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Hunters call this behavior "lip curling," biologists call it "the Flehman response." Several ungulates display this behavior. They usually close their nostrils and draw air back into their mouths and across the vomeronasal organ which detects pheremones like estrus. This buck Pronghorn antelope is downwind from a herd of does near Cimarron, NM. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Divesite: Pulau Bangka (North Sulawesi/Indonesia)
Sea Souls Dive Resort, April/May 2019
60mm and Nauticam CMC-1
Art Museum, Philadelphia
The young hawks use found objects like sticks to practice adult behaviors like mantling prey.
(Photo Note: CA. Sea Lions are extremely creative at finding unusual places to rest and warm up from the cold water. California Sea Lions are very social animals, and groups often rest closely packed together.)
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At The Marine Mammal Center
"California sea lions are our most common patients at The Marine Mammal Center. In 2009, we admitted over 1700 animals. Nearly 1400 of these were California sea lions. The most common reasons California sea lions are rescued include: malnutrition, domoic acid toxicosis, leptospirosis, cancer, pneumonia, entanglement in debris or fishing gear, gunshots, and other wounds. In 2009, many of the sea lions that stranded were malnourished yearlings. Animals can become severely underweight from maternal separation, disease, lack of food sources, effects of El Niño and other environmental factors. In 1998, the Center diagnosed the first case of domoic acid toxicosis in marine mammals; a condition caused by harmful algal blooms that causes the animals to have seizures. Although the Center has conducted extensive studies to better understand this disease, hundreds of sea lions are affected annually." (Source: Marine Mammal Center 2015: www.marinemammalcenter.org/)
Behavior:
California sea lions are very social animals, and groups often rest closely packed together at favored haul-out sites on land or float together on the ocean's surface in "rafts." They are sometimes seen "porpoising," or jumping out of the water, presumably to speed up their swimming. Sea lions have also been seen "surfing" breaking waves. California sea lions are opportunistic eaters, feeding on squid, octopus, herring, rockfish, mackerel, and small sharks. In turn, sea lions are preyed upon by Orcas (killer whales) and great white sharks.
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I had a slight mental breakdown yesterday. I think it was a mixture of stress from finals and a feeling of photographic inadequacy. I keep seeing the amazing photos others are creating and the success they are having and feeling like mine will never be as good. I kept looking back at all my photos and found that most of the ones I was most proud of were from months ago or were followed by ones that I really don’t care for. I started having a personal identity crisis and just wanted to crawl into a hole and hibernate until I was ready to face the world. I eventually decided that what I really needed was to go out and lose myself in the forest. I ended up going to a completely different area of the forest and just wandering about and ended up finding an amazing area that I plan on shooting in a lot. It was exactly what I needed. I eventually got out of my funk and realized that I was the only one creating my problems and was the only one who could fix them. If I want to get better I need to put in more effort. It’s as simple as that. So today while editing this I made myself become a perfectionist, working every detail until I got it how I wanted it. And then my computer shut off for no reason at all, of course on the one day that I wasn’t saving every so often. I wanted to rage/cry. But instead I just turned it back on and started all over again. I got this.
Also on a separate note, a lot of you are commenting on how cold I must have been. Well surprisingly it hasn’t actually been that cold. It’s usually been around only 32ºF, yesterday even getting up to 37! This is like October weather for Montana. Usually by now we could easily be having wind chill down to -20ºF or colder!
I'm going to put a rotated version of this on my Facebook becasue it loses the concept but has a strange uneasiness to it. Formspring. Tumblr
One of two images of a groundhog I met on the Bog Meadow Brook Nature Trail in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA on May 26, 2022. Although he turned around several times to seemingly glare at me, he never chose to leave the trail & just continued to run along ahead of me!
This white tern exhibits the webbed and clawed feet of an arboreal nesting seabird. Almost fledged, it takes its first wing strengthening flights between the branches of a monkeypod tree while still relying on its parents to return from the sea with a meal of fresh fish or squid.
One interesting move an american bittern makes is to stretch straight up when it feels threatened. Guess it is trying to look like a stick and disappear into the marsh foliage.
Taken at Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera, Florida.
Taken today at Canoe Meadows in Pittsfield, MA. Probably the same bird as Thursday. Same location and only the one seen.
Distinctive warbler with bold black-and-white stripes over entire body. Adult males have black throat and cheek; females and immatures have white throat and paler cheek. Creeps along branches like a nuthatch, searching for insects. Breeds in mature deciduous or mixed forests; winters in a wider variety of wooded habitats as far south as northern South America. Listen for high pitched “squeaky-wheel” song. Breeding male Blackpoll Warbler is potentially confusing, but note different behavior and face pattern.
..would you have a little bit of sugar to give me, please?
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Wasmannia Auropunctata
Red Ant / Electric Ant / Small Fire Ant
It's a very small social ant (about 1.5 mm long) light brown to golden in color, native to Central and South America. In homes, they usually live in plants, pots and cracks in walls and floors.
Their diet is very varied; although they have preferences for nectaries and honeydew, they also show interest in fats, so it is possible to find them in the kitchen.
"The hive invader" is considered a plague, and was included in the list of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world.
Even with all this, their way of communicating, the intelligence,
behavior and evolution, are worthy of admiration.
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To have a clearer idea about the size of the ant; if I'll reduced the photograph to its natural scale, the frame would have dimensions
of 7.5 x 5.5mm.. Yep! I said MILLIMETERS, not centimeters: this complete photograph printed on paper on this scale, would be smaller than the nail of your index finger. Ahh.. the amazing nature!
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. #MacroMondays
. #AllNatural
HMM!
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He was attempting to pull the stick loose with his mouth and foot. Apparently the stick was too tangled. He left without the stick.
: اعدادات تصوير الدانبو
Camera : Canon EOS 7D
ISO -100
Shutter Speed : 1/125
second Aperture : f/9.9
Focal Length : canon 17-40mm f4 L usm
Flash : Canon Speedlite 580EX II
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: اعدادات تصوير رشة العطر
Camera : Canon EOS 7D
ISO - 100
Shutter Speed : 1/160
second Aperture : f/9.9
Focal Length : canon 17-40mm f4 L usm
Flash : Canon Speedlite 580EX II
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[ جميع الحقوق محفوظه لدي ولا احلل ولا ابيح من يستخدم صوري بدون اذن مني وبدون ذكر الحقوق ]
From the displaying taking place earlier, I conclude that the white pigeon is a male. After displaying to a regular colored pigeon, they seemed to exchange food. According to a pigeon fancier, they mate for life and this is not feeding, but the female bites something in the male's mouth (the tongue?) and it stimulates her to crouch for mating. They behaved like this twice and it was followed each time by mating... Pine Island, Wascana, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 25 November 2020
2023-24: Judge merit award out of 1000 entries in Photocrowd 'Best Friends Together' in June 2024. Judge merit award out of 1500 entries in Photocrowd 'PIgeons' in July 2024
2022-23: Judge commended out of 1000 entries in Photocrowd 'Animal Couples' in June 2023.
This Panorama caused me a lot of headaches because it is ruined: take a look at the stars: they are not round, they are strokes. No, it’s Not caused by too long exposure, it’s a 20mm lens and 5s. This is caused by some strange behavior of the ibis in the eos R6II in combination of my Nodal Ninja 5 panoramic head. It ruined nearly all panorama takes of this trip. Initially I thought of a shaky tripod, loose screws and other causes. But it is more sublime: I left ibis settings untouched when I put the camera on the tripod, as ibis recognizes being on a tripod (not like to the EF System where it is recommended to switch stabilizers off) worked pretty flawless with the R6, but with the R6 II I got stars as strokes instead of pinpoints. Here is my finding: there is some movement/activity of the ibis after the panoramic head is turned rapidly and locks to the next angular position. Although I use the 2s shutter delay, the sensor seems to get moved/shaked by the ibis for a longer time.
Solution is easy: switch off stabilization. This option you can find in the red menu (especially when utilizing a lens without stabilizer).
But why I didn’t experience that problem with the R6? Because this option to switch on/off ibis is simply missing in the R6 when using a third party lens w/o stabilizer!! It is only visible with canon lenses without stabilizer.
If the lens has build in stabilizer, you switch it on/off using the switch of the lens body. Hope this findings help others avoiding this flaw.
Beside this, that night was epic: weather couldn’t get worse of the whole week, clouds and clouds so we drove to Finland and further to Sweden, there were some clear sky forecasted. We decided to stay overnight in Kilpisjärvi instead of heading back to Tromsø that evening which was the best decision ever. The show we got was phenomenal, it began already at sunset and lasted until dawn. This pano I took at 4:55. that was a night!
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Tachycineta bicolor,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
The two at left inspected the pipe they were perched on, I assume considering it as a potential nesting site. (Think about that!) Meanwhile there were several other Tree Swallows flying over the pond and the one at far right landed near the pair. Not welcome at all.
This image belongs to a series I made in 2017.
It is not a new photograph. It is an old photograph that I am publishing today because the reason that generated it never disappeared.
This account was not my first Flickr account.
My first one dates back to 2011, it was not a paid account, and with that account I never reached Explore until many years later, only after 2020.
In 2017, less than a year after opening this other account, I found myself completely blocked anyway.
The wound never closed, also because for ten years, in order to reach Explore, I worked unbelievably hard and was even forced to open three or four other free accounts.
That alone says a lot.
At the time, I found those two small Flickr signs, pink and blue, and placed them on my skin, because Flickr, for better or worse, I already felt it on me.
That is why I am publishing these old images today: because what they represented then is still alive for me now.
I still observe dynamics that do not seem natural, transparent, or healthy to me.
I still see behaviors, mechanisms, and power relations that make it very hard to believe completely in the fairy tale of chance and neutrality.
At this point, since there is a relationship, I want to say it directly: tell me what the hell I am supposed to do.
At 55 years old, alone, independent, anarchic, honest, in a world full of dishonest people, I cannot keep splitting myself into five accounts just to enter Explore once in a while.
It is absurd. All of it is absurd.
Either this really works randomly, or it does not.
And if it does not, then it would be more honest to stop pretending that it does.
These photographs come from there: from a deep bond, from an old anger, and from the awareness that when certain things get under your skin, they do not leave.
California Quail have an interesting behavior before mating…the male jumps around the female while she lays on the ground and he pushes his beak into her back a number of times before doing the deed. Birds.
took it on the same day with "foibles", so you can see some sort of similar mood here.
that was a pretty hot day. i was sweating,so hair could be sticked easily.
RKO_0656. Please enlarge for a better view.
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