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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 11:39 |
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blackfox
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got a series of pictures today of a brown rat at my local reserve ,it was collecting stones from beneath the bird feeder and taking them away two or three at a time ,never seen anything like it before and got no valid reason for its behaviour i just sat and watched mouth open for around three hours .???  
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 12:50 |
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jk
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Great pictures. Maybe he is building a catapult to launch stones at birds who steal his/her food. 
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 14:41 |
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Squarerigger
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Nice photos. Can you give some info about the shot, i.e. tripod, distance from subject (hopefully out of stones throw), lens, etc.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 15:05 |
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blackfox
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Squarerigger wrote:Nice photos. Can you give some info about the shot, i.e. tripod, distance from subject (hopefully out of stones throw), lens, etc. yep no problem at all , camera D7000 lens 300mm-f4 + 1.7 t.c giving 500mm focal length iso 1000 f8 1/800th sec spot metering all shots hand held i rarely use a support being one big gentleman as robert can confirm LOL distance from subject 5.6 mtrs or 18 feet
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 15:34 |
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Squarerigger
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blackfox wrote:Squarerigger wrote: Thank you. Nice combination of camera and lens.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 17:29 |
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Eric
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blackfox wrote:got a series of pictures today of a brown rat at my local reserve ,it was collecting stones from beneath the bird feeder and taking them away two or three at a time ,never seen anything like it before and got no valid reason for its behaviour i just sat and watched mouth open for around three hours .??? Rats are very intelligent. I've seen them use crude tools to get at food. But I've never seen that before! Amazing ...and nice shots! I assume it was wanting the stones to either cover something or support something. Would be fascinating to find out what it was up to.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20th, 2012 17:36 |
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Eric
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It's catching.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa88vSgNfzw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21st, 2012 01:48 |
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jk
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Yes they are very intelligent and they bite!!! Personally I cant stand the smell of rats and mice (comes from working with them in the labs) so I dont really like them but they are not dirty creatures except when they live in dirty places.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21st, 2012 03:47 |
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steve of oxford
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I think I have the answer to this: From the way the rat is holding the stones, I'd say it thinks it's moving babies around.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21st, 2012 07:04 |
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Squarerigger
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Great find Eric. I did some searching and found these critters sometimes do use stones for making nests. Also, it seems some species of these gather up objects and on the way to where they want to use them, they find something they like better and switch out objects and forget about the first item they had.
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