Hi, Ron,
Your unusually friendly pelican has all the behavioral characteristics of a youngster that was hand-raised by a human from age early enough to have induced “social imprinting”, just as Konrad Lorenz first accomplished with greylag geese and documented in his book “King Solomon’s Ring”.
Social imprinting has since been accomplished with early hand rearing of a wide range of species of birds.
I must admit that this is the first example of social imprinting I have seen in a pelican!
Dave
Pelicans are strange sea birds beautiful set and the story is terrific
chuck
SX2002
Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
docshark wrote:
Fun set Ron. I love the fourth shot!
-Doc
Thanks Doc, he was walking up to me in that shot...
Sylvias
Loc: North Yorkshire England
What a great friend Ron. Love the story and the set.
SX2002
Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
Sylvias wrote:
What a great friend Ron. Love the story and the set.
Thank you Sylvia...glad you enjoyed my pics and story...
CLF
Loc: Raleigh, NC
SX2002 wrote:
Well, not really but this guy was my buddy all week in Port Vincent. We got home yesterday after a lovely week.
Every time he saw me he'd fly up to me and if I went for a walk along the beach he'd walk along with me and then the return journey. Even up the path with me to our cabin. I weakened eventually and bought him some Whiting fillets. I think he's a youngster as he still had black feathers on his head and no yellow rings around his eyes. It was fun and if I was on the beach shooting birds, I'd suddnely hear a great roaring of wings as he went into reverse thrust to land right alongside of me..the first time this happened it gave me a bit of a scare as it was the last thing I was expecting.
Who could refuse those sad pitiful eyes anyway...I'm a softy when it comes to nature, especially birds.
Well, not really but this guy was my buddy all wee... (
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Ron, a wonderful set and I see why he was your friend for the week. The DDLs are all great.
Greg
SX2002
Loc: Adelaide, South Australia
Thanks Greg...it was a fun week, never a dull moment with so many birds everywhere...
Ron - Nice pics and an equally nice story.
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