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This black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) was engaged in a three-way fluting conversation. It is sitting in front of its cave and looking upwards to another fluter sitting on the ledge about 2m above this cave.
Diese Gryllteiste (Cepphus grylle) war Teil einer 3-seitigen Flötkonversation. Sie sitzt vor ihrer Höhle und schaut hinauf, zu einem anderen Flötling ca 2m über ihrer Höhle.
Also known as Brown's Wolf Gecko or Brown's Fringe Gecko.
Location: Peninsular Malaysia.
Description: These are small geckos, characterized by the flaps of skin on the front and rear of their limbs and sometimes, along their bodies. This species is known for its cute orange tongue but its tongue will turned red when stressed.
Behavior: Members of the genus Luperosaurus are presumably highly arboreal.
Leucophaeus pipixcan juvenile, & Thalasseus elegans,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
I believe the backstory is that the very small gull had just gotten chased by a larger gull and it happened to land in proximity with the tern. Apparently both took offense with the other's presence. The tern was one of a mass of about 600, most of which had appeared along this shore the day before. The Franklin's Gull is a rare bird locally, had been present since August 25, and was not seen after the day of this photo, August 31.
Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until you give
me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene
E.E. Cummings
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Bighorn rams demonstrating the effects of high altitude testosterone with the beginning of their rutting activities. All rights reserved.
A Clarks Grebe (left)(Aechmophrus clarkii) and a Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) engage in the Rush Ceremony during the breeding season on a Northern Colorado pond.
Divesite: House Reef (Pulau Bangka, North Sulawesi/Indonesia)
Sea Souls Diving Resort, April/May 2019
Behavioral Sciences Building, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Architect: Walter Netsch of SOM
Completed: 1969
Habitat : Forests
Food : Seeds
Nesting : Tree
Behavior : Foliage Gleaner
Concervation : Low Concern
When they return, a sure sign that fall is here.
"The Purple Finch is the bird that Roger Tory Peterson famously described as a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” For many of us, they’re irregular winter visitors to our feeders, although these chunky, big-beaked finches do breed in northern North America and the West Coast. Separating them from House Finches requires a careful look, but the reward is a delicately colored, cleaner version of that red finch. Look for them in forests, too, where you’re likely to hear their warbling song from the highest parts of the trees."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
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Hi folks, I'm sorry if I'm boring you but just a couple more and it will be over. In thin image it reminded me of a dance, but what he was doing was getting her into position for the ultimate act of love. It was a series I've never witnessed before and hope you understand what I'm trying to portray. Have a great day and as always thank you fror the visits.
"In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster."
~Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
A Touch of Frost Eugenia models Social Behavior fashion from the 2020 Legendary Style Lab collection.
Samburu National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
Two male giraffes fighting down by the Ewaso Ng'iro River. They sometimes swing their heads under the body to try to knock their opponent off their feet.
Male giraffes use their necks as weapons in combat, a behavior known as "necking". Necking is used to establish dominance and males that win necking bouts have greater reproductive success. This behavior occurs at low or high intensity.
In low intensity necking, the combatants rub and lean against each other. The male that can hold itself more erect wins the bout. In high intensity necking, the combatants will spread their front legs and swing their necks at each other, attempting to land blows with their ossicones. The contestants will try to dodge each other's blows and then get ready to counter. The power of a blow depends on the weight of the skull and the arc of the swing.
A necking duel can last more than half an hour, depending on how well matched the combatants are. Although most fights do not lead to serious injury, there have been records of broken jaws, broken necks, and even deaths.
After a duel, it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling. In one study, up to 94 percent of observed mounting incidents took place between males. The proportion of same-sex activities varied from 30–75 percent. Only one percent of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.
This is the same robin from the previous photo, it had such odd behavior that day. It would sit proudly on the branch, but then try to attach itself to the screen from the window. The only thing that we can come up with, is that she saw the reflection of the branches in the window and tried to land on them. We have since put up a photo of an owl, which has discouraged her from attempting this again.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird perched in the garden de-burring the end of his beak. It is very common to see a Hummingbird perched at the pithy end of a dead branch poking his beak into the soft wood to remove burrs from his beak. You can easily spot a favorite perch by the look of the end of the branch. It will look frayed from the constant poking. They also wipe their beak from side to side on the branch to remove burrs from the sides of their beak. This will leave marks on the side of the branch.
A telephoto lens and very stealthy behavior allowed me to photograph this chickadee from my back deck in Loudoun County, Virginia some years ago. Whenever I see this image, it brings to mind Elvis Presley's song, "Blue Suede Shoes" but, in this case, we are witnessing what could be regarded as blue suede feet. Or claws. Or something close.
This buck is standing in early morning light and rubbing his hocks together. This stimulates the tarsus glands located there and causes them to flow a secretion down his leg. He marks a scrape by urinating down his legs, mixing the urine and tarsus secretion. Then he works this into the ground to leave his scent. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Anhinga hunting technique - Flip through 6 pics for sequence.
Stab fish with beak underwater. Surface beat fish against ground or post to remove from beak. Pick up fish again. Reposition so it's head first. Swallow it down.
Burrowing owl babies are some of the cutest subjects that I've ever been blessed to photograph. More that photograph, I have treasured the time that I was able to spend with them. They are quite the entertaining subjects, that's for sure and their curiosity is undeniable! LOL. Here these two siblings are equally distracted by something off in the distance ... possibly a bird flying by, or an insect buzzing, or even an errant balloon on the loose. You never know. LOL
To experience May without spending time with the burrowing owls is a sad moment indeed to me ... but truthfully I have MANY images from 2018 that I have yet to go through ... so I guess it's not really that bad. But to say I miss them is a huge understatement.
Thanks for stopping by to view and I hope that everyone is enjoying their weekend. :-)
© 2018 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
Ostional Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica: A Pacific Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) building the hole in the sand that will serve as a nest for their eggs during an arribada at the beach. The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) adopted a unique nesting behavior that increases their offspring’s chance of survival. They deposit more eggs in the sand than predators can consume; this is known in Costa Rica as 'arribada'. An arribada is a unique masive nesting phenomenon. Its arrival transforms the beach into one of the few places in the world where it spawns in arribadas, it can be up to 300,000 turtles, especially in the rainy season between August and November.
Not a great image but a fun catch of the Canyon Wren on the right not liking it at all that the White-crowned Sparrow on the left was hopping over with…an offering? nesting material? who knows!…which it dropped once the Wren moved down into the rock crevasse.
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...darling I love you, but give me Big Lagoon!" Okay, let's all get the 'Green Acres' theme stuck in our heads as I fill you in on the latest happening at Big Lagoon...an Osprey pair has decided to build their nest atop the tall observation tower on the boardwalk! I've never seen this behavior before in past years and I'm intrigued to see how it works out for them...I wonder if they will have second thoughts as they realize how noisy their penthouse will be, as more and more park visitors make their way to the top floor, just below them! It will probably be like having a party hardy crowd occupying the apartment just below you...LOL
I observed this male at great length over the weekend, as he would fly away to find a branch, then land in a tree across the slough and wait until there was no one near the tower, then bring the branch over...with park attendance getting more active in the pleasant weather, this will be a daunting task for this guy!
I really like how the 'lean-to' design of the wood shingle roof looks like a fence from this perspective!
have you ever checked out soni avileva's work? deviant behavior is a funky shop where you can try on demos live on the spot without unboxing. what a unique experience! i haven't seen this anywhere else. i happened to find his work on flickr by accident and was totally curious.
when you arrive, you're greeted by some really lovely helpful ladies and the layout of the shop is by body type. the textures are really good and everything seems to be sold in fatpacks at a very reasonable price. i wanted to buy everything but ended up walking away with this body suit and two other dresses. one you can see here.
be sure to check out upstairs, where the deviant ladies hang out. however, don't accidentally get too close... some of them bite ;)
p.s. if you have time to flick through soni's flickr his parties looks epic XD i want to go to the next one lol!
When this guy came out of the burrow he was actually facing toward the open field behind him, so I stopped looking and in an instant he turned and took on an entirely different demeanor, gave me this look which i thought was a really ticked off look, there behavior is amazing, there antics and the ability to do this is remarkable, anyway have a great day and thank you for the visit.
Samburu National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
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The vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in length from about 50 centimetres (20 in) for males to about 40 centimetres (16 in) for females.
In addition to very interesting behavioral research on natural populations, vervet monkeys serve as a nonhuman primate model for understanding genetic and social behaviors of humans. They have been noted for having human-like characteristics, such as hypertension, anxiety, and social and dependent alcohol use. Vervets live in social groups ranging from 10 to 70 individuals, with males changing groups at the time of sexual maturity. The most significant studies done on vervet monkeys involve their communication and alarm calls, specifically in regard to kin and group recognition and particular predator sightings.
It's so interesting to watch a group of bucks foraging together on the autumn landscape of Grand Teton National Park. To see how they interacted with each other, with an obvious dominance of a few, they worked the landscape foraging for some tasty leaves. These mule deer know that it's only a matter of time before the leaves have fallen and food sources become harder to find. This buck clearly prefers to be a "top feeder", reaching up high for his selection of leaves. Good thing for us too, because when it did reach up, he gave us a nice view of him, including his antlers and, of course, that eye.
Hoping to get back out to the Tetons soon, so I thought I would go into the archives for some incentive. Hope that you enjoyed..
© 2017 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
A new blog will post tonight, so if you haven't read the current one featuring more images and stories from the Tetons, you can take a moment or two to do that now by clicking the link:
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself.
( I am large, I contain multitudes. )"
A snapshot taken through partitioning pillars in the NY subway, showing people in social interaction, while not interacting. The slight blur of the picture gives the situation a touch of being unreal, dreamlike.
Thanks to the kind folks in the Bird Identification Help Group, we know that the Northern Harrier is buzzing the resident Red-tailed hawk. Thanks Natreb, Buckeye & Mike! Taken in Liberty Lake, WA, USA.
The Northern Harrier was a new arrival who was hunting in the nearby field all day; the Red-tail is a very familiar neighbor who also has used this bull pine as a perch to hunt from. We have chihuahuas, so we tend to remain aware of hawks, eagles & owls. 😊
The harrying newcomer buzzed the Red-tail several times getting pretty close to try to scare her off. It reminds us of the disputed tree at the lake-side where the Ospreys and Bald Eagles had similar “discussions!”
An attempt at capturing the aggressive behavior of this species, with males generally the 'nastier' of the two.
This image's special to me because it was made 6 years ago, when I began shooting @ 10 fps with the Canon 1D M3. Near Lampasas, TX.
Higher ISO @ 1600, f/11, 1/4000th and bright sunlight - no flash. 1D M3, 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x
Elizabeth knew she didn't qualify for the latest contest theme given how her mornings usually start. (more information about contest in previous photo)
Here, Elizabeth gets the most out of her night's sleep before her daughter Tulley and housepets try to start her day before her alarm clock sounds. Last night's reading and her house boots sit on the floor below. :)
Elizabeth is a Juliet Barbie from the late '90s who received a complete reroot by SalvadorLA.