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I was most excited to see this, and in tow was her youngster too.
I was on a hill, next to a hedgerow, next to the forest, when I was trying to see the Fox and what its pattern of behaviour would be as I had a great view for a long way.
Whilst waiting a Pheasant went past me as I was hidden away, and decided to stand-up to get a quick snap. For some reason I looked to my right and saw just over the top of the hill a Doe Muntjac, and for a change she had not seen me.
So I ducked and hid back behind a large fallen tree branch and waited as she was coming my way.
After a tense couple of minutes, she came over the embankment and into my view, and camera poised at the ready aiming her way, and on silent shutter mode, I managed to rattle off a good few shots and she never even heard me shooting, for a change.
It was getting late and had only gone out for a couple of hours to check the nestboxes I had put up in the forest a few weeks ago, and to see if I could see the Fox. The only thing I could do regarding the failing light at the time before the Muntjac came into view was change from 100 ISO to Auto ISO.
Not the clearest shots I ever got but definitely the most memorable as it was totally unexpected. Right place at right time scenario, and as you will probably agree, that does not happen very often! :-)
A dragon-fly doing a headstand kind of posturing in order to minimize the amount of sunlight falling on its body. Dragon flies that spend the day in full sun in open meadows may obelisk and show this behaviour, with head down and abdomen raised. But this is not a very common behaviour, as it is observed in about 10% of species of dragon-flies (according to the book Dragonflies by Cynthia Berger, Amelia Hansen)
Behavioural science however is based on the fundamentals of the perceptive and cognitive system of the human brain. If you know these fundamentals, you can answer all possible interaction cases without having to rewrite new rules every time you encounter a new problem. It’s like using the numbers from 0 to 9. What does evolve over time is not the set of rules, but the fundamentals themselves.
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Specially dedicated to Jose, happy birthday to you!!!
Especialmente dedicado a Jose, felicidades!!! :))))
Botanic gardens Brussels. (At last a certain glimpse of moiré! BTW who determined that moiré is ugly and must be avoided and/or eliminated ASAP?)
Brush-turkey Alectura lathami
A pair of juvenile scrub turkeys on my back deck. At
first I thought they were dying, but when I walked over to them, they ran
away. A few minutes later they were back doing the same thing so, as you do,
I ran in and got my camera. I've seen doves do the same thing in winter, I
have been told it's to try to rid themselves of parasites.
Mute Swan - Courtship and Copulatory Behaviour
The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan native to much of Europe and Asia.This large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange bill bordered with black. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species. The population in the UK has increased recently, perhaps due to better protection of this species. Around 5,800-7,000 pairs breeding annually in UK.
Mayesbrook Park (Barking), Britain’s first climate change park, is an attractive nature reserve with a newly restored river landscape. The Mayes brook has been brought back into the park within a widened meandering river channel creating an attractive river landscape to help the park to cope with more extreme changes in climate including heavy rainfall and drought. This new river system, with a gravel river bed and banks, provides an ideal wetland habitat for wildlife and at times of high rainfall it is able to rise in a controlled and natural way within a newly created floodplain.
The southern section of the park features two large lakes which are rich in wildlife. Aquatic plants such as reeds and rushes have been planted in ponds and backwaters, creating a rich habitat for wetland species. With over 40 hectares of open space, the park recently received a Mayor of London Safer Parks Silver award for high standards of site safety and policing.
This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavns fiord until I found what, to my eyes, was a wonderful place. From a little hill I could see massive icebergs impassably floating by, some of them breaking up from time to time with a loud bang. The sea below was deep grey, which made the icebergs stand up in all their beauty and fragility. The sky was a merge of pale grey and cerulean with a yellow glow just behind the skyline. Lichen and small berry plants could be felt under the powdery snow as I walked by.
I though: this is perfect!
I walked to the top of the small hill, I put the cylinder down, got on my knees and opened the valve. The CO2.came out violently, freezing the air around the nozzle and producing an unpleasant whistle. When I lowered the cylinder towards the ground, the snow blow off all around me under the pressure of the air jet, almost to signify the melting of the Arctic ice shelf because of the Carbon emissions generated somewhere else.
Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven't done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her 'bad' actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!
Don't you think this is great?
Do you?
Personally I think it is appalling.
A lot has to be done before we can revert to Carbon offsetting as an effective mechanism to reduce global Carbon emissions.
Fundamental changes in societal behaviour are necessary to reduce our environmental impact, looking at the way we live, travel, eat, consume, go on holiday and warm our homes. Only after we have significantly reduced our environmental impact to the minimum possible, only then Carbon offsetting can start to be used efficiently.
With my performance I am seeking to throw a serious comment on the contemporary practice of Carbon Offsetting as a mean of green washing conscience and excusing bad behaviour. I am also seeking to provoke debate on why society is so resistant to change and how a collective behavioural shift could be achieved.
The cost of Carbon is still too low to drive change.
Change must come from within.
Francesca Galeazzi
WARNING: this video will consume nearly 5 minutes of your life.
... internet says: ‘huffing happens when two hedgehogs meet, and is part of a hedgehog's courtship behaviour, where they huff and circle each other’ ...
Participant at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2016. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Red Kite with one or two missing feathers. The Muddy Boots Cafe on the Harewood estate, Leeds.
New edit with shadows lifted slightly in LR
If dogs can be trained to drive cars, it also means human behaviour can be changed. #transportchoice
Check out the You Tube clip for some background. www.youtube.com/user/TheDrivingDogs
The whole campaign is bloody brilliant. Trust the motor car industry to have all the best ideas.
I got a whole sequence of these little cuttlefish mating and feeding - even the passing of the sperm packet...........
I know it's garbage, but I think it's too big for this gull to swallow, and he/she played with this ball for the whole hour I was at the pond.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
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Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com