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Harbor seals are NOT sociable. When they haul out, they do so in groups, but keep their distance, a meter ( a yard) or so. Too close, and there is growling and flipper flapping, lunging and baring of teeth, and this youngster gets the word. Thanks to seaworld.org for the insights into the harbor seal behavior I recorded.
attends the celebration for Mindless Behavior's #1 Girl album release with an in-store signing and performance on September 22, 2011 in Universal City City.
Playing hide and seek, Elmer hides while his friends count , "one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi...." ;-)
Not sure whether this is pursuit for sex or a battle for flower-feeding territory. Many of the Anise Swallowtails at this place have shredded wings. To me it seems more like a fight.
MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA
Through their good behavior, PS students earned an opportunity to lunch with cast members of the HS musical production Beauty and the Beast.
I've had the company of a generation or two , or three of these tiny jumping spiders that live in between my window and the bug screen. I bought a pair of laser pointers (red & green) that I've been messing around with for about a week, when I noticed one day that they reacted to my green laser pointer while I pointed it out of the window. One of them scurried over to the green spot with haste! Some of them react aversively, others sometimes aggressively chasing the bright spot. I setup my Canon 60D to record a behavioral test session with my leading subject, Earl. Sourced From Wiki, I learned that "Jumping spiders have very good vision centered in their anterior median eyes (AME). These eyes are able to create a focused image on the retina, which has up to four layers of receptor cells in it (Harland & Jackson, 2000). Physiological experiments have shown that they may have up to four different kinds of receptor cells, with different absorption spectra, giving them the possibility of up to tetrachromatic color vision, with sensitivity extending into the ultraviolet range. It seems that all salticids, regardless of whether they have two, three, or four kinds of color receptors, are highly sensitive to UV light (Peaslee & Wilson, 1989). Some species (for example, Cosmophasis umbratica) are highly dimorphic in the UV spectrum, suggesting a role in sexual signaling (Lim & Li, 2005). Color discrimination has been demonstrated in behavioral experiments."CAT Eye Photography | Facebook | 500PX | Twitter | About Me |
This is a Tutelina elegans male, the jumping spider with the weird "eyebrows". After spotting this ant, in order to get to it, the spider took a route behind a stem, peered around the stem and then finally started to make his move.
But having snuck up on this meal, he was hesitant to pounce. At first I thought the spider hesitated because the spider was not very smart and a bit of a bumbler.
After some research, it looks like the ant could be an acrobat ant (Crematogaster). After noticing the spider, the ant went into "alarm posture" www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-History/Communication/.... I can't say for sure what the ant is thinking but wikipedia says: "When in conflict, acrobat ants can release a venom by flexing their abdominal regions. The effectiveness of the venom varies greatly with the opposer to the ant." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crematogaster
After capturing the ant, the Tutelina did what seemed to be a "happy dance", at times putting one or both front legs up, or hoisting the ant into the air. I've never seen a spider emote in such a way so maybe the "dance" served some other purpose.
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Found in a field down the street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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My #40 spider for this year.
There are also other clinical signs that are not behavior related. These signs in conjunction with the behavioral changes help determine hypothyroidism in the patient (Scott-Moncrieff, 2007).
Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: science, ethics, and public conversation edited by Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press
Aug 10 - The 3 Humpback whales we observed were all adult females, who had not had babies this year. We were told by the naturalist on board, that it's unusual for non-related adults to congregate together...that they may hang out for a short while but that the reasons why are not really known.
One of the 3 was very playful...when we first arrived in the area, she was rolling around and waving her dorsel fins up in the air. The photo above is cropped, as we were further away when seeing this behavior. The two dorsel fins are on the right side and the flipper on the left is part of her tail.
Anita Li placing dipper in the operant tank. We let it sit in the tank for 5-15 minutes to equalize the temperatures in case there are any differences.
Kentucky behavioral health professionals participate in Operation Immersion at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., Nov. 14-16, 2012. The goal of the event was to reduce stigmas attached to Service Members receiving behavioral health care and increase the quality of such care in Kentucky. (Kentucky National Guard photo by Cody Stagner, KYNG Medical Outreach Coordinator/Released)