Tämä on omistettu Douxille. En kadu mitään.
This one is dedicated to Doux. I regret nothing.
HONK
Vastaa
Aihearkisto: Biologin elämää
Syksyn merkkejä
SIGNS OF AUTUMN
”Oh, geese are flying again. Their molt is over.” //
”Autumn’s coming.”
Naapurustosi ystävällinen stalkkaaja
YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD STALKER
”Hey, Neighbor is at home!” ”I wanna see, too!” //
”Can you see Neighbor’s kids?” ”Not right now.” //
”They should be there though, they’re still so young.” ”Yeah…” //
”Hey yes, now I can see the Neighbor’s kids, too!” ”Let me see as well!” //
”Oh my, they’re grown so much!” ”Yeah, and they’re cute all right.” //
We are not watching you but the fieldfare nest in the tree!
Kokovartalotyö
FULL BODY JOB
”Birds can be identified from other things than colors and patters, too.” //
”Such as from sounds. A wood pigeon sounds something like this… wro-huu-hu-hu-huu!” ”That sounds really authentic!” //
”Woodpeckers have an easy-to-recognize flying style: flapflapflap – sliiiiide – flapflapflap – sliiiiide…” //
”Starlings mostly walk… whereas blackbirds jump, like this. A little bit quieter, though.” //
”Herons have a fun way of walking. Kinda careful and noble.” //
”A white-tailed eagle soars like a barn door tossed to the sky…” //
”…circling slowly without moving its wings… disappearing into the azure… like so…”
Joku tiira
SOME GULL
”And what is this bird here?” ”A herring gull!” //
”That’s really close! It’s a common gull. You can tell by color of the legs.” //
”…but it’s got a fish in its mouth so of course it has to be a herring gull!” ”!?” //
”Congratulations, you have mastered the fine art of fast-talking.”
A note on the English translation: the original comic is about terns, however the joke (and the actual event!) does not translate. It does work with gulls, though, so I changed the species so that you can enjoy the good save my student came up with.
Hyvät opetusmetodit
GOOD TEACHING METHODS
”This one here is red sorrel, it’s easy to recognize from the shape of the leaves.” //
”And the taste is pretty sour and salty, too.” //
”Did you just eat that leaf?” ”Yes.” //
”Help help our teacher ate the teaching material!!!”
Vuoden mittainen päivä
A DAY AS LONG AS A YEAR
Joillain ihmisillä on ilmeisesti syvällisiä ”suihkuajatuksia”, mä taas ajattelen kummallisia harjatessani hampaita.
Apparently, some people have depp ”shover thoughts”, I just think weird stuff when brushing my teeth.
Brush brush //
”What if… the Earth turned really slowly?” //
So slowly that there’d be just one day and night in a year? So that a year and a nychthemeron would be equally long. //
”Night side” would probably always be covered in ice. //
I wonder if there could be life that followed the day/summer around the planet? //
”Of course… Such a one day/year system already exists on the poles…” //
”Oh well… back to work it is…”
Harjoituslintu
PRACTICE BIRD
Nykyisissä töissäni yksi hommistani on opettaa lintujen tunnistusta. Ja mikäpä parempi tapa oppia linnuista kuin piirtää niitä! Tämän kuvan lintu ei ole mikään tietty lintu, vaan ”harjoituslintu”, jonka avulla opettelimme, mihin asioihin linnuissa kannattaa kiinnittää huomiota. Oikeastaan opiskelijat saivat linnusta kolme versiota: ensin musta-valkoisen taustattoman linnun (huomionarvoisina asioina esimerkiksi töyhtö sekä nokan muoto ja pituus), sitten väritetyn linnun (värit, kuviot, linnun osat joissa usein on värituntomerkkejä) ja lopuksi tämän koko kuvan (jossa on vielä äänet, liikkeet, ympäristö…).
In my current job one of my tasks is teaching how to identify birds. And what better way to learn about birds than drawing them! The bird in this picture is not any particular bird but a ”practice bird” with witch we learned what things to pay attention to in birds. In fact, the students got three versions of this same bird: first a black-and-white one without a background (things to note were, for example, the crest and length and shape of the beak), then the colored bird (colors, patterns, bird body parts that often have good characteristics) and finally this complete picture (with sounds, movements, surroundings…).
Tai, kuten herra Brony huomautti, olennaisin tuntomerkki on se, että tämä lintu osaa kävellä veden päällä…
Or, as Mr Brony pointed out, the most important characteristic of this bird is that it can walk on water…
Kaakattajien paluu
RETURN OF THE HONK
”?” //
”Geese! My darlings! You’re back, that’s so wonderful!” //
”How was your winter? It’s so nice to see you again, I was missing you already!” //
”Could it just stop?” ”Yeah, that’s kinda embarrassing.” ”Aren’t you just the cutest little creatures…”
Parus majos aves est
”Hey! Hey! What’s there? Some super rare bird?” //
”A great tit.” ”But– there’s so many of you…” //
”These are my students. and we’re practicing using binoculars.” ”I see. Well, that’s how you begin.”