I was aware that they are filter feeders but I didn’t know if they would spit out foreign objects. Good to know that they would though…phew.
Slight deviation but check this out - http://www.ted.com/talks/a_robot_that_flies_like_a_bird.html?awesm=on.ted.com_Festo&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=on.ted.com-static&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet
Now they just need to make dinosaurs and a theme park.
nothing scares me more than carnivorous plants.
They’re stationary, small, and take months to digest anything. What’s there to be scared of?
I know the feeling. This picture nicely sums up my feeling about oceans and what might be in them. I think my problem stems from a movie I saw when I was a kid. Some teens were swimming in Loch Ness (which you could not get me to even wade waist-deep into) at night (!?!) and one of them ended up alone, and Nessie reared out of the water, and ate him. Most of him, anyway. His friends bumped into the remains (legs) and hauled ass. Ever since that movie…no frickin’ way I’m going near any body of salt water more than 20 feet deep. On that note, I went crabbing this morning at a downtown sea wall. Caught 10 of the biggest ones I could find…and saw a damn 10+ foot wide stingray cruising right beside the wall. It blended in so well when it stopped that it was one of those “You’ll shit when you see it” moments. Some chick’s boyfriend was all “What? I don’t see anything!”…until it flapped once and started moving again. Homeboy took a big step back after that.
Yo this thread is awesome.
In regards as to which animal travels farthest: When it comes to which animals can run the farthest without stopping, apparently the record goes to humans for the simple fact that we run marathons (26 miles). I guess even though animals will migrate hundreds of miles, they sure as heck don’t run the whole thing. I’m pretty sure there are quite a few animals that can run more than 26 miles but I guess from a survival point of view that isn’t very smart…
Anthropologists believe ancient man hunted faster game the same way wild dogs did, which was to chase it for miles until it was too exhausted to run or died of overheating. I wonder how they kept hydrated though?
I still remember this story. Its enough to put anyone off swimming for life especially if you’d witnessed it first hand, but white people are hardcore. When the beach was opened up to the general public a few days after the attack people were out on the beach swimming and surfing like nothing had happended.
I’m starting a pictures series called DUPED!!
These are pictures of unsuspecting birds that have had their eggs switched with the eggs of predators, and having to face the burden of raising another birds offspring. Its funny because its brutally obvious that the birds are of no relation. Are birds really this dumb?
[SIZE=4]1. reed warbler attempts to feed huge cuckoo chick she thinks is her own[/SIZE]
the baby cuckoo is the larger bird on the left.
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I question that
there’s a group of cats that live nearby me. I’ve befriended all of them. 3 adults (1 female 2 male) and 3 uh… roughly teenage kittens (all male). 2 of the kittens belong to the mother cat. the third kitten is just something that wandered in from somewhere and started feeding off the mother. at first, she realized that he’s not one of her children and even shows her dislike for him and sniffed him repeatedly… but she still let him feed. later, she even started grooming him. to her, he’s one of the family now. even though she still has a slight dislike for him.
birds are supposed to be a really smart animal. smart like they can recognize faces and solve logic puzzles. I doubt that the bird is CLUELESS. i think it just raises the child cause… what else is it gonna do? look up Legadema if you don’t agree
some of these birds even raise predators that are known to hunt and kill their species. i doubt theyd do this just because they have nothing else to do.
you’re assuming that a bird is thinking “Errr, this thing is gonna kill me when it grows up… better let it starve”
when I said “what else is it gonna do?” i didn’t mean to say that it raises them cause it’s bored
I don’t think all birds are that intelligent. Crows and Parrots or something, maybe.
The thing is at the end of the day these are animals we’re talking about not people. In the example of the cats you gave you’re projecting human characteristics and emotions onto them but in the end it’s probably a matter of a random kitten showing up during the time when the mother cat was in “take care of young” mode. Heck it could be a roll of the dice and she could have killed it just that easily.
she certainly didn’t seem to be complaining when it fed on her in her sleep
i wasn’t projecting human characteristics on them. she actually does dislike him. she STILL dislikes him (though does not attack him very much now). i base this on her slapping the shit out of him whenever she was awake and he came near her. she also sniffed him in the past to identify him and would usually slap him right afterwards. she’s pinned down her own children in growling fits of rage, but that white kitten is the only kitten she’s attacked repeatedly. I’m pretty sure that’s not just some cat form of tough love.
by the way, one of the main reasons I mentioned cats is because as smart as people like to claim they are, they’re really not very smart at all. birds on the other hand have random mental buffs throughout the entire group if i’m not mistaken. to me that says that if even a fucking cat can identify when a child’s not theirs, a bird should know
Ok,cats felines, are pretty much all moronic. But cats will raise kittens that are not theirs, and even other animals and then eat them.
Some birds, crows being a huge one, are debtable as smarts as dolphins and chimps in some aspects, it’s scary actually. But a large majority of them are about as smart as your average dog.
Thing is, you can trick almost any female animal into taking over via mother instinct, most males will kill given the slightest chance.
It’s also worth nothing that intelligence is not a predictor of logical or rational behavior in any state or form. Some people and creatures intelligence tend to be complete logical (in human terms these are sociopaths with no empathy or emotion) in other cases they tend to be extremely caring and emotional (these are humanists in human terms) so you can’t just blanketly say “a completely logical approach means smarter” not the case.
A raven has been found to be self-aware (recognizes itself in a mirror), which is interesting because ravens aren’t normally self-aware. So consciousness grew out of a single member within a species and not the entire species. I wonder if our cognizance arose out of a single ancestor used this new ability to achieve great advancements and reproductive success beyond his peers.
Crows, ravens, and magpies as a whole are self aware. So are several types of parrot and a couple raptors.
We came to be because our muscles fire off differently than other primates. So tool making tool priority as did social skills over pure strength, and thus we advanced on witts and not raw power. Which is why apes, for all their dexterity, are still clumsy yet several times stronger than us. But can do sign language and udnerstand most communications, so can dolphins with the right interface and to an extent crows.
A lot of animals aren’t dumb by any stretch, they just lack our ability to focus on fine details and thus learn, they make up for that in raw power.
Man, I don’t know what would be worse - torn in half by sharks or death-spun by crocodiles… ughhh
she was asleep?.. where was the father in all this?
cats are an entirely different issue. like lions, male cats are known to kill off the offspring of other females before mating with them. this is because however young the cubs/kittens are they will eventually realise at some point that their adoptive father isnt biologically there’s, how they find out i dont know but when this realisation kicks in the son will attemp to kill the father.
Damn that’s some hardcore shit. Do other animals do this too?
my point is i dont think its thinking.
