Behaviour Collection (page 5)

Japanese / Manchurian / Red-Crowned CRANE - courting dance (Grus japonensis). Japanese Crane

CHEETAHS - scent marking (Acinonyx jubatus). Kenya, Africa

Demoiselle Cranes - in flight over Himalayas (Anthropoides virgo). Nepal. Migration

ORANG-UTANS - adult and young looking at reflection in mirror (Pongo pygmaeus)

Clouded LEOPARD - snarling (Neofelis nebulosa). Distribution: Nepal - South China. Sumatra, Borneo and Taiwan

PEREGRINE FALCON - feeding chicks on nest, typical nest on river rocks (Falco peregrinus Faolco peregrinnus). Taimyr, Russian Arctic

Red-Breasted GOOSE - chicks on nest on riverbank (Branta ruficollis). Taimyr, Russian Arctic, Europe

Willow Tit - adult - checks approaching invader of its breeding territory - territorial behaviour in early spring - mixed forest with dominant conifers (Poecile montanus / Parus montanu)

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - active during day in a desert (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - burrows for shelter in the soil - for the night (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Rough-legged Buzzard - young at the nest threatening a visitor - very close to leaving the nest. (Buteo lagopus). nest in low rocks in tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf first swim with Mother (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf with Mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Bottlenose Dolphin - Research of birth and Newborn Baby / Calf behaviour. (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Mouse Lemur Licks Tree Bark

Moor FROG - watching beetle (Donacia sp), (Rana arvalis Nilsson). Russia

Two boy scouts from British Guyana, South America
Two boy scouts (one East Indian, one African) from British Guyana, South America, observing the Fourth Scout Law (A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every other Scout...)

German postcard, young couple walking
German postcard showing a young Aryan couple walking in the countryside. The suggestion is to encourage young people to go for healthy walks rather than spend their time boozing! Date: circa 1930s

Office girls drawn by Fish, WW1
Uncle Fred, a character in the Letters of Eve in The Tatler, drawn by Annie Fish, is pictured njoying his time in the office now that girls are taking on wartime clerical roles. Date: 1917

Grooming a mule, WW1
Three soldiers struggling to groom an unruly mule in his stall with one of them grumbling, " Nah tehn, Undred Legs!" Date: 1916

Halting a mule, WW1
A soldier has difficult trying to bring an unruly mule to a halt at an Army Remount Depot, as a mule has no " mouth" in the same way a horse responds to a bridle). Date: 1916

Trying to shoe a mule, WW1
Men at an Army Remount Department attempt, with difficulty, an unmanageable mule during the First World War. Date: 1916

Cobbetts Advice to Young Men
Front cover of Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett, an instruction booklet for the eighteenth century youth. Date: 1887

Rags the puppy sitting up on his hind legs
On His Best Behaviour! -- Rags the puppy sitting up on his hind legs. Date: 1912

Brieux Photo
EUGENE BRIEUX French realist playwright whose explorations of the seamy side of behaviour offended some, hailed by others. Photo 1903. Date: 1858-1932

Francis Hawkins
FRANCIS HAWKINS precocious jesuit youth depicted at age 8, at which age he translated Youths Behaviour. Date: 1628 - 1681

Earl of Halsbury and Erskine try to control Irish MP Tanner
The Story of Rackety Tanner (cont.). Hardinge Stanley Giffard, The Earl of Halsbury (1823-1921) - Three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Sir Henry David Erskine (1838-1921)

Two Naughty boys taking a drill to an unfortunate front door
Two little boys from Northern Italy up to no good, Here they are taking a drill to the door of a less-favoured relative (possibly a Battleaxe Aunt)

Annoying teenager booted out of the front door for his own good after one minor indiscretion too many....!! Date: 1909

Personification of Hope - Turns a Moan into a song
Hope makes the careworn heart grow strong - And turns a moan into a song. Date: circa 1910s

Personification of Charity - Sweet Sunshine to the Flower
Charitys transforming power - Is like sweet sunshine to the flower. Date: circa 1910s

Horse Trainer standing up for his principles
Owner - " I heard as how you ve been fighting with Bob Smith?" " Yus. He said my sister was cross-eyed." " But you haven t got a sister?" " I know that

Spider-hunting wasp
A spider-hunting wasp wedging her prey between grass blades before making a burrow

Heterodontosaurus
This dinosaur whose name means different-toothed lizard is a member was an Ornithopod. It lived during the Lower Jurassic period around 205-180 million years ago

Alligator mississippiensis, American alligator
Alligator of St Johns. Drawing 22 (Ewan 49) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Pen and ink. Size: 235 x 366

Dasyurus viverrinus, eastern native cat or quoll
Native names Mer-re-a-gan and Din-e-gow-a. Detail from drawing 84, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c

Lepus timidus, Mustela erminea and Mustela nivalis
Arctic hare, ermine and least weasel. Mountain hare, stoat and weasel. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c

Bechuana Hunting a Lion (Plate 35 / 36)
An illustration by Captain (later Sir) William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848), an officer in the Indian army and an acclaimed naturalist who travelled though South Africa

Nycticebus coucang, slow loris
LS Plate 75 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. See also Image reference 24829

Moon-lit fishing scene
Drawing 49 from the Watling Collection titled A New South Wales Native stricking fish by moonlight by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Mustela erminea, ermine and Oryctolagus cuniculus, European
Stoats attacking rabbit. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Mammalia (class), mammals
Plate 11 from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earths surface, by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1876

Connochaetes gnou, black wildebeest
The Zwart Wildebeeste. Black bodied Gnoo - or Puroomo Catoblepas Gun. April 1869. Sketch 146 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines

Primeval Man
Plate 32 from The World before the deluge by Guilliam Louis Figuier, 1891 depicting primeval man hunting animals of the time

Snake and rodent by Albertus Seba
Tab 29 depicting a snake and a rodent from Thesaurus, by Albertus Seba

Ceratosaurus & Apatosaurus
Ceratosaurus overlooks a herd of Apatosaurus. Ceratosaurus was a large powerful predator with long curved fangs. Apatosaurus was one of the largest herbivores growing to 21 metres in length

Ceratotherium simum, white rhinoceros
White rhinoceros. Sketch 121 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Plecotus auritus, brown long-eared bat
Plate 210 from the Collection of Watercolour Drawings of British Vertebrates, 1830-1841, by William MacGillivray (1796-1851)

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