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Comment by doone on April 23, 2012 at 5:54pm

Giraffe & Peacock

Apr. 23, 2012

Comment by doone on April 23, 2012 at 1:04pm

 

Comment by doone on April 23, 2012 at 7:54am

Love You, Numbats!

Comment by doone on April 22, 2012 at 9:44pm

Mountain Palm Canyon, Anza Borrego Desert, Califronia

Apr. 22, 2012

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 21, 2012 at 6:39pm

Thanks Hope. I glanced at that list. Don't agree with all of it though.

Doone, looks like I double posted the raven story as a discussion.

Comment by Hope on April 21, 2012 at 10:27am

8 Humanlike Behaviors of Primates

-Our Ape Ancestors

While we lost most of our body hair and bulked up our brains, humans are evolutionarily close to other great apes, with about 97 percent of our genes DNA matching up. Beyond looks, researchers have found a startling number of humanlike behaviors practiced by our ape ancestors.

-Say 'No'

Bonobos at the Leipzig Zoo were filmed shaking their heads "no" in disapproval in order to get infants to stop playing with their food (instead of eating it) or to keep an infant from straying. In one instance, a mother retrieved her baby bonobo from an attempt to climb a nearby tree. The infant made continual efforts to scale the tree, with Mom bringing her back each time. The final attempt ended with the mama pulling her infant by the leg and shaking her head while looking at the baby.

-While the researchers aren't sure whether the bonobos really mean "no" in their head shakes, the results do hint the behavior may be an early precursor to negative head-shaking gestures in humans, according to study researcher Christel Schneider of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. [Video – Bonobos Make Love – Chimps Make War]

No means "no," for other primates too. "At the Arnhem Zoo, we had a female chimpanzee who would shake her head to say 'no.' For example, when an infant was ready to approach a male in a bad mood, the female would shake her head at the infant," Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University, told LiveScience.

http://www.livescience.com/15309-humanlike-behaviors-primates.html

Comment by doone on April 21, 2012 at 10:26am

Something Tells Me He Knows What He’s Talking About

Apr. 20, 2012

Comment by doone on April 21, 2012 at 10:20am

Ravens Remember You…

Apr. 21, 2012

When you go outside, do the birds sound happy or angry when they see you? New research has found that at least one group of birds, ravens, remembers prior interactions with people and varies calls based on those earlier experiences.

Comment by Chris on April 20, 2012 at 6:30pm

I saw chickens and roosters with blackened feet and before I heard that comment about frostbite I thought that some birds skin was just darker than other birds. I was shown birds that had patches of skin that were healing and was told the sores was caused by frost bite. It got to -20℉ for prolonged periods. I used infra red heat lamps in the coup to help keep them warm and covered the sides when it was cold - especially when it was also windy. I don't recall what the chicken books I read said about it.

Comment by Dallas (on hiatus) on April 20, 2012 at 11:45am

Those are interesting questions Chris, but I don't know the answer. As far as them sitting on their feet to keep them warm, perhaps so, but that could be just an assumption. It may appear to be that way, but they'd have to sit on their feet no matter what. We can't expect them to stand all the time, right? So when they sit or sleep, of course their feet are tucked beneath them. That doesn't mean they do it for any particular reason.

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