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Wild and Woolly: An elephant and his sheep
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 3, 2014, 4:30 pm
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Horsing Around
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 16, 2014, 6:53 pm
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Smart monkeys making monkeys out of scientists
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 8, 2014, 9:03 pm
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Scientists as shields ;D
Samango monkeys in a South African forest spend more time
feeding near the ground when human observers are present. Field
researchers may serve as protection from predators such as
leopards, according to a study published July 10 in Behavioral
Ecology.
Scientists placed buckets of peanuts on the ground and at four
different heights in trees, and measured how much the
monkeys—which were already accustomed to human observers—ate in
the presence or absence of people. When people weren’t watching,
the monkeys demonstrated a “vertical axis of fear”—they foraged
more at greater heights, presumably in an effort to avoid
predation. But the presence of researchers skewed this axis,
causing the monkeys to forage more evenly among the different
heights.
Human observation had little effect on the animals’ feeding at
higher levels, probably because humans do not lessen the threat
of eagles and other canopy predators. The authors noted that
their results are an important reminder that the behavior of
“habituated” animals may be markedly impacted by the presence of
humans.
“If observer presence can alter the way in which animals forage
and use space, this has obvious implications for observer-led
studies of vigilance, trade-offs and predator-prey
interactions,” study leader Katarzyna Nowak, a junior fellow at
Durham University, told Mongabay.
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Agelbert NOTE: Once again Homo SAP Scientists continue to be
"surprised" by the "adaptive behavior" ::) (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS
INTELLIGENCE ) of other life forms.
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When Yawning is NOT a boring sunject
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 8, 2014, 9:57 pm
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Ancestral empathy
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Mammals aren't the only animals that YAWN!
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> [b]Contagious yawning may be an indicator of deep-rooted
empathy among certain mammals. Observations of a wolf pack in a
Tokyo zoo revealed that wolves, like humans and other primates,
yawn in response to one another. The results were published last
month (August 29) in PLOS ONE.
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> The same University of Tokyo team previously showed that
domestic dogs yawn in response to their owners’ yawns, but it
was unclear whether this was a result of adaptation to living
with humans or selective breeding by humans of particularly
sensitive dogs.
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> “The wolf study indicates that the previous findings in dogs
relate to general mammalian empathy,” Emory University’s Frans
de Waal, who was not involved in the study, told Wired. “If
wolves show the same reactions amongst themselves, this confirms
the idea that basic empathy is a mammalian characteristic, found
in animals from mice to elephants.”
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> Interestingly,
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could see one another yawn, and were correlated with the
strength of social bonds. Females were more likely to yawn
contagiously than males, consistent with evidence that females
are more acutely attuned to social cues.
[color=blue][size=14pt]The precise meaning of the yawn itself,
however, continues to elude scientists.
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Agelbert NOTE: That last paragraph had quite a bit of "No s h I
t, Sherlock" logic in it. ;D Consider that when a wolf CANNOT
see another wolf it's kinda HARD for a facial gesture of ANY
kind to be "contagious". LOL! And no smarty pants comments
allowed saying wolf howling is "contagious"!
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Well,
okay, if wolves make a weird and specific NOISE when they yawn,
I'll give you some points WHEN YOU SHOW ME A VIDEO OF THE SOUND
A WOLF MAKES WHEN IT YAWNS! So there!
Also, EVERYBODY I know considers it a no brainer that females
ALWAYS act bored around males of any mammalian species. It's
part of their "we are not impressed with you males" technique!
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And, OF COURSE, please understand what science speak for "the
meaning of the yawn itself eluding scientists" MEANS.
That Is, ahem, they have NOT figured out a way to fit it into
the "Evolutionary Advantage Trait" Procrustian bed! The
Darwinian Religion and the priesthood DOES NOT allow any
departures from DOGMA!
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Re: Intelligence
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 4, 2014, 7:50 pm
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“I Must Free His Leg”: Raccoon’s Only Hope is Brave Rescuer
by Laura Simpson
October 3, 2014
Editor’s note: This post is a Care2 favorite. It was originally
published on December 2, 2011. Enjoy!
Written by Laurie Raymond of Colorado
Many years ago, I was the shelter director at PAWS of Lynnwood,
Washington. This organization had a dog and cat shelter, an
advocacy department and a wildlife clinic. We also rotated
night and holiday rescue coverage for both domestic and wild
critters who got into trouble outside of regular business hours.
One fall evening when I was on call, a woman phoned from a pay
phone near a trail head where she and her 9-year-old son had
been hiking. They had come upon a raccoon caught in a leghold
trap in a creek and didn’t begin to know how to get him out.
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This Wasn’t Going to Be Easy
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I sighed to myself. Years of dealing with raccoons have given
me a healthy respect for them, and I recalled many instances of
their formidable fierceness. :o I asked the woman if she and
her son would wait for me and lead me back to the animal, and
help me release him if I couldn’t get hold of a colleague to
assist. They assured me they would wait, and of course I was
unable to round up anyone from our staff to go with me. It was
almost dark when we all trooped back up the trail to the animal.
He was huge! I had brought with me a snare pole, some first
aid supplies and a plastic carrier for taking him back to the
clinic for treatment, since these traps often cause terrible
damage. One look told me this guy would never fit inside that
carrier!
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I don't have a photo from that night, but he was huge. :o
I spoke to the raccoon, telling him what I intended and how I
was going to release him, and he watched me closely but didn’t
give away his thoughts.[/I]
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/>He seemed calm, but whether from trust or shock I didn’t know.
I worked the loop of the snare around his body and under one
arm, then gently pulled his upper body so that (I hoped) I could
work on his trapped hind leg without him being able to get to
me, and [i]I showed the woman how to hold the pole stable by
bracing it against a snag.
I crossed the creek, approaching the raccoon’s hind end, and set
to work on the trap. The animal made one attempt to pull away,
but then settled stoically.
I Knelt in the Water and Tried to Pry the Trap Open
But the trap was rusty and I wasn’t making progress opening it.
I knelt in the water and used my all-purpose tool to pry at the
jaws, but they were not budging. Suddenly I felt a difference
in tension in the animal’s body and looked up. Imagine my
surprise when I saw his face just inches from mine!
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I looked for the woman who was supposed to be holding the pole
steady. She was 10 feet away on the other bank, and the pole
was lying uselessly in the water. Her son had slipped, she had
dropped the pole to help him, and when the animal moved, she
backed away and was afraid to approach him again.
I looked at the raccoon and he seemed to understand the
situation. I’m sure he had tried with his own hands to free his
leg, because he could easily reach it. I guess he realized I
was his only hope.
Anyway, he made no move to interfere, and I kept at the trap
until I finally was able to spring it.
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The raccoon looked at me,
then at his freed leg. Without moving away, he picked it up in
his hands and examined it carefully, then put it in the water
and moved his foot, and finally his toes.
Then he stood up slowly and just stood there while I released
the snare, walked upstream a couple of feet, and then scuttled
up the bank. There he stopped and gave me a long look I
interpreted as [I] “Thanks, catch you later”
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and
disappeared into the underbrush.
Because I got to watch as he examined and tested his leg, I’m
pretty sure he was OK.
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And I was OK ;D, and I was able to remove the snare (I had
been wondering as I worked how I would manage that, and worrying
whether I could catch up to him, if he took off still attached
to it
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This event was a high point from my years in animal rescue and
even now the memory is vivid and sweet.
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Agelbert NOTE: I'm certain God was involved in this. Raccoons
are very smart but this is atypical behavior for an injured wild
animal.
God wanted to help the raccoon and this good person saving the
raccoon too.
I imagine that when that raccoon was giving his rescuer the
final long and thoughtful look of thanks, he was thinking to
himself (or more likely, herself) the following:
"That's the strangest looking raccoon I've ever seen."
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Re: Intelligence
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 6, 2014, 10:53 pm
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Wild Dolphin seeks diver's help to free itself of restrictive
fishing line and hook in pectoral fin.
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Re: Intelligence
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 6, 2014, 11:23 pm
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Smart PArrot
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Re: Intelligence
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 4, 2014, 5:18 pm
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Compassion is evidence of HIGH intelligence.
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Re: Intelligence
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 4, 2014, 5:26 pm
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Rescue has gone to the dogs!
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;D
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Re: Intelligence
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 4, 2014, 5:31 pm
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Hippo
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rescues wildebeest
and baby zebra from strong currents.
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> This extraordinarily helpful hippo in Tanzania's Mara river
saved both a wildebeest and a baby zebra from being swept away
by the strong currents as they began their migration to the
southern Serengeti. The hippo would position himself downriver
of the animals and nudge them along to the other side. After the
hippo helped the baby zebra make her way to a little river
island, he waited until she made it across safely. Says Tom
Yule, and expedition guide who filmed the ordeal, "The hippo got
out of the water and came up behind the foal and started nudging
it and gently biting it on its backside as if to say, 'Come on
man, don't give up now, you can do it. Just a hop, skip and a
jump and you're there.'"
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