03-12-2008, 10:20 AM | #121 |
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Dolphin saves beached whales
Thought it was worth mentioning: there's something really interesting going on there if it's true. Communication between these two different species.. Not unbelievable, we too do that to some extent, but darn interesting.
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03-12-2008, 10:55 AM | #122 |
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That's nice
It would be great if it would happen more often.
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Wow, that's very interesting, Nerdy!
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Wow! Amazing how they can be so fast. And they are pretty. The female bird didn't look so pretty at all! (You could see one in the last seconds of the video I think)
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That's how it often is: many female birds (and other animals as well) evolve camouflage colours, while the males evolve ornaments. Sometimes it's the other way around, though: it mostly depends on 1) in which way the sexual selection is working and 2) which way natural selection is working. 1) often leads to the elaborate ornaments we can see in many species, while 2) is behind the camouflage colouration.
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Moonwalking, of course if any bird has to come up with it, it has to be one of them...
Did anyone ever caught the episode of Planet Earth with the birds of paradise? Those funny mating rituals with the odd feathery shapes, I nearly died laughing.
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Yeah.. Funny stuff. Maybe that's the interspecies mating barriers: all other species run away laughing.
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Awww!
*is suddenly reminded of a Bible verse about children playing with snakes and the lion sleeping besides the lamb...* (I just read the Theology thread, that's probably why )
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lol! That's so sweet!
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Anyway: That's really interesting, I didn't know they did that. So that actually involves communication then, I guess? I mean, because there's a relationship between two species doesn't mean they can communicate with each other. And communication is, indeed, found even in slime molds - but as you say, that's intraspecific. I don't really agree with your claim that interspecific communication in more advanced animals is predictable just because more primitive lineages have it. I have a hard time believing (but would be happy to be proven wrong) that interspecific communication is a basic trait that more advanced species share - in my mind, it seems more probable that this property has been aquired independently in different lineages, and preserved in those where it has been of use. Then again, it naturally depends on what you mean by communication. Is eavesdropping, in your opinion, a form of communication? So I still think it's cooler than you make it sound. Maybe it's just because you know a lot more about marine mammals and I'm totally wrong about this.
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I think I see your point now - but many things could be possible that aren't realized. But yeah, thanks for your quick reply.
I'll read more about the eel-grouper relationship, it sounds really interesting! And I'm sure there's so much communication going on that we're not at all aware of.. Since we tend to be rather restricted. Oh, so you're not yourself a marine creature? o.O EDIT: we should've had this in the science thread instead.. that place seems to need something else to talk about.
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I'm not a marine mammal.
Yeah, the Gore discussion has ripened like bucket of offal over there. I hardly ever read it anymore.
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the one with the tiger and the piglets was so sad and sweet
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They're babbling in Finnish, but it's worth watching anyway: the reptile house in Helsinki (the one I have free access to since I did some translations for them ) has, again, new snake young! This time the yellow anacondas (Eunectes notaeus) were the ones who reproduced. And these ones like to bite. X)
Yellow anaconda babies
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Cute!
I love sneaky snakes. To bad you fellers gots to steal our Anacondas.
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