Field Note: See One, Teach One, Do One
Reticulated Giraffe Lying Down A herd of giraffe consists of a group of adult females and their offspring, or a group of males in a bachelor herds of their own. Individual males are only occasional...
View ArticleField Note: Rockhopper Penguins & Black-browed Albatross
Black-browed Albatross West Point is a small island at the tip of the West Falklands. There, upon the high cliffs that rise like insurmountable steps, and inland among the rolling hills of tussock...
View ArticleField Note: Weddell Seal
Antarctic Peninsula from Astrolabe Island The seal has not been out drinking. His seemingly bloodshot eyes are not the result of excess. Like us, all seals must hold their breath when they dive....
View ArticleField Note: Nursing Elephant Seals
“Baby face! You’ve got the cutest little baby face!” How do we know that the young of other animals are young? There is a quality of voice, which tends to be higher pitched and less well articulated....
View ArticleGulls Hunting Spider Crabs
Field Note: 30,000 years before Athena acquired her owl, birds of prey had already captured the human imagination. The single owl among the cave paintings of Chauvet is solid proof. Falconry was...
View ArticleClose Encounter with a Tabular Iceberg
Just off the Antarctic Peninsula at 63°0’58” S 57°40’52” W, I encountered a tabular iceberg [an iceberg that looks like a huge tabletop]. By the position, I believe it to have been a fragment of the...
View ArticleStanding Bear Comes In Peace
Eight feet tall… At the edge of the Polar Ice seals and polar bears find their intersection. The seals are there to bear young. The bears are there to feed. I came to watch the show, above Svalbard,...
View ArticleCat Vanishes
Cat Vanishes © 2017 Mark Seth Lender All Rights Reserved Out in the valley of the Maara, Cheetah is ready to rise. Yawns. Turns over belly up. Tucks her paws, cat-like, against the fuselage of...
View ArticleHorse of a Different Color
©2021 Mark Seth Lender All Rights Reserved Zebra are making themselves painterly. Spreading out. Milling about. Closing the gap. Becoming a knot a knitting a… Tapestry. Abstract. Abstruse. Neither...
View ArticleSomeone to Watch Over Me
The Herd, Seen Elephants are like us, at our best. Their natural demeanor is easy, they are concerned with each other, careful, comfortable in their own company. Copacetic, Commensal, Communal They...
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