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Postby Perelandra » Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:23 pm

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Postby zangtang » Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:46 pm

I say chap, do steady on..........

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Postby LolaB » Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:07 am

[url]http://www.stern.de/panorama/kurz-gelacht-kuehe-terrorisieren-bauernhof-2117918.html
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Here's a bit of comic relief in these trying times / translation of the 'brief joke' article from the German weekly Stern:

"It is a well known fact, that too much freedom can indeed, get into your head. That's what a farmer in Upper Swabia found out, after he decided to give his charges a bit of fresh air. The new experience of moving freely on a meadow got the cows utterly unleashed. At first they just jumped around wildly. Then they damaged the fence and also an old house located on a farm in Bad Wuerzbach (Spicy Creek Bath), as was reported by the local police on Sunday.

The cows had been kept in a stable. On Saturday the farmer brought them to the meadow. From there various cows ran to the farm and rioted. Six of them ran into the threshing floor, and one into the hayloft, where it fell into the downstairs level.. Three broke through a door from the threshing floor to the old farmhouse. The old staircase could not support their weight, so the cows dropped two levels to the ground floor. One animal broke through an old ceiling and fell into a previous pigsty. Two cows were injured. The old farmhouse sustained considerable damage."

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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed May 06, 2015 10:10 am

Catfish captured on camera climbing cave walls for food in Ecuador by stunned scientists
The amoured catfish was filmed climbing up a wall in an Ecuadorian cave
Scientists have never seen this species of fish climbing out of the water
One of the fish observed by scientists was more than a metre above water
Luckily researchers had a video camera to film the amazing scenes
By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:43 EST, 4 May 2015 | UPDATED: 16:13 EST, 4 May 2015

These are the amazing scenes as a catfish manages to scale the wall of a cave to lick food from its roof.
Scientists filmed the catfish performing the seemingly impossible task inside a cave near Tena in the Napo District of Ecuador.
It is the first time the behaviour has ever been captured on camera.
Catfish climbs several metres of vertical flowstone in Ecuador

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Researchers found the armoured catfish climbing up an almost vertical wall in an Ecuadorian cave
Scientists believe that the fish had clambered up the wall in an effort to feed on algae on the roof
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Scientists believe that the fish had clambered up the wall in an effort to feed on algae on the roof
THE CLIMBING CATFISH
The fish, Chaetostoma microps, is a member of the armoured catfish family (Loricariidae) from the upper reaches of the Amazon basin, occurring in relatively limited areas in Ecuador and Peru.
They feed mainly on algae with their sucker-shaped mouths, which they also use for attaching to things like rocks and trees in fast flowing sections of water.
The researchers were trying to document the different types of wildlife in the cave complex when they were stunned to see several catfish trying to scale a waterfall, climbing up a near vertical slope.
According to a paper in Subterranean Biology, this is the first time catfish have been filmed climbing in a cave complex.
'As part of a mapping and preliminary flora and fauna inventory of hypogean life in caves, developed in Cretaceous limestones in the sub-andean zone of Ecuador, we were able to observe a number of catfish climbing a steep flowstone waterfall in the dark zone of a cave,' the team wrote.
The scientists identified the climbing fish as a species of armoured catfish called Loricariidae, which are are normally found in some parts of the Amazon and Ecaudor and Peru.

The fish have sucker-mouths which they use to cling onto rocks and trees in fast-flowing water.
But this was the first time scientist observed this species of fish adapting its behaviour and climbing up a wall.
Scientist Geoff Hoese, who led the study, told the BBC: 'It's not too surprising to find another catfish that climbs rocks. What is surprising is the environment that they are doing it in.

Scientists now want to return to the cave in order to further study the fish's unusual behaviour
'This is a significant observation that merits investigation into why they are there
'There isn't enough data at this point to do more than speculate, but it's nice to think that we may be watching a small but significant evolutionary step as a species moves from one niche to another.'
Mr Hoese said he needs to return to the region to determine whether these fish have simply got lost, of have they evolved to deal with a new situation.
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby MacCruiskeen » Wed May 20, 2015 6:04 am

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Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistence

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Published December 12, 2013

by Jason Hribal (Author), Jeffrey St. Clair (Introduction)

A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo leaps a 12-foot high wall and mauls three visitors who had been tormenting her, killing one. A circus elephant tramples and gores a sadistic trainer, who had repeatedly fed her lit cigarettes. A pair of orangutans at the San Diego Zoo steal a crowbar and screwdriver and break-out of their enclosure. An orca at Sea World snatches his trainer into the pool and holds her underwater until she drowns. What's going on here? Are these mere accidents? Simply cases of animals acting on instinct? That's what the zoos and animal theme parks would have you believe. But historian Jason Hribal tells a different story. In the most provocative book on animal rights since Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, Hribal argues persuasively that these escapes and attacks are deliberate, that the animals are acting with intent, that they are asserting their own desires for freedom. Fear of the Animal Planet is a harrowing, and curiously uplifting, chronicle of resistance against the captivity and torture of animals.

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Postby 82_28 » Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:45 am

Just bumping before I go to sleep and cannot mow through all these links. But there is a shit ton of animal uprising shit in the news right now.

Dolphins. Leopards. Lions. Pigeons. Sharks. Just to name a few.
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Postby SonicG » Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:44 am

Unfortunately this film didn't live up to the promise of the trailer but worth a look-see for the theme and dog training....

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Postby Luther Blissett » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:29 pm

Something completely unprecedented just happened: professional surfer Mick Fanning was attacked by at least one shark at the start of the finals in Jeffrey's Bay, in front of the entire world on a live webcast. He's okay but obviously stunned after being pulled underwater. This is obviously his livelihood and it's up to officials how to proceed.
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Postby zangtang » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:44 pm

seagulls in Cornwall getting a bit above themselves..... as if destroying the rubbish bags & strewing shit all over the shop wasn't enough!

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Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:39 am

The mystery of 'crow funerals' solved: Scientists say birds are trying to learn about potential dangers to their own lives

Mark Prigg
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Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:00 UTC
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Previous research has found crows have an excellent memory for human faces.
Crows mourn their dead to try and learn about potential dangers to their own lives, researchers have found.

They found the birds can even remember an animal or person seen with a dead crow.

The birds were also able to easily distinguish between people or hawks carrying dead crows and other birds.

'The funeral behaviour of crows is so widely observed, and people often asked about it - but we haven't known what was happening,' Kaeli Swift at the University of Washington, who led the research, told Dailymail.com.

The study recorded the crow's behaviour when stuffed crows which appeared dead were introduced to areas where they are feeding.

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'I introduced one of my three dangerous scenarios: a masked person holding a dead crow, a masked person standing near perched hawk, and a masked person standing near a perched hawk with a dead crow.'

In all these cases the birds were taxidermy-prepared mounts.

'The masks were used to work out how the crows recognised people - I had different volunteers each week,' Swift said.

In 96% of cases , the response was the same.

'The discovering bird (usually the territory holder) would scold and typically attract 5-11 additional birds.

'The mob would stick around for 10-20 minutes, scolding loudly and gradually growing more silent and dispersing before all but the territory holders were left.'

Exposure to the dangerous stimuli would only last 30min, after which they were removed.

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Volunteers wore realistic facemasks with neutral expressions for the experiments so the crows could recognise faces even though different volunteers were underneath them.
'I found that crows responded most strongly when they saw a person and a hawk with a dead crow as opposed to a person holding a dead crow or a person near a hawk,' said Swift.

'This tells us that context matters, and crows are most sensitive to dead crows when they're with familiar predators.

Even after 6 week, 38% of the 65 pairs eligible for all 6 tests continued to respond to the 'dangerous' person.

Previous research has found crows have an excellent memory for human faces, and Swift said the team have a pending publication on exactly how long they remember for, and said it is 'years'

She admits she was surprised by some of the results - in particular the fact crows learnt to recognise people simply standing near hawks.

'That was really surprising.'

Dr John Marzluff, of the University of Washington, has carried out previous studies in the area.

'Our findings add to the evolving view of large-brained, social and long-lived birds like crows being on a cognitive par with our closest relatives,' he previously said.

A team of scientists from the university exposed crows in Seattle to a 'dangerous face' by wearing a mask while trapping, banding and releasing birds at five sites.

Over a five-year period after the trapping had stopped, they found that the mask received an increasingly hostile response from birds in the area - suggesting that the captured birds had been able to warn others.

Dr Marzluff added: 'Because human actions often threaten animals, learning socially about individual people's habits would be advantageous.

'The number of crows scolding the dangerous mask continued to increase for five years after trapping, as expected if social learning or social stimulation were present.

'As we conducted trials, walking with the dangerous mask along the route, our actions presented opportunities for crows to observe or be stimulated by scolding.

'The number of crows encountered was consistent across trials, but the number that scolded the dangerous mask increased steadily.'
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:36 pm

A new species is evolving right before our eyes — an ultra-successful mix of wolves, coyotes and dogs
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30 OCT 2015 AT 11:35 ET
A new species combining wolves, coyotes and dogs is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.

Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.

The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.

That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.

Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.

The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to researchers at North Carolina State University.

Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.

That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.

At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a standard coyote, and its large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow it to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.

An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates its genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a quarter from wolves.

The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.

Its dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.

Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life — which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own — because its dog ancestry allows it to tolerate people and noise.

The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.

The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify its diet and eat discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats, which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become nocturnal to avoid humans.

The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.

Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing that one species does not interbreed with another — although the hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are distinct species in the first place.

But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had noticed until fairly recently.

“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina State.

Watch this report on coywolves posted online by THIRTEEN:
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Postby elfismiles » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:50 pm

Priest stoned to death by MONKEYS which have already killed two other men
A PRIEST was killed when a group of monkeys attacked him with house bricks.
By Leda Reynolds
PUBLISHED: 21:26, Wed, Dec 2, 2015 | UPDATED: 21:56, Wed, Dec 2, 2015
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/623 ... est-stoned

Warning issued after squirrel attacks 8 people in Novato
By Stephanie Weldy, Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 12/02/15, 5:14 PM PST | Updated: 5 hrs ago
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Re: Animal Uprising Thread

Postby Perelandra » Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:12 am

The Coywolf, a mixture of western coyote and eastern wolf, is a remarkable new hybrid carnivore that is taking over territories once roamed by wolves and slipping unnoticed into our cities. Its appearance is very recent - within the last 90 years - in evolutionary terms, a blip in time. Beginning in Canada but by no means ending there, the story of how it came to be is an extraordinary tale of how quickly adaptation and evolution can occur, especially when humans interfere. Tag along as scientists study this new top predator, tracking it from the wilderness of Ontario's Algonquin Park, through parking lots, alleys and backyards in Toronto, all the way to the streets of New York City.
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