The male Ruppell's weaver builds the nest (or several) and the female inspects to see if the structure is fit for raising a family. The male sometimes stands on top of the nest singing and fluffing up his feathers while she disappears inside to complete her tour.
After finishing the nest in the top left of the picture above, this fellow began working very quickly to destroy, straw by straw, all the other nests in the group. As one male weaver looks much like another, we're uncertain whether he was tearing down his own inferior creations, or if he was eliminating the work of a rival.
At the end of the day, only these and the newly constructed nest were left.
This lizard spent the day lurking on the branch above a nest. The next morning there were shattered egg shells on the ground under the tree. The end of his incredibly long tail isn't visible in the photo.
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