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Haven't these mousers got work to do?
In truth, Macey (left) might be described as a vegetarian hunter. She captures leaves and presents them to us. Jasper would be more proficient were it not for the lack of a fourth leg.
Today the Hereios of the We're Here! group are investigating the Seven Deadly Sins (notwithstanding that they tend not to be deadly, a bit like our cats).
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
squirrel seems to be using a stick to jab at the earth, perhaps loosing the dirt so he can dig easier (to bury nuts)
This is a metal and vinyl backed post card sized...thing I got at the 'antique mall' last weekend. It said "Indian public service cards" and came with that round thingy to hang it up with. I'm thinking the 'behaviours' are:
Sneezing or barfing at the dinner table, or possibly bulemia
Killing small animals while your sibling possibly falls in the river and drowns
Tripping a friend while playing ball in the street causing heinous vehicular injury
Beating up the kid you just played Texas Hold'em for lunch money and lost to
Dropping your leftover sugary cereal milk off the balcony and giving one of the strangely many passers-by crusty 'something about mary' hair
Touching someone's butt
I especially like the obvious consequences of the BAD BEHAVIOURS, like touching someone's butt will surely cause them to fall under the oncoming train.
Several Robins were in the area showing aggressive behaviour such as this head up stance to display the red breast.
‘I’m tired of being chained to it.’
The sentiments of the web’s most avid users who, in the last three years, have scaled back on their internet use
Jeffrey Cole, Director, Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California
www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/technology/14drill.html?_r=1&a...
Background image courtesy of: www.flickr.com/photos/markallanson/452840836. This citation appears in the top right of the image.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard bearing no publisher's name. The card, which was printed in Great Britain, has a divided back.
Ernest Noble
The artwork was by Ernest Noble.
Ernest Noble was born in Stoke Newington, London, in the second quarter of 1881, the son of a Quaker minister who founded the British Blue Ribbon Temperance Movement in 1878.
Ernest is best known as a postcard artist of the 1910's and 1920's. He also illustrated books, and drew a newspaper strip called "The 80 Adventures of Robbie Crusoe", which appeared translated in Dutch newspapers.
Ernest provided artwork for postcards that were published in the Great War and the Second World War. He died in 1958.
People will make an obviously false judgement if others in the group (who are actors) make the same false judgement first.
Asch (1951)
I happened to get video of this SESA as it appeared to (at times) be stalking stalk prey items somewhat reminiscent of a Spotted Sandpiper technique
but, of course, without the tail pumps :)
then ...it looks to be hunkering down for some rest time
Focus on
Semipalmated Sandpiper SESA (Calidris pusilla)
at one point passes
Least Sandpiper LESA (Calidris minutilla)
(Lying down resting)
East Beach
Saanichton* Spit
aka
Cordova Spit
aka
TI̸X̱EN 'the Spit" ( Tsawout First Nation )
TIXEN
DSCN9412
Taken on July 1, 2019
Observing rat behaviour during a sleep monitoring session. On the left screen, you can see software used to record EEG & EMG as well as behaviour. The right screen (a TV screen) shows the rat in its cage (from another room).
It still fascinates me, how different life forms, of many sizes and scales can create a micro-ecosystem directly relevant to the surface, temperatures, exposures etc. etc. etc.
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
I was up at one of our local churchyards for my walk this morning when I noticed this female Mallard.
She was quacking away and then flew up into a hole in a tree, if she's nesting there I worry about the babies when they hatch.
The pond is just across a fairly busy road if they try to get there.
Nestlé Research Center studies behaviour to understand drivers of pleasure and healthy food choices.
22 February 2015. Stoneleigh Road N17.
In my opinion, our local street cleaners - working for Veolia - do a good job; collecting and bagging waste in the company's purple bags.
Which are supposed to be collected reasonably quickly.
But while the "official" bags await collection, they act like a "magnet" - tacitly encouraging a few people to add their own waste bags to the pile.
This is a unique behaviour of this species I observed after a long time, for which I had no idea before! It seemed to me like a kind of mating rituals. I waste not my time to record this event. I remained scared lest they get disturbed, and thereby I knew that I was breaking some basic ethics of a nature lover. The whole event went for 20 minutes or so, and I recorded only a fraction of this whole event.
My sweet water aquariums are always my wonderful windows to underwater nature. These are of my amazing micro-nature study and I spend hours and hours to experience and document fascinating behaviour of fishes and other creatures, plants, and even macroscopic members of a micro ecosystem under various conditions. Sometimes I study activities of minute creatures at night under low light conditions when all the fishes sleep. My hobby educates me every single moment I observe so close to them. I enjoy beauties of life everyday from so close, and they are my immense source of energies to stay happy.
I think this is a Warbler, possibly an Audubon Warbler, getting at food on the underside of this rock formation.
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robin ~ erithacus rubecula (behavioural)
RSPB Green status list.
All fluffed up for quick sunbathe this robin appeared to be really enjoying it even though it was very hot in the sheltered area where he was.
‘Sunbathing’ is used by some birds as part of their routine feather maintenance and is most commonly seen by Garden BirdWatchers in Blackbirds and Robins. The birds invariably adopt a posture in which the body feathers are fluffed up and one or both wings are held out from the body, with feathers spread. It is thought that using the sun in this way does two things. It both helps the preen oil to spread across the feathers and drives parasites out from within the plumage. Some of these parasites feed on the feathers themselves and all are highly specialised, with many only found on a single species of bird.
Ref: BTO
Clay nest pot of heath potter wasp ( Eumenes coarctatus) on gorse. Dorset, UK.
The female lays a single egg in each pot and supplies it with paralysed caterpillars before sealing the entrance.