2008/7/9 Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 5. the spot on the walkway isn't close enough to the nest to trigger > their "nest protection" thought/behavior patterns
That's exactly the point! I would assume that getting too close to the nest would trigger the well-known aggressive nest defence behaviour. But what if the human is within the territory without posing a clear and direct threat to the nest? A behaviour indended to lure the potential predator away would be most effective at this stage, because it would give very few clues as to where the nest actually is. The nesting area at Runde consist of soft bogs with human paths crossing in a couple of places. It's probable that some of the available nesting sites will imply territories across the paths. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
