{"id":1034,"date":"2016-08-10T20:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2016-08-10T20:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T01:15:05","slug":"creature-feature-2016-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2016-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2016 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting how all the divisiveness among humans contrasts with what goes on in the rest of the world. Sure, there’s competition and predation, but it’s all based on the needs of survival, and nothing more. Nobody is going at each other’s throats or calling each other names just because of an abstract concept, like the color of their plumage.<\/p>\n

This Great Blue Heron was just strolling through a whole flock of vultures like it was no big deal, because it wasn’t:
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\nGranted, these two species are very different and their needs don’t really overlap. On the other hand, this Egret and Heron do<\/I> very much compete, and here they are within a couple wing-beats of each other:
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\nObligatory Heron action shot; that’s a lot of bird to land up in a tree, but the extreme control they have makes it look easy:
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\nAnd, from the clouds-as-creatures department, here’s some of those:
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It’s interesting how all the divisiveness among humans contrasts with what goes on in the rest of the world. Sure, there’s competition and predation, but it’s all based on the needs of survival, and nothing more. Nobody is going at each other’s throats or calling each other names just because of an abstract concept, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}