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Some humans may be willing to travel far for fine dining, but that’s nothing compared to a sooty shearwater: these birds, which are based in New Zealand, fly roughly 40,000 miles each year to reach their seasonal feeding grounds along coastal California, Alaska, and Japan–and some even clock 620 miles in a single day.
Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color-codes the various legs of their trek: light-blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return. And if you look closer, as the bottom panels reveal, the journeys to the three breeding grounds have one major thing in common: they form figure-eight patterns on a global scale. Unfortunately, as monitoring efforts continue, we may see these pretty patterns cut short: warming temperatures could deplete phytoplankton populations, which means less fish, squid, and krill for the birds to feast on, and could affect whether sooty shearwaters have enough energy to make it back to their New Zealand breeding grounds.
Elephant Attack In Mysore has been fatal. Two wild elephants have entered the Bamboo Bazaar area of Mysore city in Karnataka, and have trampled a security guard to death. Forest guards and Mysore zoo authorities have been contacted and the smaller of the two elephants has been injected with a tranquilizer.
Circling the Web this week is an incredible video showing Valerie Taylor, a world-renowned shark expert, hand-feeding a great white shark off the side of a boat. After placing a fish into the fearsome creature’s mouth, she even leans down and pats it on the nose.
“I think the shark and I had an understanding,” Taylor says in a voiceover of the footage, which aired in a TV documentary called “Shadow of the Shark.” “This one, I had a feeling for.”
Great white sharks, according to Yannis Papastamatiou, a research biologist in the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History, are intelligent and good learners. Despite the great white’s reputation as a vicious hunter, like many wild animals, with enough practice and patience (and fish), researchers can condition them to take handouts from research vessels. It isn’t unheard of, Papastamatiou said, for researchers to hand-feed them.
But it was certainly an ‘incredible journey’ for Mason, the plucky pup who crawled home on two broken legs after a tornado tossed him up and left him for dead.
The scrappy dog had been hiding in a garage in North Smithfield, Alabama, when the storm hit on April 27.
It whipped through the community, destroying houses and uprooting trees, but when it had passed Mason was nowhere to be seen.
His family had all but given up hope when two weeks later they returned home to sift through belongings only to find the dog on their doorstep.
Bacteria,Grass/Plant Life,those that crawl,Animals,Human Beings,Highly evolved Human Beings(Devas),Asuras,Yakshaas,Kinnaras,Kimpurudas,Gandharvas,Nagas.
However each of them has Consciousness,but the ability to identify Consciousness is less pronounced in them than human beings.
Discriminating powers in their own realm of operations is as good or as bad as that of Human beings.
The difference between the beings is one of degree and not of kind.
The ability to interact with each other is limited because of their realm of Existence in Time and Space.
Please read my blog on ‘Time-a non-linear theory.
In the final analysis every thing in the world is Attributeless Reality which appears to have names and forms.
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The Nazis were sentimental enthusiasts who were really fond of animals and liked the idea that dogs were intelligent and could communicate with people,” Bondeson told AOL Weird news.
Under trainer Margarethe Schmitt’s direction, the institute trained dogs such as Rolf the Airedale terrier, who was said to be able to discuss religion, contemplate complex mathematics and communicate with humans by tapping out an alphabet code using his paw.
Another dog, Kurwenal, supposedly cracked jokes like a comedian and was a symbol of the educated canines of Germany.
But Hitler’s presumable pick of the litter was a pooch named Don, who apparently barked “Mein Fuhrer” when asked who Adolf Hitler was…..
“There were some very strange experiments going on in wartimeGermany with regard to the dog-human communication,” Bondeson told the Daily Telegraph.
“Hitler was himself interested in the prospect of using educated dogs in the war effort, and he advised representatives of the German army to study their usefulness in the field,” he continued.
According to the report, one of the dogs speculated about religion, learned foreign languages and wrote poetry.
The dog school was based in Leutenburg and was led by headmistress Margarethe Schmitt. The school continued throughout World War II….
This appeared to be borne out in 1910 when Don the Speaking Dog came to fame. Asked his name by a journalist who visited him at his home in a village near Hamburg, the dog apparently barked a gruff ‘Don’ in reply.
When asked ‘What do you have?’ he replied ‘hunger’ (the same word in German as in English). And when pressed on what he would like to eat, he demanded ‘kuchen’ (cakes).
Don soon became an international celebrity, earning a fortune for his owner as he appeared in music halls and variety theatres across the world.
During seasons in New York, he outshone all other acts on the bill, including The Man With the seventeen-foot beard and two tap-dancing midgets.
One sceptical animal psychologist captured one of Don’s performances using an early recording device. Editing out the questions from Don’s owner since they might give some clue as to his answers, he played it to people who had never heard Don ‘speak’ before.
At first these uninitiated listeners could make out only two of 16 words, finding it difficult to distinguish his ‘hunger’ from his ‘haben’ (German for ‘have’), but then Don flabbergasted them all.
Grass/Plant Life,those that crawl,Animals,Human Beings,Highly evolved
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