Frequency signatures: Babirusa to Barbary Macaque
Each card gives a species’ behavioural archetype, its frequency — how often it commits effort and how long each commitment lasts — and a waveform tracing that rhythm.
Frequency signatures
Each waveform traces one species’ working rhythm — where it spends effort, and where it waits. 2,327 species, A–Z; showing 145–168.
Babirusa
Upward-Pierced Canine Growth
Rooting • Fermenting • Daily
Because feeding and moving run as a steady daily cycle, it is a mid-frequency system.
Bactrian Camel
Cells Built to Survive Drinking
Losing a quarter of body water without failing • Drinking a hundred litres or more in a few minutes • Having oval red cells with membranes that stretch rather than burst as the blood dilutes
Since the cycle runs over days, it operates as a low-frequency system.
Baird's Tapir
Prehensile Proboscis Browsing
Browsing • Nocturnal • Water-linked
Since browsing and moving run as a steady nightly cycle, it is a mid-frequency system.
Bald Eagle
Two Foveae in Each Eye
Perched • Resolving • Waiting
That makes it a low-frequency system: patient, stationary and almost entirely sensory.
Bald Uakari
Bare-Skin Blood Flush
Troop • Seed-cracking • Flooded-forest
Because the system runs on continuous troop foraging and a continuously visible signal, it is a mid-frequency system.
Bald-faced Hornet
Layered Paper Envelope Nest
One mated queen • Overwintering alone • Starting the first cells herself
Because a solitary founding state and a large defended collective state are both indispensable, this is a bimodal system.
Bali Myna
Conspicuous White Cavity Nesting
White • Cavity-bound • Daily
Because feeding and calling run steadily through the day, it is a mid-frequency system.
Balkan Pond Turtle
Patterned Neck Above Plain Shell
Basking • Submerged • Seasonal
Heat-dependent basking, slow feeding and long seasonal pauses make this a low-frequency system.
Ball Python
Coiled Pressure Hold
Concealed • Waiting • Economical
That makes it a bimodal system: an extremely cheap waiting state and a short, fully committed application of force.
Ballan Wrasse
Throat Teeth That Crush Shells
Pulling molluscs and barnacles from rock with strong front teeth • Crushing them on paired pharyngeal plates in the throat • Working the same stretch of reef for years
Since the cycle runs across years, it operates as a low-frequency system.
Baluchistan Pygmy Jerboa
Two-Legged Bounds Across Bare Desert
Bounding • Nocturnal • Ranging
That makes it a bimodal system: sheltered daytime conservation and a night of bounding forage.
Banana Slug
Mucus-Costed Locomotion
Laying trail • Rasping • Paying in water
Because every process is slow and metered against a water budget, it operates as a low-frequency system.
Band-eyed Drone Fly
Stingless Drone Resemblance
Hovering at flowers • Passing for a bee • Larva breathing through a tube
Because the adult's hovering and feeding run continuously, it operates as a mid-frequency system.
Banded Humbug Damselfish
A Queue Everyone Waits In
Living as a group in a single coral head with a strict size hierarchy • Each fish maintaining a size just below the one above it • Every fish moving up one place when a larger one is removed
Since interactions recur constantly, it operates as a mid-frequency system.
Banded Linsang
Low-Mass Branch Balance
Weightless • Nightly • Slender
Because returns come from repeated small captures across a night, it is a mid-frequency system.
Banded Mongoose
Forage, Breed and Fight as One Pack
Foraging • Chattering • Cohesive
That makes it a bimodal system: dispersed, chattering group foraging and sudden collective alarm or defence.
Banded Palm Civet
Scent-Led Litter Search
Nosing • Banded • Nocturnal
Because returns accumulate from many small finds repeated nightly, it is a mid-frequency system.
Bank Swallow
Shared Sandwall Burrow Grid
Anchored • Sheltered • Reused
This produces a bimodal system: a low-frequency anchored burrow grid that persists across seasons, overlaid with mid-frequency, rhythmic foraging flights tied tightly to that common sandbank base.
Bank Vole
Numbers That Rise and Crash
Breeding rapidly when seed and berry crops are good • Building to high density across a whole region • Collapsing within a season as food fails and predators concentrate
Since the cycle runs over years while the animals live months, it operates as a mid-frequency system.
Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat
One Mound, One Owner, One Larder
Harvesting • Pouching • Nocturnal
That makes it a bimodal system: night harvesting and a sealed, stocked home.
Banteng
Open Grazing, Shaded Retreat
Grazing • Edge-feeding • Crepuscular
That makes it a bimodal system: productive edge grazing alternating with sheltered rumination.
Bar-headed Goose
Haemoglobin Retuned by One Substitution
Crossing high passes on migration • Loading oxygen from air a third as dense • Beating continuously with no soaring
Since the cycle repeats seasonally within a working year, it operates as a mid-frequency system.
Bar-tailed Godwit
Rebuilt Body for the Nonstop Crossing
Probing • Tide-timed • Fattening
That makes it a bimodal system: tide-timed fuelling and a nonstop ocean crossing.
Barbary Macaque
Huddle-Shared Body Heat
Grouped • Grooming • Seasonal
Because the system runs on continuous social maintenance paying off in a seasonal physical return, it is a mid-frequency system.