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Tarantula hawk
Taken in Los Liones Canyon
These wasps have one of the most painful stings of any animal and are in fact rated number two in pain for bug bites. They are not very aggressive though. One of the few predators who will eat these are roadrunners.
Obviously, this female mantid prompted sci-fi thoughts, thus the 2 titles. ;-)
If you compare the eyes in the 2 shots of Alien & Predator, you can see how the pupil-less eye, with its thousands of receptors, reflects light at different angles and under different lighting conditions.
-Predator- - Female Praying Mantis 1204
Prey and Predator Here is a quiet and tranquil scene that, for me, brims with conflicting emotion. During birthing season juveniles have to be extremely lucky to survive. In the case of Cape Buffalo, for example, if they can keep up with the herd there is some degree of protection. In the case of Thomson’s Gazelle, if spotted by a Cheetah, they are as good as gone. Adult Thomson’s are fast and agile, yet often fall victim to an adult Cheetah. Juveniles have no chance and are taken in seconds rather than minutes. There is no herd to protect them and literally nothing the parents can do but fend for themselves. It’s tough out there. (Cheetah - Acinonyx jubatus; Thompson’s Gazelle - Eudorcas thomsonii) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 524mm, f/6.3, 1/5000 second, ISO 640)
It is Spring, when the local coyotes howl in the woods, creating quite a ruckus. This one has come up the hill into our yard several times. Once it chased my cat, Lulu, out across the fields and into the woods. She came back home safe a couple of hours later.
But that was when she was about 6 years old. Now she is 11 years old... still fast, but is she fast enough?
As many of you know, she was born to a feral mother outside, who wandered onto our land and decided to have her kittens under the eaves of my barn. She abandoned them before they could hunt. The kittens lived their first year completely outside, as I slowly tamed (and fed) the kittens, then got them fixed, and allowed them in the house. Lulu likes eating and sleeping inside, but she goes insane if she is trapped in here. So, for her happiness, danger or not, she is mostly an outside cat.
Her brother disappeared about 6 years ago, never to be seen again. It is very distressing, but I know he had a very happy life.
This is the dilemma of cat owners.... and the owners of small dogs, too, I imagine. Do we trap the animals inside to have a boring, fat, unfulfilled, but safe, life, or do we let them be who they are, knowing they may die from many different dangers??
The predators have come back into our woodlands, and my cat is no longer the biggest, baddest predator around. But, she is having a great life, very happy, alert, not overweight at all, fastest hunter I've ever "owned", and very intelligent.
If it is any comfort to "inside cat" owners, we do have two cat doors she can make use of, anytime.
So, life goes on. At the moment she is purring next to me as I type.
Sunset on the Lancaster Canal near Garstang, Lancashire. This barge was called "Predator", hence the title! The owner had obviously cut quite a lot of firewood to keep his wood burner going, looking at the amount of saw dust on the towpath!
The colours in the sky were magical!
This is the same Black Bear featured yesterday, known as Georgina, in full predator mode. She has caught a female Pink Salmon, but has her eye on a second salmon, glimpsed in the pool at the lower right (we're looking at the top of its head). She had wounded and disabled this fish when she saw a splash and chased down the one now in her jaws. A moment later she finished off the first salmon. A great feast on days when the salmon are running.
Not all days are like this. Water temperature is one of the keys - if the water is too warm, the fish stay offshore and wait. Meanwhile the bears gather on shore and wait. The photographers wait, too. It's a waiting game.
On this day, a fine, misty rain was sprinkling down, the temperature was cool for late August, conditions were right and the salmon were trying to sneak past half a dozen bears to reach their spawning pools upstream. Some made it and some didn't.
Photographed on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
During this week that I spent at home in quarantine, I made many observations and began to envy the birds! Now they are the owners on the streets!
За эту неделю, что я провела дома в карантине, я сделала много наблюдений и стала завидовать птицам! Теперь они хозяева на улицах города!
Серия фото, сделанных в период карантина COVID-19
A series of photos taken during the quarantine period COVID-19
Leopard dragging his prey, a beautiful warthog, up the side of the ravine we were tracking in, in Entabeni, S. Africa, Oct 2023. Did not attempt to photograph the kill, the cries of the poor warthog were chilling beyond words.
Palio di Asti - Italy - 2008 edition
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This old boy was looking as if I was its prey and he wanted to climb the food chain. While walking the fence line for brakes after finishing for the day. This hawk was intent on keeping his spot to the point where I was within 15 feet before he vacated.
Analogica ,Exa 1 B ( 1977 ) priva di esposimetro, Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm 1.8 F, Kodak color 200 asa, sviluppo con Tetenal.
Patterned Predator - A Great Basin Collared lizards basks on a rock. I was only able to grab this single image before the lizard ran after a whiptail lizard. Like the related leopard lizards, this species is almost entirely carnivorous and a very effective hunter of other lizards. They dispatch their prey with powerful bites to the mid-section - essentially pulverizing them. This was a lifer species for me and while I know I can do better photo wise, thought I'd still share this one.
Species: Great Basin Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus bicinctores)
Location: Mojave Desert, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R7 + RF 100-500mm IS
Settings: 1/640s, ISO: 200, f/7.1 @500mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter, In-situ