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10-18-2022 Secretary of Health & Human Services Xavier Becerra SAMSHA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Press Conference
I wish people would give the Short-eared Owls some space. This guy is walking right through the hillside where they hunt for squirrels, voles, and other small rodents. Not pictured here, yet about 100 yards away to the left, are two other photographers crouched down in some bushes directly above where I've observed one of the SEOWs perch for long periods of time. There was also someone trampling down the bushes about 50 yards to the right of him. With that many people traipsing all over their hunting grounds, I'm afraid they'll be scared off. When people are trampling all over the hillside they are interfering with the owl's ability to hunt, by driving their prey underground.
I haven't gotten any fantastic Nat Geo quality photos of them, but I've been thrilled just to observe their interactions from afar. I'm afraid these poor owls are going to be loved to death.
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)
I was wondering where were their parents. As usual, in Japan mothers often say nothing. Good their shoes are off but this is not excuse to jump.
DMPS Behavioral Health Services Coordinator Stephanie McFarland spoke to educators at Moulton Elementary School during their professional development session about the affects of childhood trauma and ways to defuse post-traumatic stress in children on January 24. McFarland also spoke about how positive, consistent relationships are able to rewire young brains for learning.
Male Ostrich (Struthio camelus), left, chasing two females in courtship behavior across one of Etosha's dusty plains.
Odd paper wasp behavior - Polistes aurifer - Female
Jackson County, Oregon, USA
April 26, 2018
Every summer paper wasps nest around the outside of the house. These in the photos are on the porch ceiling (so actually they are clinging UPSIDE DOWN, I rotated the photos to make them easier to comprehend). The nests are attended by multiple individuals but they seem to be pretty goodnatured, never bothering me or the dogs, even if I get fairly close to photograph them on the nest. At this point in the year the females are just exploring to find where to build a nest.
This is the first time I have noticed the activity shown, where one wasp gets on top of another. The one on the bottom has her wings folded over her body making the body look dark from some angles so at first I thought this was a predatory behavior between two species.
In the preceding picture the wasp that will be "mounted" adopts a submissive posture while two others "stand up" to do something: recognize each other? Then one gets on top of the submissive one, and the third one hangs around or wanders off. Often there is no third wasp, just the "dominant" and "submissive" ones.
Female paper wasps collaborate on building and guarding a nest though only one female may actually lay eggs in the nest. I don't think the males appear at the nest site, but breeding takes place before nestbuilding, elsewhere. So I'm thinking this isn't copulation. Maybe one female exerting dominance to become the one that reproduces? I need to mark them so I could track better.
More details: they build small (2-4 inches across) cup-shaped nests attached to a ceiling or inside a sheltered place like a shade, with a slender pedicel, and each nest contains >15 cells. Cells are stopped up with more paper not with the cobwebby material I have seen in pictures of the nests of some species.
I would be grateful for more information on these very interesting insects. Although observed in SW Oregon they may be European paper wasps but I'm not sure.
This is by far the most common lizard here... and the most interesting. The male has an extendable throat fan that is bright orange or yellow. The female has a wide stripe on the back that has scalloped borders. While not a native species, it is now well established in southern Florida. (It was introduced from the West Indies centuries ago... not necessarily deliberately.
IMG_5421; Brown Anole
Nude body appeared at Cambridge university, this is ridiculous thing. Caused bad effect, because this is the highest institution of higher learning
The George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Vancouver, BC
Adult males are a sight to behold, with sharp black-and-white patterns set off by chestnut flanks. Females get their own distinctive elegance from their cinnamon crest. Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They nest in tree cavities; the ducklings depart with a bold leap to the forest floor when only one day old. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hooded_Merganser
Taken during a “Winter Birds of Vancouver Workshop” led by Jess Findlay and Connor Stephanison, February 2020. See www.jessfindlay.com/winter-birds-workshop for more information.
Normally the potty seat is put on top of the toilet for a young child to use the toilet. My son, who is king of Unusal Human Behavior, decided that it fits better on the head where you can roar and pretend you are a lion. I wonder how funny he thinks he will be when I pull this out for his prom date.
Submitted for November's THC # 12 - Unusal Human behavior
Submitted for October's THC # 2 - Blackmail
Governor Charlie Baker and Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders join state and local officials to highlight eight years of progress strengthening access to behavioral health services in Massachusetts at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly designated Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) in East Boston run by North Suffolk Community Services on Dec. 15, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor's Press Office]
of the Monarch butterfly is explored in this novel, along with the clash between science and the faith among conservative evangelicals, in a truly wonderful book by Barbara Kingsolver.
More here: www.npr.org/2012/11/06/164102081/flight-behavior-weds-iss...
Reading in the knit-and-read book club.
This is Kubota, the buck in the Whitetail Deer habitat on Grandfather Mountain, marking a fallen tree branch with his scent. They have glands on their foreheads between the eyes and antlers that they use to rub their scent off on branches etc. He was also very interested in sniffing everywhere where his does had presumably left their scent. Kubota has had a vasectomy to prevent breeding, but he will still go into rut and act like a buck. At one point, he was chasing the females around. The other male in the enclosure, Dozer, has been neutered to prevent fighting and was mostly just staying out of sight.
There is no sound on this video. I took it out because the only thing you could hear was the conversation of the people next to me and a plane flying overhead, so it didn't really contribute anything to the video. Curiously enough, Movie Maker decided to give the video a black border when I saved it.
This video is now also available on youtube if you prefer to watch it there.
Update, sad news: I just learned on my last trip to Grandfather Mountain that Kubota and two other deer in the habitat had to be put down this past winter due to injuries and infections. :-( Kubota had a large abscess in his jaw that wasn't responding to medication and it was decided to end his suffering. Lab results revealed that he had contracted tetanus.
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The cats got into the cupboard above the kitchen aquarium and dropped a tin of cat food. Not effective.
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I don't even know where to begin with this...
There are a few kids at school that insist on bringing what I've deemed the "American Breakfast" into the lecture hall. This can happen at breakfast in the morning, mid-morning snack, just after lunch, or later in the afternoon. The styrofoam box (pictured upper right) contains scrambled eggs, toast, butter, hash browns, tabasco sauce, ketchup, and all manner of other chemicals and odors that have a distinctly dichotomous nature. When I am at a diner, I expect these smells. When I am at a lecture in medical school, I absolutely do not expect this type of olfactory attack. It's not that I don't like the American Breakfast; it's that I find its presence in the lecture hall inappropriate. But not inappropriate like teenagers doing inappropriate things, more like my brain has a hard time mixing the smell and the environment. And that bothers me.
BTW, know where the cat is AT ALL TIMES.