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Ever wondered how the penguins' beaks get so shiny?
There's a team of young ladies who make sure they are spick and span.
At least I hope that's what they are doing !-D
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.
The elephant in the room
We often compare animal and human behaviour, but we tend to omit those examples which do not fit the hetero-norm. Did you know that elephants engage in same-sex relationships?
By presenting only a bull elephant, this display may imply that the male is central to the pack. However, elephants live in a matriarchal herd structure, which also does not fit the hetero-norm. Why has the museum chosen to show a male rather than a female? This animal was selected because of his sex. A male elephant is seen as a more impressive and dangerous trophy, fitting ideals of hyper-masculinity.
Why have we put a tutu on the elephant? In elephant hierarchy, the matriarch dominates and all males are subordinate to her. In an elephantine sense, the tutu empowers this specimen and raises its status amongst the herd. The tutu also visually contrasts our human inclination to assign gender to an object.
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Vi människor jämför ofta vårt beteende med djurens, men vi har också en benägenhet att utelämna det som inte passar den heterosexuella normen. Visste du till exempel att elefanter ofta lever i samkönade förhållanden?
Genom att museet bara visar en elefanttjur antyder det att hanar är de mest dominanta och betydelsefylla av elefanterna. I själva verket lever elefanter i matriarkala flockar, vilket inte heller överensstämmer med mänskliga normer. Varför har museet valt att visa en hane istället för en hona? Det här exemplaret valdes på grund av sitt kön, eftersom elefanttjurar av människor betraktas som farligare och mer imponerande byten. Detta i linje med ett hypermaskulint ideal.
Varför har vi satt en ballerinakjol på elefanten? Inom elefanters hierarki dominerar en matriark och alla hanarna är underordnade. Symboliskt sett skulle denna kjol ge mer makt åt en hane och öka hans status inom flocken. Kjolen visar också på hur vi människor har en tendens att dela ut genus åt objekt.
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
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Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
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.
The grand entrance hall to Kings Weston House just to the North of Bristol, and one of the city's finest buildings. Carefully restored by a local architect who now runs the place for meetings and events. This detail of the fire surround, not the original Vanbrughn one but a later Georgian addition really makes me smile. I am sure most of teh wedding guests miss this
More dung-sniffing action I'm afraid, but this time I've focused on the legs. I thought the mudballs on the mare's fetlocks looked quite pretty. I wouldn't say this if I had to groom them off!
Notice that this was taken at the low end of my zoom lens! it took place right off the starboard bow of our boat. There was a lot of "ooh"'ing and "ahhhh"'ing while this display happened.
This behaviour is called spyhopping.
Wikipedia says that the head and lower jaw are covered with knobs called tubercles, which are hair follicles, and are characteristic of the species.
Interesting behaviour It would run around normally until it detected movement (Me) then it would adopt this playing dead attitude each time it did it would be in this bent position (Quite convincing !!)
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!.
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 ;–)
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.
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The tiddlers are brought to the waiting chicks nestling in the soft warm feathers on the mothers back.
The young reach out to grab at the fish and the father sometimes tease them to get the babies to go into the water...it's all a big learning curve.
Great crested grebe~Podiceps cristatus
September 25, 2016 - The following text comes from Galapagos Conservation Trust website: "The Galapagos Islands are home to some uniquely adapted animal species, but being a tropical archipelago, you probably don’t associate the Galapagos with cold-loving penguins. But surprisingly the Galapagos does have its very own penguin species, and true to Galapagos form, it’s unique.
A surprising home for penguins
Although the Humboldt and Cromwell ocean currents bring cool penguin-friendly waters to the Galapagos, and supply nutrients that allow the archipelago to support large stocks of fish on which the penguins can feed, the Galapagos Islands bake under a fiercely hot equatorial sun, and the life giving ocean currents can also periodically disappear.
To cope with the heat, and periods of greatly reduced food supply, the Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus), the world’s only equatorial penguin species, has had to evolve a suit of unique physical and behavioural adaptations.
Living in the sun
To prevent overheating in the sun, the Galapagos penguin has less body fat and fewer feathers than cold-weather penguins, and has areas of bare skin that they use to radiate heat away from their bodies. The Galapagos penguin is also the second smallest penguin species, as a small body size means a larger surface area in relation to their volume, with which they can lose body heat more efficiently than larger penguins. Penguins can’t sweat to lose heat, so the Galapagos penguins pant when they’re hot, like dogs.
Galapagos penguins, sensibly, tend to hunt in the cool water during the day and come onto land at night. And when on land during the day, the penguins adopt a characteristic pose, holding their wings out at their sides to lose heat to the cooling sea breeze, and they hunch over their feet to keep them in their shadow, to stop the exposed skin from absorbing the sun’s rays.
Surviving starvation
A small body size helps the Galapagos penguin cope with periods of little or no food, as a smaller body requires fewer calories, but Galapagos penguin society also shows adaptations to help them cope with periodic scarcity.
Whereas most penguin species hunt in groups, Galapagos penguins usually hunt by themselves or in pairs, to ensure they search far and wide for food, and whilst most penguin species nest in colonies, the Galapagos penguin often makes solitary nests in order to take advantage of limited areas of shade. When it comes to breeding, most penguins usually have seasonal breeding cycles, but the Galapagos penguin instead breeds opportunistically, whenever conditions are favourable"
- See more at: galapagosconservation.org.uk/how-the-galapagos-penguin-ad...
Representing the Partnership are:
Rory Caverhill (Deputy Area Commander, Scottish Borders, Police Scotland)
Jenni Craig, (Director Resilient Communities, Scottish Borders Council?
Robert Brydon (Head of Health & Safety, NHS Borders)
Colin Bain (Senior Antisocial Behaviour Officer, Scottish Borders Council)
Nicola McIllwraith (Head of Support Services, Scottish Borders Housing Association)
Brian Pearson (Head of Housing, Waverley Housing Association)
Lauren Scobie (Locality Housing Manager, Link Group)
Hilary Scott (Housing Services Manager, Eildon Housing Association)
Evie Copland (Director of Customer & Communities, Berwickshire Housing Association)
Pentax Program A | Fuji Neopan
My morning routine was to wake, load my hand grinder with coffee, grind, and french press (or Ritual shall we say?).
Coffee was a delicious Kenya Kaliluni Peaberry from Ritual Coffee.
Late January in Halifax, 2012.
This seminar explored the evolution of retail environments and how retail professionals can strengthen marketing and promotional tactics to ensure business objectives are achieved.
In addition, Steve Ogden-Barnes, Retail Industry Fellow at Deakin University also presented on the following topics: unique value proposition/profit levers, store evolution: forget the net; sex education for retailers: Male vs female shoppers and the learning game.
Typical behaviour for the closeknit babblers. The Jungle Babbler lives in flocks of seven to ten or more. It is a noisy bird, and the presence of a flock may generally be known at some distance by the harsh mewing calls, continual chattering, squeaking and chirping produced by its members. Also often seen grooming each other (allopreening) like in this photo. These birds are gregarious and very social. When foraging, some birds take up a high vantage point and act as sentinels. They are known to gather and mob potential predators such as snakes. These birds are known to live for up to 15 years in captivity. Eat insects mostly. Once in fact I saw a bird come and get a huge spider I had driven out of the living room window.
Despite it being August, the day dawned cool and cloudy.
As it turned out, it would not last.
Scully had to go into the vets all day for monitoring as they swapped insulins over.
However, diabetes had not affected Scully's 6th sense, and she went hiding. Any kind of unusual behaviour will alert the average cat.
Off she went down the garden, behind the hedge and into next door.
Just sit down on the patio and act normal I said.
After five minutes, Jools went down looking, only for Scully to have walked all the way round next door, along the street, down the drive and in through the front door, appearing beside me at the back door.
Meow?
I went in, scooped her up and stood at the door holding her as Jools came back up the garden having seen no sign.
Jools took her to Whitfield, so I made breakfast for when she came back.
And then we could go out!
Off on a fool's errand to look for a Ghost Orchid.
An Orchid that has never been recorded in Kent, with records going back to the 17th century, and yet there is no reason why it shouldn't be found here.
You just have to look.
Even still, it was a fool's errand.
I drove us to Wingham, then to Barham to the parking space, where just a few paces away, about 220 spikes of Yellow birdsnest had grown, flowered and were now setting seed, unseen by almost everyone.
I inspected the area, hoping against hope that there would be a different spike among them.
There wasn't.
But on up the path, cool under the beech canopy, where we saw close to 100 spikes, mostly blind, of Broad leaved helleborines as well as several smaller colonies of Yellow birdsnest.
Emerging from the leaf litter and from rotten tree stumps were many different fungi. I have no idea which, but all added to the magic of the walk as we made up way up the wooded down.
We came to the top, where the track turned 90 degrees, but the woodland floor was less covered in leaf litter, and the other form went into a field. So, we turned round, and ambled back to the car, passing two dog walkers, one chap who's cough was louder than his dog's bark!
Back in the car and to home, all going well until we got into a jam heading into Whitfiled, meaning the last two miles took over an hour. The blockage was council workers removing vegetation over a mile the other side of the roundabout, yet the single lane began before.
Madness.
We got back home an hour late, in time for lunch.
By this time the clouds had cleared from the west, and clear blue skies broke through, and by the middle of the afternoon downright warm.
Shame then, that I had decided that it being cloudy in the morning, I would cook pie, roast potatoes, steamed vegetables and gravy for dinner.
So it was that I was in the kitchen from four with one oven, then two on before the final half hour, two rings on too.
But the result was wonderful crispy roast potatoes, fresh steamed beans from the garden, steak and ales pies and the last of the delicious gravy.
And with a fine bottle of XV too.
A proper dinner.
We cleaned up, then Jools went to lay with an ice pack to soothe her back, and was soon asleep. And with no football on TV, I joined her before nine. Not before feeding Scully, giving her her insulin and liquid painkiller for her pancreas.
Whilst Dave and I were waiting for the rest of our party to come out of the shop. we spotted these tourists.
I'm sure that most locals would rather the pigeons were shot. These tourists though were feeding them. They'd even brought bags of food in specially for the purpose. I know that Indians feed pigeons but these people were clearly not from India.
The most bizarre though was one man who was holding a baby. He literally poked the baby's face into the group of pigeons almost as if he was feeding the baby to them.