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Title - Small Tortoiseshell
Category - Animal Behaviour
Age Category - 16+
Taken on 20/08/2013 on a Canon PowerShot A810
This photo is one of two of the butterfly shots I chose from a recent trip to Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill used to raise butterflies in a butterfly house converted from a summerhouse in the 1940s and The National Trust carry on this tradition meaning that there are always lots of beautiful butterflies to see, particularly around the Buddleias.
The guys introduced me to Rick and Sarah, they sometimes look at my photos so I guess they're probably reading this - Hi guys!
It was a bit odd meeting americans, lucky I watch so much telly so I could understand what they were saying...
Very long shot, not the best shots but it's more about what these wood ducks are doing
I've seen this behaviour between male and female ducks but never between 2 males of any species of ducks.
Parasites are everywhere, affecting almost every aspect imaginable in the life of their hosts including physiology, behaviour, life histories and, by implication, the structure of entire ecosystems. To cope with these constant threats, host immune defences have evolved to become one of the most sophisticated natural systems known. Despite this, parasites have found their own ways to overcome defences and exploit their hosts. Consequently, hosts and parasites have been constantly forced to adapt to one another; sometimes changes have occurred very rapidly, whilst others have taken eons. This evolutionary arms race has had far-reaching consequences for the biology of both parties. Over the last decade, principles from evolution and ecology have increasingly been applied to the fields of parasitology and immunology in an attempt to foster a common conceptual framework that uses a priori principles to unravel the diversity of host-parasite phenomena. This has led to the emergence of some of the most important, highly successful and inter-disciplinary areas of modern biology - the as yet separated fields of ecological immunology and evolutionary studies of parasitism. This novel book provides the first comprehensive overview of the many facets of host-parasite interactions, from the molecular bases to adaptive strategies and their ecological and evolutionary consequences. It is informed by the very latest progress in the field. No longer do we view well-adapted parasites as becoming ultimately harmless. To the contrary, parasite virulence is determined both by the processes that lead to harm and by the evolutionary costs and benefits of this damage. Similarly, parasitism is no longer regarded as being inevitably deleterious; rather it can be a major factor maintaining diversity in populations and communities, selecting for beautiful plumages of birds, or even making us more social. Evolutionary Parasitology integrates material from a wide range of topics including immunology, genetics, sexual selection, population ecology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary biology. Graduate students and researchers from different fields and with different backgrounds will find this book a valuable reference to meet their interests and to expand their insights into neighbouring disciplines.
This is nothing fantastic, just some interaction between 2 Robins as they compete for territory. They didn't fight on this occasion, but I have seen them having a go at each other from time to time.
The lighting is bad, and my camera was hand held so it's a bit shakey... as usual! It's worth turning up the volume to hear the Robins verbal communications, but I apologise in advance for the noise coming from my Fuji Finepix camera:)
For anyone who would like to watch a film I made a couple of days ago from my garden which is too long for flickr here is a YouTube link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZdBIdusOE
The film demonstrates just how busy my garden gets!
detail from my last installation about french patriotic behaviour in the french colonial isle martinique
This 1711 work by Desportes shows that cats have always been resourceful. Walker art gallery, Liverpool.
I finally got Ratty and Roland to hand feed, they watched how the Squirrel did it and decided to give it a go.
Behaviour Interactive is the biggest independent video game development studio in Canada, concentrating on the production of 2D and 3D action/adventure video games for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PC, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable and...