We pride that we are the most intelligent beings on the Earth.
Look how a Frog turns a leaf into an umbrella to shelter it from Rains!
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Source,Huffingtonpost.
Category: animal behavior
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How A Frog Fights Rain
Penkdix Palme, a 27-year-old photographer from Indonesia, found this intelligent little tree frog in his neighbor’s garden, SWNS reported. Palme, who took up photography just six months ago, said the frog stayed under its leaf-umbrella for an entire 30 minutes.
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Dog Loses Face Saving Girls, Grieving Monkeys
Think of selfless devotion, this is it.
A dog saved the lives of two girls, in the process lost part of its face.
Dog has her face set right after it lost part of it. We , Human Beings, take pride on the assumption, wrong though in my opinion, that animals do not have the much touted Reason as we do( Science is discovering that animals do possess a remarkable level of Reasoning ability), I am not sure whether we wold have done what this Dog has done.
I have another point on Animals to make,I am posting it towards the end of this story.
Story: Scroll down for Video.
The Philippine dog that lost half her face saving the lives of two girls returned home Saturday after treatment in the United States.
Filipino veterinarian Anton Lim who accompanied the dog — named Kabang — said the mixed-breed whose snout and upper jaw had been sheared off was treated at the University of California, Davis, veterinary hospital for seven months with $27,000 in donations raised in the Philippines and abroad.
Kabang suffered the injuries in December 2011 when she jumped into the path of a motorcycle, stopping it from running over her owner’s daughter and niece in southern Zamboanga city.
UC Davis veterinary Professor Frank Verstraete said doctors at the hospital performed surgery to heal her wounds, though they could not reconstruct Kabang’s jaw or snout.
Doctors had to first treat her for other ailments, including a tumor and heartworm, to ensure her wounds would heal. They took skin from her cheeks, neck, and forehead to cover up sensitive areas that were exposed on her face during surgery in March, Verstraete said.
Kabang won widespread sympathy because of her injuries from what has been described as a heroic act. A nurse from Buffalo, New York, spearheaded a fund-raising campaign to bring Kabang to the United States because Philippine veterinaries could not treat her.
Sometime back, I saw a group of Moneys grieving over a dead child monkey.
A child Monkey dies trying to jump around.
As it did not wake up, the mother tries to wake her up….you should see the agony in her face.
Group of Monkeys watching from a distance slowly come near, share the grief nd keep a Vigil.
So moving that It brought tears into my eyes!
More Human than Us!
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Mind Controlled Zombie Ants
Nature is strange.
It acts in ways that bedevils understanding.
While Science dabbles with Mind Control Telepathy ans declares them to be not Scientific, calls these phenomena as Para normal (Hinduism has no description as para normal, for them every thing is Normal in Nature),Scientists have discovered Fungi controlling the Minds of Ants !
Credit: David P HughesIn two sites in the Brazilian rain forest, researchers identified four new species of brain-controlling fungal parasites. These fungi infect carpenter ants and turn them into zombies, directing them to leave their colonies and die in places where the fungi can grow and spread. The zombifying fungus can be seen growing from the top of this dead ant’s head.
Zombie ‘Carpenter Ants. 
Fungi controlled Ants. 
How Fungi controlled Ant bites another Ant! Source:
http://www.livescience.com/13045-zombie-ants-fungi-photo-gallery.html
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Ant With Eye-patch!
Scientists have discovered a strangely patterned new insect in the Philippines, dubbing it the “pirate ant” because of a dark stripe over its eyes that makes it look like it’s wearing an eye patch.
The unique stripe over the pirate ant’s eye gives the impression of an eye-patch. / BERNHARD SEIFERT/LIVESCIENCE.COM The formal name of the newfound creature is Cardiocondyla pirata, and belongs to a group of species that are found from Thailand across the whole Indonesian-Malaysian region.
“On a collection trip to the Philippines we looked for different species of the genus Cardiocondyla that is known for its astonishing morphological and behavioral diversity of male ants,” Sabine Frohschammer, a doctoral student at Germany‘s Universitat Regensburg, said in a statement.
Frohschammer and colleagues picked up some already known species, but then found an unidentifiable one lurking between big stones in a shady streambed.
“Due to the darkness of the rain forest and the translucent body parts of the tiny ants they were nearly invisible,” the researchers said. “Under bright light and a magnifier we detected the nice stripe across the eyes and therefore always referred to these species as ‘the pirates.’”
The purpose of this ribbon of pigment on the mostly pigment-free pirate ants remains a mystery, the researchers say, especially since it has not been seen on any other creature of its kind. Pirate ants mate in the dark, and they have poor sight, relying mostly on chemical and tactile recognition cues, not visual ones, for communicating with other individuals in their species. That characteristic eliminates the possibility that the “eye patch” could serve as some sort of sexual signpost, the researchers say.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57585747/weird-pirate-ant-comes-with-an-eye-patch/
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Orangutan Fishes With A Spear
We call ourselves the most evolved of the Species with an ability to do things and can handle tools.
But an Orangutan is found fishing with a Spear after watching local Fishermen!
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Tool use among orangutans was first documented by Carel van Schaik. In 1994, Carel observed orangutans developing tools to help themselves eat, while conducting field work in Gunung Leuser National Park, in the northwest Sumatra.
Orangutan Fishes with Spear. Specifically the orangutans were using sticks to pry open pulpy fruits that have “Plexiglas needles” capable of delivering a painful jab covering them. Using the tools, the orangutans were getting past handling the prickly husk and into the nutritious fruit. From an anthropological viewpoint, tool use represents an aspect of culture, since the entire group participates in a behavior that has developed over time. One unique thing to clarify is that only Sumatran orangutans have been observed to use tools, not orangutans from Borneo…
Recently, Gerd Schuster co-author of Thinkers of the Jungle: The Orangutan Report, took this photograph of,
“a male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish…
The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja…
This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.
Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines.”
http://primatology.net/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/
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