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Napping fur seal on Sandfly Beach on the Otaga Peninsula in Dunedin, New Zealand. I originally thought this was a sea lion due to the external ear flap. After reading a bit more I think it is a fur seal due to the pointed nose and longer whiskers.
These guys and sea lions seem to be the absolute best nappers.
Planted Zinnia seeds in this plant pot... but Kipper had other plans! Perfect place for a cat nap!!!
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White naped Mangabey
Witkruinmangabey
Cercocebus lunulatus
This now distinct species is considered to have a geographic range east of the Sassandra River to the west of the Volta River in Ghana; Cercocebus lunulatus is also recorded as inhabiting forests in southwestern Burkina Faso and northeastern Ivory Coast. Cercocebus lunulatus is considered Endangered by the IUCN.
Mangabeys are some of the most rare and endangered monkeys on Earth. These large forest dwellers are found only in Africa. They look somewhat like guenons but are bigger. Local people call some of them "the ones with the thin waist" or "four-eyed monkeys," because some kinds of mangabeys have bright white eyelids.
All mangabeys have a tail that is longer than their body, providing balance for them as they scamper through the rain forest canopy.
Mangabeys can be golden brown, gray, dark brown, or soft black, depending on the species or subspecies, usually with a lighter color on the underbelly.
Mangabeys have some interesting ways of communicating with each other. It's often hard to see one another in the dense forest canopy, so sound is very important. In fact, mangabeys can be very noisy!
White is an important color when you need to get your point across. White-collared mangabeys use movements of their white-tipped tails to express themselves. White hair on the underside of the chin helps make other facial gestures more noticeable. For white-eyelid mangabeys, batting their eyelids and raising their eyebrows can have a whole range of meanings. Making these facial expressions and flashing their white eyelids against their darker fur help get the message across. Flashing eyelids can mean "warning—watch your step!"
Like most monkeys, mangabeys are very much at home in trees, spending most of their time there. However, white-eyelid mangabeys are also comfortable on the ground, traveling on their hands and feet between patches of forest or to forage in the leaf litter for tasty food items. In some areas of the forest, the ground is swampy, but that’s not a problem for mangabeys. Webbing between their fingers and toes helps these amazing monkeys swim!
All mangabeys are excellent jumpers, and gray-cheeked mangabeys and white-collared mangabeys have a tail that is strong enough to hook onto branches as they leap about the forest canopy.
Mangabeys are mainly fruit eaters, although they can also eat leaves, nuts, seeds, insects, and spiders. Powerful teeth and jaws help them crack hard nut shells or bite into thick-skinned fruits. Mangabeys also tear bark from trees using their teeth and hands to find bugs and spiders hiding underneath. Large cheek pouches act like a shopping cart: mangabeys fill their pouches with food until full! The biggest meal of the day for mangabeys is breakfast, and they start foraging for food in the early morning, often before the sun comes up.
Like many monkeys, mangabeys lick nectar from flowers, moving from tree to tree for this sweet feast, earning them status as pollinators as well as seed dispersers.
Mangabeys live in groups, called troops, of about 10 to 40 individuals, depending on the species and the availability of food and habitat. There is usually one adult male that acts as leader and the troop's defender, but sometimes larger troops have two or three adult males that split off with their own family units to forage for food. When there is plenty of food available, mangabey troops often gather together for a while and even exchange troop members.
Much like baboons, a female mangabey's buttocks swell when she is ready to breed. This is her visual signal to the adult males.
Tangara Nuquidorada, Golden-naped Tanager, Chalcothraupis ruficervix.
Especie # 1.720
Reserva Amagusa
Provincia de Pichincha
Ecuador
'When life knocks me down, instead of getting right back up...
I usually stay there and take a quick nap.'
On the last day of my trip, I went fishing early at the lake and heard the "mew" call of the red-naped sapsucker coming from the aspen trees nearby. I ran and got my camera from the car and headed toward the sound. I found two red-naped sapsuckers: the male and female! This was very exciting to me because this bird was one of the top two birds I wanted to see on the trip. This one is the male. Grand Lake, Colorado
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Looks like Pascha has a cute smile on his face:-)
Sieht aus, als wenn Pascha ein süsses Lächeln im Gesicht hat:-)
212) Black-Naped Monarch
Black-Naped Monarch, Hypothymis azurea, Kelicap Ranting
The black-naped monarch breeds across tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines. This species is usually found in thick forests and other well-wooded habitats. The black-naped monarch has short legs and sits very upright whilst perched prominently, like a shrike. It is insectivorous, often hunting by flycatching. When alarmed or alert, the nape feathers are raised into a pointed crest.They will join mixed-species foraging flocks and are active in the understory of the canopy. The breeding season is March to August and the nest is neat cup placed in a fork. The nest is built by the female while the male guards. The typical clutch is of three eggs with both parents incubate and feed the young which hatch after about 12 days.
White-naped Honeyeater, Melithreptus lunatus
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The family was hunting insects from the top of the water in a dam. Wet feathers were inevitable.
As well as a napping Sundance.
Happy Caturday!
For the Happy Caturday Group 11/6/2021 theme "Paws"
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Pippi has completely made herself at home.
I woke up this morning to Sadie whimpering because Pippi was in her bed and wouldn't leave. In this photo she's napping on top of one of three heated mats in our home.
If you notice some fuzzy strings around her neck, that is a "turtleneck" I've devised for her. She came to us with a pretty serious neck lesion that she had done to herself. I cut the ribbed part of George's old socks to make a small turtleneck for her. Her skin is almost completely healed. So life is pretty good for Pippi and she has been a wonderful distraction for all of us this winter.
Happy Caturday: Faces
Patagonia sea lion pup (Otaria flavescens) having a nap time away from the colony. This one spent some time to scratch itself on the rocks before having a mid day nap in Cabo Polonio (Uruguay).
White-naped Honeyeater, Melithreptus lunatus
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I couldn't work out if this bird was raiding the spider web for a snack or collecting nest building materials.
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One of a number of the wild coyotes that frequent this area. They're very tolerant of their human friends like me who just let them be and make their living on the rodent population. (you can see some squirrel mounds in the background.) This one was so relaxed while my friend and I watched, it just settled down for a nap here. I smile at the "eye contact" description when an animal looks in your general direction, but this time I'm pretty sure it really is **eye contact**.
You really want to give this handsome animal a couple of clicks to max res!
And if you wanted an update on the sad plight of the mangy animal with the raccoon, it met its fate out on the nearby highway a week or so ago.
White-naped Honeyeater, Melithreptus lunatus
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Another of the family hunting over a dam.
The tiny tongue was on show.
A California Sea Lion taking an afternoon snooze on Santa Barbara Island.
Santa Barbara Island is the smallest island of the Channel Islands archipelago in Southern California and is within the Channel Island National Park. It's only about 640 acres (260 hectares). It is located about 38 miles (61 km) from the Palos Verdes Peninsula of Los Angeles County. There are no trees on the island (not even little ones). The island is very green with lots of yellow coreopsis flowers in the spring and early summer.
I put the brand new show-stopper of a collar on Mack since Ella just wore it to gag on grass. Mack looked darling but it's a dark, rainy morning and I had to bump the ISO way, way, way up and slow the shutter speed. So lots of grainy noise but Mack looks cuter napping in the new collar than poor Ellie Belly did.
Happy Caturday: Basic Instincts