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Irreducible beauty | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. Were peacocks designed with this kind of audience in mind? A while back I was searching for images of peacock feathers on Google, and I stumbled upon this article. It’s a piece by Stuart Burgess, an engineer who is head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bristol University, and apparently also quite an opinionated creationist. For example, he goes on to talk about the fact that each eyespot. Some patterns in nature are formed by natural growth mechan...
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March | 2008 | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. Better than Gary Busey. They’re filming a movie on our field site right now. Apparently this isn’t out of the ordinary; one of the Jurassic Park movies and the climax from Anaconda. Were both shot at the Arboretum, for instance. She wanted to know if I was working on Fired Up. Since she knew some people who were involved with it. I explained that I was actually watching the peacocks, secretly happy that I had found out the name of our cheerleading movie. Again, ...
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The Californians, in pictures | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. The Californians, in pictures. A peacock on the lawn: the male below manages to guard his territory while simultaneously resting in the shade. These birds can be surprisingly camouflaged at times. Other times, this is not the case:. A peahen on a nest: one of the first females to lay chose to do so in the sink of the men’s bathroom. This one appears to be more fortunate, but I wasn’t around long enough to see any peachicks. Laquo; A working strategy. Getting Thi...
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February | 2008 | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. How to wrangle a peacock. 1 Lure them with food, fish nets at hand. Realize that peacocks, although desperately hungry and willing to come perilously close to human feeders, are not willing to present their backsides to you. Also realize that peacocks know what nets are, and are capable of learning which people are associated with food, and which are associated with nets. Begin to despair that peacocks are much better adapted than previously thought. So far we&#...
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About | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. I am a student in the ecology, evolution and behaviour group of the department of biology at Queen’s University. My website is here. And my lab site here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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“Sex pests” get more practice | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. 8220;Sex pests” get more practice. Having finished my field work this year, I thought I’d keep up with this blog by writing about interesting things that other people have seen animals do. BBC science news report on the discovery of a “sex pest” seal that attempted to mate with a penguin, brought to my attention by Rob Ewart (the original paper can be found here. But you will need a subscription to the journal to read the whole thing). Displaying long after the ...
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New York on foot | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. New York on foot. I’m back at the Bronx Zoo now, with the model peahen, attempting some more behavioural experiments. My first day was both good and bad. I had no trouble finding my accommodations on the zoo grounds last night – I’m staying in the “Bat Cave”, so named because of the bats. Books in the Bat Cave: no one can complain about the selection. The zoo even has it’s own NYPD patrol. In the future, all police will drive golf carts. Date : May 6, 2008.
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Strange birds | Animal extravagance in the City of Angels | Page 2
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. Better than Gary Busey. They’re filming a movie on our field site right now. Apparently this isn’t out of the ordinary; one of the Jurassic Park movies and the climax from Anaconda. Were both shot at the Arboretum, for instance. She wanted to know if I was working on Fired Up. Since she knew some people who were involved with it. I explained that I was actually watching the peacocks, secretly happy that I had found out the name of our cheerleading movie. Again, ...
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A working strategy | Strange birds
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Animal extravagance in the City of Angels. I am very excited to report that Penelope has finally lived up to her name! Here she is right before being courted by male no. 30:. Photo credit: Rob Ewart). The secret to her success? Penelope was mounted two more times in California (bringing her total to three different males). I am with her now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City for some further experiments, and am determined to start writing here regularly again! Laquo; Better than Gary Busey. Create a free ...
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Altshuler Lab @ UBC. Wingbeat kinematics and aerodynamics. Sensory and motor circuitry. Ecological and evolutionary biomechanics. Associate Professor, UBC (2013-). Assistant Professor, UBC (2011-13). Assistant Professor, UC Riverside (2006-2011). PDF Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology. PhD Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin. MSc Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University. BA (Honors) History, University of California, Santa Cruz. PhD UC Santa Cruz.
