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Elephants give each other names — the 1st non-human animals to do so, study claimsElephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park appear to call to each other with individual names using low, complex "rumbles," a study has found. Name a famous elephant. Babar, perhaps? Or Dumbo? Memorable though these monikers may be to humans, they sound nothing like the names elephants give each other. If you're an elephant, your name is something more like a low, rumbling sound, scientists say. In a new paper published Aug. 23 on the preprint server BioRxiv, researchers found that African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) made vocalizations specific to individuals in their social groups — and that the recipients responded accordingly. In short, elephants appear to have names for one another. This makes them the first non-human animals to address each other in a manner that does not imitate the receiver's own call, as dolphins and parrots do. And while other animals do produce what are known as "referential calls" in order to identify objects just as predators or food, those calls are believed to be instinctive and do not require social learning. In the new study, the team recorded 527 elephant calls in the greater Samburu ecosystem in northern Kenya and 98 calls in the Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya. The researchers then identified rumbles specific to 119 individuals by discerning which members of groups of female elephants and their offspring were separated from the herd at the time of each vocalization or approached when the call was made. Using a computer model, the researchers correctly identified the receivers of 20.3% of the 625 recorded calls. This marks a step forward in understanding how these highly intelligent animals communicate. "There's a contact rumble, there's an anti-predator rumble, there's a greeting rumble. If you look at a spectrogram, they all look almost exactly the same, or exactly the same," Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, an elephant biologist at Harvard University Medical School who was not involved in the study, told Live Science. "That's why AI has been exciting. It allows us to really figure out what the elephants are honing in on." As it turned out, the calls were not generic sounds aimed at, for example, younger elephants or mothers. They were distinct to the receiver. Even calls from different callers to the same receiver were similar — though the pattern was less obvious than it was between a single caller and receiver. This may be because rumbles encode multiple messages simultaneously, so the computer model may not have been able to pick out the "name" used in each call, the authors wrote in the study. "It just highlights the complexity of what's going on," O'Connell-Rodwell said. "And we're not skilled enough at what those measurements should be to figure out what's going on." The researchers also found that elephants responded more strongly to recordings of calls originally addressed to them than to calls addressed to other elephants, further supporting their findings. "The real value of this paper is that it shows how elephants are navigating through a large landscape and can still keep in touch with specific individuals," O'Connell-Rodwell said. "It allows them to spread out much further and still have very close tabs on individuals, not just the group. It's not just like, I'm sending out a ping. Somebody else is sending out a ping. It's much more sophisticated than that." |
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Great story Gay.
Just hope they're not currently hanging up in the Copper's cool room.
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Alaskan wildlife troopers rescue deer from cold waters, giving them lift in boatTwo deer struggling in the waters of south-east Alaska's famed Inside Passage have made it to land thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the animals a lift in their boat. Key points:
Sergeant Mark Finses and trooper Kyle Feuge were returning from a patrol in nearby Ernest Sound to Ketchikan on October 10 when they spotted the deer, agency spokesperson Justin Freeman told The Associated Press. The deer were about 6.4 kilometres from any island in the channel, which is favoured by large cruise ships taking tourists in summer months to locations such as Ketchikan and Juneau. The deer were floating down Clarence Strait about 22.5 kilometres north-west of Ketchikan, but not toward any particular island, Mr Freeman said. They were fighting the current during mid-tide. "Out in the middle of Clarence, they're in rough shape, like on their last leg," Mr Finses said on a video he shot with his phone and that the troopers posted to social media. The troopers stopped their 10-metre patrol vessel about 137 metres from the two deer, which saw the boat and headed towards it. The troopers shut off the engines so the animals would not be spooked. When the deer reached the boat, they butted their heads against it, then swam right up the swim step, at which point the troopers helped them get the rest of the way onboard. Once in the boat, the deer shivered from their time in the cold water. The average temperature of the water in Ketchikan in October is 10.2 degrees Celsius, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "I'm soaked to the bone," Mr Finses says in the video. "I had to pick them up and bear hug them to get them off our deck and get them on the beach." Once back on land, the deer initially had difficulty standing and walking, Mr Freeman said. But eventually, they were able to walk around slowly before trotting off. "The deer ended up being completely OK," he said. It is common to see deer swimming in south-east Alaska waters, going from one island to another. Mr Freeman said what was not common was having deer swim up to a boat and trying to get on it. |
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A mother deer stops traffic & convinces a driver to follow her to rescue her baby stuck in nets. And one more magic happens at the end. Kindness brings out the best. https://twitter.com/i/status/1670078573279956992
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Gene Therapy spays cats without surgeryIn a first in the realm of spay and neuter programs for dogs and cats, scientists announced they’ve created a one-shot contraceptive for female felines, which eliminates the need for a traditional surgical spaying. The shot formula involves inserting a hormone gene into an adeno-associated virus commonly used in gene therapy to transport the replacement genes into the cats’ cells. The shot is injected into the thigh muscle. Researchers said they’re not sure how, exactly, it works — whether via a mechanism in the cats’ follicles or something else — but, so far, in almost two years they’ve had no pregnancies. In fact, in some cases the felines simply refused to mate. Research is being continued to see if gene therapy also works in dogs.
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I saw that story awhile back, VSP, and isnt it just a great story .
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The emotional story of how a racehorse changed a boys life.
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Freeze things happen! Chilly raccoon becomes stuck to the railway by his testicle hair after temperatures plummet to -12C before railway workers free him using warm water and a shovel
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Exmouth residents are mourning the death of a lone sheep that became synonymous with the Ningaloo lighthouse that overlooks one of the country's most spectacular coastlines. Key points:
Shaun the sheep, also known as Rocky or Shrek, died from natural causes on New Year's Eve at the nearby caravan park he would frequent for a drink of water. Such was his impact that there are talks of installing a memorial on the lighthouse hill where he would graze and gaze out to sea. Exmouth may be known for its coral reef and whale sharks but Jana Powell said over the years Shaun the sheep became famous in his own right. The Ningaloo Lighthouse Holiday Park caretaker said the ram had been around for most of the decade she had been in the town. "He may have been from a station in the [Exmouth] gulf or further down. Some say they’ve seen him 12 to 14 years ago, others 20," Mrs Powell said. "They don't tend to live by themselves but he somehow managed to come to the lighthouse years ago. "One of those famous photos ... in your head is when you look up to the lighthouse from the park at the sunset and you can see that sheep silhouette on the lighthouse hill." Bit of a characterExmouth resident Trevor Kenyon first encountered Shaun the sheep eight years ago walking back to the caravan park from Jansz Beach. No-one believed him there was a sheep hanging out at the beach until someone else saw him a week later. "Every year he got closer until he was virtually living in the caravan park," Mr Kenyon said. "He lived his life and he didn't worry about the traffic, he'd be grazing along the road, didn't worry about nothing ... nothing fazed him, he was just there doing his own thing."Mr Kenyon said he coined the name Shaun after the main character in the BBC children's show. Former caravan park worker Emma Faulkner said she called him Shaun because he had never been shorn. "Where you've got the lighthouse he used to literally stand on the corner like the Lion King and everyone could see him up there catching the wind on the hotter days," she said. "Every time we saw him we would always make an effort to put the window down and talk to him. "One day he just looked straight back at me and let out this baa, and my heart melted instantly and he never did it again." Another former worker at the park, Joanne Cooper, said staff would always be on the hunt for Shaun after a rare bit of rainfall. "When it did it poured with rain, and everyone was worried because of all the wool he had that if he got too wet he'd topple over one of the hills and wouldn't be able to get back up again," she said. "He was no-one's pet but everyone was looking out for him." A sheep against the elementsOver the years Shaun survived a cyclone, dingoes and sweltering days over 40 degrees with his unshorn coat that got thicker and thicker. There was a general thought all that wool kept him safe from the dingoes. Regardless, Mrs Powell said to survive so long by himself was a feat.Sheep typically live 10 to 12 years but the oldest one in world lived to 28. Shaun started to slow down in the past year and was hanging around the caravan park grounds more and more until his death. Mrs Powell said it was sad he was gone but she also felt happy to see how well-liked he was around the town. She said she hoped a memorial could be installed as a tribute to Shaun. "It would be nice to be able to put something on that hill somewhere for people to memorialise him and show their respects to him," Mrs Powell said. "It's hard to explain but one single sheep can make such a difference or can just bring so much joy to so many people." |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB4Ev2tztY8&t=606s[TUBE]xB4Ev2tztY8&t=606s[/TUBE]
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Worth watching the other clips as well.
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Nice little " clip out " on her rump , looks like a heart of course it is , you ding bat!
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She can ride and that's a game little pony
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Little girl and pony do X country course. Poetry in motion 😁 Edited by Sister Dot - 04 Jul 2022 at 5:43pm |
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“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined”
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Jeff, do you have any idea, at all, about the problems of wild horses?? The above story would be in USA, and the same stuff goes on here in Ozz. In fact, the Glorious Greenies want to shoot the horses from a helicopter.
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This is a very sad story. If you could publish it in some major newspaper, perhaps you could get some big companies or billionaires to pay attention to the barbwire problem.
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Beauty isnt only skin deep.
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Amazing story, and so good that the Judges saw past the acquired scars to the actual beautiful horse underneath. Time more judging was done that way across all disciplines.
The emotion from the owner was lovely, such a reward for all her dedication to the mare.
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So pleased you lifted that to here VSP. I didnt know how to find it, let alone lift it. But I saw it the other night. Love, dedication, and a miracle .
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