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Crowboarding: Russian roof-surfin' bird caught on tape
YouTube, 12th January 2012
The winter sport season is in full swing - but it's not often you see a crow trying to get involved. This video which went viral on YouTube shows the thrill-seeker bird as comfortable on the slopes as it is in the air. The bird appeared to be using the lid of a jar as an improvised snowboard.
Comment: Well, this is amazing... more evidence of the intelligence of crows and reminds me of video of young fox cubs playing on a slide (see archives). It seems the animals and birds know how to have some fun!
Crow uses sequence of three tools
YouTube, 28th August 2009
"Crow was caught on camera using a sequence of tools to get to food."
Hmmm... it really makes you wonder, I am sure there are humans who could not work out what to do in this situation.
Tiny Fish Filmed Mimicking Octopus That Mimics Fish
Yahoo News, 4th January 2012
A new film captures a circular game of copycat: a fish that mimics an octopus that mimics fish.
First described by scientists in 1998, the remarkable mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) can shift its shape, movements and color to impersonate toxic lionfish, flatfish and even sea snakes. Such mimicry allows it to swim in the open with relatively little fear of predators.
The black-marble jawfish (Stalix histrio), on the other hand, is a small, timid fish. It spends most of its adult life close to a sand burrow that serves as its hideout if a predator comes along.
Comment: Don't miss the video.... really the implications are incredible, is this wild evolution? Theses are 'shape-shifting' creatures, something that can be found in nature but I will maintain that history and current anomalies suggests that some UFOs/UAPs can do exactly the same thing to help disguise themselves. But only a few are what I am calling 'elaborate' shapeshifters, as most UFOs/UAPs/Orbs will just go invisible if they don't want to be seen. There are stories that have been collected over many decades even centuries that suggest some UFO entities can shape-shift. So, there is all the old stories of "ghost ships" and even "ghost cars", today there are stories of "fake" planes. Even truly ridiculous stories of people seeing floating blocks of flats makes sense, if these are UAPs trying to disguise themselves, but they don't realise that a floating block of flats is not a disguise, but a serious faux pas on planet Earth, quite amusing really... Read the works of serious old-time UFO investigators like Trevor James Constable who wrote the book, The Cosmic Pulse of Life [1976] and Sky Creatures: Living UFOs (1976), John Keel who wrote Why UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970) that I think is an excellent summary of the evidence and also the prolific writer Dr. Jacques Vallée, amongst others who realised that these kind of anomalies were more related to another lifeform and were responsible for what some would consider as paranormal phenomena, but today even ex-military are relating this to the mysteries of consciousness. Personally, I believe it is a lot easier for people to accept if plasma entities of whatever shape and form are referred to as belonging to a Shadow Biosphere. I believe it is important for people to realise that there has always been a presence on this planet, but we are now getting a lot of new inhabitants.
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Documentary: The Indonesian Mimic Octopus [2:59]
Dive Matrix, March 2010
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Documentary: The Mimic Octopus [2:59]
YouTube, 1st November 2008
"The Indonesian Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus. This fascinating creature was discovered in 1998 off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, the mimic octopus is the first known species to take on the characteristics of multiple species. This octopus is able to copy the physical likeness and movement of more than fifteen different species, including sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, brittle stars, giant crabs, sea shells, stingrays, jellyfish, sea anemones, and mantis shrimp. This animal is so intelligent that it is able to discern which dangerous sea creature to impersonate that will present the greatest threat to its current possible predator. For example, scientists observed that when the octopus was attacked by territorial damselfishes, it mimicked the banded sea snake, a known predator of damselfishes."
This creature changes in a blink of the eye, it's almost like magic....
Norway UFOs mimic aircraft, 8th Jan 2012 [VIDEO]
UFO Sightings Daily, 9th January 2012
Video: Bonobo ape lights campfire, cooks hamburgers
Yahoo News, 3rd January 2012
Kanzi, a 31-year-old Bonobos, also known as the pygmy chimpanzee, reportedly became obsessed with the film "Quest for Fire" at an early age.
"Kanzi makes fire because he wants to," Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, his main handler at the Great Ape Trust, told the Telegraph. "The movie was released about a year after Kanzi was born and was about early man struggling to control fire. Kanzi watched this spellbound over and over hundreds of times."
Comment: The video and photos are amazing... So.... it has been obvious for a while that some of the animals are starting to respond to the influx of new energies and are becoming more intelligent, but why is this less obvious with humans? Well, the truth is that humans are becoming more intelligent and that is borne about by the "Flynn effect" discovered by James Flynn, a political scientist working in New Zealand and confirmed by numerous studies. There has been an average increase of over three IQ points per decade, found for virtually every type of intelligence test, delivered to virtually every type of group on the planet. I imagine evolutionary biologists and those who study human consciousness are really struggling to understand what is happening but I am sure some realise that we are seeing celestial epigenetics at work.
Picture Gallery: Amazing photos of Kanzi the bonobo lighting a fire and cooking a meal [11 Photos]
The Telegraph, 1st January 2012
These pictures are amazing
Nature's Weirdest: When toads explode [VIDEO]
BBC News, 2nd January 2012
From The Independent: After weeks of flummoxing scientists, Germany's great exploding toads mystery has been solved. They were gruesomely murdered by crows with a taste for foie gras.
After weeks of flummoxing scientists, Germany's great exploding toads mystery has been solved. They were gruesomely murdered by crows with a taste for foie gras.
Health officials in Hamburg started to panic after some 1,000 toads puffed up and exploded last month, their entrails splattering an area of up to a square metre.
Comment: The beginning is gruesome, but I watched this short video and my jaw dropped when the presenter discussed the cleverness of crows.
Mystery of German exploding toads
BBC News, 27th April January 2005
Stone the crows! Exploding toad case solved
The Independent, 8th May 2005
Owner suprised to find cat regularly catches bus
A pet cat named Dodger is living up to his name - by catching free bus trips from his home town.
The Telegraph, 15th December 2011
The ginger moggy, who was named after the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist, has taken to hopping on and off the public transport at the bus station near his home.
The 15-year-old Tom even sits on bemused passengers' laps as the bus makes up to 10 mile round trips from Bridport to Charmouth in Dorset.
Dodger is such a regular customer that some of the drivers take tins of cat food to work with them to give to him. They even know what stop to let him off at.
At the end of his journies the roving moggy returns to his home and owner Fee Jeanes.
Comment: There seems to be a lot of stories of animals making intelligent moves. Here are a few more:
Baby seal sneaks into NZ home, naps on couch [VIDEO]
CBS News, 15th December 2011
"(CBS News) A seal pup had a risky adventure and gave Welcome Bay, New Zealand homeowner Annette Swoffer a scare on Thursday. According to New Zealand's Department of Conservation, the animal, nicknamed Lucky, broke into Swoffer's home through a cat door and decided to take a nap on her sofa."
Cable guy finds sleeping bear in NJ basement
Yahoo News, 15th December 2011
"HOPATCONG, N.J. (AP) — A cable TV repairman got quite a surprise when he walked into the basement of a New Jersey home. There was a 500-pound bear sound asleep on the floor. The bear had been spotted wandering in the neighborhood in Hopatcong earlier Wednesday. It's not clear how it got into the home."
Talking parrot woke owner with news of newborn puppies
The Mirror, 9th November 2011
A CARING parrot alerted his sleeping owner that her dog had given birth by squawking “come on, come on”. Suzanna Bolton was woken by the talking bird jumping on her head and mimicking her voice.
She took him back to his perch downstairs but he looked at her and squawked again – and she discovered her dog had delivered six puppies a week early. One had died and four-year-old Pomeranian Sally and her other five pups were in distress on a cold, wet, kitchen floor. Suzanna, 55, said of her African grey parrot Sam: “He seemed to know something was wrong and came looking for me to help. [...]
She added: “Sam is allowed to roam around out of his cage but he’d never been in my bedroom in the eight years I’ve had him.
Comment: As part of the massive evolutionary changes, metaphysical sources suggest that there will be a noticeable increase in the intelligence of animals but I presume this means all sentient life on this planet... As social scientists suggest, there is different types of intelligence and I am actually quite interested in demonstrations of emotion and spiritual intelligence. I actually believe these types of intelligence are linked to the development of compassion and empathy, but in society where people are brainwashed into justifying their actions by the notion that it's about the "survival of the fittest", the trends of encouraging excessive narcissism does not bode well for the future of humanity if all types of intelligence can be used as an indication of evolution. So, the whole planet is experiencing a MASSIVE deluge of cosmic energy, but few are actually even interested in the consequences, but maybe that is now changing as some fear kicks in that we have simply failed to comprehend what has been happening for the last two decades or so. Actually, I had an email today that reminded of the fact that the Russians do know exactly what is happening and have been building pyramids around Moscow since 1989. Due to the balancing abilities of pyramid geometry, they have stated this seems to help stop the build up of large earthquakes amongst lots of other wonders that they have discovered. Meanwhile in the UK, the Defence minister has to plead with big business and utilities to wake-up and take space weather seriously. Again, it crossed my mind about the biblical parable of the wise and foolish virgins not being prepared and since we know that this is ancient knowledge that has been preserved for just this moment even though it is allegorical, there is no doubt that the deepest hidden meaning is all about the return of the Christ ENERGY. All I can say is the Russians DID NOT FAIL TO COMPREHEND that there was a massive evolutionary shift of energies taking place that is sweeping through our entire solar system. What's more it was reported the week I published my book in September 2006, that the Russians would lead the world in the coming spiritual revolution. They are ready...
Hero dog drags his owner home after he is knocked unconscious by lightning bolt
Daily Mail, 28th October 2011
A faithful dog rescued his owner by dragging him home after he was struck by an enormous lightning bolt.
Ian Thomas, 64, was taking his German schnauzer Monty out for an early morning walk when he was struck by a bolt so powerful he would have been killed if he had not been wearing wellington boots.
The bolt threw Mr Thomas, who is the Mayor of Redruth in Cornwall, into the air and knocked him out.
Comment: I am starting to understand why some people prefer animals to humans...
Cheeky penguin caught on camera stealing stones from neighbour's nest (Video)
Penguins and criminality don't usually go together, unless you're thinking of the one from Batman, but one cheeky penguin has been caught on camera stealing from his neighbour's nest.
Metro News, 17th October 2011
Captured by the BBC's film crew for the documentary Frozen Planet, the Adelie penguin of Antartica, can be seen grabbing stones from the nest of its neighbour each time the other bird waddles off to find some more stones, totally unaware of what's happening.
Penguins in the region use stones to cover their eggs to protect them from run-off as surrounding ice melts.
Not only are the stones important for protection but they also offer more chance of a male attracting a female, something highly desired amongst a colony of 500,000 penguins.
Spending four months filming out on Ross Island, the documentary crew went to great length to record the penguin's mischievous behaviour.
Comment: This is just a hoot...
Slideshow: Amazing story of the clever cat who led RSPCA rescuer to her kittens
Cambridge News, 4th October 2011
A clever cat who was thrown from a car stunned an RSPCA inspector by leading him to her litter of four tiny kittens hidden in a barn.
RSPCA inspector Jon Knight had been called out to rescue the young cat, after she was spotted being thrown from a car in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, last month.
The concerned caller had been monitoring the cat and started feeding her, and after two weeks managed to confine the cat in a green house in Upwell Road, March and the RSPCA was called.
Comment: I don't know how strange it is that a cat is intelligent enough to tell the difference between evil humans and kind humans.... This is a cat that was rescued after being thrown out of a car, but it realised that it could still trust a human with its kittens. I don't know about you, but I think that level of discernment to sort out the evil humans from the good humans is worth having... But as the saying goes, it's not what they say that matters, it is what they do and maybe this cat knows this...
Fish-catching trick may be spreading among dolphins
Yahoo News, 29th August 2011
PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Dolphins in one western Australian population have been observed holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake a fish into their mouths -- and the behavior may be spreading.
Researchers from Murdoch University in Perth were not quite sure what they were seeing when they first photographed the activity, in 2007, in which dolphins would shake conch shells at the surface of the ocean.
"It's a fleeting glimpse -- you look at it and think, that's kind of weird," said Simon Allen, a researcher at the university's Cetacean Research Unit.
"Maybe they're playing, maybe they're socializing, maybe males are presenting a gift to a female or something like that, maybe the animals are actually eating the animal inside."
Comment: So we can add this trick to the news of a dolphin teaching his new dolphin friends how to tail walk after being released from an acquarium. Well, we are seeing more and more animals and sea creatures doing things that are decidedly sophisticated and some things that have absolutely nothing to do with survival like an elephant painting flowers. If this keeps up, evolutionary biologists might even start to wonder about what exactly is going on.
Funtastic Mr Fox! Young cub has the time of its life sliding down quarry conveyor belt
Daily Mail, 25th August 2011
A disused gravel quarry became a playground for a young fun-loving fox and his family.
This photograph, taken by British man Duncan Usher, shows how the clever four-month-old creature turned an old conveyor belt into a make-shift slide, before travelling down it twice. Mr Usher photographed the amusing sight close to Bursfelde, a hamlet in the German countryside.
I have not seen this type of behaviour amongst free living wild animals and I was really surprised and pleased to witness and capture this unusual event.
Comment: This is a nice story but again, it's the demonstration of intelligence that is really amazing...
Going ape! Crazed chimp runs amok and throws food at staff after escaping
Daily Mail, 16th August 2011
A chimpanzee who escaped her enclosure went on the rampage stealing food from the zoo's kitchen, stunning staff and visitors.
In a scene which could have come straight from the new film Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, female chimp Josie barricaded herself in the kitchen, hurled food at staff and smashed pots at Twycross Zoo in Atherstone, Warwickshire.
It took staff 40 minutes to calm down the 23-year-old chimpanzee before they were able to coax her back into her enclosure.
Her keepers were joking that she heard about the riots in the rest of the country and fancied looting a bit of grub for herself.
Comment: Hmmm... I am wondering if something is going on as there are more and more reports of animals behaving oddly.... However, I don't like zoos and I don't think animals should be in small enclosures, but it's the intelligent behaviour of escaping and then barricading themselves in the chimpanzee 'kitchen' and hurling food and pots at staff that is most curious...
We have also had stories of beheadings reported in the last few days, and I am wondering if there is a link to these kind of atrocities occuring in bad geomagnetic conditions...
Father 'decapitated and dismembered cerebral palsy son, 7, with a meat cleaver and left his head at side of road'
Daily Mail, 16th August 2011
The Evolving Animals: Yvonne, A Cow Wrapped In A Mystery Inside A Forest
NPR News, 15th August 2011
In Germany, a dairy cow named Yvonne's death-defying escape — and continued success in eluding capture — has become an incandescent symbol of freedom and animal dignity. Okay, that may be hyperbolic. But how else to explain scores of visitors to Zangberg, the Bavarian commune Yvonne calls home, or the 10,000-euro reward offered for her safe return?
Curious visitors and search parties have been romping through the woods around Zangberg, looking for signs of the cow. Yvonne has been at large since she breached an electric fence on her farm nearly three months ago, on May 24. Since then, she's adopted a lifestyle that might be called Sherwoodian: sticking to forests, eluding police, a
"Yvonne knows exactly what she's doing, and she's tricking us," the manager of an animal rescue farm told a German newspaper.
The same paper, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, says that Yvonne has now become a type of freedom fighter "for the animal-loving republic."
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Michael Aufhauser, the founder of a nearby animal sanctuary called Gut Aiderbichl, has asked an animal psychic for help finding Yvonne, and possibly negotiating her surrender
Comment: This is simply hilarious.... so a cow is outsmarting humans... at times, the randomness of evolutionary change and increasing animals intelligence, makes for some interesting news... The Guardian version has more details...
Yvonne the runaway cow brings fame to Bavarian village but no milk
€10,000 reward offered for Yvonne's safe return as Zangberg mayor revels in animal's wanderlust
The Guardian, 15th August 2011
Cow leaps three foot fence and squashes car
Motorist Robert Gould is lucky to be alive after a startled cow leapt over a three-foot fence and landed on his car.
The Telegraph, 12th August 2011
"It is understood the cow which died at the scene had been trying to escape from a farmer when it jumped into the road on the outskirts of Leek, Staffs."
Another cow in the news...
Dolphins' 'Sixth Sense' Helps Them Feel Electric Fields
Live Science, 26th July 2011
The common Guiana dolphin has just divulged its sixth sense: the ability to sense electric fields. It is the first placental mammal known to pull off this trick, new research finds.
The dolphin, which bears live young like other placental mammals, most likely uses its sixth sense to find prey in the murky coastal waters it inhabits.
"Most of the animals which do this do this to find prey," said study researcher Wolf Hanke, of Rostock University in Rostock, Germany. "All of the dolphins' prey items, like crayfish, all of them generate electric fields to some degree."
Comment: No doubt the media headline 'sixth sense' should not be taken literally. Since the 1950s, scientists have discovered that humans have many more senses than is widely acknowledged and no doubt dolphins have many more senses too. I would like to point out that Synaesthesia (English) or Synesthesia (American) is now researching 63 different combination of the senses, which means the notion of a 'sixth sense' is becoming completely meaningless. Some humans can see electric and magnetic fields, some people thinks that makes them a guru, others think it is a medical condition and they want to get rid of this ability... Lots of creatures make use of electric and magnetic fields... if a creature was not electromagnetic, scientists would have to declare that it was dead...
Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools
Science Mags, 8th July 2011
While exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, professional diver Scott Gardner heard an odd cracking sound and swam over to investigate. What he found was a footlong blackspot tuskfish (Choerodon schoenleinii) holding a clam in its mouth and whacking it against a rock. Soon the shell gave way, and the fish gobbled up the bivalve, spat out the shell fragments, and swam off. Fortunately, Gardner had a camera handy and snapped what seem to be the first photographs of a wild fish using a tool.
Comment: A fish demonstrating higher intelligence? In terms of consciousness, scientists struggle to understand what this is and how to differentiate humans from the rest of the life on this planet, but now it seems their task may have just got harder.
Moo-dini: Cow with 'unusual intelligence' opens farm gate with tongue so herd can escape shed
Daily Mail, 22nd June 2011
A farmer has been forced to beef up the security in his cowshed after an unusually smart heifer found a way for her and her friends to escape.
Daisy the cow, from a farm in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, has learned the trick to unbolting the gate to her pen with her tongue.
She deftly and accurately unfastens both bolts, allowing her and her bovine buddies access to the verdant fields outside for breakfast.
Comment: This is an hilarious story, but we are seeing more and more reports of animals displaying 'unusal' intelligence. I believe it is symptomatic of rapid evolutionary change that seems to be quite sporadic at the moment, but it could get weird as some animals evolve in intelligence and more humans devolve....
Penguin Flip-Flops: Reality or Myth?
YouTube/Russia Today, 20th May 2011
There is a long-standing myth that Antarctic penguins flip over at the sound of a passing plane. Unable to right themselves, they risk dying a terrible death in the snow. RT's team went to great lengths to verify the story once and for all.
Back in 1982, British pilots in the Falklands allegedly observed the phenomenon as they flew over penguin colonies. They said the birds would topple over as they lifted their heads to watch the planes fly by, then penguins were left on their backs by the thousands, unable to right themselves. But is this story true?
"I think that it is something that is widely-known amongst the public, but generally regarded amongst anyone that knows and thinks about it as a bit of a myth, to be honest. An Antarctic Falkland Islands' myth," said Stuart from the British Antarctic Survey.
Comment: I just thought this report was hilarious...
I control therefore I am: chimps self-aware, says study
PhysOrg.com, 4th May 2011
Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday.
The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenge assumptions about the boundary between human and non-human, and shed light on the evolutionary origins of consciousness, the researchers said.
Earlier research had demonstrated the capacity of several species of primates, as well as dolphins, to recognize themselves in a mirror, suggesting a fairly sophisticated sense of self.
Comment: More studies that make us query the definitions of what makes us "different" to some of the animals... especially when some humans behave worse than animals... This story reminds me of the chimp in the zoo that planned his attack on humans by collecting rocks for ammunition... premeditated violence is usually considered to be a human trait... see the article linked below:
Zoo chimp plots stone throwing attacks
New study found his cleverly orchestrated attacks were premeditated
MSNBC, 9th March 2009
Omen? Scientists dismayed as millions of aquatic animals swarm Antarctica
Extinction Protocol, 28th April 2011
April 28, 2011 – ANTARCTICA – Scientists are dismayed by the record number of whales swarming Antarctica. The sightings, made in waters still largely ice-free deep into austral autumn, suggest the previously little-studied bays are important late-season foraging grounds for the endangered whales. But they also highlight how rapid climate change is affecting the region.
King Crabs: It’s like a scene out of a sci-fi movie — thousands, possibly millions, of king crabs are marching through icy, deep-sea waters and up the Antarctic slope. “They are coming from the deep, somewhere between 6,000 to 9,000 feet down,” said James McClintock, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham Endowed Professor of Polar and Marine Biology. Shell-crushing crabs haven’t been in Antarctica, Earth’s southernmost continent, for hundreds or thousands, if not millions, of years, McClintock said.
Comment: It's getting tough keeping up with all the Earth changes but this is another really strange migration of aquatic animals that tells us something is happening, but if scientists and our authorities are aware of the cause, we won't necessarily be told...
Dogs Detecting Cancer? It's in the Breath, Experts Say
ABC News, 25th April 2011
Carol Witcher says she knows it sounds crazy, but she swears that her dog, Floyd Henry, discovered the cancer in her breast in 2008.
"When he sniffed me, he kind of turned back and really pushed into my right breast, real hard," she said. "He started sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, sniffing."
It took four days of nudging and nipping by the 8-year-old boxer before Witcher went to a doctor.
"He pushed real hard for one shot. ... Then he looked at me straight in the face, took his right foot and began to paw my right breast. And I thought, 'This is not good,'" she said. "I knew instantly that there was an issue."
Comment: Many humans are already obtaining this enhanced sense of smell, that our neurologists have classified as various types of Synaesthesia, but in terms of medical diagnosis, if you look about on various forums, there are people who claim that cancer smells like bleach.
Turtles use the Earth’s magnetic field as a global GPS
Discover Magatine, 24th February 2011
In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way. Wallace J. Nichols tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer a route across two oceans to find her destination?
Nathan Putman has the answer. By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank, he has found that they can use the Earth’s magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System (GPS). By sensing the field, they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction. [...]
Scientists often talk about a magnetic “map”, but the animals aren’t necessarily using any sort of mental chart. As with all research in magnetic senses, it’s very hard to work out what the animal is actually sensing or thinking. But that can be a bonus. “It might be good because I don’t have any preconceived notions about how animals like turtles use magnetic information,” says Putman.” I can let the turtles tell me what they can respond to without imposing any personal expectations on them!”
We do, however, know that they have their super-sense from birth. Putman’s turtles had never been in the ocean before and their magnetic sense doesn’t depend on experience. Indeed, Lohmann’s previous experiments showed that even newly hatched loggerheads can react correctly to different magnetic fields.
Comment: It's quite awe inspiring to realise how much the Earth's magnetic field is an integral part of how various different creatures function. At this time, humans don't really appreciate that we arre also heavily influenced by Earth's magnetic field, as many scientific studies prove. Now, with the onset of Space Weather, we are seeing many more reports of creatures not being able to function properly as well many more people are starting to feel the impact of geomagnetic storms and those who are the most emotionally unstable are being tipped over the most into very unbalanced states.
A Twenty-Year-Old Hamadryas Baboon Gave Birth To A Rare Orange Baby Baboon In Ramat Gan Safari Park In Israel
Batangas Today, 11th February 2011
A twenty-year-old Hamadryas baboon named Scud (Skad) gave birth to a rare orange baby baboon ten days ago at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv in Israel, NTD Television reported.
According to reports, it is the first orange-colored baboon monkey to be born at the Safari Park in thirty years. Ramat Gan Safari Zoo workers were surprised with the recent birth of the ginger furred baby baboon which was considered very rare, reason for the zoo to celebrate.
“Skad, our twenty-year-old baboon, gave birth to an orange baby and we just today discovered it’s actually a female baby and we are very happy because it’s been thirty years since we last had an orangebaboon here,” Yael Baker, Safari Zoo, Primate Keeper said.
Comment: More pictures at Yahoo News Rare 'Orange' Baby Baboon
Gorilla walks on hind legs
Nine News, 27th January 2011
A male gorilla may be preparing for the next stage of the evolutionary process after mastering the ability to walk upright.
Twenty-one-year-old Amban has become a crowd favourite at England's Port Lympne Wild Animal Park after being filmed tottering around his enclosure on his hind legs.
All gorillas are able to walk on their hind legs to some extent, but Amban's surefooted walk is another thing altogether.
Comment: Wow... the mainstream are talking my language! LOL! Well, everything on this planet is being given the opportunity to evolve, with some kind of testing process that proceeds massive evolutionary change. This means some species with go extinct and others will flourish, a persistent pattern in the evolution of all life on Earth during periods of rapid evolutionary change.
Baboons learn to listen for cars central locking tweet before breaking in
The Telegraph, 23rd July 2010
Baboons in Cape Town have learned to listen out for the tweet of a car's remote central locking before deciding whether to break in to search for food, according to the local authorities.
The highly intelligent animals lie in wait as tourists get out of their car to gaze at the view from Cape Peninsula – the thin finger of land in the south westernmost corner of South Africa that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Then, if they haven't heard the telltale "tweet" of the locking system, they sneak over and open the car door to plunder its contents.
So many picnics have now been lost to the simian raiders that the local authorities are pushing the government to commission an official baboon warning road sign as they have done for hippos, elephants, warthogs and kudus.
Theuns Vivian, Cape Town's Destination Development Manager, said humans and baboons would get along fine provided they were equally aware of each other.
Comment: Another example of intelligence, and strategic planning which blurs the distinction between humans and animals as defined in consciousness studies. There is also an earlier story (July 2009) about baboons breaking into luggage containers on top of cars.
Viral Video: Okinawa Dolphin Leaps From Tank
AOL News, 12th July 2010
Visitors of Japan's Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium got their money's worth last week when they witnessed a female dolphin named Kuru take a valiant leap over the edge of a viewing tank during a performance.
The spectacle was captured on camera by an American tourist who forwarded the footage to Ric O'Barry, a former trainer for the "Flipper" television series who now makes his living by setting captive animals free. O'Barry then sent the video to the Associated Press. [...]
Since the footage surfaced, the dolphin's intent has become a subject of debate. O'Barry claims that by leaping out of the tank Kuru expressed nothing short of a plea for help.
"The habitat of that false killer whale is so unnatural it leaped out in desperation," he told the Associated Press. "It wanted to end it. Why does a person jump out of a building?...It proves that captivity doesn't work. They are free-ranging creatures with a very large brain. They're self aware and putting them in a small tank in a stadium setting is abusive."
Comment: I agree with the writer, the dolphin was desperate...
Squirrels Show Softer Side by Adopting Orphans, Study Finds
Science Daily, 2nd June 2010
Those neighbourhood squirrels you often see fighting over food may not seem altruistic, but new University of Guelph research has found that the critters will actually take in orphaned relatives. The study by Guelph Prof. Andrew McAdam, along with researchers from the University of Alberta and McGill University, revealed that red squirrels will adopt pups that have lost their mother. [...]
What's also remarkable is that squirrels are able to assess which pups are related or not, he added.
As squirrels rarely interact, they learn who their nearby relatives are by hearing their unique calls, he said. If they fail
"We suspect that, if they find pups on the territory, they remember that their neighbour was a relative and carry the pups back to their nest. This would be quite intelligent behaviour for a squirrel."
Comment: Sometimes, it seems that scientists really struggle to give animals any credit whatsoever. That a squirrel can work out it's relatives is made out here to be some amazing achievement, but why?
Gray Whale Spotted on Wrong Side of World
Discovery News, 10th May 2010
Last Saturday, researchers with the Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center (IMMRAC) took to the water to study a whale approximately a mile and a half off Herzliya Marina, just north of Tel Aviv. The whale, which was about forty feet long, was generally behaving as a whale does: swimming along the surface, making periodic short dives of between three and five minutes duration, and occasionally showing its tail flukes as it did so. [...]
There was only one problem. There are no gray whales off Israel. There are no gray whales in the Mediterranean. There are, in fact, no gray whales in the Atlantic - have not been, for that matter, since the eighteenth century, when the species was possibly exterminated from the hemisphere by commercial whalers. [...]
"There is no doubt that this is a gray whale, and as such the sighting is little short of astonishing," said Phillip Clapham of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in an e-mail. "There are really only two explanations: that there has been a relict population in the N Atlantic that no one has noticed (virtually impossible), or (more likely) that this whale came down through the ice-free Northwest Passage and is now hopelessly lost."
Comment: Oh well, more change!
Sperm whales return to Mediterranean
"Marine biologists in Italy say the sperm whale, once thought to have been nearly wiped from the region by drift nets, has returned to the Mediterranean."
'Astro-squirrels' use coconut shells as helmets
Refreshing News, 9th March 2010
These two squirrels looked like astronauts after putting coconut shells on their heads.
The pair look more like starved spacemen tucking into the tropical treats at the back of Jane Robert's home in Fareham, Hants.
Comment: I don't think it's got anything to do with evolutionary change but these little fellas are cute!
Meet Blackie The Mutant Penguin
National Geographic Blog, 3rd March 2010
When Andrew Evans sent us this photo of a rare melanistic penguin that he spotted during his travels, I became intrigued. So I decided to call up Dr. Allan Baker, an ornithologist and professor of Environmental and Evolutionary Studies at the University of Toronto and head of the Department of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum, to learn more about melanism in birds. I got him on the line before he had the chance to look at the photos, and suffice it to say he was slightly flabbergasted at what he saw: "Wow. That looks so bizarre I can't even believe it. Wow," was his first response. Then he made me swear on a stack of National Geographic magazines that the image was real.
"Well that is astonishing," he said. "I've never ever seen that before. It's a one in a zillion kind of mutation somewhere.
Comment: Please note that the Black Penguin has been spotted before and there are two further reports here with a better photo for 'Blackie'. Again, like lots of other 'rare' mutations we have to see whether there are other cases that start to occur and the change takes effect on a wider scale to make any kind of judgement that we are seeing evolutionary change.
Don't mess with me! The five-day-old lamb who was born with a REAL black belt
Daily Mail, 17th February 2010
He may be just a few days old, but this unusually marked lamb is clearly one to be reckoned with.
Named Miyagi after fictional martial arts expert Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid films, he was born five days ago with a thick belt of black wool around his middle. Farmer William Herbert said: 'I've been farming for over 50 years but I've never seen anything like this before.
Comment: I can't resist this: will this black belt make a good lamb chop? There have not been that many strange DNA mutations seen in the media but this is one of the more cute.
Can you see what it is yet? How a flock of starlings can look just like a bird, a duck and even a turtle
Daily Mail, 2nd February 2010
Flocks of starlings are renowned for forming a variety of shapes in the sky. But on this occasion they must have been overcome by vanity – and created a giant starling for us ground-dwellers to admire. The countless creatures created the awesome display by using the winter breeze as the low-setting sun caused the sky to glow red.
Comment: This is a nice reminder of morphogenetic fields that acts as a guidance system for all life on Earth. These starlings practice group behaviour that scientists do not understand. The theory of Morphgenesis by Rupert Sheldrake is generaly shunned by the academic community but science and observation will surely eventually proven that he has got this right. An individual morphogenetic field is a field of information that is held in the environment for all forms of life on this planet. It is continuously updated by the individual forms of life and also is updated by the universe by cosmic influences. As we are in a period of evolutionary change, these morphogenetic fields are being upgraded now and the science of evolutionary biology would suggest that all forms of life will start to mutate but eventually end up at a pre-ordained destiny controlled by these environmental fields.
Fruits of the sea: Startling strawberry crab discovered off Taiwan
Daily Mail, 5th January 2010
A marine biologist has discovered a startling new crab species that resembles a large strawberry.
The unusual crustacean was found off the coast of southern Taiwan. It has a dramatic bright red shell covered with small white bumps.
Professor Ho Ping-ho from the National Taiwan Ocean University said the crab resembles a species called Neoliomera Pubescens, that lives in the areas around Hawaii, Polynesia and Mauritius.
However it has a clam-shaped shell about 1 inch wide, which makes it distinct.
Crabs are omnivores feeding primarily on algae. There are more than 5,000 known species in the world.
Comment: Wow! Well, we know for sure that nature is not boring!
Pictures of the year 2009: weird animal pictures
The Telegraph, January 2010
Comment: Yes, Ugly Bat Boy made the listing.... Not all of these animal pictures deserve the title of wierd, some are just odd, like the albinos but there are a few mutants thrown in. In some images, its the humans who are most deserving of being called weird.... However, I have to say, I did laugh quite a few times....
Cat uses human loo
Ananova News, 14th December 2009
A pet cat has become an online star in China because it can use a toilet made for humans.
Owner Fang Deng, 32, posted a clip of his ginger cat Miao Mi showing off her special trick. Deng told the Chongqing Business News: "If the toilet is occupied she will wait patiently until it is free before going in.
"Then she squats on the edge of the loo - just like we do - and does her business. "Afterwards, she takes a peek at what she's done and then flushes the toilet with her paw."
Comment: Is this another example of increasing intelligence in animals? There does seem to be more and more examples... More
Octopus Snatches Coconut and Runs
BBC: "An octopus and its coconut-carrying antics have surprised scientists. Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters." Scientists are amazed...
Worldwide Change in Blue Whale's Song Baffles Scientists
Daily Galaxy, 4th December 2009
The function of whale song, even the better-studied song of the humpback whale, has long baffled marine scientists. Songs of the blue whale, the planets largest living creature, can be divided into at least 10 types worldwide, each type retaining the same units and similar phrasing over decades, unlike humpback whale song which changes substantially from year to year. That is until recently with a worldwide occurrence of a nearly linear downward shift in the tonal frequencies of blue whale song.
“We don’t have the answer. We just have a lot of recordings,” Whale Acoustics President Mark McDonald explained to Wired.
Comment: Morphogenetic fields are being changed and upgraded all over the planet. Scientists are very willing to talk about everything else EXCEPT human evolutionary changes....
Bald bears perplex experts
BBC News, 5th November 2009
Bears in a zoo in eastern Germany have lost their fur, but international experts cannot work out why. Three spectacled bears in Leipzig Zoo are in various states of baldness, with the worst being hairless all over. Zoo curator Gerd Noetzhold said he had discovered that zoos throughout Europe and further afield had encountered the same problem, but no-one knew why. One expert suggested it could be caused by climate and the diet of the bears, whose native habitat is South America. [...]
"There are other zoos in Europe and overseas having the same problem.
Comment: Maybe the answer is the stress of being in an unnatural habitat like a zoo, combined with sensitivitity to a changing environment.
The World's Ugliest Animals
NY Daily News, August 2009
No. 7: The Aye-Aye
The Aye-Aye is currently an endangered species partially due to the fact many in its native Madagascar view the animal as an evil omen and kill them on the spot.
Comment: Well, I don't agree that all these creatures are ugly, but the Aye-Aye is certainly a brute! The mole's nose (no.1) is very critter like, the radial energy pattern that typifies an electrical discharge.
Elephant learns to play the harmonica
A music-loving elephant called Five has been serenading its keepers at West Midlands Safari Park, after learning to play the harmonica.
The Telegraph, 13th August 2009
The African elephant already loves music, but has found a new passion after a silver harmonica was accidentally left on the side of the enclosure. She eventually got the hang of puffing out at the right time to produce a song, and now regularly places the instrument into her trunk and whiles away the afternoon playing a few tunes.
Wendy Jackson, spokeswoman from the park, said the elephants were extremely intelligent and Five was becoming better at playing as time went on.
She said: "It is very unusual for animals to actually get a sense of playing a tune.
"Five was really curious about it when it was left on the side - but everyone just thought she would lose interest after a few minutes.
"But she kept going with it, hitting a few notes before realising what it did.
"Five was making tunes within a few weeks- it really is amazing."
Comment: Well, it very interesting to see animals evolving and developing their abilities. I think someone should give the elephants at this safari park a paintbrush and some paint and see if any of them can draw too, (see archives).
Whale saves drowning diver
The Sun, 30th July 2009
"A beluga whale saved a drowning diver by hoisting her to the surface, carrying her leg in its mouth. Terrified Yang Yun thought she was going to die when her legs were paralysed by crippling cramps in arctic temperatures. She had been taking part in a free diving contest WITHOUT any breathing equipment."
Comment: A nice example of unconditional love. See Joy, grief, altruism... these extraordinary mammals show 'human' feelings and could even have their own religion
Safari park baboons ransack cars after learning to break into luggage boxes
Xinhua News, 21st July 2009
"Keepers at Knowsley Safari Park have been forced to issue warnings after the opportunistic primates developed a taste for human possessions. The cheeky monkeys - who are known for tearing off the odd wiper or wing mirror - have been targeting cars carrying the roof boxes before pouncing on the unsuspecting visitors, who are forced to watch helplessly as their things disappear. Now bosses at the Merseyside park have slapped the artful animals with what they call 'Anti Social Baboon Orders' and have warned visitors not to travel through the infamous monkey jungle with luggage on their roof."
Comment: Well, it must be obvious that primates are evolving too! LOL!!
Migaloo - Rare White Humpback Whale
CrptNews, 30th June 2009
"Migaloo, a 45.9 feet (14-meter), 34.4 ton (35-ton) pure white humpback whale, is seen here swimming along the east coast off Australia, near Coffs Harbour with another whale, Tuesday, June 15, 2005. (Sea Experience Charters, Greer Atkinson).
Migaloo is a rare white male humpback whale first spotted in 1991. Experts believe he is now about 21 to 23 years old. Slipping silently past his biggest fans along the Gold Coast of August — during the dead of night - the big white whale did it again."
Comment: This "white fella" is the only one in the world and he's been around for a while too....
In pictures: The Spirit Bear, the rare 'blonde' black bear of Canada's western coast
Daily Mail, 5th June 2009
"It may look like a polar bear that has ventured too far south - but these once-in-a-lifetime photographs are of the extremely rare Spirit Bear. Once thought to exist only in Native American mythology, the Spirit Bear, or Kermode Bear, is now recognised as an off-shoot of the American Black Bear population that lives in the lush coastal forests of British Columbia."
Comment: Great pictures!
Orangutan's amazing escape bid
Ananova News, 11th May 2009
"An orangutan used a stick to short-circuit an electric fence to try to escape from a zoo in Australia. Ten-stone Karta then made a makeshift ladder using sticks, grass and plant roots to scale a second barrier, reports The Sun. Her escape bid was foiled only when keepers with tranquiliser guns persuaded Karta to jump back into her enclosure.
Peter Whitehead, of Adelaide Zoo, said: "She's always trying to outsmart the keepers and today she showed a touch of genius."
Keepers had to herd visitors to safety after Karta got within yards of them.
Comment: Maybe this orangutan is smarter than the zookeepers and this escape attempt is clear evidence of advanced intelligence. I think all zoos should be closed down, humans don't need to gawp at locked up bored animals.
Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates
Xinhuanet News, 14th April 2009
"BEIJING, -- Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday.
The Chinese merchant ships escorted by a China's fleet sailed on the Gulf of Aden when they met some suspected pirate ships. Thousands of dolphins suddenly leaped out of water between pirates and merchants when the pirate ships headed for the China's.
The suspected pirates ships stopped and then turned away. The pirates could only lament their littleness befor the vast number of dolphins. The spectacular scene continued for a while. "
Comment: Quite an incredible story. Click for the pictures that go with the report.
Bright green jumping spider among 50 new creepy crawlies found in Papua-New Guinea
Daily Mail, 26th March 2009
"Jumping spiders, a striped gecko and a chirping frog are among more than 50 new species discovered in Papua-New Guinea. The environmental group Conservation International found the species during an expedition to the country's highlands wilderness in July and August last year."
Comment: Fabulous pictures! Well, are they new or just new to human awareness?
The mysterious case of the vengeful crows
Can crows wait for seven months to take their revenge on a human being... well here is one such case
Daily Times, 21st March 2009
"KARACHI: Contrary to their size, crows are a mindful and dangerous lot; when annoyed, they ruthlessly attack in flocks of hundreds. If you are trying to hurt a crow, you are surely cruising for a bruising.
To a layman, they may appear to be like any other helpless insignificant birds. But who could have imagine how revengeful these birds can get? Crows can bear whatever you throw at them but if you attack their spawn, your making room for a whole lot of winged trouble."
Comment: Cruising for a bruising! LOL!!
Zoo chimp plots stone throwing attacks
New study found his cleverly orchestrated attacks were premeditated
MSNBC, 9th March 2009
"If non-human primates could be arrested, Santino the chimp might be behind jail bars for throwing stones and handcrafted weapons at zoo visitors, since a new study found his cleverly orchestrated attacks were premeditated.
The discovery, published in the latest issue of Current Biology, provides evidence that chimpanzees can plan for a future, rather than a current, mental state. This, in turn, implies "advanced consciousness and cognition traditionally not associated with animals," according to Mathias Osvath, who conducted the study. Staff at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden first became suspicious in 1997 when they spotted multiple stone piles at the park's "chimpanzee island" where Santino lives, explained Osvath, a Lund University researcher in the field of cognitive science."
Comment: According to these biologists this chimp has obviously 'evolved' to the point that he can plan ahead and make sure he has enough ammunition for his daily target practice of zoo visitors! Quite amazing!
Ugly' Bald Cat Wins Fans At NH Vet Clinic
Feline's Unusual Appearance Captivates Vet Clients
clickorlando.com, 27th February 2009
"The cat's full name is Ugly Bat Boy. He's bald in most places except for flowing fur on his chest, and he spends his days on a warm computer at Exeter Veterinary Hospital, reported WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H. Bat Boy has become something of a local star. People come in and take pictures of him on their cell phones," said veterinary employee Christie Hartnett. "He's just great. He's Dr. (Stephen) Bassett's little wonder cat."
Comment: Be warned....the first picture in the gallery is quite scary.... This bits funny....'Bat Boy has a nice disposition and real inner beauty.....' yes, but he's still ugly! LOL!!
Penguin at zoo refuses to swim because he is afraid of cold water
The Telegraph, 26th January 2009
"Most penguins like nothing better than to get their feathers wet with a quick swim, but this elderly bird refuses to move from his rock – because he is afraid of cold water.
Kentucky the penguin, described as a 'runt' by his keepers, refuses to take the plunge with his other 23 penguin pals at Blackbrook Zoological Park in Leek, Staffordshire. Staff at the zoo have seen the 11-year-old become a surprise hit with visitors at the park due to his unusual phobia. The Humboldt penguin was born smaller than his arctic brothers and sisters and has had moulting problems since birth which make the water 'a bit too cold for him', staff say."
Comment: Poor thing! A penguin afraid of cold water, surely this is a problem with it's DNA? I don't think many would argue that this is a psychological cause.
Prickly blonde is a rare find
The Sun, 9th September 2008
"THEY say blondes have more fun, but this one looks a bit PRICKLY.
Believed to be just a few months old, this little lass was found weak and struggling by a member of the public in Shropshire. The hedgehog, which is not an albino, weighed just 110g when she was delivered to the rescue centre at the end of July."
"The hedgehog... is one of a very small number of blonde hedgehogs to be found in the UK. Their unusual colouring, caused by a rare recessive gene, means blonde hedgehogs have little chance of survival in the wild. Their conspicuous coats often prove attractive to predators such as foxes, badgers and dogs."
Comment: Lovely! Evolutionary change means increasing complexity and variety so what may be considered as a rarity could become more common. DNA genes are controlled by the environment and that is now in a state of flux.
Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
Google Earth photos and field studies reveal animals lining up north–south
Scientific American, 25th August 2008
"Researchers have found that when grazing or resting, cattle and deer tend to point their bodies toward Earth's magnetic poles, which suggests they are able to sense magnetic fields in the same way as many smaller animals.
German and Czech researchers used Google Earth satellite images to look at 8,510 domestic cattle in 308 pastures located randomly across six continents. They also studied body alignment in 2,974 red and roe deer in the Czech Republic, either by photographing the animals or checking the impressions they left in snow. The team reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that the animals tended to point north or south but not in other directions. When the researchers were able to examine the position of the head in the case of red and roe deer, they found the animals tended to point north."
Comment: This is a rather unexpected success for Google Earth!
Wild dolphins tail-walk on water
BBC News, 19th August 2008
"A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after training in captivity. The tail-walking group lives along the south Australian coast near Adelaide. One of them spent a short time after illness in a dolphinarium 20 years ago and may have picked up the trick there."
Comment: Interesting. Do we actually have an example of morphogenesis, often dubbed the 100th monkey principal at work here? So after a brief stay at an aquarium 20 years ago, a dolphin has only possibly 'seen' another dolphin doing this trick and off they go, acquiring a skill that they can then pass onto others. So, there is two scenarios to consider here. Maybe, the information to do this skill was transmitted into this dolphin's energy field but stayed latent, until additional energy was acquired to activate this ability. The other scenario is that there has been a full update of the morphogenetic fields for ALL dolphins, but some dolphins have more access to others to acquire information, hence why one dolphin is being seen to teach others. Whatever, it will be interesting to see if this feat is duplicated in the wild elsewhere.
The weird world of mystic mogs and death-sensing dogs
Daily Mail, 2nd July 2008
"Cats who know exactly when they are going to be taken to the vets. Dogs who sense their owners' whereabouts - even if they are miles away. And birds who seem to mourn the deaths of those around them... our pets and other animals have always been intuitive - but do they really have a mysterious sixth sense? A new book by Britain's leading clinical authority on near-death experiences, Dr Peter Fenwick, and his wife Elizabeth, a counsellor, examines the remarkable cases of psychic animals. . ."
Comment: Well, if there was a tsunami on the way and I was in danger, I would hope that my ability to interact with the environment would be good enough to save my life, a capability that has been well demonstrated by animals.... Why? I still think about the images of rotting bodies lying on the beach after the Sumatra tsunami in December 2004.
Frog march sparks new quake alarm
Herald Sun, 20th May 2008
"THOUSANDS of Chinese fled for cover in fear of an earthquake today, alarmed not only by warnings from seismologists but also by an unusual mass movement of frogs, state media said. For the second time this month, residents observed a huge migration of frogs and toads, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Residents of Zunyi, a southern city that saw little damage in China's huge earthquake last week, noticed the amphibians' march yesterday, Xinhua said, quoting Vice Mayor Zeng Yongtao."
Elephant Paints Self Portrait
YouTube, April 2008
Comment: This video is incredible! Please watch, it really makes you wonder about the nature of animal consciousness. Update Here is a link to an article January 2009, that explains there is a a group of talented elephants are using their trunks to produce amazing ARTWORKS in a jungle conservation camp. The Maesa Elephant Camp, draws thousands of tourists to the northern Thai region every year and the pictures are being sold too!
Artist for hire: Will work for peanuts
The Sun, 9th January 2009
Dolphin answers whales' SOS call
Scotsman News, 13th March 2008
"I don't speak whale and I don't speak dolphin, but there was obviously something that went on, because the two whales changed from being quite distressed to following the dolphin willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea." Another rescuer, Juanita Symes, added: "Moko came flying through the water and pushed in between us and the whales. She got them to head toward the hill, where the channel is. It was an amazing experience. The best day of my life."
Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle
Daily Mail, 25th January 2008
"There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a crop circle. About 100 of the woolly creatures formed an orderly ring - baffling the farmer and passers-by."
Comment: You have just got to love what is taking place now! Sheep circles! LOL!!
Record-size spitting cobra found in Kenya
Reuters, December 7, 2007
Comment: Again, it always amazes me that evolutionary biologist scream about the high rate of species extinction then continually tell us about the discovery of new species. Why can't this cobra be just a new bigger and better or more evolved version, to survive in the increasing hostile environment caused by man's destructiveness. Personally, I have nick-named this brute as King Cobra, respect!
Experts: Spiders Spin Giant Web in Texas
Comcasts News, 11th September 2007
Do we have evidence that the morphogenetic fields have been changed, with these spiders in Texas demonstrating a new level of cooperation and harmony? "Tetragnathidae are usually solitary spiders who build their own webs and mind their own business," he said. "Here they are sharing a lot of foundation strands that are all over the place. They don't have individual webs anymore."
Comment: I believe we are now watching spiritual evolution in real-time, the morphogenetic fields for humans have also changed, for a future paradise Earth.
Primates Expect Others To Act Rationally
TerraDaily.com , 11th September 2007
"When trying to understand someone's intentions, non-human primates expect others to act rationally by performing the most appropriate action allowed by the environment, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard University."
"our research shows that non-human primates infer others' intentions in a much more sophisticated way. They expect other individuals to perform the most rational action that they can, given the environmental obstacles that they face."
Comment: This seems to imply that somehow humans don't follow the same rules as primatess, that are give a lower evolutionary status. This is strange as humans are frequently irrational, traditionally equated to lower evolutionary behaviour.
Study: Full moon fills veterinary offices with suddenly ill dogs, cats
Denver Post, 1st August 2007
"When the full moon rises, dogs and cats go wild -- and get hurt. Dogs and cats suffering heart attacks, seizures and trauma end up at Colorado State University's Veterinary Medical Center emergency room in Fort Collins in higher numbers around the full moon, according to a study. We were dumbfounded when we actually saw the increase." "After reviewing records from 10 years and 12,000 animals, the researchers found that during the fullest 12 days in the moon's 28-day cycle, cat emergency visits were up 23 percent and dog visits up 28 percent."
Comment: You would think that educated people could even hazard a guess that maybe the huge planetary bodies in the sky could actually effect us. After decades of research that has been ignored, maybe we can finally start to understand the most powerful force in the universe -- electromagnetism.
Purple fluorescent frog discovered in Suriname
People's Daily Online, 5th June 2007
Comment: We are seeing evolutionary change NOT global warming. So even when evolutionary biologists sound the alarm that we are now experiencing the greatest rate of species extinction in 65 million years, this is not balanced with the constant reports of new "discoveries". Species will adapt or die and all species have the ability to interact with the environment and adapt their DNA. It seems the speed of adaptation determines their success.
Strange fish parade seen in Englewood
Sun Herald, 8th May 2005
"ENGLEWOOD -- A bizarre freeway of fish swimming by the thousands along the shore of Englewood Beach Thursday morning left crowds of beach-goers agog and marine biologists bewildered. "I've lived her for 10 years, and I've never seen anything like this. It's incredible," said Bob Ricci of Englewood.
Beach-goers reported that a wide variety of sea creatures came swimming south in a narrow band close to the beach at mid-morning. Included in the swarm were clouds of shrimp, crab, grouper, snapper, red fish and flounder. They were joined by more usual species, including sea robins, needlefish and eels. Ten-year Manasota Key resident Nick Neidlinger spotted the commotion from his condominium shortly before 9 a.m. The fish were moving in a narrow band in about 18 inches of water, he said. They were headed south, and, so far as he could tell, the moving mass of sea life stretched a good mile long.
"We're talking thousands and thousands of them," Neidlinger said. "It was so thick we couldn't walk out." Some fish washed ashore on the Gulf's small waves, he said. The stranded fish flipped and struggled until they flopped back into the water to rejoin the piscatorial parade south.
"There were blue crabs the size of a dinner plate," Neidlinger said. "You name the species of fish and they were there." Neidlinger said more than 100 pelicans bombarded the fish, but he saw no sharks or other predators, nor did he detect any signs of red tide. He said all the species "were swimming amongst each other. They weren't attacking each other."
Neidlinger added, "I have never seen anything like that in my life. This was not a fish kill."
Comment: This has got to be one of the most bizarre stories ever! Whatever, these sea creatures decided that they were off! Our biologists do not understand this kind of behaviour, they completely refuse to accept the obvious that all species have some kind of guidance system, this is best explained by Rupert Sheldrake's Morphogenetic field theory.
Elephants saved tourists from tsunami
Reuters, January 02 2005
"KHAO LAK: Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves. "I was surprised because the elephants had never cried before," mahout Dang Salangam said on Sunday on Khao Lak beach of the eight-elephant business offering rides to tourists.
The elephants started trumpeting - in a way Dang, 36, and his wife Kulada, 24, said could only be described as crying - at first light, about the time an earthquake measured at a magnitude of 9.0 cracked open the sea bed off Indonesia's Sumatra island. The elephants soon calmed down. But they started wailing again about an hour later and this time they could not be comforted despite attempts at reassurance.
"The elephants didn't believe the mahouts. They just kept running for the hill," said Wit Aniwat, 24, who takes the money from tourists and helps them on to the back of elephants from a sturdy wooden platform. Those with tourists aboard headed for the jungle-clad hill behind the resort beach where at least 3800 people, more than half of them foreigners, would soon be killed. The elephants that were not working broke their hefty chains. "Then we saw the big wave coming and we started running," Wit said."
Comment: This is a classic example of animals being able to read the environment and take action, an ability lost by most humans. Rupert Sheldrake and his Morphogenetic theory must now be accepted by the scientific community. What are they waiting for?
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