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Radisson - 2012 / Ivy & Princess
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I've been following this topic (thread) for the past year and have noticed that there are many new members. Welcome!
This is my 4th year here, and I hope to have many more.
I notice that many new members are fretting about the chicks, worrying about them being on the edge of the nestbox. From past experience, I have seen only one mishap, Fife being knocked off the box sooner than was his need to go. It was an accident, plain and simple. It was nature being nature.,
The chicks need, (in reality MUST) do this, they have to strenghten their wings and themselves for the journey ahead.
These birds are born to fly. You will soon have the privlege of watching the parents teach the kids how to negotiate and hunt. And you will experience the breathtaking natural progresession of their lives..
Some will die and some will live. This is natures way.
I am grateful that I have been and will continue to be a part of this wonderful ride.
We don't have to like all of the outcomes, but we must accept them and move on, just as the falcons do. They are far more pragmatic and accepting than we humans.
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RCF, did you capture this for propserity? Please, oh please say you did.
Will you check?? Approximately : 9:00 to 9:05 ..... can ya check please :-*
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Bahahahah, one brother just performed poop art on another brother.
Oh my dear word, bahahaha, this this brings on a whole new meaning to " beep, beep, beep, danger danger, alien approaching.
Just where the heck is my raincoat?? ;D ;D ;D
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--- Quote from: moka on June 18, 2012, 18:26 ---Getting back to the discussion of animals and their emotions and mental capacity.
I know that animals do have emotions, many resemble ours but are not identical.
You can drive an animal crazy. Many caged animals who are not kept in large enough cages exhibit this behaviour.
When one of my dogs hurt her leg by putting it through a doorway before it was opened wide enought. Her leg was squeezed but not seriously injured, yet, for the rest of her life, she hesitated and was wary of doors opening and closing.
Our falcons do develop mentally as well as emotionally but only the falcon gods know the details. :P
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I agree with you Moka, but it's been my experience that emotional behaviour by non-humans appears to be restricted to domesticated mamals.
Dogs will be embarassed by a new haircut, will howl when left behind in an empty house, rabbits show displeasure by thumping. I have no idea what cats do, I've never owned one.
It's my belief that the animals pick up on our feelings and emotions and, in their own non-verbal way, let us know what they're feeling.
Wild species, I'm not so sure. Do they show patience and what we perceive as tenderness, to their young, yes. But is than not an instinctve reaction rather than an emotional one?
Survival and procreation, in my opinion, are the motivators for wild animal behaviour.
Leana:
6:48pm... Big beautiful breast of Red Girl!
With occasional wing of brother on ledge...
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