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    Coalition. You looked that up just now. You would have used the word group or pack. Instant wiksipert.
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    That is the point. Under nv or in a poor quality photo you often cannot distinguish the animal visually so you look for other clues including behaviour, locomotion, size, statistic probability, etc. To say that you can eliminate canines or felines based purely on movement or behaviour is plain wrong. I don't doubt thst you are expert on identifying the animals that you come across regularly, but you cannot compare them to the ones that you don't see.
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    As I said in an earlier post; there is a field next to our house and over the years we have been able to watch foxes and domestic cats hunt the mice in the field. Young foxes behave exactly the same way as cats do when stalking the mice. Same slow approach, same one forleg raised stance when they spot something, same stare and raised ears, then a stalk, and a crouch leading to a spring. There was a wildlife program on tv a month or so back showing three cheetahs hunting antelope. Their tactics mirrored a wolf pack. They all knew their roles and performed as a team. There are domesti
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    DC's post about the raptor reminded me of when we were travelling to our friend's house about 3 years ago. As we drove down a quiet country lane we saw a buzzard standing on the breast of a dead wood pigeon, pulling the feathers off it and chucking them away as they do. Standing by watching all this was another wood pigeon. It was only a foot away from the corpse. As we approached the pigeon flew off, then the buzzard flew off and then the corpse flew off. ?
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    What I am discounting is your bollox about all the canines acting differently to all the felines and being able to discount a sighting just because you think it is 'dog like'. That is the point.
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    I haven't seen the video, or the others. My point is aimed at greb / griswald who seems to think that you can discount a whole genus based on movement, behaviour or looks when there is a band of overlap on all these dependent on the species, race, type, etc. For my part I haven't seen any compelling evidence of big cats loose in the UK. But I don't discount the possibilty out of hand. In my neck of the woods wolves are present only in the extreme south-east, in the Alps. One turned up several hundred kilometers away in the south-west having negotiated a river bigger than the Trent / Humb
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    We are going round in circles. Given that you have zero experience of big cats how do you know that some of the dog species cannot be confused with some of the cat species in appearance and behaviour?
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    Well you are making judgements on a sample size of zero! That is the number of big cats that you have you observed. You are making generalisations without one scrap of evidence to support them.
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    So, what is coursing if not hunting? And you have made comparisons about them hunting. "Tbh mate once they're in hunting mode nothing gets in their way, I would always lean towards a dog cos couldn't be doing with the hassle of a bitch breaking down" As for your other two comments; see my post above regards generalisation.
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    Ken’s Deputy

    Nicepix replied to jok's topic in General Talk

    What about Keith?
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    What about Bielsa telling his players to let the other side score after Leeds had scored a dodgy, but legitimate goal?
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    Ladybower reservoir has such a thing. If you stand at the fishery office looking over the res' it is on the far side of the dam. Many of the Pennine dams are of the same design.
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    Like you I have no knowledge of big cats. Unlike you I confine my opinions to what I know to be true. For example you are making a generalisation that "it clearly is not acting like a cat". I have seen enough wildlife documentaries to know that not all cats behave the same. You make generalisations about the different movement of cats and dogs yet there are many variations within each of the two families. A dandy dinmont does not move like a border collie let alone a wolf. Similarly if you watch footage of big cats on tv you will see that a lion does not move like a cheetah. I have the oppert
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    We used to go in January. No tourists, water clear and fresh, and low sunlight which is important for photography. First time though we had assumed that it would be warm. It was freezing - literally. General Garibaldi's fountain statue was sheaved in ice. We wore everything that we had taken all at once. My wife saw herself refelected in a window and said that she looked likd Paddington bear.
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    The Jazz Album 2003 (2002, CD) - Discogs WWW.DISCOGS.COM View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2002 CD release of "The Jazz Album 2003" on Discogs. There is a small barn near where we live that is full of junk. You can turn up 24/7, take what you want or leave something for somebody else to have. I recycle the cds, take a few, store them on the tablet then take them back.
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    We used to go to Venice every year. I have loads of photos on slides that I have never converted to digital files. Some were sold to an image library. The cyclamen are on the Akamas peninsular in Cyprus. We had an apartment in Polis for around 12 years. Again loads of slides in the basement, mainly of orchids that we used to hunt out in spring. My username was taken from a website I had. I sold photos to image libraries and magazines. In 2006 I sustained a serious eye injury on my viewfinder eye. I couldn't use a camera for over two years so I sold up. Fortunately it was just before film
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    I came across some migrating minnows on the River Dearne. I had sold all my photography stuff a couple of years earlier after sustaining an eye injury so all I had was a digital slr. No macro lens or off camera flash so couldn't really do them justice. Here's some garden visitors And from my old stamping grounds
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    Yes, there is a migration route for hobbys along the River Vienne that runs south to north. I have seen them taking mayfly type insects off the surface. On the shoot I was part of I used to sit out near the pheasant feeders shooting sqizzers. Many times a hobby could be seen hunting the small birds that were attracted to the feeders. The twitchers refused to believe it claiming that they migrate, but this pair didn't and in France I regularly see hobbys in winter flying just above ditches hoping no doubt to ambush some small birds. I am presuming that the migraters are from northern Europe.
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    I was fishing a small river in Spain and landed a cornish pasty on a worm bait. Place was full of terrapins. Fishing one of the lakes near here I've seen a black kite taking small fish from the surface. It has happened quite a few times so not an isolated incident. This summer a bat was seen flying around my swim on the River Charente around midday. That took things from the surface like swallows do.
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    Yes, but we might know them.
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    Woman away. Man must cook
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    I haven't said that.
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    No. Just sick of you and your numerous aliases playing the same games. No respect for someone who cannot accept being banned for life and no respect for someone who is on here purely to wind people up.
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    greb, the man of a thousand faces and every one the same.
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    They dug up a lot of oil down the coal mines. ? He would have been better dressed up as a pit pony. He looks like an ass!
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