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People may have a tough time telling one squawking bird from another. Mockingbirds, on the other hand, quickly learn which humans to watch.
"Mockingbirds certainly do not view all humans as equal," Doug Levey, lead author of a study of published this week in Proceedings of the National of Sciences, said in a statement.
How quickly can Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) start recognizing specific people? It only takes two 30-second exposures over a couple of days.
In Levey's experiment, student volunteers touched birds' nests on the busy UF campus once a day for four days. After the second day, birds began alarm calls and attack flights sooner and sooner, even swooping down Hitchcock-style to graze the heads of intruders. On the fifth day, however, a different human approached the nests, and the birds' response was back to square one.
The researchers conclude that mockingbirds "rapidly learn to assess the level of threat posed by different humans, and to respond accordingly." That, the scientists note, may explain why mockingbirds and some other species have adapted so well to urban environments.
Defense mode can be risky and energy-intensive, so overreacting—or under-reacting—to frequent passersby would be a distinct disadvantage in an urban environment.
Levey explained that there's no reason to believe that the mockingbirds are in tune with humans in particular. "Mockingbirds and humans haven't been living in close association long enough for that to occur," he said. Rather, the study shows a general attention to detail that might surprise many who have thought crows, ravens and parrots to have the most impressive bird brains.
Image of fluffed-up mockingbird on the University of Florida Campus courtesy of Louis Guillette
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A couple of years ago, one of our basset hounds apparently offended a resident mockingbird in some way. For the rest of the season, the bird would swoop down as if to attack that dog when I took both dogs for a walk. The other dog was never targeted, nor was I. The mockingbird clearly knew that its displeasure was aimed at the one particular dog. The dog, of course, was completely oblivious to the bird's threatening swoops.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis season I have one in my yard that actively seeks my company. It routinely approaches as close as six feet from me and displays no agression or fear of me. It seems to be very curious and follows me around while I perform my various tasks. It will even fly into my garage to watch me.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf you'd like to see a video of these birds in action, check out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/18/mockingbirds-human-recognition
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I have what i call "pet" mockingbirds. I learned that they like raisons. They will aproach me "asking" for raisons. I have been "allowed" near the nest. On occasion, if I don't notice that one is nearby waiting for raisons, it will hit me in the back with its wing and wait on the fence until I get some raisons out to feed it. I am well trained at keeping raisons with me.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis has occurred to me during research and nest monitoring work for American Robins. On a busy trail they ignored pedestrians, but when I appeared with my mirror pole, the adults would appear from over 200m away to attack, often defecating on my head as the dived at me. My attempts to disguise myself were generally fruitless, and maybe it was due to their recognition of the mirror pole.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thiswhat can i do about an agressive mocking bird that swoops down on my head and tries to attack my kitten
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWHAT CAN WE DO THE MOCKINGBIRDS TWO. SWOOP DOWN ON MY HEAD AND TRY TO ATTACK MY NEW KITTEN???
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWHAT CAN WE DO THE MOCKINBIRD TWO OF THEM. SWOOP DOWN AND ATTACK ME AND MY NEW KITTEN. HELP
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis was enlightening since I only recently have had a single mockingbird visit my property every day, perching on a high roof peak and singing his heart out at sunset until dark. I have a fear of birds ffuttering around me and wish I could conquer it because this bird is special to me. I shall iry feeding it raisins. Perhaps my love for this bird will conquer my phobia.
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Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1719 refered to by: Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
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ON DANIEL DEFOE'S BOOKSHELF Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous, 1554 The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogues adventures and misadventures - full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and wordplay. The Tempest William Shakespeare, 1611 (first published 1623) One of Shakespeare's 'romances': Prospero, the duke of Milan and a powerful magician, is banished from Italy and cast to sea by his usurping brother, Antonio, and Alonso, the king of Naples. As the play begins, Antonio and Alonso come under Prosperos magic power as they sail past his island. Prospero seeks to use his magic to make these lords repent and restore him to his rightful place. Alexander Selkirk: an essay Sir Richard Steele, 1713 Alexander Selkirk, a difficult and unpleasant British sailor, was put ashore at his own request on Más a Tierra Island off the coast of Chile in 1704 and remained alone there until 1709. Selkirk's story was also told by the essayist Richard Steele in The Englishman of Dec. 3, 1713. | BOOKS BY DANIEL DEFOE: Robinson Crusoe 1719 Robinson Crusoe is the sole survivor of a shipwreck and struggles for many years on an uninhabited island with no hope of rescue. With patience, ingenuity and optimism he begins to transform the island and soon his only lack is human company. | WHAT TO READ AFTER ROBINSON CRUSOE? 'ROBINSONADES' (ALONE ON AN ISLAND) Lord of the Flies William Golding, 1954 After surviving a plane crash, a group of boys set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive. The Mysterious Island Jules Verne, 1874 Adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in French in three volumes as L'ile mysterieuse in 1874 and included in his popular science-fiction series 'Voyages extraordinaires' (1863-1910). Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut, 1985 The human survivors of the 'nature cruise of the century', are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. (POSTMODERN) VARIATIONS ON DEFOE Friday Michel Tournier, 1967 A retelling of Robinson Crusoe. Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the civilization he has left behind. Alone and against incredible odds, he almost succeeds. Then Friday appears and teaches him that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization. Foe J.M. Coetzee, 1986 Susan Barton finds herself marooned on an island in the Atlantic with an Englishman named Robinson Cruso and his mute (mutilated) slave, Friday. Rescued after a year of Cruso's company, back in England with Friday in tow, she approaches the author Daniel Foe, offering him the story. CONTEMPORARIES Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift, 1726 In this 18th-century satire, Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and in the country of the Houyhnhnms, expose the absurdity and hypocrisy of intellectuals and governments the world over. |
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders 1722 Or: 'The fortunes & misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, lived honest & died a penitent. Written from her own memorandums.' | ||
Journal of the Plague Year 1665 An account of the Great Plague of London in 1664-65, written by ' a Citizen, who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before.' | ||
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On the right as you walk up towards the Sacred Stones, The Healing Field is much more than the Festival's chill out zone.
In the Healing Field you can relax in one of the mystical and creative gardens and have a chilled healing session but also you can actively take part in any of the free workshops that happen all over the area all day long.
The field is set up so that you an explore the world of healing. You can have a new experience in the Self Help Massage Dome, where you can learn how to give and receive various forms of massage and other healings.
In the Yoga Marquee there are sessions from a wide range yogic approaches, and you'll also find the Workshop Dome dedicated to singing, dance and the Shamanic, plus domes dedicated to Tai Chi/Chi Gung, Soft Martial Arts and Meditation/Inner Development. There will also be a Healing Arts Workshop Dome.
While you are in the Healing Fields you could have a treatment with one of the skilled healers who are working for donations or be involved in a healing event, performance or ceremony. Or you could just hang out and meet an exciting blend of people who are involved in many spiritual paths.
The Healers Information Centre, in the middle of the field, is the place to go to find a healer. A General Information Yurt is at the entrance to the Healing Field if you need assistance.
The theme of the field demonstrates how healing offers a complete experience to help maintain an inner peace and happiness. It is about developing healing qualities within each of us. We honour the elements, so the field becomes a giant Elemental Mandala – an elemental dance, each element holding and expressing a distinct quality of healing.
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The FIRE CIRCLE is the circle of Inspiration and Vision. This is the place to get involved in celebration, singing and chanting, divine music and dance workshops and creative games. There is also the chance to meet practitioners from a variety of spiritual groups and maybe even go on a Shamanic journey.
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How the British government responded to the Great Hunger in Ireland
Relief and lack of response from the crown during the Irish Famine years.
In January 1847, The Nation magazine published a poem entitled "The Stricken Land." It was a searing indictment of the policies of the British Government in the wake of the second failure of the Irish potato crop a few months earlier. It was written by a young woman, Jane Elgee, who was drawn from the Protestant Ascendancy, but who became a member of a group of radical nationalists known collectively as "Young Ireland." She wrote using the pen-name "Speranza."
Weary men, what reap ye?
Golden corn for the stranger.
What sow ye?
Human corpses that wait for the avenger.
Fainting forms, hunger-stricken, what see you in the offing?
Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing.
They guard our masters' granaries from the thin hands of the poor.
Pale mothers, wherefore weeping?
Would to God that we were dead
Our children swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread ... We are wretches, famished, scorned, human tools to build your pride,
But God will yet take vengeance for the souls for whom Christ died.
Now is your hour of pleasure
bask ye in the world's caress;
But our whitening bones against ye will rise as witnesses,
From the cabins and the ditches, in their charred, uncoffin'd masses,
For the Angel of the Trumpet will know them as he passes.
A ghastly, spectral army, before the great God we'll stand,
And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land.
These words, even from the eloquent pen of Speranza (mother of Oscar Wilde), did not do justice to the desolation and horror of the period of devastation remembered as "the Great Hunger." Like other famines, the Irish Famine was not solely the consequence of food shortages, but resulted from political decisions that made the suffering of the poor secondary to economic greed, political ambition and ideological prejudice. In 1997, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, belatedly acknowledged that the all-powerful British government had "stood by" while the Irish people starved in the years after 1845.
As a consequence of the Act of Union of 1800, by the 1840s England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were governed by a single parliament based in Westminster in London. Despite Ireland accounting for almost half of the population within the United Kingdom, she sent only 105 members (from a total of over 600) to the London-based parliament, and they tended to be divided along political lines – belonging to the Tory (Conservative), Whig or Repeal Parties. In 1841, Sir Robert Peel, leader of the Conservatives, had won a massive electoral victory. One of his main political adversaries was Daniel O'Connell, leader of the Irish Repeal Party, who aimed to overturn the Act of Union by legal and constitutional means. In 1845, when a mysterious and previously unknown blight destroyed approximately forty percent of the Irish potato crop, a repeal of the Union appeared no closer to being achieved. Moreover, O'Connell, weakened by age and illness, was no longer the political force that he had been. As the potato crop failed repeatedly, the Irish poor became increasingly dependent on policies made in London to save their lives.
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with msi afterburner or riva tuner just like a desktop card i think with ATI's mobile cards i just dumped 2GB onto the ram though the 7zip benchmark utility, looks to be OS caching mostly, as the ram usage goes up then stats diving back down when it hits full load EDIT:improved image after running the 3GB 7zip, my ram usage with the exact same programs open is down to 1.75 so it does look to just be the OS
Guys need some recommendations on new/old games to play, nothing in my steam account seems to stand out to me lately and I would like to get into something new, that said, never really played through Metro 2033 so that's one option though would like to hear some more. I mainly have FPS but I think I need a change as I am bored of playing all the same shit, like resi evil, silent hill type games too, winning suggestions get cookies
i've been thinking of trying this, imagine how good that artwork will look when you fullscreen it, sort of thing that would make me connect it to my TV http://store.steampowered.com/app/107100/
Looked at that a bit earlier doesn't really grab me, however Limbo looks hella fun!! would like something to tax my new 570 at the same time
who cares about how much it taxes your graphics card, i gave up on realism ages ago, because at the end of the day, a lot of these high profile release seem to put 90% of their time into graphics, and 10% into game play where it should be the other way round, that said, occasionally some come out that fulfill both just find something that looks nice and is cheap there's a demo of bastion if you want to give it a go anyway
i just tried the bastion demo,i wasn't sure about the game, but if the full game is hyalf as good as the demo it'll be worth the £11, so i'd recommend that to MdMk
I have now switched to Google Chrome,my mozilla was infected with crappy "facemood" search even though i got rid of it 1st time. It came back with trace or anything on my system after updates. I have even used search and destroy and malware software to get rid of it. Which i did and its still there. Even config firefox to google search,nothing. So now i am using chrome,i loved firefox aswell. Edit: Check out ebuyer bank holiday deal. £299 for an Asus AMD platform laptop Hitachi Deskstar 1TB £36 XFX AMD Radeon 6870 £125 HS1A Corsair Headset £30 Technology Delivered | Ebuyer.com
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More like the guy came over and cried his eyes out, and everyone offered him tea and biscuits, but that is besides the point.
Maybe so. but he was given 2 or 3 refurbs that died? then when he asked to be given a new drive it turns out it was a refurb as well. you can cry your eyes out but if this is the way Crucial handles its customers then i wont buy from them.
Yeah, that was major fail from Crucial. He could have gone for consumer protection or something like that and get them to sort it out for him.
Cheap refurbs are good. but not if even Crucial themselves dont expect the drives to last that long. says it all pretty much
their C300 got a lot of good reviews and recommendations. the QC on the refurbs are 'Questionable' shall we say.
i've found an even better laptop then yesterday, its a 17", has a sandybridge processor and good enough graphics to play BC2 on medium apparently http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/...ch.aspx?rn=7042&SC=&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh all for around £370 with this code applied $ZR43KX7QXHFB1 still, that's not going to be good on battery life is it...
Firefox is annoying me, it seems to want to chew up 200-300mb of ram and the plug in container uses up almost 100mb. Not that much really but i only have 4 tabs open and non flash heavy sites loaded, it was was also crashing in Google Earth when i was showing my cousin a route to college it was just freezing it did that before i think its a flash problem. My ram usage is 2.52gb, ive only got Firefox and Steam minimised to the task bar. Whats going on there? I don't even have an anti virus running in the background. Not that the pc is slow but just wanting to know whats chewing up the ram? Is it as simple as the OS wants the extra ram? Its not like im seeing any extra speed boosts from having it use more up, folders and stuff just pop open in the same speed as when i had 4gb.


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entering a trip at this moment, with Weird on a Monday.. anyone?
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
Get in the shower.
=My Music=
happy trails!
feels wrong…. tippin tho
ok, i'm the worstoffender at drunken posting, so i'm giving this my best…....
mine =s if you know who you are, you know that you are an instrument. who likes floyd? who likes tripping? who likes thinking about the food you eat before you eat it? who likes thinking we've only got a number of datys left and who know that's beyond silly??? who worked out hard this week and thinks they look good… oh wait, that's personal…. OK who has a particual amount of money saved for a particular event and who thinks maybe that was a waste? and who thinks it wasn't????? who's hot….. who thinks HELLOOOOOOO, lordy who likes fucking shpongled moments of truth, GODDAMN, who thinks they've got 60 more years here, who besides me thinks maybe that number has no end, who's gonna live forever, and DMT DMT, LSD, DO DMT, DIVINE MOMENTS OF TRUTH, LSD DO DMT FINISH ME HERE, FINNNISH ME (get it??)
Cloudwalker - 21 July 2011 03:56 AMGet in the shower.
Bloody hell. It would have been quicker to shout the zeroes and ones down the phone and have you scratch them onto a CD with a pin.
lol ok shower is next on the list then… but first i will finish flying….
So sister.blackleg.herring, what did you bring back for us from the other side? Anything memorable?
"Drop-kick me Satan through the goal-posts of Hell" Butthole Surfers
a shower cap perhaps?
Be responsible and safe. Make up your own mind, don't let any government think for you. Make informed decisions and live your life how you choose.
omg! toooooo funny @sister.blackleg.herring
ha ha.. wait, thats personal!! ha ha ha ha
Peace Out, Love & Bliss www.soundcloud.com/jasmine-bee x
Jahful - 22 July 2011 04:35 AMSo sister.blackleg.herring, what did you bring back for us from the other side? Anything memorable?
LOL ok truly not much brought back from the other side (i think i've learned i should not be drinking when i trip), but i have been having weird dreams lately! one that most comes to mind, i was loading laundry into a dryer and removed my own head and placed it in there, because i believed that's what i do every time i do laundry. it wasn't until i placed a hat on the (my) head (which smiled back at me in thanks, by the way) that i started thinking there might be something odd going on. i immediately went upstairs to check that my cat was still there, as i was afraid i might have lost my mind and had actually put my cat into the dryer! i worried that it only *looked* like my head. i think what puzzled me most was that i could still see from my own perspective, even tho my head was in a different place..
i am ULTRA curious what this might translate to, in practical terms
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