View allAll Photos Tagged behavior
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.
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.
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.
I think that this place, which processes wild game for local hunters, may not be the wisest choice of a spot to hang out for these two moose. Along the Alaska Hwy. near Delta Junction, Alaska.
APS camera, Fuji 800 film
Part of a series of photos taken for my colleague Prof. Doug Levey for the PR surrounding their paper in PNAS about mockingbird recognition of individual people, not just people in general. This photo went out on the wire and was published in a number of newspapers.
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!
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'm not an avian photographer - and so, this behavior caught me quite by surprise. Repeatedly, this adult swallow would visit juveniles roosting on the wires, giving them food, whilst never even staying still, or resting momentarily.
Congratulations to an inaugural class of 22 officers from the Royal Grenada Police Force who completed an 8-week Social & Behavioral Policing program with SGU's School of Arts & Sciences.
Stopped by Scioto Audubon to check on the Osprey nest and found one eating a fish. Meanwhile, just a mile or so south, Haul Road was teeming with activity as three or four osprey were building up the nest for this years brood!
Curlews squabbling over food source
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
This is a logotype I made for a a classroom program called Behavior Lab. It helps integrate children with disabilities back into the classroom and aids them in becoming self sufficient, enabling them to be as independent as possible. I loved working on this project. It was an amazing program.
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.