Meat Is MurderYou really are that stupid, aren't you? Weigh your remarks against the thoughtfulness of Bonk's self-deprecating remarks and the remarks of others in this thread and see if you think you've made a useful contribution here.
tasty, tasty, murder
Meat Is MurderYou really are that stupid, aren't you? Weigh your remarks against the thoughtfulness of Bonk's self-deprecating remarks and the remarks of others in this thread and see if you think you've made a useful contribution here.
tasty, tasty, murder
Meat Is MurderYou really are that stupid, aren't you? Weigh your remarks against the thoughtfulness of Bonk's self-deprecating remarks and the remarks of others in this thread and see if you think you've made a useful contribution here.
tasty, tasty, murder
However, weighing in on the topic at hand, Toasty's comment was remarkably thoughtless and provoking.
While I agree that personal attacks are not needed, stirring the pot comments such as these are not needed either.
Consider yourself warned as well, Toasty.
I honestly wonder sometimes why I haven't just re-banned you.
Regards,
However, weighing in on the topic at hand, Toasty's comment was remarkably thoughtless and provoking.
While I agree that personal attacks are not needed, stirring the pot comments such as these are not needed either.
Consider yourself warned as well, Toasty.
I honestly wonder sometimes why I haven't just re-banned you.
Regards,
"In England, a law was recently introduced making it illegal to sell anything but free-range chickens in grocery stores. The entire industry has had to change. But it took years of consumer pressure to move the government’s hand."
They have also compiled a list of the most intelligent and least intelligent breeds using information from obedience classes. Border collies and retrievers were rated among the most intelligent while hounds and terriers were the least bright.
"The average dog is about as bright linguistically as a human two-year-old," said Professor Stanley Coren, a leading expert on canine intelligence at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver who has carried out the work.
"This means they can understand about 165 words, signs and signals. Those in the top 20 per cent were able to understand as many as 250 words and signals, which is about the same as a two and a half year old.
Excellent! Another 50 words I'll make the top 20%.
Yes I can. Yes I can. Yes I can...
The scientists' findings push back the origins of culturally transmitted behavior to 14 million years ago, when orangutans first evolved from their more primitive primate ancestors. Previous evidence for cultural transmission in chimpanzees suggested an origin of cultural traits 7 million years ago.
In an article in the Jan. 3, 2003, Science, the scientists presented evidence for cultural transmission of 24 behaviors. These include:
-- using leaves as protective gloves or napkins;
-- using sticks to poke into tree holes to obtain insects, to extract seeds from fruit or to scratch body parts;
-- using leafy branches to swat insects or gather water;
-- "snag-riding," the orangutan equivalent of a sport in which the animals ride falling dead trees, grabbing vegetation before the tree hits the ground;
-- emitting sounds such as "raspberries," or "kiss-squeaks," in which leaves or hands are used to amplify the sound;
-- building sun covers for nests or, during rain, bunk nests above the nests used for resting.
For instance, they found that while orangutans on one side of a barrier river used tools on the fruit, those on the other did not
"However, we saw that habitat did not have a significant impact on similarity of these behaviors," said van Schaik. "And our confidence that we were seeing cultural transmission was increased by analyses showing that proximate sites showed more behavioral similarity than distant sites.
More and more animals have been observed to make limited use of tools.
There are two things that I don't believe animals have been observed to do with tools:
1/ Keeping and maintaining a tool for future use.
2/ Making tools specifically for the purpose of making other tools in the future.
don't forget about the ants that are farmers. The leaf cutter ants, they cut leaves and bring them back to the nest. They then grow fungii on the leaves.
Ants as a collective are awesome, but no, I wouldn't say that their nest is a tool for condition 2.
Only Crows and Humans can recognise that a reflection in a mirror is themselves.
Only Crows and Humans can recognise that a reflection in a mirror is themselves.
This is true of elephants as well.
Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, joining only humans, apes and dolphins as animals that possess this kind of self-awareness, researchers now report.
Interesting Nem.
BTW, Haven't seen you for a few days man, all ok?
Stephen
For instance an average Hawk processes images, from the eye, at over 25 frames per second. By comparison, we process at 4 per second. A Hawk can see the flicker in a TV screen or cinema projection, a Human sees no such flicker.
The avian brain doesn't have to deal with a sense of smell.... birds can't smell at all.
This does free up a lot of brain runtime for visual processing.... birds have a far superiour and faster image processing rate than humans and other mammals.
(george Bush scored 81 in his National Guard IQ test!!).
October 24, 2004
POLITICAL POINTS
Secret Weapon for Bush?
By JOHN TIERNEY
To Bush-bashers, it may be the most infuriating revelation yet from the military records of the two presidential candidates: the young George W. Bush probably had a higher I.Q. than did the young John Kerry.
That, at least, is the conclusion of Steve Sailer, a conservative columnist at the Web magazine Vdare.com and a veteran student of presidential I.Q.'s. During the last presidential campaign Mr. Sailer estimated from Mr. Bush's SAT score (1206) that his I.Q. was in the mid-120's, about 10 points lower than Al Gore's.
Mr. Kerry's SAT score is not known, but now Mr. Sailer has done a comparison of the intelligence tests in the candidates' military records. They are not formal I.Q. tests, but Mr. Sailer says they are similar enough to make reasonable extrapolations.
Mr. Bush's score on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test at age 22 again suggests that his I.Q was the mid-120's, putting Mr. Bush in about the 95th percentile of the population, according to Mr. Sailer. Mr. Kerry's I.Q. was about 120, in the 91st percentile, according to Mr. Sailer's extrapolation of his score at age 22 on the Navy Officer Qualification Test.
Linda Gottfredson, an I.Q. expert at the University of Delaware, called it a creditable analysis said she was not surprised at the results or that so many people had assumed that Mr. Kerry was smarter. "People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can't understand," Professor Gottfredson said.
Many Americans still believe a report that began circulating on the Internet three years ago, and was quoted in "Doonesbury," that Mr. Bush's I.Q. was 91, the lowest of any modern American president. But that report from the non-existent Lovenstein Institute turned out to be a hoax.
You might expect Kerry campaign officials, who have worried that their candidate's intellectual image turns off voters, to quickly rush out a commercial trumpeting these new results, but for some reason they seem to be resisting the temptation.
Upon hearing of their candidate's score, Michael Meehan, a spokesman for the senator, said merely: "The true test is not where you start out in life, but what you do with those God-given talents. John Kerry's 40 years of public service puts him in the top percentile on that measure."
Facts About Crows
* Crows are found on every continent except Antarctica.
* Crows have an exceptional ability to remember and pick a single human face out of a crowd.
* Crows are far more likely to be found living close to cities and suburbs than out in the country.
* Each generation of crows is capable of building on an earlier generation's knowledge.
* New Caledonian crows are one of only three species, besides human, in the world capable of making tools.
* Crows live with a mated pair, their kids, and offspring from previous years in an extended family.
* Crows have different warning calls - one for cats, and one for hawks, and another for humans - 250 in all.
* Crows are omnivores and eat fruits, vegetables and meat.
A Murder of Crows
A rare and intimate glimpse into the inner life of one of the most intelligent, playful and mischievous species on the planet.