Animal Qualities
Dig the cliff.
Animals grouped here express a similar quality through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.
7 species
Species principle: Colonial Home
Dig the cliff.
A home becomes stronger when many doors open into the same wall.
Burrowing Parakeets nest in colonies by digging tunnels into cliffs, banks, and soft substrates, creating noisy social nesting areas.
Species principle: Restoration Flight
Return to the sky.
A giant can return when enough sky is kept open for it.
California Condors are enormous cliff-nesting scavengers that soar long distances on thermals and have been brought back from near extinction through conservation programs.
Species principle: Giant Leap
Build before leaping.
A great jump still begins with the ground you prepare beneath it.
Goliath Frogs are the largest frogs and are known to move stones to create or maintain nest sites near fast-flowing streams.
Species principle: Adaptation
Use the opening.
New doors open for the one willing to make a home where others see only gaps.
Jackdaws are social corvids that nest in cavities such as cliffs, tree holes, chimneys, ruins, and buildings. Their flexible nesting habits help them live close to human structures as well as wild places.
Species principle: Unmistakable Form
Probe with the bare head.
A strange look becomes strength when it fits the work perfectly.
Northern Bald Ibises have bare red heads and long curved bills used for probing dry ground, while nesting on cliffs and rocky ledges.
Species principle: Arribada
Return in waves.
A great return becomes safer when many lives answer the tide together.
Olive Ridley Sea Turtles are famous for mass synchronized nesting events called arribadas, where many females come ashore to lay eggs on the same beaches.
Species principle: River Nesting
Choose the shore.
A future is protected by knowing which shore can hold it.
Yellow-spotted River Turtles inhabit Amazon and Orinoco river systems and nest on sandy banks during suitable seasons, linking reproduction to river levels and exposed shorelines.
