Following on from the Redwing, we have this Fieldfare. Probably my worst quality image I took today, but its a cracking bird. Like the Redwing, this bird is also a thrush but it is much bigger.
An experiment with bonobos and chimpanzees suggests the great apes remember their friends and family even after years apart.
Louise, a bonobo who participated in the study, recognized a sister she had last seen 26 years ago, in what is now evidence of the “longest-lasting nonhuman social memory” on the scientific record.
There is a herd of elk on Ft. Riley, a nearby Army training base (which has thousands of acres of grassland); these critters were reintroduced there sometime in the 1980s. They have done well, population-wise. And since there are no fences to hold them in, they now wander to places off the fort. This group of about 40 elk was photographed yesterday just southwest of Manhattan KS, at a location that is 3 or so miles outside the boundaries of the fort.