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Nala Billz. Living her best life.

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BillTre said:

I have seen an experiment that showed that they teach their offspring even without an existing example. A biologist showed up in yellow oilskin and annoyed the crows repeatedly. Then they showed up again to the new generation of crows without ever doing anything to them. However, the next generation of crows recognized the biologist as a danger.

They also tested their favorite fast foods in a park in Paris. The crows preferred McDonald's and left other brands untouched. Maybe because there were usually more leftovers, those forgotten fries, who knows?
 
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BillTre said:

Very cool!
One of my cats was heavily into renovation (he was a very curious cat).

He renovated my living room by tearing away floor moldings. :biggrin:
And once he kept my mother awake at night when he was trying to remove the cover to a floor drain in her bathroom. He didn't give up until he succeeded. :biggrin:
 
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Not a picture, but a clip, with sound... unusual sound... and funny.
Have you ever wondered what caterpillars sound like when they feast on leaves?

Find out here (nom nom nom! :smile:):
(recorded with a contact mic)

 
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When I was a kid, I saw a mockingbird do this to a cat.
This mockingbird was known in the neighborhood for aggressively defending areas around it nest.
When it suck up on a cat like this, the cat was so startled it did a back flip!

 
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When I was a kid, I saw a mockingbird do this to a cat.
This mockingbird was known in the neighborhood for aggressively defending areas around it nest.
When it suck up on a cat like this, the cat was so startled it did a back flip!


I saw this Japanese crow that learned to read the traffic lights for pedestrians to crack its nuts through cars and harvest them on a green light for pedestrians. I already knew that they understood the concept of lying which requires empathy. Ever since, they cannot surprise me anymore.
 
Crow story:
Once I was biking home from the university.
Close to home there are a lot of walnut trees which the birds and squirrels like.
They usually wait for car to crush them in the road, but not always.
While I was slowly going down this block, I saw two crows.
One would pick up a walnut and drop it from maybe 30 or 40 feet onto the road to break it.
However, the second crow was trying to get to the broken nut before the one that dropped it.
Therefore the dropper was flying around and scheming in a way that it could get to the nut first in the event that the nut broke.
The walnut was not breaking so they repeated this several times.
 
BillTre said:
Crow story:
Once I was biking home from the university.
Close to home there are a lot of walnut trees which the birds and squirrels like.
They usually wait for car to crush them in the road, but not always.
While I was slowly going down this block, I saw two crows.
One would pick up a walnut and drop it from maybe 30 or 40 feet onto the road to break it.
However, the second crow was trying to get to the broken nut before the one that dropped it.
Therefore the dropper was flying around and scheming in a way that it could get to the nut first in the event that the nut broke.
The walnut was not breaking so they repeated this several times.
 
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The all black stage of coloration is transient. The black breaks up into silver and black stripes.
 
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Bystander said:
Decent, not great, but, decent photo-shop/chop.
The 'thing' has what looks to 5 legs.
AI generated pictures are cropping up here too often.
Nature has its own beauty.
 
Serval cats are so cool :) The little dog, not so much.
 
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There has been a lot of breeding of clown fish since they were frist bred in captivity in the 1970's:

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Birds do fly. (Well, most of them, anyway.)
This one, though, apparently do it differently o0)
 
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The first video is of a North American opossum (also called Virginia opossum) and the second video is of an Australian possum (without the o). They are awfully shy creatures.
 


Its a kind of stork, from Africa.
 
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