![]() ![]() Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France, and he has become one of the country's best-loved public figures. His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre, provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones. He is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop music, he was renowned for often provocative and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France, dividing its public opinion, as well as his diverse artistic output, which ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, actor, author and filmmaker. This photograph of two Komodo dragons fighting was taken on the island of Rinca, within Komodo National Park. As it matures, its claws are used primarily as weapons, as its great size makes climbing impractical. To catch out-of-reach prey, it may stand on its hind legs and use its tail as a support. They are capable of running rapidly in brief sprints up to 20 km/h (12 mph), diving up to 4.5 metres (15 ft), and climbing trees proficiently when young through use of their strong claws. Komodo dragons are solitary, coming together only to breed and eat. As an ectotherm, it is most active in the day, although it exhibits some nocturnal activity. The Komodo dragon prefers hot and dry places, and typically lives in dry, open grassland, savanna, and tropical forest at low elevations. It is the largest extant species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft), and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb). The Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae that is endemic to the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang. This purple roller, of the subspecies C. n. mosambicus, was photographed in Etosha National Park, Namibia. The species is territorial, and during the breeding season it will drive off other rollers, small hawks, and crows. It rocks to-and-fro about its longitudinal axis during display flights, calling raucously all the while starting from above the treetops it plummets towards the ground in rolling flight. ![]() Its preferred habitat is dry thornveld, where it spends long periods perched at the top of thorn trees or poles, watching for food items such as insects, spiders, scorpions and small lizards on the ground. Compared with other rollers its colours are rather dull and its voice rather harsh and grating. The purple roller ( Coracias naevius), also known as the rufous-crowned roller, is a medium-sized species of bird in the family Coraciidae widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. For instructions on how to make custom POTD layouts, see Wikipedia:Picture of the day. You can add an automatically updating POTD template to your user page using (version without blurb). These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in the last 30 days. ![]()
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