Monday, April 4, 2011 - Echo Bay Campground, Lake Mead NV
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Gathering, Great Blue Heron, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
It's a short flight home
The herons are gathering nesting materials from plants and shrubs growing right on the craggy cliff face within a few hundred feet of the nest.
Night camp
Site 36 - Echo Bay Lower Campground, Overton Arm, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Lake Mead NV
- No Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Echo Bay Lower Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Observational Learning
[Learning by watching] is called observational learning. When it comes to evolutionary fears, as well as to many other areas of learning, animals and people learn by watching what other animals or people do, not by doing something themselves and learning from the consequences. I have the impression this lesson hasn't quite been absorbed by most educators. You read that hands-on learning is best, but that may not always be so. Obviously evolution has selected for strong observational learning in animals and in humans.