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Lioness teaching her cubs to sit quietly while Dad eats. These babies were still not completely weaned.
Southern Elephant Seal Weaner (Mirounga leonina) Not too long after they're weaned, their black fur changes into a shiny silver-grey coat. This beautiful grey is the distinctive colour for weaners, and one they will keep until it turns to a honey-brown colour over the course of a few months. Taken on South Georgia, Sub-Antarctic.
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Weaning is the greatest stress for calves.
One of research finding how to reduce stress - it is using simple nose flaps placed in calves. It is allows contact between the mother cow and calf but does not allow the calf to get to the mother’s milk.
In the 8 images below the weaning process appears to last 3 days before the juvenile gull finally gives up and flies off to fend for itself.
Juvenile Glaucous-winged gulls are brown or gray with black beaks, and take four years to reach adult plumage. They peck the adult's red subterminal spot at the end of its bill in order to stimulate regurgitative feeding. Juveniles fledge at six weeks.
Gulls feed along the coast, scavenging for dead or weak animals, fish, mussels and scraps. In urban areas they accept food from people and peck open unprotected garbage bags in search of edibles. PS This probably explains how this juvenile survived 19 days away from the roof top nest and its parents. (Summarized from Wikipedia)
I found this little black bear enjoying some berries early morning in Banff National Park. The bear was quite small and I found myself looking for mama, but the youngster was all alone. I'm guessing in his second year and recently weaned.
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Palmarium Reserve
Lemurs belong to a group called prosimian primates, defined as all primates that are neither monkeys nor apes. Lemurs are considered the most endangered group of animals on the planet. These primates are only found in one small area of the Earth. Many species have small and decreasing numbers. There are a whopping 105 species of lemur, and they naturally come in a wide range of sizes.
Lemurs only live in one place in the world, Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands, which are off the coast of Mozambique in Africa. They occupy many different habitats: dry deciduous forests, spiny forests, rain forests, wetlands and mountains.
Lemurs are very social creatures and live in groups called troops. When lemurs are awake and active depends on their size. Most lemurs spend their awake time in trees. If they aren’t eating, lemurs like to groom each other or sunbathe.
Some lemurs are herbivores, which means they do not eat meat. They love fruit, but will also eat flowers, leaves, tree bark and sap. Other lemurs are omnivores and eat a variety of foods that include fruits, nectar, flowers and leaves with a side of insects, spiders and small vertebrates.
Baby lemurs are called pups. Many lemur species will cling to the mother’s belly for the first three to four weeks of life and then the pup will ride on her back until it is three or four months old. At three to six months the babies are weaned. Growing up can take one to three and a half years, depending on the species. This can be a short time when compared to how long lemurs live. Some lemurs can live up to 30 years. – Wikipedia
The calves have been weaned and shipped, and now the cows are going back to the mountains. There's still a lot of grass in the pasture and they will stay there until it's time to start feeding them hay.
...We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free...
Maya Angelou
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Most of the seals on the beach were recently weaned juveniles. This one was the smallest/youngest. It had just gone out for a brief swim near the pelicans and then left the water as if the pool were just too crowded.
China Cove,
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve,
Monterey Co., California
The pelicans had showed up in the cove while we watched the seals. The pelicans were all immatures and appeared to be jabbing at parts of the kelp and one grabbed and held a feather--what I call playing.
Daisy (mum rabbit) is such a good mother to her 7 babies. The babies are 8 weeks this week so mum will probably wean them.
That's a holding cage while the bigger one is cleaned out.
These are Maison's rabbits.
The domestic rabbit is the domesticated form of the European Rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ). Domestic rabbits are kept as livestock, for meat or their fur; or they are kept as pets. Like other domesticated animals, there are many different breeds.
Have a lovely week.
The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, or, inaccurately, koala bear[a]) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae, and its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It is easily recognisable by its stout, tailless body; round, fluffy ears; and large, spoon-shaped nose. The koala has a body length of 60–85 cm (24–33 in) and weighs 4–15 kg (9–33 lb). Pelage colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown. Koalas from the northern populations are typically smaller and lighter in colour than their counterparts further south. It is possible that these populations are separate subspecies, but this is disputed.
Koalas typically inhabit open eucalypt woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet. Because this eucalypt diet has limited nutritional and caloric content, koalas are largely sedentary and sleep for up to 20 hours a day. They are asocial animals, and bonding exists only between mothers and dependent offspring. Adult males communicate with loud bellows that intimidate rivals and attract mates. Males mark their presence with secretions from scent glands located on their chests. Being marsupials, koalas give birth to underdeveloped young that crawl into their mothers' pouches, where they stay for the first six to seven months of their life. These young koalas are known as joeys, and are fully weaned at around a year. Koalas have few natural predators and parasites but are threatened by various pathogens, like Chlamydiaceae bacteria and the koala retrovirus, as well as by bushfires and droughts.
Source: Wikipedia
Shortly after weaning, young elephant seals progressively go into shallow inshore waters where they discover a new environment and learn how to use it. With no urgent need to find food, they quickly become curious about everything around them, including a diver.. Possession Island (cold) waters, Crozet Archipelago.
North Weans/Umtanum Road. I believe these were photographed in Yakima County, but close to the Kittitas County line. IMG_8101
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
Lemurs belong to a group called prosimian primates, defined as all primates that are neither monkeys nor apes. Lemurs are considered the most endangered group of animals on the planet. These primates are only found in one small area of the Earth. Many species have small and decreasing numbers. There are a whopping 105 species of lemur, and they naturally come in a wide range of sizes.
Lemurs only live in one place in the world, Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands, which are off the coast of Mozambique in Africa. They occupy many different habitats: dry deciduous forests, spiny forests, rain forests, wetlands and mountains.
Lemurs are very social creatures and live in groups called troops. When lemurs are awake and active depends on their size. Most lemurs spend their awake time in trees. If they aren’t eating, lemurs like to groom each other or sunbathe.
Some lemurs are herbivores, which means they do not eat meat. They love fruit, but will also eat flowers, leaves, tree bark and sap. Other lemurs are omnivores and eat a variety of foods that include fruits, nectar, flowers and leaves with a side of insects, spiders and small vertebrates.
Baby lemurs are called pups. Many lemur species will cling to the mother’s belly for the first three to four weeks of life and then the pup will ride on her back until it is three or four months old. At three to six months the babies are weaned.
Growing up can take one to three and a half years, depending on the species. This can be a short time when compared to how long lemurs live. Some lemurs can live up to 30 years. – Wikipedia
Seal pups stay with their mother for only about three weeks before they have weaned and built up adequate reserves. At this point they stay within the group but left to fend for themselves. At Horsey every year fifty percent of all seal pups perish and with this years cold weather and rough seas the numbers are a little higher. This pup was found isolated in the rocks making up a breakwater on the beach. There are always Seal Supervisors at Horsey during the day at breading time so this little and very young pup was being well looked after. The sightings for today, 3600 Atlantic Grey Seals. On the walk from Horsey Windpump out onto the marshes although a bitterly cold and windy day yielded some other good sightings.
Grey Seals
Muntjac
Roe Deer
Brent Geese
Marsh Harrier
Little Egret
Cattle Egret
Great White Egret
Snow Bunting
Stone Chats
Oyster Catchers
Grey Herron
Mute Swans
Lapwings
Cormorants
Crow
Rook Raven
Little Grebe
Reed Bunting
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Long Tailed Tit
Wren
Green Woodpecker
Jay
We are also seeing another Bunting here, Beccles Fen and along the Norfolk and Suffolk coast at Kessingham and Sizewell that looks suspiciously like an Lapland Bunting, ID to be confirmed.
This young bear was weaned this spring when Mama had new cubs and he has not left the area. I was sitting on the patio photographing hummingbirds when he popped his head up behind my garden. I took a quick shot and expected him to run off like before but even though he saw me, he stuck around and eventually came closer. There are two houses under construction down the street and the workmen at both have commented excitedly about the bear when I have walked by with Wylie. I'm afraid they may be feeding him and he is getting accustomed to it and to people. Not good. Two years ago three bears in our old neighborhood had to be captured and relocated to the backcountry because they were deemed nuisance bears, getting into garbage cans, unlocked cars and even houses. If a relocated bear makes its way back to its old haunts, it is recaptured and euthanized. This is why I have to put my bird feeders away during the summer (which I hate to do!) and only put them back out when the bears go into hibernation.
Thoroughbred foals, once weaned, are separated from their mothers and placed in large enclosures, different pens for males and females.
There they begin their relationship life with the other foals, forming a real herd.
In this way they live their youth in a playful and "wild" way, before being tamed and launched into their sporting profession.
Now is the best time to observe and photograph them and there is one thing I immediately noticed, their desire for contact with other foals.
They painfully lost contact with their mothers and now they look for the attention and affection received from the mothers in the other elements of the herd. All this I learned in a few minutes by observing them, and in particular these two foals, absolutely spectacular in terms of expressiveness in their relationship.
Here and in the previous photo, the foal on the right fills his friend with attention, trying to arouse a similar attitude in him. The answer of the other is peremptory and already explains the hierarchy within this friendship.
Fantastic animals the horses !
Puledri giocosi
I puledri purosangue una volta svezzati sono separati dalle madri e messi in ampi recinti divisi per sesso. Li cominciano la loro vita di relazione con gli altri puledri, formando un branco vero e proprio.
Vivono così in maniera giocosa e "selvaggia" la loro gioventù, prima di essere domati ed avviati alla loro professione sportiva.
Ora è il momento migliore per osservarli e fotografarli e c'è una cosa che ho subito notato, la loro voglia di contatto con gli altri puledri.
Hanno perso con dolore il contatto dalle madri ed ora cercano negli altri elementi del branco, quella attenzione ed affetto, ricevuta dalle mamme. Tutto ciò l'ho imparato in pochi minuti osservando il branco, ed in particolare questi due puledri, assolutamente spettacolari quanto ad espressività nel loro relazionarsi, emozionante in certi frangenti.
Qui e nella precedente foto, il puledro di destra riempie di attenzioni il suo simile, cercando di destare in lui analogo atteggiamento. La risposta dell'altro è perentoria e già spiega la gerarchia all'interno di questa amicizia.
Animali fantastici i cavalli !
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Camille was living on her own with a litter of kittens when she came to our door. She has a "wild" streak, but she and I bonded when she went into heat while still nursing kittens; she was a good sport through weaning the kittens and getting neutered, but once she was completely healed she wanted to spend time outside again. She thinks of herself as an outdoor cat during the daytime, but returns for the 9pm feeding & stays in overnight. As the weather cools, she spends more time inside during the day.
In other words, she gets pretty much whatever she wants.
It is so lovely to see and feel the affection a cow has for it's calf .
Most of the calves bar maybe 3 are big enough to be weaned and most of them have weaned themselves but still sneak to the milk bar to get a slurp of mum's milk.
Some of the calves are so big that they are actually bringing the cows down and they are losing condition, simply because they are putting their all into feeding their calf.
We have separated a few of the calves from mum to try and build her up again and in the process it will wean the calves.
The first few days the calves bellowed for mum and one of the cows became quite depressed, while the other one was happy to be free lol. It's been 2 weeks now and we have had all the herd together again and even though the calves wanted mum, she was no longer interested in her calf.
The cows have picked up condition and looking healthy and stronger. The calves are also doing well.
Squirrels mate once or twice a year and have their young between three to six weeks later, the young are born naked toothless and blind, normally it is the female who looks after the young and they are weaned between six to ten weeks. Unfortunately many squirrels die in the first year of their life, but they can have a lifespan of 5 to 10 years in the wild and in captivity they can have a lifespan of 10 to 20 years. The front teeth of the squirrel grow throughout its life and the cheeck teeth are set back behind a wide gap for chewing their food. Squirrels cannot digest cellulose therefore they must rely on foods rich in protein, during the colder months of the year this can be very difficult because some of the food they have buried have started to grow making the food not edible and they now have to rely on new tree buds etc.
Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina). After suckling her pup for about twenty-eight days, the mother elephant seal shuts off the supply of rich milk. The mother weans her pup abruptly so that she can return to the sea and replenish her depleted nutritional supplies after having fasted since coming ashore to give birth.
In so doing, she will leave her pup, now re-named 'weaner', to fend for itself on the beach. By mid-March, all of the females have left their weaned pups to return to the sea in search of much-needed food. The beach is then composed almost solely of weaners with a few large males left to protect them from amorous younger males until they are mature enough to take care of themselves. Their natal beach will, in most instances, remain their home for the following month or so, as they largely live off the fat reserves built up from suckling.
Left to their own devices, they sleep quite a bit in groups known as weaner pods, lying next to and on top of each other. During the time they are awake, they move around the beach communicating with one another by making shrill calls.
Not too long after they're weaned, their black fur changes into a shiny silver-grey coat. This beautiful grey is the distinctive colour for weaners, and one they will keep until it turns to a honey-brown colour over the course of a few months.
The Burchell's Zebra lives in small family units, which typically consist of one stallion and one mare with their foals. Non-breeding stallions occur in bachelor groups. Herd stallions are between four to 12 years old. Water holes in conjunction with favoured grazing areas attract family groups which collectively congregate in large numbers. They are often seen in close association with Wildebeest, other plains Antelope and Baboons. Non-seasonal breeders, foals may be born in any month. However, under optimal conditions, more foals are born during summer. After a gestation period of 360-390 days, a single foal is born, which weighs 30-35 Kg. Foals are weaned at the age of 11 months.
Info source: www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_burchells_zebra.html
I waited and talked to this little baby elephant seal trying to coax him to turn around and look me straight in the eye, but no luck. St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia
Well, here is my gorgeous 7 month old baby boy. I don't post many shots [face] of my children now but they are an important part of my life so every so often I will. Anyway, 4 weeks into weaning and he seriously eats more than Violet. I can't believe how much this boy can put away. It's made the whole process very enjoyable but blimey do I have to be organised with menus.
CZ post a lunch of sweetcorn and carrot followed by banana and nectarine. On a positive note though, he's sleeping through and cruising for the 91st centile...not bad for someone born at the 7th with suspected intrauterine growth restrictions.
People are not be allowed on the beach between Dec. 15 and May 15, which is when the seals give birth and wean their young.
Sorry have been weaning myself a bit from flickr..(plans for returning to a job before too long)....and will work a routine which will give my friends a bit more attention..but still in the working process. So please forgive me if I do not or have not gotten to you.
Still loving you guys....very much!!!...& always shall....xoxoxo
Squirrels mate once or twice a year and have their young between three to six weeks later, the young are born naked, toothless and blind, normally it is the female who looks after the young and they are weaned between six to ten weeks. Unfortunately many squirrels die in the first year of their life, but they can have a lifespan of 5 to 10 years in the wild and in captivity they can have a lifespan of 10 to 20 years. The front teeth of the squirrel grow throughout its life and the check teeth are set back behind a wide gap for chewing their food. Squirrels cannot digest cellulose therefore they must rely on foods rich in protein, during the colder months of the year this can be very difficult because some of the food they have buried have started to grow making the food not edible and they now have to rely on new tree buds etc.
He/she was literally blocking the trail! And dead to the world, dozing in the sun. I was regretting not wearing different shoes, as my ancient trainers were promptly soaked thru, from last night's rain.
I had seen this his little guy ('little' by E-seal standards -- he already outweighs me!) on this beach a few days ago, with a HUGE scab of tar stuck to his head. I reported him, and I guess Friends of the E-Seals responded -- they had moved the CAUTION signs, and he had a fresh tag on his rear flipper. He's lying on the side that had the tar -- but he did wake up as I was trying to squeeze past him on the way out, and I think the tar was gone.