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In this one the basal florets have been chewed or pecked from the outside. I could imagine a pigmy possum or a smaller bird sitting on the branch and nibbling around the base. Pigmy possums are only 7-9 cm (2.8-3.5 in) in body length.
An illustrated field guide to the behaviour and tastes of Britain's new middle-class tribes. An amusing book! Brought me back to reading the Guardian, cheap Ryanair flights to Spain, going to Tesco! Published in the UK 2010. For more info and to buy the book, see www.middleclasshandbook.co.uk/
For more info about the bag, see www.marissav.com
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
Everyone crowds around to capture a glimpse of the new-born elephant Nhi Linh, born on August 10 in the Rotterdam Zoo.
Lil, some of her close girl friends and cousins all happened to be sporting designs by BCBG. Some one's clever suggestion about visiting the store resulted in a photo opp that none of us could have imagined possible.
Love it!
We managed to sneak Vince in at the end of the set. Somehow his suggestion of pulling out his VISA card instead of holding the bouquet seems more appropriate for this setting. :P
I loved the comic behaviour of these birds.
A large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia. Although it looks rather like a wader and is related to the oystercatchers, avocets and plovers, it is a terrestrial predator filling a similar ecological niche to the roadrunners of North America.
Like most stone-curlews, it is mainly nocturnal and specialises in hunting small grassland animals: frogs, spiders, insects, molluscs, crustaceans, snakes, lizards and small mammals are all taken, mostly gleaned or probed from soft soil or rotting wood; also a few seeds or tubers, particularly in drought years. Birds usually forage individually or in pairs over a large home range, particularly on moonlit nights. During the day, Bush Stone-curlews tend to remain inactive, sheltering amongst tall grass or low shrubs and relying on their cryptic plumage to protect them from predators. When disturbed, they freeze motionless, often in odd-looking postures. For visual predators like raptors (and humans), this works well, but it serves little purpose with animals that hunt by scent such as foxes, dingoes or goannas. Despite their ungainly appearance and habit of freezing motionless, they are sure-footed, fast and agile on the ground, and although they seldom fly during daylight hours, they are far from clumsy in the air; flight is rapid and direct on long, broad wings. When threatened they may raise their wings wide and high in an impressive threat posture and emit a loud hoarse hissing noise.
Taken back in January 2012 in Blackpool Zoo. One of the coldest days of the year, and the orangutans had been made to head outside while their indoor enclosure was being cleaned.
They hated the cold, and spent all the time they were outside with sacking draped around them like cloaks.
Such a fascinating bird to observe. They rarely come to the top of the bushes. I find around courting and breeding time they are more likely. One of my favorite birds to watch. Courting behaviour as this little bird is displaying.
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Mason wasp (Odynerus spinipes) constructing chimney at nest burrow entrance. Dorset, UK.
No-one is quite sure what the purpose of the chimney is since heavy rain renders its protection useless.
Dozens of mason wasps active at this site and being stalked all the while by a very persistent ruby-tailed wasp.
With thanks to Chris.
In Europe, it can be readily distinguished from the European storm petrel and Wilson's storm petrel by its larger size, forked tail, different rump pattern, and flight behaviour. Identification in the Americas, however, proves more difficult.
A long pelagic life for such a small and most fragile bird...
They feed primarily on plankton, including euphausiids, copepods, and a form of amphipod that is parasitic to jellyfish gonadal pouches. They also feed to a large extent on myctophids (lantern fish), which only occur at the surface at night in water over the continental slope. Individuals have been observed to feed at distances up to 1000 km from their breeding colony.
A breeding individual stores energy-rich lipids in a sac anterior to its stomach, which is used to either sustain itself while incubating its single egg, to feed its chick, or as a defensive mechanism when caught by a predator, as do many other Procellariformes.
Some evidence shows that parents feed their chicks different prey species from what they consume themselves.
Parent birds also accidentally feed their chicks plastic debris, which they mistake for food items floating on the surface of the ocean.[8] Chicks grow to a pre-fledging weight almost double that of when they actually fledge from the burrow in late September. During their migration, they travel to waters associated with the North Equatorial Current, or to waters associated with the Benguela Current.. Autumn storms can cause these young fledging individuals to wreck on the mainland.
It is strictly pelagic outside the breeding season, and this, together with its remote breeding sites, makes Leach's petrel a difficult bird to see from land. Only in storms might this species be pushed into headlands. Unlike the storm petrel, it does not follow ships.
In Europe, the best chance of seeing this species is in September in Liverpool Bay between north Wales and England. Strong north-westerlies funnel migrating Leach's petrels into this bay. British ornithologists Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie observed the communities of Leach's petrel on the remote Scottish islands of North Rona between 16 July and 12 August 1936, and on Sula Sgeir between 3 and 4 August 1939.
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El 11 de mayo de 2016, la Fundación Ramón Areces inició un nuevo ciclo de conferencias con IE Business School sobre marketing. La primera sesión corrió a cargo de Rosellina Ferraro, profesora de la Robert H. Smith School of Business, de la Universidad de Maryland. Tituló su conferencia 'Efecto contagio de conductas inadecuadas de los consumidores en servicios basados en el acceso'.
Good job I took a photo out of the kitchen window this morning otherwise I might not have had a photo for today. This scoundrel is burying lots of nuts in my plant pots.
Photo 28/31 for October picture a day.
(Freestyle - Canada at large, Vancouver) The downtown campus for Simon Fraser University, and a pretty common icon representing Vancouver. Taken at lunch hour. Lots of funny looks. Whee!
DID TINTIN REALLY WANT TO GO TO THE MOON ? Some say he had second thoughts and didn't want to go. Apparently he didn't trust much professor Calculus' project and especially didn't trust the rocket. He didn't believe that such a contraption could bring him to the moon and back safely.
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Las Palmas by Benthem & Crouwel architects, Rotterdam,
the Netherlands. More information: www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en