Today was a pretty relaxed day. I went to class and in my
animal behaviour practical I was assigned my first project. I must watch videos
of flying foxes and record the amount of times I see a certain behaviour exhibited.
It sounds easy, but after recording all the behaviour we saw (ie: movement with
hands, covering face, adjusting feet, etc) it will be a huge amount of work and
time. And on top of that, the videos (6 of them all about 7 minutes each) contain about 30 bats each. So
I have to watch each video a million times to get my tallies correct. But I love
this class and think it’s a cool project. He gave us flying foxes because he is
a researcher on them and they live in high populations here in Sydney. He also
said it was a harder task now because no one knows anything about them so it’s
not like we are familiar with this animal like we would if we were recording
dog behaviour. I went back and chilled out and napped and then went out with
Emily and Bel and Deniz to Ubar. There I played billards with Danny and
everyone thought my rules for pool were very bizarre…. I thought it was weird
no one calls the eight ball. But o well, silly America. After Ubar we went back
to Deniz’s and hung around for a while. I love the friends I have met here,
they make hanging out so much fun and enjoyable.
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