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Today we (we being, fellow Flickr contacts) all met up for a quick stroll around the park and along the river bank into Burnham for some ball play on the beach with our jolly canine friends...We do have a laugh!
I look at these shots and can't stop smiling. The banter on and offline is always SO good and our friendships all started with a love of nature, dogs and cameras united by the big world web..
Meeting face to face is called..'Going Primitive' in Urban slang...and I like it a lot...in fact, I'd go as far as saying...
I lub it, I do!
This Australian Magpie ruffled up some grass (I use the word lightly) hunkered down with wings spread and stayed like that for several minutes. Then he hopped up and walked away preening itself.
The only explaination I can think of is ant cleaning. I have seen starlings gather up a bunch of ants in their beak, and rub them under their wings. I'm told the formic acid from the ants delouses the feathers.
Sorry for poor quality it was taken through a window.
Today I spotted this female Bee Fly sitting in some loose soil in my Mum's garden, vibrating her 'butt' like mad!
The one reference to this behaviour I could find suggests she may have been gathering sand to coat her eggs to keep them from drying out. Apparently syrphid flies have been observed doing the same thing!
Shame I didn't have the sense to video it - but there you go - there's always next time!
Sept. 18, CR3, 11:00am. Matic Meglic presents "Web and Mobile Process Support for Management of Patients with Depression: Preliminary Results of the Improvehealth.eu Randomized Controlled Trial"
Before letting it fly freely in the trampoline behind, I first held it in my hand to test the overall flight behaviour.
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.
These tables and chairs are found outside most restaurants, spatkaufs and tabak warens. Awesome for socializing, people watching and enjoying beautiful weather.
Berlin June 2013
This series of shots are not the greatest of quality as I had to crop out of a much bigger picture, but I am pleased with the behaviour record.
This was a family group with the youngsters sitting on a branch waiting for the adults to bring food, which arrived in the form of an amazing variety of insects from damsel flies and field crickets to cicadas, mayflies and beetles, plus others I could not identify.
As each adult approached the youngsters would gape and beg to be fed. Sometimes the insect was delivered on by an adult on the wing, but most times the parents landed on the branch and then selected the youngster they thought the most hungry (or best beggar).
Warou are a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It is a species native to Australia and nearby islands, but not until recently to New Zealand, which has been colonised in the last half century. It now enjoys the status as a protected native. The Welcome Swallow is metallic blue-black above, light grey below on the breast and belly, and rusty on the forehead, throat and upper breast. It has a long forked tail, with a row of white spots on the individual feathers. These birds are about 15 cm long, including the outer tail feathers which are slightly shorter in the female. The call is a mixture of twittering and soft warbling notes, and a sharp whistle in alarm. Young Welcome Swallows are buffy white, instead of rufous, on the forehead and throat, and have shorter tail streamers. Welcome Swallows readily breed close to human habitation. The nest is an open cup of mud and grass, made by both sexes, and is attached to a suitable structure, such as a vertical rock wall or building. It is lined with feathers and fur, and three to five eggs are laid. Two broods are often raised in a season. The female alone incubates the eggs, which hatch after two to three weeks. The young are fed by both parents, and leave the nest after a further two to three weeks. These birds are extremely agile fliers, which feed on insects while in flight. They often fly fast and low to the ground on open fields in large circles or figure 8 patterns. They will often swoop around animals or people in the open.
Their relatively short self introduction to New Zealand pretty much matches my own life as I am 56. When as quite a young boy I first got interested in bird watching, these were very rarely seen birds and none in the South Island between Nelson and a small number near Invercargill. Now they’re everywhere and are a delight to watch swooping after insects over open fields or water.
Jackai, one of IITA former scientists examines Maruca pod borer larva feeding behaviour on pubescent cowpeas that were rejected in the food choice arena. This means that pod borer did not prefer to feed on a resistant cowpea variety. (file name: CO_295)
Hydrellia tritici, Ephydridae, bodylength approx. 2mm - I'm starting to really warm to these guys (other uploads from me). They are constantly putting on a display and are quite tolerant of close cameras. I've already uploaded video of their leg waving but I'm experimenting with different equipment - basically using my reverse lense on an old digital video camera which has good optical zoom (20x).
Couple of interesting things in the video. Primarily the obsessive foreleg displays, but from an ID point of view there is a large black velvety spot above each wing base - this feature distinguishes H. tritici from all other Hydrellia species in Australia. Oh, also it shoots a terd at -51sec.
Filmed in my backyard amongst the lawn grass, Dynnyrne, Hobart, Tasmania, 23rd October 2009.
I become more and more convinced that a major barrier to Japanese speaking English is that they can not use adjectival clauses.
They need to be convinced that English is not like Japanese, that English is far more difficult than Japanese, because it is impossible to learn English vocabulary because there is too much of it. The Japanese don't realise that English vocabuliary can't be learned because they learned their own vocabulary by learning the Kanji characters which enbable them to make up all the words in the lexicon. Japanese vocabulary is vastly easier in that respect since there is a short cut to a massive vocabuilary, and enables even non intellectuals to use on average far more words than speakers of other languages.
I think this is mating behaviour of females getting ready to leave the nest, hibernate and become new queens next year. They were attracting the attentions of multiple males, sometimes the whole group would lose footing and fall from the nest.
Note the cicada checking the other one out with it's foot, I think this is to determine if it can mate.
Taking nosiness to a new level, Maya drags her stool right up to the neighbour's fence and has a good look, all from the comfort of a seated position.
Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas) female nursing young. Their range is semi-arid plains and rocky hills in Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
Socks the cat spent several minutes playing with this mouse, who showed incredible pluck in standing up to him, sadly the outcome wasn't so favourable for the mouse!.
The social behaviour of these dogs when they meet eat other is very entertaining and fascinating to watch.
Most greens grow upwards. Das meiste Grünzeug wächst nach oben. The record album with the same name is one of my all-time favourites though ;–)
To see these images in the best order view them as a slide show on-
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The White headed duck males engage in chasing off rivals during the mating season; this usually involves running along the surface of the water. I liked the 'fan' of water around this male that was being chased away.
Change in dog behaviour: When your dog reaches the age of two, you will see fewer behaviours that were common when he was younger.
He's less likely to get involved in things he shouldn't and less likely to be rambunctious. You will also notice that he is more attentive when training.
Have fun with your puppy at the age of two. Around five months, most puppies go through a difficult stage.
Depending on the breed, dogs may not grow out of their adolescent phase for another 2-3 years.
Many experts think the most challenging period is between 8 and 18 months. This is the only time they mature, and most adults don't do childish things like intentionally disobeying a command they already understand, like "sit."
It is not a fixed date when they suddenly "change." They change as they reach full maturity.
They had reached sexual maturity at six months, and we had them in our early teens, but neither of us was emotionally mature.
What To Expect As Your Dog Approaches Two Years of Age
Growth And Development
Your dog should be eating adult dog food by now. Please select a high-quality dog food that will supply appropriate nutrients while not overloading him with calories. The amount of food required by your dog is determined by its size, activity level, and breed.
Assess your puppy's diet kind and amount with your veterinarian or a dog nutritionist. As for activity level, remember that your puppy benefits from daily exercise.
dogworldz.com/change-in-dog-behaviour-will-my-dog-behave-...
Nature has always been a source of inspiration and intrigue to the worlds of simulation, animation and modelling. This dissertation builds on the fundamental work developed by as Craig Reynolds [1987 and 1999] in distributed behavioural modelling and emergence of flocking behaviour through three simple rules; it takes a look at the relatively under-studied world of simulating sheep and sheepdog interaction.
This project attempts to answer the question “how can previous work into the use of the distributed behavioural model with Reynolds' three flocking rules be refined further to adapt to the semi-adversarial [Hebert et al 2003] environment with sheep and sheepdogs”.
This will be investigated through observation in the field and through qualitative questionnaires, interviews and critique of existing systems.
This project develops the theories and requirements underlying a simulation implemented using a multi agent system consisting of both reactive and hybrid agent with shepherds as the primary users.