Bird Behaviour in Action
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the horbills are quite large birds used to feed on fruit and mainly insects,arachnids and small vertebrates.
but they are not used to kill aduld birds.
in this case an African Grey Hornbill (tockus nasutus) has cought and killed a social weaver.
"a strange behaviour"
Etosha National Park ,Namibia
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GAMBIA FEB 2019
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NORMALLY VERY PLACID HERON, with no neck showing, but something came near, did not see what it was, it reeled out its neck , with a feather duster look, with a loud grunting type call, was quite taken back with its very long neck behaviour. Have shown the normal pose thirty seven images back, if you want to compare
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Lesser Tenrecs will self-anoint/nuzzle or "scent-mark", usually after vivarium cleaning, introduction of new objects like in this situation, but they will also self anoint on parts of a human body such as the hand.
This is Azizi (left) and Boo (right)
Dove and Red-headed Finch.
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and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted :-)
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour
HPPT!!
prunus mume, pink japanese flowering apricot, 'Bonita', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
From the "senses" series: Vision
If someone sees something, they react. Cause-effect. According to Pavlov, reflexes could be conditioned. If you don't see, you don't react. But if vision is deprived from you and you know and watch that you don't see because someone doesn't want you to see, you react. Cause-effect.
This juvenile is very different from the others.
He has always eyes closed
He is all white
He always stay hidden (very hard to do few photos)
This is the first Albino Nutria that I have ever seen.
Saddly the only opportunity I had to see this animal was during a bad end of afternoon.
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One of the pair of bridled common murres show here has just arrived back on a ledge of the nesting cliff, so a little vocalizing, mutual pecking, and wing flapping was in order.
Red-winged Blackbird perched on a bed of dried Cattail stems along the shore of Gillies Lake in the Gillies Lake Conservation Area located in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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Courtship behaviour of the great crested grebe.
great crested grebe
Haubentaucher
[Podiceps cristatus]
We just couldn't believe this!
Many of you would have seen adult Grebe's doing the Weed Dance., an elaborate and beautiful 'Courtship' ritual
But what we have here are two Grebe chicks from the same family spontaneously performing (with all the same complex moves) the very same dance
They are young and immature., so this cannot be 'learnt behaviour' but instead somehow engrained into their DNA
We were taken by surprise and It was wonderful to watch!
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Never work with animals or children, they said... but they didnt have Azizi. From a very young age, he knows to pose when I have my camera. He gives me several seconds rather than nano seconds (the typical behaviours of my other Lesser Tenrecs!!). But I guess it means that of my 6 Tenrecs, I bring him out to photograph the most!!
This image made it as my choice of acrylic for my bathroom. Hope you like it. Tomorrow I will talk about how they really prefer to bathe!! (no water came into contact with my beautiful boy).
I first saw this behaviour earlier in the year. On that occasion the adult spent ages trying to get to the flesh of the starfish.
This youngster once it had seen off all it's rivals didn't mess about and simply swallowed the starfish whole.
Starfish - Asteroidea
Herring Gull - Larus Argentatus
Oban Bay Scotland
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It was lovely to get the opportunity to capture this shot. I had great fun watching these two owls behaviour when close together.
Curious behaviour, the Redshank didn't eat the fish, it just picked it up and dumped it on the edge of the water. It must have been annoying the Redshank!
Halcyon senegalensis
L'offrande de nourriture du mâle à la femelle est un comportement très fréquent... avant les choses plus sérieuses...
Parc national Kruger, Afrique du Sud
The offering of food by the male to the female is a very frequent behaviour... before more serious things happen...
Kruger National Park, South Africa
This is the first time I am raising a female cat and the behaviour is so different from male cats. It's being such a joy to observe the female more discrete and subtle ways.
Akasha has a charming way of placing her irises on top of her eyes when she looks at you. I have seem some female actresses doing that.
Münchenstein
Switzerland
PB_M7184.2 - 24-105mm
One side of Timmy is the adventurer: today a wall was newly concreted at the construction site at the creek behind the house. Two hours later Timmy checked the quality of the work. Fortunately, the concrete was already solid enough so that he did not leave paw prints :-)))
Happy Caturday 2.10.2021 "Signature behaviour"
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Stag frantically digging up mud at the edge of a lake to cover its antlers before dressing them in vegetation. Not sure if this is to impress the ladies or threaten other males in the rut.
First is a Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar, next a Soldier Beetle, then a Ladybird and a Hoverfly. Please try viewing large. Thank you....
Came across this bruin in the arctic, he was feeding on a musk ox calf. His eyes tell the story, stay away! Taken from inside a truck on a gravel road. Decided to heed his eyes and stay in the truck with minimal movement. (The photographer didn't get this old being stoopid!) I have had very close encounters with Grizzly Bears while hiking and have been bluff charged and followed for miles before. One thing that is important is to read the animals behaviour. This one is quite obvious, wouldn't you say?
Not sure what,s going on here.At first i thought the ants were moving their larvae to another location,but the first larvae is clearly a plant hopper nymph! So moving plant hopper larvae for security,or food?
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Just for the record, to keep some of the instinctive feeding behaviour for these birds, their food is hidden in boxes and cups etc. I can't remember the name of this beautiful bird though!
Yesterday we were on a road trip to the mid-island in search of Long-tailed ducks, unfortunately, they were way across the channel, tiny dots in the seascape. The local Eagle family had them and other ducks in their sights but settled for a meal that the tide change offered.
finding them ugly and grotesque but I find them interesting not only in their looks but their behaviour too....they are truly amazing~ watching out for one another, keeping the planet clean and how they are very silent with only occasional grunts,...they find their food by their ability to smell which makes it difficult to get a good shot because unless I can follow them downwind they always know I'm there before I can get a shot...very clever.