there he was on the bloody degeneration of the revolution soon very disappointed. On 17 July 1793 he witnessed the execution of Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768-1793), the murderer of the President of the Jacobin Club, Jean-Paul Marat (1744-1793), which had greatly impressed him. In the following years, he led by publishing provocative pamphlets aware of his death on 4 November 1793 brought to the scaffold. What prompted him to do is not precisely known. His family was thrown into the battle for home cooking in great need