The Bird:
Common Name - Hawaiian Crow
Hawaiian Name - 'Alala
Scientific Name -
Corvus hawaiiensisConservation Status - Extinct in the Wild
Physical Description - While called a crow, the Alala tends to resemble the raven more than the common or carrion crow. The plummage is a dark ashen brown-black, the brown most noticably on the primaries. Its bill is thick, like that of a ravens, and has small feathers covering the nostrils. A ruff is present around the throat area, and can be distended, which is called bearding. The feet, bill and legs are completely black as well. Wing and tail feathers are rounded in comparison to other corvids. Eyes are blue as youngsters, but eventually become a dark brown as adults.
Death:
"Self-harm has traditionally been known as self-injury (SI), self-inflicted violence (SIV), self-injurious behavior (SIB), and self-mutilation, although this last term has connotations that some people find worrisome, inaccurate, or offensive. However, a broader definition can also include the phenomenon of those who inflict harm on their bodies by means of disordered eating, or compulsive tattooing or body piercing. When discussing self-harm with someone who engages in it, it is suggested to use the same terms and words which that person uses, e.g. "cutting". Self-harm is usually dissociated from an attempt at suicide; the person who self-harms is not usually seeking to end his or her own life, but is instead hoping to cope with or relieve unbearable emotional pressure or some kind of discomfort.
A common form of self-injury involves making shallow cuts to the skin of the arms or legs, and this is casually referred to as "cutting"; a person who routinely does this may be colloquially referred to as "a cutter". Localized multiple cuts, especially those similar in appearance, are sometimes characteristic of cutting, but are not reliable indicators of self-harm. Less frequently, this behaviour may involve cutting other parts of the body, including the breasts and sexual organs. Other examples include:
Punching, hitting and scratching
Self-biting: hands, limbs, tongue, lip, arms
Picking: wounds, ulceration, sutures or blemishes
Burning: cigarette burns, self-incendiarism
Insertion damage: wire, pins, nails, pens etc.
Ingestion damage: swallowing corrosive chemicals, batteries, pins etc.
Some people also report self-poisoning as a form of repetitive self-harm with no suicidal intent.
A popular misconception of self-harm is that it is an attention seeking behavior. In truth, many people who self-harm are very self-conscious of their wounds and scars and go to great lengths to conceal their behavior from others. They may offer alternative explanations for their injuries or conceal their scars with clothing.
In the strictest terms, self-harm is a general term for self-damaging activities (which could include alcohol abuse and bulimia), whereas self-injury refers more specifically to the practice of cutting, bruising, self poisoning, over-dosing (without suicidal intent), burning or otherwise directly injuring the body. Many people, including health-care workers, define self-harm based around the act of damaging one's own body. It may be more accurate to define self-harm based around the intent, and the emotional distress that the person wishes to deal with. An example of this form of definition can be seen in those provided by the support group LifeSIGNS.
Neither the DSM-IV-TV or the ICD-10 provide diagnostic criteria for self-harm and it is often seen as only a symptom of an underlying disorder though many people who self-harm would like this to be addressed."
- Quoted from the Wikipedia.org entry
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