{"id":18174,"date":"2013-02-04T00:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=18174"},"modified":"2013-02-04T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T09:38:24","slug":"when-critters-dont-bother-to-bother-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=18174","title":{"rendered":"When critters watch but don’t bother to bother each other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching wild animals is a lot like watching people.<\/strong> We form judgements about their dispositions based on their movements.<\/p>\n

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The lone peacock that showed up back in November is still around, as can be seen in this photo shot from the deck of Mitchell cabin on Jan. 29. The type of peacock we have in California originated in India. It was introduced onto the US mainland in this state back in 1879<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Three months after I first noticed, I still see the lone peacock finding companionship in a flock of wild turkeys, which seems fine with them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The bobcat I mentioned a week ago is also still hanging around Mitchell cabin. Leaning out my kitchen window, I shot this photo of it hunting rodents on Wednesday, Jan. 30.<\/em><\/p>\n

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However, I wasn’t the only one watching the bobcat. Lynn pointed out to me that the blacktail buck at left was also interested in it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Before long the bobcat disappeared into a patch of coyote brush. The buck cautiously approached the clump of brush and sniffed around but didn’t seem particularly concerned. The bobcat didn’t stir. Apparently it wasn’t about to attack a standing buck.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Before long other deer began arriving, and right behind them were some more wild turkeys. The horse at the right then showed up to watch what might be happening<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I too started wondering what would happen when the turkeys began pecking around the edge of same patch of coyote brush the bobcat was in. <\/em>Bobcats will eat wild turkeys, but this one continued to lie low. <\/em><\/p>\n

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The deer meanwhile crawled through a barbed-wire fence to join horses grazing in the field beside Mitchell cabin. For one sunny afternoon, there was peace in the world of peacock, wild turkey, bobcat, deer, horse, and human. Like the young doe seen here watching me, everyone watched someone else, but no one bothered anyone.
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Watching wild animals is a lot like watching people. We form judgements about their dispositions based on their movements. The lone peacock that showed up back in November is still around, as can be seen in this photo shot from the deck of Mitchell cabin on Jan. 29. The type of peacock we have in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[422,212,472,424,17],"class_list":["post-18174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-marin-nature","category-wildlife","tag-blacktail-deer","tag-bobcat","tag-horses","tag-peacock","tag-wild-turkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18174"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18211,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions\/18211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}