Tawny Frogmouth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behaviour ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Single Study ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Native Birds ◽  
Published Research ◽  
The Way

The tawny frogmouth is one of Australia’s most intriguing and endearing birds. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, one of Australia’s leading authorities on animal behaviour and native birds, this second edition of Tawny Frogmouth presents an easy-to-read account of these unique nocturnal birds, which can be found across almost the entire continent. Fully revised and updated throughout, this book combines 20 years of systematic observation with published research and information from regional surveys, and represents the most comprehensive single study ever conducted on tawny frogmouths. We learn that tawny frogmouths are very affectionate, have close bonds with lifelong partners, scream like prowling tomcats when distressed, fight with lightning speed and defend nest sites from reptilian predators by mobbing and spraying pungent faeces at them. Uncompromising male fights are contrasted with the touching gentleness of males as fathers. We also learn how resilient and unusual tawny frogmouths are in the way they cope with heat and cold and scarcity of water, sit out danger, and use a large variety of food items. This fascinating book has a wide appeal to bird lovers, amateur ornithologists and naturalists, as well as those with a scientific or professional interest in native birds, their communication, emotions and skills.

Tawny Frogmouth

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Single Study ◽  
Bird Fauna ◽  
Published Research

The tawny frogmouth is both intriguing and endearing. In this new book, well-known author Gisela Kaplan presents us with an easy-to-read account of these unique nocturnal birds of the Australian bush. This detailed account of life, behaviour and biology of tawny frogmouths is based on the most comprehensive single study ever conducted on tawny frogmouths, including wild and hand-raised birds. It combines ten years of systematic observation with published research to take us across a surprising range of characteristics and special features of this unusual bird. This book also notes insights derived from specific regional bird fauna surveys across Australia. We are shown this captivating Australian species in completely new and even unexpected ways. We learn that tawny frogmouths are very affectionate, have close bonds with lifelong partners, scream like prowling tomcats when distressed, fight with lightning speed and defend nest sites from reptilian predators by mobbing and spraying pungent faeces at these dangerous opponents. Uncompromising male fights are contrasted with a touching gentleness of males as fathers. We also learn how resilient and unusual tawny frogmouths are in the way they cope with heat and cold, sit out danger, do without drinking for most of their lives, and can use a large variety of food items. The developmental stages of nestlings and juveniles are illustrated with a number of stunning visual images accompanying the text, most of which have never before been described or seen.

Australian Magpie

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Animal Behaviour ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Australian Birds ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Native Birds ◽  
Australian Magpie

The Australian magpie is one of our nation’s most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people. Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behaviour and Australian birds, this second edition of Australian Magpie is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded account of the behaviour of these birds. With new chapters on classification, cognition and caring for young, it reveals the extraordinary capabilities of the magpie, including its complex social behaviour. The author, who has devoted more than 20 years to studying and interacting with magpies, brings together the latest research on the magpie’s biology and behaviour, along with information on the origin of magpies, their development and health not published previously. This fascinating book has a wide appeal to bird lovers, amateur ornithologists and naturalists, as well as those with a scientific or professional interest in avian behaviour and ecology and those interested in the importance of native birds to the environment.

scholarly journals BILINGUALISM IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ENTITLED 25 BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adek ◽  
Lilia Zahra Asifa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Data Description ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
The Way

Indonesia is one of the countries that has implemented a bilingual education program through English lessons since entry level. Therefore, this study aims to describe the effect of bilingual education on children’s language used. The object of research is a novel entitled 25 Beautiful Friendship by Annisa Zhahrotushama Balqis. Data description is managed by showing facts related to the influence of bilingualism (foreign language) on the language used by the author in her novel, such as giving names of titles, characters, places, food items, events and others. Based on the findings and results of the analysis above, it can be concluded that the massive teaching of foreign languages such as English into basic-level education has a significant impact on the way children convey their feelings and experiences in verbal communication.

scholarly journals Fragile Visions of the Social: Rethinking Solidarity with the Performance Piece Faust and the TV-series Skam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper explores the portrayal of social relations among youth in the popular Norwegian TV-series Skam and places this analysis in relation to Anne Imhof’s award-winning performance piece Faust, which received the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale for the German Pavilion. As expressions of how today’s youth experience social relations under the conditions of late capitalism, I examine the way in which the TV-series and the performance work respectively explore when and how ‘we’ is shaped. I argue that they provide particular insight into the limits and possibilities for the formation of relations of solidarity today.

IS ERROR FRAUD?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. A64-A64
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Real Science ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Witch Hunts ◽  
First Time ◽  
Published Research ◽  
The Way

Prof. David Baltimore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is under attack by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Why should anyone outside of the Government or basic biomedical research care? Dr. Baltimore's reputation is at stake, but the rest of us will be affected by the outcome of these investigations as well. What has come under a legislative cloud for the first time in a very long time, perhaps ever in this country, is the legitimacy of the scientific method itself. This is an immediate and serious threat to science and medicine. The N.I.H. will have the last word on Dr. Baltimore's published research. But as I understand the Congressman's case, it is that published science must be free of error, and that error itself indicates bad faith and fraudulent intent. This is wrong. Published error is at the heart of any real science. We scientists love to do experiments that show our colleagues to be wrong and, if they are any good, they love to show us to be wrong in turn. By this adversarial process, science reveals the way nature actually works. If we as a country make science a field for only those who enjoy a good lawsuit, we will have shut the door on our future as a technologically serious nation. Clearly Congress cannot wish to do this. I would welcome a Congressional initiative to deal with fraud as such, but I fear that the way Dr. Baltimore is being treated means that witch-hunts are in the offing.

Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi

2017 ◽  
pp. 133-180
Author(s):  
Brian Willems
Keyword(s):  
Short Circuit ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Dialectical Structure ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Way

Paolo Bacigalupi’s Nebula award-winning novel The Windup Girl (2009) sets up a dialectical situation which it then disrupts. This is important for two reasons. First, dialectic formations are often also assemblages or networks, meaning that their constituent parts are defined by how they interact with each other rather than by the essence which is withdrawn from such interactions. In the previous chapter, symbiosis was seen as a powerful tool for change. However, the way it was described often bordered on a dialectical structure, as did the doubling of double-vision and the contradiction of crisis energy. The Windup Girl offers a different strategy, the short circuit. In brief, this means that one of the terms of a symbiosis disrupts the symbiosis. This disruption takes the form of spatial and temporal tensions, as described above and developed below.

Genre and Narrative

2015 ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Emily Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Film Maker ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Way

This chapter studies the genre and narrative of Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002). The narrative of Talk to Her flits between a double- and single-stranded plot line, plays with time with sometimes careless abandon, and contains coincidences that verge of the ridiculous. But yet, far from alienating the spectator, the narrative of Talk to Her pleasingly draws one in and lures the spectator into a position where they are able to suspend their disbelief, enjoy and engage with the plot. The spectator familiar with Almodóvar's films somewhat expects an unconventional narrative and thus is likely to find it unobtrusive. Meanwhile, like most Almodóvar's films, Talk to Her is hard to classify in terms of genre. Unlike the Hollywood system that relies heavily on either star or genre marketing, the marketing for Almodóvar's films relies heavily on his own status as an award-winning auteur film-maker. Talk to Her is thus not bound by generic convention in the way that many Hollywood films are.

Teaching Controversial Issues

2022 ◽  
pp. 252-272
Author(s):  
William Paul Bintz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
The United States ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Way

This chapter describes recent research findings on homelessness in the United States and its relationship to poverty and other related factors. It also provides an introduction to text clusters, a curricular resource that includes high-quality and award-winning picture books and is anchored in the Way-In and Stay-In books. It continues by presenting a text cluster on the topic of homelessness, along with a variety of research-based instructional strategies that K-8 teachers can use with this text cluster, as well as with other text clusters on controversial issues. It ends with some final thoughts.

scholarly journals Continuous and discrete quantity discrimination in tortoises

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gazzola ◽  
Giorgio Vallortigara ◽  
Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Food Item ◽  
Animal Behaviour ◽  
Quantity Discrimination ◽  
Weber's Law ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Numerical Abilities ◽  
Numerical Magnitudes ◽  
Testudo Hermanni ◽  
Numerousness Discrimination ◽  
Discrete Quantity

AbstractThe ability to estimate quantity, which is crucially important in several aspects of animal behaviour (e.g., foraging), has been extensively investigated in most taxa, with the exception of reptiles. The few studies available, in lizards, report lack of spontaneous discrimination of quantity, which may suggest that reptiles could represent an exception in numerical abilities among vertebrates. We investigated the spontaneous ability of Hermann’s tortoises (Testudo hermanni) to select the larger quantity of food items. Tortoises showed able to choose the larger food item when exposed with two options differing in size (0.25, 0.50, 0.67 and 0.75 ratio) and when presented with two groups differing in numerousness (1 versus 4, 2 versus 4, 2 versus 3 and 3 versus 4 items). The tortoises succeeded in both size and numerousness discrimination, and their performance appeared to depend on the ratio of items to be discriminated (thus following Weber’s Law). These findings in chelonians provide evidence of an ancient system for the extrapolation of numerical magnitudes from given sets of elements, shared among vertebrates.

scholarly journals OBSERVASI SISTEMATIK PADA PEMBELAJARAN AQIDAH AKHLAQ

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismanto Ismanto ◽  
Eka Fery Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Field Observation ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Good Learning ◽  
The Way

<div class="Section1"><p>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penerapan observasi sistematik pada pembelajaran  Akidah Akhlaq kelas  VII MTs Kedungombo Buaran Mayong Jepara. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif  deskriptif.  Data  yang telah  terkumpul melalui observasi lapangan dan wawancara dengan sumber data, baik primer maupun sekunder dianalisis dengan tahapan model Miles Huberman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa observasi sistematik yang diterapkan di MTs Kedungombo Buaran Mayong Jepara, yakni dengan cara guru mengamati perilaku peserta didik yang telah dipersiapkan kriterianya baik di dalam kelas maupun di luar kelas mulai dari kedisiplinan, tanggungjawab, tenggang rasa, perhatian dan kerajinan sehingga mendapat hasil pembelajaran yang baik. Dengan dilaksanakannya observasi sistematik, guru menjadi lebih aktif dan mengenal karakter serta sikap peserta didik. Di samping itu, peserta didik akan merasa lebih diperhatikan oleh gurunya.</p><p><strong>k</strong><strong>at</strong><strong>a kunci: observasi sistematik, <em>aqidah akhlaq</em>, perilaku peserta didik</strong></p></div><p><em>THE APPLICATION OF SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION ON LEARNING AQIDAH AKHLAQ. This research aims to know the application of systematic observation on Aqidah  Akhlaq  Lesson in Class VII of MTs Kedungombo Buaran Mayong , Jepara. This research uses qualitative descriptive approach. The data that has been collected through field observation and interview with both of the primary and secondary sources were analyzed  with the model of Miles Huberman. The  results  showed  that systematic observation  applied  in MTs Kedungombo  Buaran Mayong Jepara, it was with the way the teacher observes the behavior of learners who have prepared the criteria both in class and outside class ranging from discipline, responsibility, tolerance, thoughtfulness and diligence so that it gets a good learning results. By applying the systematic observations, teacher became more active and get to know the characters and attitudes of learners. Besides, learners will feel more noticed by her teacher.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>:  systematic observation, aqidah </em><em>a</em><em>k</em><em>h</em><em>l</em><em>a</em><em>q</em><em>,</em><em> </em><em>t</em><em>h</em><em>e behaviour </em><em>of learners</em></p>

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