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This specie makes numerous visits each day to rob the bird feeders (and provided peanuts). They take as much seed as they can carry in their jowl pouches back to their winter food caches... and then show up again to repeat this thievery. They are visible much later in the season than the more numerous Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels... the latter are more prone to hibernation inactivity.
IMG_0033; Red Squirrel
...model of "Monument with Standing Beast", a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn-designed James R. Thompson Center
Macaco-prego (Sapajus nigritus) fêmea adulta com seu infante, Cebidae
An adult female of black-horned capuchin monkey carrying her infant
Macacos-prego de vida livre/ Wild black-horned capuchin monkey
© Mariana Lorenzo
Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR
Eila Roberts, a graduate student in psychology, collects behavioral data on a family group of geladas in the early morning. Image credit: Clay Wilton
www.justwalkedby.com/2011/12/traffic-behavior-education/
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A worker adjusts an exhibit inside a new museum about Palestinian life in the West Bank city of Jenin.
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With apologies to James Thurber's The Bloodhound and the Bug*.
TL- Dog notices bumble bee that landed upside down in a fall from a flower.
TR-Dog tastes bee.
BL-Dog spits out bee and gives it a whack.
BR-Dog walks away, licking wounds. (Off camera-bee flies away)
* For those unlucky enough to have never been introduced to James Thurber in an American Literature class-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber
Nagi Noda, Shinji Konishi, and Asami Nemoto's "Animal Behavior" hair hat exhibition at the Marunouchi House floor of the Shin Marunouchi Building. It runs until May 6.
DMPS is hosting nearly 1,200 educators at its inaugural Summit on School Climate and Culture today and tomorrow, August 8-9, at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines. The summit will cover several areas including; the latest research and best practices for improving student behavior, learning how a multi-cultural classroom can be an asset, and identifying the social and emotional needs of students.
Television programming and advertisements are notorious for glamorizing anti social behavior such as smoking, drinking, stealing, fighting etc. without showing the real world consequences. This depiction leads to children having a distorted view of real world reality.
Model: Lisa
Strobist stuff: White Lightning w/barn doors a few feet over the model. Doors closes to trim light parallel to model. Cheap promaster flash +diffuser, low and camera left for fill.
CALIFORNIA SEA OTTERS
Animal Classification
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
Description
Sea otters are members of the weasel or mustelid family. Like other members of this family, they have very thick fur. In fact, at 850,000 to one million hairs per square inch, they have the thickest fur of any mammal. Their fur actually consists of two layers, an undercoat and longer guard hairs. This system traps a layer of air next to their skin so their skin does not get wet. Sea otters are usually dark brown, often with lighter guard hairs. Alaskan sea otters tend to have lighter fur on their heads. Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals. In California adult females weigh 35-60 pounds (16-27 kg); males reach up to 90 pounds (40 kg). Alaskan sea otters are bigger with males weighing up to 100 pounds (45 kg).
Range/Habitat
Sea otters once ranged from Mexico to Alaska and even to Japan. Currently, the California population numbers around 2,800 and is found from Half Moon Bay to Morro Bay. There is a much larger population in Alaska, and sea otters are still found in Russia. Sea otters inhabit shallow coastal areas and prefer places with kelp. The kelp acts as an anchor that the sea otters use to wrap themselves in when they are resting.
Mating/Breeding
Females give birth to one pup and usually have their first pup at the age of four or five. Their pregnancies last four to five months. Pups can be born any time of year, but in California most are born between January and March, and in Alaska most are born in the summer. When born, the pups weigh from three to five pounds.
Behavior
Sea otters are social animals, with females and pups spending time together in one group and males in another. Pups stay with their mothers for the first eight months of their life. The pups' fur traps so much air that they actually cannot dive under water. When mothers leave the pups wrapped in kelp to hunt, pups bob on the surface of the ocean like a cork. Mothers spend much time grooming pups and often carry them on their chests. Pups begin to learn to swim at around four weeks of age. Sea otters are one of the few animals to use tools. They eat animals with shells, like clams and abalone, and use a stone to break open the shells. When sea otters are under water searching for food, they store what they have found in the loose skin folds at their armpits. Adult sea otters can eat 25%-30% of their body weight in one day!
Status
Sea otters in California are a threatened species due to past over hunting for their beautiful fur. Although sea otters are protected now, they remain vulnerable, especially to oil spills. Unlike other marine mammals, sea otters do not have a blubber layer. Therefore, they rely on their fur to keep warm. If their fur is oiled, it loses its insulating qualities and the sea otters soon chill. Otters are also affected by the oil fumes or poisoned by eating food exposed to oil. Most sea otters quickly die in an oil spill. Several thousand sea otters died in the 1989 Exxon oil spill in Valdez, Alaska. Other threats to sea otters include infectious diseases, parasites, boat strikes, entanglements, and toxins.
At The Marine Mammal Center
The Marine Mammal Center began rehabilitating sea otters in 1995. Since that time, we have rescued up to 207 sea otters.
Want to learn more about marine mammals?
SOURCE: www.marinemammalcenter.org/
Saving the planet one step at a time
Have you heard of climate change?
Temperatures are getting higher. Storms are getting worse. Ice is melting and sea levels are rising. Portions of the coast of Bangladesh are likely to go underwater, lost forever. Millions will become homeless. The ability of the earth to sustain people is threatened.
Why is climate change happening?
Because people are burning up fossil fuels (diesel, petrol, natural gas, coal) at such rapid rates that future generations are now threatened.
Is it possible to slow climate change?
Yes, but we cannot continue to waste time. Carbon dioxide levels are rising rapidly. That is where the number 350 comes in. If we can limit CO2 in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million then we can avoid the worst of the harm to come.
Is there anything we can do?
No one person cam stop climate change but everyone contributes something significant. We can slow out own use of fossil fuels by walking and cycling and taking cycle rickshaws rather than using motorized transport. We can reduce our use of electricity. We can avoid, as a nation, burning coal (pure carbon) or selling it to others to burn. We can encourage the government to act to encourage reductions in fuel use and to encourage walking, cycling, and rickshaws.
This will mean making some changes. Fortunately most of those changes are likely to
increase rather than reduce our quality of life. Imagine being able to cycle safely in
Dhaka. Imagine the air being fresh and clean. Imagine children and youth being able to play in side streets. If we move our focus from cars to people, from traveling long
distances to accessing basic needs close to home, we can reduce congestion and all the misery it causes, We can have more time with family and for the other important parts of life.
Remember 350 is not just a number. It is not just an ideal. It is something we can all work to make a reality.
Syed Saiful Alam
shovan1209@yahoo.com
303/365: Out this window, our new and very young neighbors are having quite a party. When we got home tonight, someone's giant truck was almost blocking our way into the yard. All their stupid loud friends are in the front yard, the backyard. Every time I think they've quieted down, they get louder again! This is awful. This is worse than our prior neighbors, who were young and had a bad reputation, but actually just played a lot of muffled music from their basement and liked to smoke on their porch. These neighbors are like a downmarket Abercrombie ripoff. Drunk, loud, fake voices, big trucks and SUVs. At least they are not playing music. But I still have to sleep with all the windows closed. Fucking kids. I am old and cranky!
10-18-2022 Secretary of Health & Human Services Xavier Becerra SAMSHA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Press Conference
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) displaying hording behavior by burying a food source for later consumption. I don't know if it was for long term or short term, but it was interesting to see a bird displaying this behavior as it is usually associated with rodents. Hoarding behavior occurs when there is a lack of food, so animals will store food for short term, in which it will be consumed over days or weeks, or for long term in which it will be eaten months later. An interesting side effect of hoarding behaviors is the dispersal of seeds. Buried food can be forgotten about, and if it is a seed that is buried deep enough it helps with the dispersal of some plant species.
The video was taken on Weber State University campus around 4 pm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_(animal_behavior)