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[Rive]

Serious dedication, surprisingly deep knowledge of vibro-compaction and composite materials...
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Also - cute

 

[jtbell]

Following up on my cicada a few posts back, here's a cicada nymph that has emerged from its 17 years underground and is apparently preparing to "hatch" into a mature cicada.

Correction: The "Great Southern Brood" (Brood XIX) emerges every 13 years, not 17.

And the nymph in the picture that I posted had apparently already "hatched". A couple of days later, it looked the same but was definitely an empty husk.

 

[DennisN]

Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica NEVER-BEFORE-FILMED FOR TV | Nat Geo

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[dwarde]

The rabbit gets pushy about 24 seconds in.

 

[BillTre]

The big gulp:

 

[berkeman]

Daad! Lemme go!

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[symbolipoint]

I would take that name and guess that what we commonly see may be called "Green Scarab Beetle"? They appear the same except for color. I am only guessing about the name. (BillTre 's #2712 post)

 

[berkeman]

Oops...

 

[BillTre]

My daughter had a job for a while putting out camera traps looking at logs across streams to survey wildlife populations. However, never got one as cool as this.

 

[Ibix]

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Yeah. The optical design software I trained with had a setting that would optimise for designs that were resistant to mis-alignment (it preferred wide peaks in the merit function when optimising, basically). The guy who taught the course described it as the "binoculars for squaddies" setting. I reckon "lion resistant cameras" might be a better phrase, though.

 

[Flyboy]

The Toad Council has decided that they do not like me…

 

[dwarde]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

Here's a very detaled little internal piece of an animal, a large pyramidal cell from a cortical area:

These are involved in making things go behaviorally.

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Swamp Thing]

 

[symbolipoint]

If that about the fish navigating is true, must we stop easting fish?

 

[BillTre]

 

[renormalize]

If that about the fish navigating is true, must we stop easting fish?

We should definitely skip fish who are navigating and only east those who are at west.

 

[symbolipoint]

We should definitely skip fish who are navigating and only east those who are at west.

These remarks I made about the goldfish learning to navigate are because they seem to be more intelligent than we may have given them credit for being, and that maybe such animals should not be eaten, because of ethics in how we should treat intelligent and sensitive animals.

 

[BillTre]

These remarks I made about the goldfish learning to navigate are because they seem to be more intelligent than we may have given them credit for being, and that maybe such animals should not be eaten, because of ethics in how we should treat intelligent and sensitive animals.

What about salmon? They navigate.
Navigation is a general animal ability. The goldfish is just doing it in an unlikely manner.

 

[fresh_42]

What about salmon? They navigate.
Navigation is a general animal ability. The goldfish is just doing it in an unlikely manner.

Two species occur on everybody's dinner card whether they navigate or not: fish and mice. If you're a fish or a mouse then you've drawn the *** card as we say here. (Probably because football referees usually have the red card that sends players off the pitch in their back pockets.)

 

[symbolipoint]

What about salmon? They navigate.
Navigation is a general animal ability. The goldfish is just doing it in an unlikely manner.

Could they learn to do so if in a fish bowl equipped with the kind of technology that the gold fish were using in the video? If so, then, I would become very poorly justified to eat salmon.

 

[BillTre]

They probably could. Goldfish are not considered the smartest of fish.

Furthermore I would expect all domesticated mammals would be able to do similar things.

Even furthermore I would expect most animals that move around in their environment would have an internal map (in their nervous system) on their outside world that would allow them to navigate their surrounding in an adaptive manner. (where adaptive means functionally advantageous to them).

 

[berkeman]

 

[dwarde]

Dog and goose confrontation at the park.

 

[Flyboy]

This little guy decided to crash land in the middle of the parking lot at work… so I relocated him somewhere safer.

 

[jtbell]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Borg]

Why am I not surprised there's something like that in Australia?

Yo jaws, you talkin to me?

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[fresh_42]

The sign says: Be careful! The stork is stealing hot dogs!

 

[berkeman]

Too funny...

 

[fresh_42]

 

[berkeman]

This is one talented dog!

 

[berkeman]

 

[fresh_42]

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A friend of mine has put it this way: "Imagine what they [dogs] have given up [evolutionary]!"

We haven't deserved them.

 

[BillTre]

Humans provided a new niche for wolves to slip into.
To fully take advantage of this new niche, mutant wolves were selected that got along better with and were more useful to people and they gradually became dogs.
Could they return to and thrive in their original environment? Some dogs can go feral, many probably can't.
That's what they "gave up" evolutionarially, but they have drastically expanded the niches they could utilize and have even gone to space.
Similar things could be said of our gut bacteria., but they changed less.

 

[Rive]

A friend of mine has put it this way: "Imagine what they [dogs] have given up [evolutionary]!"

Very romantic, but the truth is, that what they 'gave up' was apparently almost-extinction.

Does anybody knows what was the ancestors of chickens?
What did they 'gave up'?

 

[fresh_42]

 

[symbolipoint]

There are other videos like that showing a dog with a long stick it cannot move through a passageway. Nice smart dogs but just do not understand to change the angle. It makes one wonder if a wolf could do it.