tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51827455240414839712024-02-06T22:20:00.969-07:00Surdut Art for the Mind & BodyThe Art of Paying Attention to Nature: wildlife illustrator and storyteller, Listening to Raven, paddling with alligators, walking with Coyote, heard on NPR Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-66866292809220063762021-04-12T19:43:00.000-06:002021-04-12T19:43:28.104-06:00Catch me if you can: the fastest lizard in the desert <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkH58r0CgMU3FH7h5s02LOqO9d6xUbSH1nrjWxtUsUg4ctkNqgUjPbszhBEuOkUSbxEJ64OXKAoIs-6KUu6cQDvovcKMEohhGqlLr6pd1aJrcLhVT_YUqri1iscWmCafm-U1oJOYA8Xc/s2048/Surdut_zebra-tailed+lizard+on+wood1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkH58r0CgMU3FH7h5s02LOqO9d6xUbSH1nrjWxtUsUg4ctkNqgUjPbszhBEuOkUSbxEJ64OXKAoIs-6KUu6cQDvovcKMEohhGqlLr6pd1aJrcLhVT_YUqri1iscWmCafm-U1oJOYA8Xc/s320/Surdut_zebra-tailed+lizard+on+wood1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tucson Botanical Gardens exhibit: zebra-tailed lizard drawing on live-edge wood<br />BETH SURDUT</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tail tales--In the 1940s, the geometric pattern and colors earned these fast-sprinting zebra-tailed lizards the name “gridiron” </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/lizards?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXtEdPrctnMyC2PZYdrN5fGbvauv1N0eOsxZDkY6pkSScWJF4uPh6kC-ElX20h7k46b4OKZOQegUTDXyNA3pwejx52k17mxe49culn0kSFlmAmO6P8-4jOHdNm5PiK8wBTz52_4DNZ7uHI4gtjAA04Rdf-oRxkLwEYPyGX5ke75lg&__tn__=*NK-y-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#lizards</a></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the tail-wagging gave them the Spanish name perrito — little dog. On </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/npr?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXtEdPrctnMyC2PZYdrN5fGbvauv1N0eOsxZDkY6pkSScWJF4uPh6kC-ElX20h7k46b4OKZOQegUTDXyNA3pwejx52k17mxe49culn0kSFlmAmO6P8-4jOHdNm5PiK8wBTz52_4DNZ7uHI4gtjAA04Rdf-oRxkLwEYPyGX5ke75lg&__tn__=*NK-y-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#NPR</a></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, I talk more about an intimate encounter with the fastest lizard in the desert </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-sci/2017/6/22/112866-the-art-of-paying-attention-zebra-tailed-lizards/?fbclid=IwAR0bTOW60-E2Zqa8uhLSpknjwZ908vvzuZfFxKL6PhlAt0RVG7ROKLN3naw" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://news.azpm.org/.../112866-the-art-of-paying.../</a></span></span><p></p><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihjZl5wx8bIsk2sDeaQzKqb34zU1tlhecEV76dja0-tnpZQPUeJn-F-fFT7PCaoiC6hjet6SlqAKJuyErPu4z1Kjogmppi72eL5E_Xw0TWjouzwPix4gaEXycjLWkrJQ4J6mHcvDDcLt4/s2048/smoky+red+moon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihjZl5wx8bIsk2sDeaQzKqb34zU1tlhecEV76dja0-tnpZQPUeJn-F-fFT7PCaoiC6hjet6SlqAKJuyErPu4z1Kjogmppi72eL5E_Xw0TWjouzwPix4gaEXycjLWkrJQ4J6mHcvDDcLt4/w375-h500/smoky+red+moon.jpg" width="375" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Only 95 degrees, so out I wander, at dusk, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when the bats flutter like punctuation marks lit by a red moon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Onward to the owl tree</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where I wait</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">scan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">find</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> beautiful feathered bloomers </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and talons</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sharp as razors<br /></span><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The Great Horned Owl</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">is awake,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">facing away from me</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> preparing for the evening fly-out</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">scanning the sky from a great height</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Whoo whoo hoo-hoo </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I call</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The owl turns, first head then body</span></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqonDuK9yz1TKd8q4EAe5HAShIJsVqNtaWp-3IXKIthDu1PhxXDA6StXXyONvWm3wPpn4eYVtO6Jt2uKdaL9DQC5gQnidY1Rwf8reRKnfozBD8wP4zY0NBI9gA4fgq0p52p-ObytJdh8E/s2048/great+horned+owl+smoky+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1710" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqonDuK9yz1TKd8q4EAe5HAShIJsVqNtaWp-3IXKIthDu1PhxXDA6StXXyONvWm3wPpn4eYVtO6Jt2uKdaL9DQC5gQnidY1Rwf8reRKnfozBD8wP4zY0NBI9gA4fgq0p52p-ObytJdh8E/w400-h334/great+horned+owl+smoky+2.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Oh, the owls are back?" she asks. "I rarely see them unless they hoot," she says,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> turning and walking away, to her mother</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The owl has also turned away from me, again, so I hoot. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The owl responds with a full-on glare.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The woman, not turning back says, "There it is, the hoot." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pleased, I say "No, that was me."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmIolkqnKE9-gI4WkVIzUefTXC8EgOAJXcRz8X6dC4X1eKZv-M4-UHglLs2ixNsX2QlLeuVnubXgFVb34-veklN0JnPUojQAm4U5GAg113onjX8hrmNcsJfbunU14LnB9L7a11LkEMZ4/s2048/great+horned+owl+smoky+night.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1710" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmIolkqnKE9-gI4WkVIzUefTXC8EgOAJXcRz8X6dC4X1eKZv-M4-UHglLs2ixNsX2QlLeuVnubXgFVb34-veklN0JnPUojQAm4U5GAg113onjX8hrmNcsJfbunU14LnB9L7a11LkEMZ4/w400-h334/great+horned+owl+smoky+night.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Further along, in the almost dark,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I ask another neighbor why she is walking without her Akita.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We mourn together at the necessary death, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the gift she gave to her elderly dog,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a missed companion.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The woman, whose family has been in Tucson forever, rallies and tells me </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">about two Mojave rattlesnakes she has seen lately.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I picture the shape of those heads.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We don't talk about the strength of their venom,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">but we know.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Masked, walking six feet apart,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> we go looking for snakes,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> finding none.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> A Cooper's hawk watches us as the bats flicker and dive.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp2CAfboVc6zk8IUhRUAj73uq6e9ITdfLEcBzdoKdfXJW7bX8kEiyiIJiT8C-S0SKQZb772IFfyCzK3P1FPozfFNoF_MzFywMUXukmn6-K56rLud7-NP0ULDg7u3Iwxm3la1AWI06w0uw/s2048/smoky+Cooper%2527s+hawk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1992" data-original-width="2048" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp2CAfboVc6zk8IUhRUAj73uq6e9ITdfLEcBzdoKdfXJW7bX8kEiyiIJiT8C-S0SKQZb772IFfyCzK3P1FPozfFNoF_MzFywMUXukmn6-K56rLud7-NP0ULDg7u3Iwxm3la1AWI06w0uw/w400-h389/smoky+Cooper%2527s+hawk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I return home, every bit of cloth sticking to me</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></blockquote><p></p><div><br /></div></div></div>Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-34881604811574347852020-05-31T16:05:00.001-06:002020-05-31T16:05:28.845-06:00Creating Sanctuary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the bee sleeps in its own contained universe.</div>
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That bee finds contentment, as I do, as you can choose to do, in the embrace of those soft petals that sprout from a prickly host.</div>
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I am here to make my own sanctuary.</div>
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<br />Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-59610160813753901872020-01-06T16:29:00.001-07:002020-01-06T16:29:36.029-07:00Fire Ceremony<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">painting by Beth Surdut <br />28" x 40" fiber reactive dyes, resist, silk.</span></td></tr>
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</span>Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-14620818540142676382019-07-24T18:08:00.002-06:002019-07-25T12:31:29.709-06:00Monsoon in Raptorville with owl and hawks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-54306920380623705792019-07-07T14:45:00.000-06:002019-07-07T14:45:06.758-06:00The call of ravens and rain<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Four ravens, all noisemakers, flew over my house as the first drops began to fall.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span>Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-73767499437611223162019-07-06T16:25:00.000-06:002019-07-06T16:25:24.141-06:00Getting a buzz from raising the dead (cicada)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I see it walking across the sky as I walk across the desert.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2016, I conducted an interview on NPR with naturalist and
author Sy Montgomery about the
consciousness and emotions of animals. In September 2019, her engaging memoir, <b><i>How to Be A Good Creature</i></b>, was published, and our conversation continues.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2012, deeply involved in
researching, drawing, and collecting true first-person encounters with ravens,
I was lured from Santa Fe to Tucson by a perfect combination--a book festival,
Sy Montgomery, and, in particular, her book of essays, <i>Birdology: Adventures
with Hip Hop Parrots, Cantankerous Cassowaries, Crabby Crows, Peripatetic
Pigeons, Hens, Hawks, and Hummingbirds</i>.</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We met. I told Sy about my ravens,
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In 2013, I returned to Tucson to
accept the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award for Non-Fiction for my
illustrated book-in-progress, <i>Listening to Raven</i>. After calling out the
news to the ravens around my studio, I called Sy, who was working on a book
about octopuses – not octopi.</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beth:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Sy Montgomery. It’s so good to talk to you today. You know
you really are a bold one. Your newest book, <i>Soul of an Octopus</i>, I
looked at that and I thought, you were writing about animal cognition and
emotion when even respected animal behaviorists— Jane Goodall, for
instance—wasn’t publishing their own ideas because the scientific community
wouldn’t accept them. Would you have been able to title a book <i>Soul of an
Octopus</i> when you first started writing about animals?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> No, absolutely not. You are so right, Beth. I think now,
though, the world is ready to accept that animals have emotions and thoughts
and feelings and that we are not alone in the universe in having consciousness.
In fact, as you know, in 2012, the consortium of neuro-anatomists and
neuroscientists and other scientists got together in Cambridge, in England, to
write and sign the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness saying that all
mammals and birds, and certainly some invertebrates-- they mention octopuses
specifically-- have what they called the neural substrate necessary to generate
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So what you and I have known, and
many of your listeners have known for decades, and many humans have known for
centuries, now is being recognized by scientists and philosophers who weren’t
ready to acknowledge that even just a few decades ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beth:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Are you familiar with the quote from Thoreau—so this would
be in the 1800s-- Thoreau said, “Surely the most important part of an animal is
its anima, its vital spirit, on which is based its character and all the
peculiarities by which it concerns us, yet most scientific books which treat of
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Wow, that’s a great quote. That is a fabulous quote. Well,
he knew stuff. Thoreau knew stuff. That’s for sure. That’s the thing, you know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You, too, you’re an excellent
observer of the natural world. To those of us who watch and listen, these
truths are revealed to us. And I think you have to almost purposely blinder
yourself to the thoughts and feelings of animals to deny that they exist. And
anyone who’s had a pet dog or a pet cat can see this, can testify to it. It’s a
little harder to see in an octopus, maybe, because we don’t get see octopuses
as much as we might want to. But of you look, it’s there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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golden moon bear, the tree kangaroo, the kakapo, the tapirs, snow leopards.
Those are either exotic or cuddly looking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But you’ve got this other group of
beautiful interesting creatures that are so different from humans that some
people are scared of them, some people loathe them—tarantula, snake, and
octopus---Three hearts! Suckers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Ayup, and tasting with your skin. And being able to slip
through a tiny opening because you haven’t got any bones at all, and a brain
that wraps around your throat, and arms that, if severed, can go off and do
things including change color and even hunt prey—this can freak some people
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But how many people watched ET and
loved that alien. Loved that alien for both the way it could connect with its
children friends, but also for the ways it was so different from humans. And
here we have, right on our planet these alien creatures, but they live in our
world. And to me that is so exciting, it’s such a privilege and a lot of these
critters…I mean, you’re not necessarily going to bump into an octopus if you
don’t live near an ocean, and particularly some of the deep sea species of
octopus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But spiders, even if you don’t have
a tarantula, all of us can meet a spider. If your like me and don’t vacuum too
much, there’s tons of them right in your basement. But these are alien
creatures, too, have what we would consider super powers if they belonged to a
mammal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They can shed their skin; they can
taste with their feet. Many spiders, if they hurt their leg, they can pull it
off and eat it and grow a new one. Wouldn’t that be great if we could do that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Being able to pull this amazing
substance, stronger than steel that they can pull out of their bodies and build
webs with this. Wow. These are incredible creatures, and yet they’re amazingly
common.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And we should just walk around this
world gobsmacked, I think, realizing all these complex lives going on around
us. Animals with powers that we only dream of, and yet all of them are thinking
and feeling much as we do, and all of them love their lives as we do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beth:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I never thought that I would cry over the story of an
octopus, but I did, I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Oh, Beth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beth:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> When one of the girls in your book thought that she had
viable eggs and tended them…could you talk about what happens to an octopus
when they have eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Well, octopuses lay eggs at the end of their lives, and
they do it in darkness, no one can really see this happen, but we would come in
and day after day there would just be more and more eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their eggs are the size of a grain
of rice each, and they’re hung almost like clusters of grapes which they glue
to the ceiling and the walls of their lair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And from the moment the female
octopus starts laying, until the time she takes her dying breath of water, she
is completely devoted to these eggs. She will never leave her lair. She will
never leave her eggs. She will not go hunting for food and sometimes even if
you hand her food she won’t accept it, because her job, her whole raison
d’etre, now, is to protect and clean and fluff and tend these eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And when Octavia laid eggs, it was a
bittersweet moment for all of us at the aquarium because we had enjoyed
interacting with her. She knew who we were. She would look us in the eye and
come over changing color with emotion, with excitement. She’d change red, she’d
be so excited to see us. And greet us and put her suckers on us and let us pet
her and we would play with her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But once she laid those eggs, never
again would she want to do that, because this was far more important. So we
would see her fluffing the eggs, cleaning the eggs with her suckers, using her
siphon to blow water across them to keep them clean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Protecting them from, even though
there weren’t really any other predators in her tank, there was always a chance
that the sunflower sea star might come over and want to eat some of her eggs,
so she was guarding the. She was the most devoted mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And there were times that people
would come by and look at the exhibit and the octopus wasn’t moving much and
they would be like “oh, well, that’s boring.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But then you’d point out, “No,
that’s a mama octopus and look, here’s her eggs,” and then people would be
fascinated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And there were a group of teenage
girls who I’ll never forget, who walked by her exhibit and one of the kids
said, “Eeeuw, octopus-- gross. Oo, I bet it feels icky to touch it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I said to these three girls,
“But look, it’s a mama octopus and here’s the eggs” and instantly these girls
changed their minds. Instantly, they were like “oh, how sweet” and they wanted
to know more about her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And after we’d talked for a little
while and they stood in awe watching her tend to her hundred thousand eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And when they left, one of girls
said to me, “You take care of that little mama.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And this was somebody they’d found
repulsive just minutes before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Beth:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> It seems that humans tend to gravitate towards animals that
act like humans. I say that in quotes. I think that you and I both have an
interest in animals that act like whoever they are, not mirrors of us. There
are animals, that, like an octopus or a snake, that aren’t mirrors of us. How
do you go about choosing the animals that you write about?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sy:</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Well sometimes they choose me, and sometimes it’s a
very careful choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My first book was an homage to my
heroines--Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas. And that book was
about their relationship with their study animals. So, writing about those
great apes was a great way for me to start my career writing about the minds of
other animals because you know, we’re so closely related to a chimp, you can
get a blood transfusion from a chimp. You look into the face of an orangutan
and there’s that guy that took you to the prom in junior high. (Beth: laughter)
They’re very much like us. But as interested as I am to find the similarities
between us and other creatures, like you, I think I’m more fascinated by the
differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because this is what stretches our
imagination. And also stretches the limits of our compassion. I mean, it makes
us more compassionate to imagine, and conceive of and respect and care for
other minds, minds that aren’t like our own. And that’s what really fascinates
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I mean, Henry Beston was saying of
animals in his wonderful book, <i>The Outermost House</i>, “You know, they are
not underlings, they’re not brethren, they are other nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They’re living by senses that we’ve
lost or never achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They can hear voices that we can’t.
And this is totally true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Animals have powers we don’t have:
birds can see infrared light; um, octopuses can taste with their skin; um,
spiders can shed their exoskeleton, which is more than just shedding your skin,
it’s actually shedding your skeleton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Um, animals have so many senses that
we don’t and they’re able probe our world and know our world and know the truth
of our world in a way that we can’t. And I love that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So how do I pick the next critter to
write about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes it’s that lucky thing that
you’re giving a talk on pink dolphins and you happen to meet the person who
studies the tree kangaroos in Papua, New Guinea and that did really happen. And
that’s how I ended up writing about tree kangaroos in Papua, New Guinea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’ll be in the Amazon writing
about pink dolphins and you’ll meet the guy who eventually leads you to the
golden moon bears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And other times, I’ve made a
deliberate choice and that was the case with octopus. I made a deliberate
choice in that point in my career, feeling I’ve written mostly about vertebrate
animals. Some of whom, can speak, like the birds, in perfect English to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But most of animate creation, most
of animal life on our planet is invertebrate. And most life on our planet lives
in the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I felt it like it was time for me
to try to write about a marine invertebrate and write about its mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And that was what brought me, on
that fateful day in March 2011, to the New England Aquarium where a keeper
opened the tank that contained Athena, my first octopus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And she reached for me from the
water and I reached for her from the air and that changed my life forever and
launched me on this book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I started out with "Songbird," which got his attention, but his favorite seemed to be "I'll fly Away" because he raised his wings every time I sang those words, which are repeated in the chorus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> I ended with this verse by Jesse Winchester</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">How far to the horizon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I'm in a rush you see</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We were to meet by the western sky</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">My love must be waiting on me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I asked him to marry me.</span></div>
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Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-10187168331821888542019-03-16T18:13:00.000-06:002019-03-16T18:13:42.062-06:00No such bird as a black cardinal<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Phainopepla, midtown Tucson. Greek meaning "shining robe," common name is silky flycatcher. You might just want to stop here and admire this handsome bird.</span></span></span><br />
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As daylight wanes, Mister Great Horned Owl is in his sleeping tree, a tall eucalyptus.<br />
When he wakes, he can see the female he has been courting for weeks. They had been spending their days together in the sleeping tree, but now she has moved to an Aleppo pine tree, not far away.<br />
She's just begun cleaning up the existing nest that held three owlets last year.<br />
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At sunset, she hoots and flies out to the hunting tree where she waits and calls.<br />
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Mister whoo-hoos, and back and forth they call before he flies in and lands on top if her for a quickie. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> On the rare mornings I awake to this mountain's disappearing act, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we share a secret:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> We exist whether you see us, or not.<br /> And should I ever somehow forget joy,<br /> the hummingbirds remind me.<br /> And should I ever somehow forget love<br /> the cat sits on my chest and licks my face<br /> And should I ever forget camaraderie<br /> my old friends knock on the door of my heart.<br /> And should I ever forget why I exist<br /> my creativity says, "I am the mountain."</span><br />
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“We heard that if you split a raven’s tongue, it’ll talk
like a parrot,” said the beautiful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>girl as she
studied my raven drawings. </div>
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My breath caught and fluttered in my throat like a
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She’d already told me that she used to steal raven nestlings in
Ruidoso, where she was raised up. Then she cut her eyes at me, “but that didn’t
sound like fun, so we didn’t do it.” </div>
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Raven’s eye watched me as he appeared in the piece of wood I
was carving. I tapped away at the chisel, bringing him out to join my
clan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-30016157522924531032018-08-14T12:22:00.000-06:002018-08-14T12:22:15.233-06:00Face to face with a hummingbirdOne day, I was working on a drawing, magnifying glass in one hand, ink
pen in the other, when I heard wing beats —so close, I could feel the
air puff on my forehead. I held my breath, raised only my eyes, and
looked at the hummingbird looking at me. Face to face, we both seemed
suspended in the heartbeat of the universe before the bird turned and
flew out through the open door.<br />
So much more to this story @ <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fradio.azpm.org%2Fs%2F37262-the-art-of-paying-attention-hummingbird-etiquette%2F&h=AT2rFi_QRcSpmk9eEmi4TH1Oy5Miyc5welVMIUkClqOPrE_LLkPwlWIDQhh2NXNecNpYKUIh1RHJt-Xxg1YycgfSIMAFdp4c4KVYKt3A5OIfHEKLcHrEI7ovm9dx6orf2koHE2wFPwt0hyxEE73SqbWsh4lxm9h5rFCy" href="https://radio.azpm.org/s/37262-the-art-of-paying-attention-hummingbird-etiquette/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://radio.azpm.org/s/37262-the-art-of-paying-attention…/</a><br />
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place, late afternoon. 106 degrees. The fountain was off, so although
there was water on the lower levels, this hummingbird hovered until I
turned on the pump and the bubbler appeared.</span></span><br />
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Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-31100041391180372432018-08-13T12:11:00.000-06:002018-08-13T14:00:02.768-06:00Gila woodpeckers in ArizonaInspector Gila was busy this morning, negotiating the barrel cactus in
front of my desk. The male woodpeckers sport what looks like a red
lipstick streak on their heads. Their voices, clearly heard, even when
competing with traffic noise, sound like squeak toys having a party. <br />
Learn about our relationship and the amazing engineering of these birds at <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.azpm.org%2Fp%2Fnews-topical-sci%2F2018%2F1%2F11%2F122294-the-art-of-paying-attention-gila-woodpecker%2F&h=AT03GRfLVxdBdG-7B9ZfWYz9d6hl5csQ9wKO6DbHJu0cKdMtSjKPwF1kWuc_hTUuk9J896_dunhu6_A8qke1vDC5fvpmKpc5ChRA_BjS53XSqjpsAXhSWSxVRz44ntMKwfcalm8bYevZoDFp0mmfVk0LyUCJGQCTIVqJ" href="https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-sci/2018/1/11/122294-the-art-of-paying-attention-gila-woodpecker/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://news.azpm.org/…/122294-the-art-of-paying-attention…/</a><br />
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not wounded, </div>
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The Kill</div>
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©Beth Surdut 2018</div>
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Fill a paper bag with a branch dressed in dry leaves.</div>
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Shake the bag hard, vigorously</div>
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That’s the sound of death wrestling with innocence.</div>
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On a day where heat drags at you like a demanding child,</div>
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The tree flapped and rustled</div>
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Leaves so dense, I saw only movement and the shadow of death in flight </div>
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I opened the tall wooden gate and walked into the alley
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over the shed from the bamboo</div>
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And the African sumac</div>
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And the tamarisk</div>
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and the dove feathers.</div>
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This is where the hawks bring their kill.</div>
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I heard the wingbeats</div>
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Saw the Cooper’s hawk fly away</div>
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without the baby dove's wing.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White-winged dove, killed two days before its sibling fledged</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Watching me.</div>
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The next day, the father joined them</div>
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The nest was empty.</div>
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<br />Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-83367429879854336592018-05-16T14:17:00.002-06:002018-05-16T16:51:14.164-06:00The Art of Paying Attention: Bats<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>Paying Attention: Bats</b>
<b>©Beth Surdut 2016</b><br />
When a bat flies by me, the wing beats kiss my cheek in temptation,
and I hear a whispered invitation to learn the secrets of these
crepuscular creatures.<br />
My initial search for Southwestern bat encounters brought me into the
Ortiz Mountains in New Mexico. Led by wildlife biologist Mike Roedel,
six of us waited at the mouth of the old Santo Niño mine. At sunset,
under a full moon in a lavender sky, I heard squeaks and rustling
amplified by a large metal cylinder lining the vertical shaft.
Townsend’s Big-eared bats began to fly out in ones and twos. Wings
swooshed by my head as I peered and listened for the next arrivals.
About 4 inches long, the bats looked like spirits…with rabbit ears.<br />
Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly. They are of the order
chiroptera which translates as hand/wing. Whether designated as megabats
or microbats, the bone structure in their wings is similar to human
forearms and fingers, if ours were over 9 feet long and our bones could
bend. Microbats can locate objects in pitch-dark three-dimensional space
by emitting high-frequency sounds that bounce back. Using this
technique, called echolocation, they can figure out the texture and
speed of an object. And along with these natural superpowers, bats are
primary pollinators of saguaro and organ pipe cacti as well as hundreds
of species of agave plants.<br />
Unless you are qualified, don’t touch bats. Saying that, I did! After
leaving a sacred monkey forest in Bali, I walked by a man working on
his front porch. A fruit bat, an old world megabat known as a flying
fox, hung like a large umbrella from the railing, watching. I asked in
Indonesian if the bat was <i>teman</i>-- a friend. The man smiled,
gently hooked the bat over his arm, and moments later, I had broken my
rule of not touching wild animals. The bat hung from my wrist as I
stroked its suede-soft wings. It seemed to be grinning toothily as it
swung up towards my face to get a better look. The closeness of that
furry foxy face was a little disconcerting, but oh, those beautiful
limpid eyes.<br />
Later, again in Bali, I stood at the entrance of a sacred and very
smelly bat cave that looked like a view into a many-storied tenement
building. Thousands of bats, tucked next to each other, stacked in rows
and clusters, slept, squabbled, interacted. One, who was quite obviously
a male, kept presenting to the bat next to him. As he repeatedly nudged
her, she tucked her wings tighter around her and over her head as if
indicating, “Not now, honey. I’m tired.”<br />
While there is much that I will do to get to the great view, the
sacred place, the animal adventure, here in Tucson, I can just go
outside.<br />
Arizona boasts 28 species of bats either migratory or year round.
There are Lesser long-nosed bats who drain hummingbird feeders each
night. I spoke with echolocation expert Janet Tyburec, who lives in
Tucson. When I asked if she had local favorites, she said, “Pallid bats!
They’re tough, wonderful, and they smell kind of like skunks and look
like little pigs.” She explained to me that they could heal fractures by
forming the equivalent of an internal walking cast around the damaged
part. They especially like high-end neighborhoods here, where they’ll
hang over the front door and porches as they eat centipedes and tear the
pincers off of scorpions before eating them.<br />
For an impressive and easy view of bats in summer flight, you can
visit the migratory Mexican free-tailed bats that fly out at sunset from
under the bridge at Campbell Avenue and River Road. Towards the end of
July and into August, the numbers escalate as mothers and pups fly
together. Tyburec described the pups as “kind of klutzy at first, like
kids with learners’ permits.”<br />
Even when you can’t see them in the dark crevices, you can tell where
the bats roost by the visible and scented lines of guano droppings. I
like to go before dark and wait to hear them wake up. These are social
sounds and, in my opinion, a special treat, because humans are not
capable of hearing most echolocation frequencies. Spotted bats
echolocate between 5-10 kHz-- well within the range of human hearing.Bats change the cadence and frequency of their calls when
they are approaching an object of interest and need more information
quickly.<br />
Bats have existed for over 50 million years. With summer
temperatures often over 100 degrees in Arizona, we, too, become
creatures of the night. Lucky us, who can just go outside, and be
enhanced by the wing beats of bats in a star-filled sky. <br />
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<b><i>Thanks to wildlife biologist <a href="http://www.batsurveysolutions.com/">Janet Tyburec</a> for her assistance.</i></b><br />
<b><i>Want to know more about protecting bats?</i></b><br />
<a href="http://www.batcon.org/">Bat Conservation International</a><br />
<a href="https://www.merlintuttle.com/">Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation</a><br />
Arizona Game & Fish has a free "Bats of Arizona" poster available <a href="http://www.azgfd.gov/i_e/ee/resources/posters/bats_index.shtml">here</a>.Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-73436221994844248272018-05-16T14:06:00.000-06:002018-05-16T14:23:49.732-06:00Paying Attention:The Adventures of HoHum, the Great Horned Owl<b>The Adventures of HoHum, the Great Horned Owl</b><br />
© Beth Surdut 2017<br />
From the moment I spotted the two Great Horned Owl chicks—their
big-eyed fuzzy heads rising above their bulky nest-- the larger one,
would watch me. If I bobbled my head, that chick would mimic my motion.
If I changed the direction, so would the bird. I named her Bobble.
HoHum, the smaller one, would always be looking off somewhere, not
seeming focused on anything in particular.<br />
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I’d witnessed the courtship of Bobble and HoHum’s parents. I named
them Tristan and Iseult. Tristan is big, assured and impressive. From
the top of his plumicorns—what appear to be horns, but are feathers-- to
the points of his piercingly sharp talons, he is a model of his
species. Except, according to statistics, he should actually be a she,
because the female Great Horned Owl is usually larger than her mate. The
male has a larger voice box and a deeper voice. Tristan not only has a
deeper voice, but when the time came, he was not the one sitting on the
nest. Funny how animals don’t read the manuals. <br />
Let me orient you. There are three main trees in this story--sleeping
tree, nesting tree, and hunting tree. The owls sometimes shift between
them like a game of musical chairs.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iseult is the mother of owls named Bobble & HoHum. (PHOTO: Doris Evans)
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Once mated for life, Tristan and Iseult moved about a block away into
an old hawk’s nest lodged high up in the fork of an Aleppo pine tree.
Tristan brought food to Iseult during the month she sat on the eggs.
After the babies were born, he continued to supply rodents, rabbits,
birds and anything else he could catch. As the chicks grew into
fledglings, Iseult began to leave them to go hunting. Tristan would
sleep each day in the pine tree where the courtship began. <br />
One day, I arrived to find that the nest was empty.
I headed for Tristan’s usual roost, but he was gone.<br />
At first, the tree seemed empty, so I looked for clues on the ground.
A dove’s egg—unblemished-- lay where it had fallen on a bed of pine
needles. Then I saw some fresh white owl splashes. They almost glow in
the dark. I started scanning the branches and spotted a fledgling. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HoHum attempting to expel a pellet. (PHOTO: Doris Evans)
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I moved a bit, so did the owl's head as it followed me. I rotated my
head, then nodded up and down—so did the owlet. I’d found Bobble!<br />
Bobble seemed young to be alone, so with more scanning I found HoHum,
about 8 feet away from his sibling, gazing off into wherever, but, as
usual, didn’t look at me.<br />
I kept looking and, farther up, at a distance, but within sight of
her offspring, I recognized Iseult. She is the smallest parent I've seen
so far.<br />
Each evening, Iseult would fly out and land in the hunting tree
within sight of the sleeping tree. Bobble would soon follow. Eventually,
HoHum would too, sometimes first making a soft alarm like a chicken
squawk, a baby sound, before he lofted. Then they would fly out into the
darkening sky to hunt, returning to the hunting tree to eat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Owls must expel pellets containing the indigestible
parts of their prey before they can eat again, usually about every ten
hours. (PHOTO: Doris Evans)
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Daily, I found headless corpses, sometimes two at a time, under the
hunting tree—a rabbit on its side—oh those soft little feet, a dove with
twisted wings, a packrat sprawled on its belly. Owls usually eat every
part and let their systems separate out the indigestible bones, beaks,
fur, and feathers. I admire that efficiency. If the death of one
creature feeds another, so be it. Finding the corpses made me cranky--
that sloppiness, that waste of life. <br />
With each cycle I’ve watched, there is a time when the owls leave the
familiar trees.
I continue to visit the same places, feeling bereft at the absence, but
eventually the cycle starts again, and I find a solo owl. This time, I
heard a soft babyish alarm cry, steady, repeating in the sleeping tree. I
looked up, up, up and there was HoHum.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great horned owl drawing by Beth Surdut</td></tr>
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He sounded like a tired baby bird begging for food. The first time I
found him alone, he continued to call as he flew to the hunting tree
where he rocked to and fro like an unsteady tightrope walker. Then he
lofted over to a more distant tree where he rocked again. He flew back
to the hunting tree, and then returned to the sleeping tree. His cries
grew softer, whimpering sounds, as night dropped its curtain on what I
could see. I walked home, confused, having never heard this repetition
of cries, nor witnessed this circling back at nightfall.<br />
I visited HoHum almost every early evening before he flew out to
hunt. This owl that had ignored me when his family was around, now cried
softly as soon as he spotted me. <br />
Unlike his younger days, he would watch me as I moved around under
the tree where the monsoons exposed and scattered the contents of older
pellets left by Tristan, Iseult, Bobble, and HoHum. <br />
This miniature bone yard steamed with the earthy scents of rot that
are usually masked by the aridness of the desert. Many of the pellets
held only skulls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of Tristan the Great Horned Owl's dissected pellets. (PHOTO: Beth Surdut)
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Amidst the damp and layered dead animal parts and plant matter, I
found most of a freshly killed packrat on its belly, back legs pointing
in opposite directions, head and shoulders gone. The corpse was
misplaced, because owls usually eat after returning to the hunting tree
with prey. When I left, I could hear HoHum’s voice all the way to my
house.<br />
I called my friend Amanda Remsburg, a certified bird rehabilitator in Houston. I was curious about the headless corpses.<br />
<blockquote>
“So he’s practicing. He’s learning how to hunt, and so he’s going to
take all the opportunities that he can to practice. He might have
brought it back to his sleeping tree thinking, hmmm, maybe I’ll want
this for later.” - Amanda Remsburg, Houston-based wild bird
rehabilitator</blockquote>
I walked out to check on HoHum, but couldn’t find any owls. Then I
heard two voices—one higher than the other-- hooting at dusk. At first,
the calls came from the eucalyptus trees across the street from my house
where I knew a family of Harris’ hawks lived. <br />
A few days ago, I heard hooting in the area of the hunting tree. It
was almost dark when I went on my own hunting expedition, looking for
signs under trees. There they were—fresh bright white splashes… two
pellets, and a bird skull partially coated with chewed up feathers! Just
a skull. The hooting started, and then a second voice. The foliage was
so dense, I couldn’t see the owls until one and then the other flew to
the next tree. They were both small compared to Tristan. <br />
It looks like HoHum found the companion he needs. I bet he never talks to me again, and that’s the way it should be.<br />
<br />
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<b>Visual storyteller Beth Surdut invites you to observe, with
unbounded curiosity, the wild life that flies, crawls, and skitters
along with us in our changing environment. From exotic orchids and
poison dart frogs to local hawks and javelinas, Surdut illustrates her
experiences with wild and cultivated nature by creating color-saturated
silk paintings and detailed drawings accompanied by true stories.</b><br />
<b>You can find Surdut's drawings and true stories about spirited critters at <a href="http://www.payingattentiontonature.com/">www.payingattentiontonature.com</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/">Beth Surdut's</a> illustrated work <a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/listening-to-raven.html"><i>Listening to Raven</i></a>
won the 2013 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Elements of her raven clan have appeared in Orion Magazine, </b><b><b>roosted at the New York State Museum in an exhibition of international
scientific illustrators. The clan has </b>flown across
the digitally looped Art Billboard Project in Albany, New York and
her <a href="https://surdut.blogspot.com/2018/05/townsends-bat-drawing-by-beth-surdut.html" target="_blank">Townsend's Big-eared</a> Bat hovered on its own billboard over Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.</b>Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-26360313276511545722018-04-28T22:53:00.000-06:002018-04-28T23:14:35.097-06:00The Art of Paying Attention: Mountain Lion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHX2TrynRSJMikQbnigCUELDeetsLNB3OgvYH26nfv_W0z4yB6cWKMONMeqLmcKeZzcGIJKokEGaU76Kx5zYyRK_ecceig6pKq9QWNrn6EBy3xYhXOvlECAGyeAQjck7IoHGwbfgItA-s/s1600/MOUNTAIN+LION+by+Beth+Surdut+4.5+x6+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHX2TrynRSJMikQbnigCUELDeetsLNB3OgvYH26nfv_W0z4yB6cWKMONMeqLmcKeZzcGIJKokEGaU76Kx5zYyRK_ecceig6pKq9QWNrn6EBy3xYhXOvlECAGyeAQjck7IoHGwbfgItA-s/s400/MOUNTAIN+LION+by+Beth+Surdut+4.5+x6+.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You Should Be So Lucky-- mountain lion, drawing by Beth Surdut</td></tr>
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©Beth Surdut 2018 <a href="https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-sci/2018/3/1/124778-the-art-of-paying-attention-mountain-lions/" target="_blank">CLICK for AUDIO</a></div>
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<b>When someone tells me that they have seen a mountain lion in
the wild, or even that there might be one around, this frisson of excitement
sparkles through me.</b> </div>
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Stories come to me from all sorts of people and places. My
landlord came over to work on my clogged kitchen sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Passing by my work table, where I was
finishing a drawing of a mountain lion, he told me about being in the Rincon Mountains
ten or twelve years ago, collecting leopard frog data with friends. <b>They were walking
by a pond, when a mountain lion jumped out of some reeds </b>on the far side, and ran
away. Pete was the last person in line, hanging back, because he wanted to see
what was in those reeds. He waded across the pond, maybe 30 feet, thinking
there might be a kill or a den. He parted the reeds, and there was a second lion,
lying down, with its back to him. <b>He was so close he could have touched it. </b></div>
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<b>“I thought she was asleep. She turned her body and looked at
me. The hair on my arms stood up. She had beautiful eyes,” he said, and I could
hear the wonder in his voice.</b> He backed away, slowly, and kept going. The hair
on my arms was standing up, too, and, just for a second, I was with him, and
the mountain lion, holding my breath. </div>
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“Lucky you,” I said to him “to experience that.” </div>
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“Yes, yes, I was,” he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, I named the drawing “You Should Be So Lucky.”</div>
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Cougar, puma, panther, and mountain lion are common names
for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">puma concolor</i>—the largest cat
that can purr, meow, caterwaul, and yowl, but not roar. A typical adult male--6
to 8 feet from nose to tail tip-- weighs 110 to 180 pounds; females--5 to 7
feet-- 80 to 130 pounds. </div>
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Mountain lions can run up to 45 miles per hour for short
distances, leap 30 feet or more horizontally, 18 feet straight up, and 60 feet
down. They are beautiful, powerful, mysterious, and often misunderstood.</div>
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Dan Collins, retired from law enforcement in California, saw
a mountain lion in Sabino Canyon. He volunteers at Saguaro National Park West,
where he offers a presentation called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mountain
Lions: Beyond the Myth</i>. Collins said that estimated numbers in Arizona are
2500-3,000.<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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With home ranges of 75 to 150 square miles--and those
numbers vary depending on which study you read--the cats are hard to count. </div>
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University of Arizona professor Melanie Culver is a
conservation geneticist who knows her scat. She has been studying mountain lion
genetics in North and South America since 1990. In a recent conversation, she
said, “There have been a lot of mountain lions in Arizona, but I don’t know
that is always going to be so. They are the last large predator that have this
very important role.” That role is that of wildlife managers. Extirpate them,
you tip the balance, creating what’s called a trophic cascade. For example,
without the presence of mountain lions and wolves, deer populations soar beyond
healthy numbers. While there have been 25 reported human deaths by mountain
lions since 1890, 1,000 people die every year in deer collisions with
automobiles.</div>
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<b>In 1909, Ernest Thompson Seton--wildlife illustrator,
storyteller, and former animal bounty hunter turned wildlife advocate, wrote
this:</b></div>
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<b> "Of all that has been written or is known of the American cougar, fully
ninety-nine percent deals with how we may hunt, pursue, murder, and destroy
this wonderful beautiful animal.”</b></div>
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<b>In 1970, Arizona was the last state to stop offering bounties
for killing cougars. It is still legal to trophy hunt big cats in this state--including by hounding and trapping.</b></div>
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In January, 1994, on a cold clear morning—the kind that
bites your nose-- my Tucson friend Vicki Nordness and her two large dogs—a
100-pound malamute and a 75-pound Husky mutt-- walked out of her house in the
Methow Valley in the North Cascade mountain range in Washington State. They
hadn’t gone far when they heard hounds baying, their anxious voices bouncing
around the valley. The snow was so deep, that Vicki went back home to put on
her snow shoes. Starting out at 2100 feet above the valley floor, she followed
the sound up another 500 feet, where she found chaos. </div>
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Six radio-collared hunting dogs had treed something. The
pack was baying and lunging. Two hounds were fighting with each other,
wrestling and rolling down the hill towards Vicki and her dogs, who had stopped
about 100 feet away. The hounds tried to engage her dogs, so she barked at the
hounds to sit, which sent them running back to the tree.</div>
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Then, she waited.</div>
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A man and a boy appeared, with guns and no snow shoes. They
post-holed slowly through the deep snow, their legs disappearing with each
step. Vicki, 40 years old, slight of build and strong of spirit, guessed the
man to be about her age, the boy about eighteen.</div>
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After introducing herself, Vicki told them, “Whatever you
have in that tree, I don’t want you to kill it. Is it a cougar?”</div>
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The man said, “I hope so. We’ve been chasing a cougar and
her young all morning on our snowmobiles.”</div>
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Vicki asked, “Couldn’t you just take a picture?”</div>
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The boy said, “I want to stuff it and put in my living room.
I’ve been waiting 5 years to get this permit. Let’s just respect our
differences.”</div>
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An older man, walking more slowly than the others,
approached them. He was the grandfather.</div>
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“What’s this worth to you guys?’ Vicki asked.</div>
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“What do you mean?” said the father.</div>
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“I’ll pay you not to kill it. How about 500 dollars?”</div>
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The grandfather said, “Okay, okay, we’ll just take
pictures,” and he took out a little movie camera.</div>
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They all walked up to the Ponderosa pine where the hounds
had been baying the whole time.</div>
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<b>There was the cougar, about 15 feet off the ground.</b></div>
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As the men finally walked away, Vicki realized that she
could walk up the slope to be 15 feet away from the tree and at eye level with
the cougar.</div>
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One of the men turned and yelled that she wasn’t safe unless
her dogs were baying.</div>
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Her dogs never looked at the cat; they focused on the men.</div>
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So there she sat, with the cougar, in the beautiful silence
of the Ponderosa pine forest, her dogs by her side.</div>
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She returned the next morning and found the cougar’s tracks
where it had walked away from the tree, from the hounds, from the men with
guns, and from my friend, who told me that seeing a cougar in the wild, was the
thrill of a lifetime. </div>
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For more Art of Paying Attention from the NPR series, visit my Critters page <a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/critters.html" target="_blank">Paying Attention to Nature</a></div>
Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5182745524041483971.post-89788606499016654862018-01-13T15:31:00.000-07:002018-05-12T17:12:24.511-06:00The Art of Paying Attention: Gila Woodpecker<b>Paying Attention: Gila Woodpecker (<a href="https://www.azpm.org/p/home-art-radio/2018/1/11/122294-the-art-of-paying-attention-gila-woodpecker/" target="_blank">Click for audio on NPR)</a></b> <br />
<b>© Beth Surdut, 2018</b><br />
Welcome to my 24-hour, all you can drink, outdoor bar. In other parts
of the country, I served hummingbirds a combination of boiled water and
sugar from these red feeders, but when I moved to Tucson, I had some
surprise patrons belly up to the bar.<br />
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Gila woodpeckers — Latin name, <i>Melanerpes uropygialis</i> — are
quite dapper, with black-and-white checkered and barred wings and tail,
creamy café-au-lait head and body, with a golden tinge on the belly, and
distinctive white wing patches that show when they fly. The males sport
what looks like a red lipstick streak on their heads. Their voices,
clearly heard, even when competing with traffic noise, sound like squeak
toys having a party.<br />
Giddy talkers, they announce their arrival at my hummingbird feeders,
which they drain almost daily, even after visiting the agave flowers.<br />
The woodpeckers show up multiple times a day, announcing their
arrival as they land, yakking as they jump down the bark to the feeder,
still vocalizing when they land, and in-between drinks, calling back and
forth from neighboring utility poles. <br />
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You should hear them amp up the sound when the feeder is empty! In
summer and early fall, when the Lesser long-nosed bats drink from those
same feeders every night until there is not a drop, the woodpeckers
serve as my morning wake-up call.<br />
Yet, unlike the resident Anna’s hummingbirds that share the feeder,
hover around me, poke me, sometimes even follow me into the house when I
carry the feeder in for a refill, the Gilas are always wary. Seeing me
through the window, as I rise to attend to them, sends them fleeing,
but they quickly return.<br />
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To me, woodpeckers are marvels of anatomical engineering.</blockquote>
Gila woodpeckers weigh about 3.5 ounces—the same as a deck of
cards—and are 8-10 inches long. They have two toes pointing forward and
two pointing backward that help them move on vertical surfaces, and very
stiff tail feathers that they can press into even prickly cactus spines
to help stabilize while whacking away.<br />
Their sturdy beaks come to a gradual point, and are self-sharpening.
They have as much chance of fitting into those hummingbird feeder holes
as a camel does through the eye of a needle. When I first watched the
woodpeckers stand on the feeder, tipping it with their weight as they
pressed the end of the beak to the hole, I thought they were sloshing
the liquid, so they could get a taste. I was wrong.<br />
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What they do have in common with hummingbirds, are tongues so long
that they wrap around their skulls. A woodpecker’s tongue is sticky and
barbed at the end. It is guided by the flexible, muscle-covered hyoid
bone that is attached at the right nostril, dividing into two parts
between the eyes, wrapping all the way up and around the back of the
skull. There, the separate pieces rejoin and attach to the muscle of the
tongue. When the muscles surrounding the relaxed hyoid bone contract,
they propel the tongue forward and out of the beak. <br />
These birds bang on surfaces at an average of 12,000 times a day,15
miles per hour. The hyoid bone acts as a seatbelt for the bird’s brain,
stabilizing the head and spine, protecting it from neurological trauma. <br />
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Woodpeckers’ brains are also tightly seated in their skulls—much more so than human brains, which can slosh on impact.</blockquote>
The upper beak is longer, so it absorbs more of the shock than the
lower beak. The force travels up the beak, meeting the hyoid bone in the
nostril, before hitting spongy bone in the skull. The stress then
travels along the path of the hyoid bone, diffusing into the muscles
that cover it.<br />
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Woodpeckers, who are omnivorous, glean insects from the surface of
the bark. Their hearing is so astute, they can detect insect activity
well below that, which may explain the added popularity of the rotting
mesquite tree where a feeder hangs. The tap-tap-tapping isn’t all about
food. On noisily resonant surfaces, such as metal screens and antennas,
the birds are announcing their presence and territory. <br />
Gila woodpeckers mate for life—unlike polygamous Acorn woodpeckers.
During spring and summer, they are capable of producing two clutches of
eggs—three to five each time-- and gestation period is only two weeks. <br />
Both parents take part in nest building and feeding, usually in a
mesquite tree or a saguaro cactus, which comes with the bonus of sweet
fruit in summer. <br />
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The birds perform a kind of surgery when they drill into a cactus to
create a nesting site. The plant heals by covering the wound with sap
that slowly hardens, forming a solid casing, called a boot. Drying time
can take a few months, so holes are excavated, but not used until the
next brood. And other birds, lizards, snakes, or rodents may move into
these time-share condos.<br />
Gila woodpecker families are around my house daily, so when I saw a
fledgling with its head turned and tucked under fluffed-up feathers,
unmoving on the ground under the mesquite tree, I wondered if there was a
behavioral pattern I’d missed. The youngster didn’t move when I walked
out and sat on a nearby bench, but eventually, it woke up and flew up to
a neighbor’s roof. I went back to my drawing table, but an hour later, I
saw a few people standing around the bird as it sat on a cement
entryway. Something wasn’t right. I put the bird in a carrier, and rode
with my neighbor to the Tucson Wildlife Center.<br />
As the engine of her vintage sports car loudly rumbled, on what
seemed like an endlessly long trip, I thought about the acuity of the
bird’s hearing, and wondered if the reverberations along with the trauma
would be too much for this little creature to bear. Despite its
built-in protection, the woodpecker died 15 minutes after we arrived,
probably due to internal injuries from a window strike. <br />
I returned home to find another fledgling and its parent inspecting
my newly planted barrel cactus. While I don’t put out bird seed, when it
comes to the critters, I live to serve. For the almost three years I’ve
been in Tucson, I’ve been filling the watering holes and keeping the
sugar bar open, happily accepting my role as barista to the local
wildlife.<br />
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One of my rewards, is being able to listen to the Gila woodpeckers
talk as they tip the feeders and drink in the sweetness of life.</blockquote>
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<b>Visual storyteller Beth Surdut invites you to observe, with
unbounded curiosity, the wild life that flies, crawls, and skitters
along with us in our changing environment. From exotic orchids and
poison dart frogs to local hawks and javelinas, Surdut illustrates her
experiences with wild and cultivated nature by creating color-saturated
silk paintings and detailed drawings accompanied by true stories.</b><br />
<b>You can find Surdut's drawings - and true stories about spirited wildlife at <a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/critters">http://www.bethsurdut.com/critters.html</a> and <a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/listening-to-raven.html">listeningtoraven.com</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/">Beth Surdut's</a> illustrated work <a href="http://www.bethsurdut.com/listening-to-raven.html"><i>Listening to Raven</i></a>
won the 2013 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Elements of her raven clan have appeared in Orion Magazine, flown across
the digitally looped Art Billboard Project in Albany, New York and
roosted at the New York State Museum in an exhibition of international
scientific illustrators.</b>Beth Surduthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08543366768881488092noreply@blogger.com0