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![]() Paul the Octopus ![]() R.I.P. ![]() Paul the Octopus (reportedly hatched January 2008 - 26 October 2010) was a common octopus from Weymouth, England who lived in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul became internationally famous for correctly predicting the winner of Germany's seven matches at the 2010 World Cup, as well as the final. He died on 26 October 2010. ![]() ![]() Paul's predictions were designed so that he was presented with two boxes containing food in the form of a mussel, each box marked on the outside with the flag of a national football team in an upcoming match. The first mussel Paul ate in a box showing a particular flag indicated his prediction of who would win in four of Germany's six Euro 2008 matches, and in all seven of their matches in the 2010 World Cup. He correctly selected a win for Spain against the Netherlands in the World Cup final on 11 July by eating the mussel in the box with the Spanish flag on it. His "predictions" were 100% (8/8) correct for the 2010 World Cup and 86% (12/14) correct overall. Paul was retired after the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The keeper at the aquarium claims that Paul was not the same octopus that predicted the results for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championships. for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_paul ![]() |
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![]() HeroRats detecting landmines - 'cause landmines stink ! ![]() ![]() ![]() one video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NR5VAvlz200 Reason One: Rats have an incredibly good sense of smell, which they use to find explosives. Unlike metal detectors, they can detect both metal and plastic-cased landmines. Reason Two: Rats provide a relatively low-tech solution to the landmine problem, with the potential to be implemented anywhere. Reason Three: Rats are light (1.5 kg or less). They will not trip off mines when they stand on them (it typically takes 5 kg to set off a landmine). Reason Four: Rats are relatively easy to breed. Reason Five: Rats are easy to train, because they are motivated by food. Reason Six: Rats are small and very cheap to feed, maintain and transport. Reason Seven: Rats are less emotionally tied to their handler than dogs. It is therefore easier to transfer them between handlers. Reason Eight: Rats are everywhere. They can deal with almost any environment. Reason Nine: Rats are happy to do repetitive tasks. Reason Ten: Rats and humans make a great partnership, in working towards making the world a safer place. for more details check: ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() In general: Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is a type of therapy that involves an animal with specific characteristics becoming a fundamental part of a person's treatment. Animal-assisted therapy is designed to improve the physical, social, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning of the patient, as well as provide educational and motivational effectiveness for participants [1]. AAT can be provided on an individual or group basis. During AAT, therapists document records and evaluate the participant's progress. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many kinds of animals are used in therapy, including dogs, cats, elephants, birds, dolphins, rabbits, lizards, and other small animals. Such animals are often referred to as comfort animals. AAT with horses is known specifically as equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP), equine-assisted creative living (EACL), equine-assisted personal development (EAPD) or hippotherapy. The Dolphins who saved a fisherman Ronnie Dabal was fishing for tuna in the choppy waters of Puerto Princesa Bay when a squall came upon him and turned his boat upside down. After battling with punishing waves for the next 24 hours on top of a piece of styropor, Dabal was losing his strength as darkness was coming. From out of nowhere, a pod of around 30 dolphins and a pair of whales came and started to flank him on both sides. The dolphins started alternately to nudge his tiny life raft using their pectoral fins towards the direction of land. Dabal said he passed out while the dolphins were doing their slow chore of nudging him to shore, and woke up on the beach of Barangay where he was finally assisted by local residents there. CONTRA: ![]() ![]() PRO: ![]() ![]() for intense clarification: "The Cove" (movie) Honor & Respect to: Ric O'Barry ![]()
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![]() Good posts, evilmoers.
Particularly the Rats and Dolphins. As for the Octopus, I love them, but this way: Yummy!! ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Jesus Lizard is called that because it can indeed walk on water just like Jesus. Its real name is Basilisk and it hails from sunny Central America and is related to the Iguana. The Jesus Lizard likes to live near water, that way, when it is frightened by an approaching predator it can get to the water and run across the surface. Their predators are: large birds, snakes, fish, other larger reptiles, and a few mammals. The lizards can run on water because they have a fringe of scales on their hind toes which makes little webs that can trap bubbles of air and water beneath their feet. This keeps them from sinking into the water if they run quickly enough across. When they do stop running they don’t mind taking a little swim. The smaller lizards can run further than the bigger and heavier ones. Basilisks usually weigh between 200-600 grams (0.44 - 1.3 lbs) and may grow to be about 2 feet (61 cm) long although they average about 1 foot (30.5 cm) in length. ![]() There are four species of Basilisk: * Basiliscus basiliscus - The Common basilisk * Basiliscus galeritus - Red-headed or Western basilisk * Basiliscus plumifrons - Plumed basilisk * Basiliscus vittatus - Striped or Brown Basilisk (this is the runner - "The Jesus Lizard")
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![]() ![]() The archerfish (Spinner Fish or Archer Fish) are a family (Toxotidae) of fish known for their habit of preying on land based insects and other small animals by literally shooting them down with water droplets from their specialized mouths. The family is small, consisting of seven species in the genus Toxotes; which typically inhabit brackish waters of estuaries and mangroves, but can also be found in the open ocean as well as far upstream in fresh water India to the Philippines, Australia, and Polynesia. Archerfish or Spinnerfish bodies are deep and laterally compressed, with the dorsal fin set far back, and the profile a straight line from dorsal fin to mouth. The mouth is protractile, and the lower jaw juts out. Sizes are generally small,about 5–10 cm but T. chatareus can reach 40 centimetres (16 in). ![]() Archerfish are remarkably accurate in their shooting; adult fish almost always hit the target on the first shot. They can bring down an insect that includes grasshoppers, spiders and butterflies on a branch overhanging the water, 3 m above the water's surface. This is partially due to their good eyesight, but also their ability to compensate for the refraction of light as it passes through the air water interface when aiming for their prey. They typically spit at prey at a mean angle of about 74 degrees from the horizontal, but can still aim accurately when spitting at angles between 45 and 110 degrees. When an archerfish selects its prey, it rotates its eye so that the image of the prey falls on a particular portion of the eye in the ventral temporal periphery of the retina and its lips just break the surface, squirting a jet of water at its victim. It does this using the narrow groove in the roof of its mouth. It presses its tongue against this groove to form a narrow channel, then contracts its gill covers to force a powerful jet of water through the channel. The resulting jet of water can be up to 2–5 m long, but their accuracy only allows them to shoot insects 1–2 m away depending on body size. The fish can alter the power of the shot for prey of different sizes. If the first shot does not knock the victim into the water, the archerfish will keep trying. Young archerfish start shooting when they are about 2.5 cm long, but are inaccurate at first and must learn from experience. During this learning period, they hunt in small schools. This way, the probability is enhanced that at least one jet will hit its target. Archerfish will often leap out of the water and grab an insect in their mouth if it happens to be within reach. Individuals typically prefer to remain close to the surface of the water.
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![]() Ah, poor Paul the Octopus.
Now 6 feet under. Leaving two above. As for the spitting fish, there's a number of vids on this site that are frighteningly similar .... |
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![]() Loxodonta africana ![]() Imagine six, full-size pick-up trucks stacked on top of each other. That's how much the largest African elephant weighed. There are other species of elephants, namely the Asian and the Indian, but they are much smaller than the African. The African elephant is the king among the giants on land. No other land animal comes close to the size of these creatures. It would take 165 full-grown men to make up the same weight as the world's record African elephant. The noise of an elephant digesting its food (when its tummy's growling) can be heard up to 600ft/183m away. Elephants actually have control over their digestive processes because they are able to stop the sounds of digestion when they sense danger. Here are some other cool elephant factoids: · In one year an elephant can drink 15,000 gal/57,000 liters of water · Male elephants usually weigh about 16,500 lbs/7,425 kgs and are about 20 ft/6.1m long · Elephants have only FOUR teeth, which they can lose and replace up to six times · Elephants are herbivores, meaning they eat only plants and vegetation · African elephants can live as long as 70 years · Female gestation (length of pregnancy) in elephants is 22 months - almost 2 years! · Both male and female elephants have ivory tusks, which they use to dig for water, strip bark off trees, and the males used to 'spar' with each other An Elephant Never Forgets Elephants are very intelligent animals, with a sophisticated system of communicating. Like whales, they can create sounds that are outside the range of human hearing (called subsonic* sound). By blowing air through large chambers in their nasal passages they can create low rumbling sounds that can carry as far as five miles (8kms). No matter how loudly you screamed, even through a megaphone or a public address microphone, you couldn't be heard by another person five miles away! Being able to communicate with other groups of elephants helps the elephants to detect danger and warn others, as well as to find water, which is extremely scarce in some parts of Africa. African elephants are intelligent enough to be able to detect water flowing underground and have been seen digging up water in a riverbed that has run dry. The largest land carnivore weighed over a ton, but half of that was FAT!
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![]() Balaenoptera musculus ![]() Blue Whales are True Giants Imagine if you were sailing the ocean for the first time, venturing into a place you'd never seen before, and you look over the side of your boat into the water and see the creature in the photo at left. Imagine that you know almost nothing about what lives in the sea, or what to expect from any creatures you might see. This strange creature swimming near the surface is longer than the ship you are sailing on. You might be a little scared, especially having never seen it before and not knowing what it is capable of. You might even be worrying about whether this creature eats humans. The sheer size of it makes you wonder if it can capsize your ship in pursuit of a meal. But you have nothing to fear for this enormous animal is merely a whale. For many, many years ancient sailors had rare encounters with these gigantic ocean mammals and were terrified by their overwhelming size and powerful tails. You can understand a little of the fear and trepidation they might have felt upon seeing these huge, mysterious creatures for the first time. Today we know them to be virtually harmless to humans and that they have quite a bit in common with us – they, too are warm-blooded mammals that must breathe air. They are highly social animals with complex languages and intelligence. Most importantly, they are not monsters at all, but gentle giants we’ve come to respect, admire and protect. In scary movies the gigantic creature that swims in the ocean, or the huge beast that roams the streets, are evil monsters bent on harm and destruction. But in nature (in real life), the very largest of the large creatures have been virtually harmless to humans. In fact, magnificent creatures such as the great blue whale have suffered most at the hands of humans bent on destruction. Blue whales, as well as many other whale species, have been hunted to the brink of extinction by people from all over the world for centuries. It's only recently, in this century, that we as a species have begun to appreciate the value of all living creatures. We have come to feel that wiping any species of animal off the face of the earth forever is an evil thing for humans to do. Blue whales have been put on the United States' endangered species list. Whalers in the 19th and 20th centuries hunted this giant nearly to extinction, killing as many as 29,000 in 1931, probably the peak year. Big in Every Way Blue whales are so big they are the BIGGEST creature ever to have lived on earth - even bigger than the biggest dinosaurs! The LARGEST whale ever measured was a female weighing 171,000 kgs and measuring over 90ft./27m long. The LONGEST whale measured in at over 110ft./33m. If you laid him out on the ground he would take up the length of nine family-sized cars! Blue whales diet consists mainly of krill, a tiny shrimp that lives in tremendously large schools in almost every ocean of the world. Krill is probably one of the most plentiful food species (outside of insects) anywhere on earth. It's gotta be to keep up with the blue whales' big appetite. A big blue can eat over a thousand krill at one time swallowing them with a tongue that weighs as much as an elephant! Blue whales eat the krill using a special type of filter on their mouths called a baleen. By gulping enormous amounts of sea water containing the live krill the blue whale closes its mouth and flushes the sea water back out through the filter leaving the krill behind for it to swallow. Small fish and plankton are also favorite food items of the whale. It takes about 8,000 lbs/3600kg of fresh seafood a day to keep the blue whale well fed. Photo of shrimp krillProbably the most spectacular thing about blue whales that's bigger than big is the sounds they make. If you have speakers on your computer you can listen to a recording of "blue whale speech" by clicking on the 'play' button in the audio box above. Scientists have measured the low-frequency (deep rumbling) sounds they make when they communicate with each other by using a decibel meter. Some of their vocalizations have been recorded as loud as 188 decibels and can be heard as far as 530 mi/848km away. To give you an idea of just how loud 188 decibels is a commercial jet taking off makes a sound of 120 decibels. That makes whales, by far, the loudest living Why is the Blue Whale So Big? Scientist don't really know for sure, but they are sure of one thing - as big as the ancient dinosaurs were they were NEVER as big as the blue whale is. The blue whale is the largest creature to have ever lived on earth! One of the most important reasons that whales have become so large is they have more SPACE - more room to roam. Remember: over 70% of the earth is covered in ocean water. Another nice thing about living in the oceans, besides all the real estate, is the weightlessness effect of water. If you like to swim or SCUBA dive you know how it feels to be in the water - almost like floating in space. (In fact, NASA sometimes trains their astronauts inside huge tanks of water to get familiar with working in a zero-gravity environment.) It's the weightlessness of the ocean environment that allows a whale to maintain such huge proportions. Instead of relying on a skeleton to support the weight of its massive bulk the buoyancy of the surrounding ocean water supports the weight of the whale's body tissues. If a blue whale were to be removed from the ocean it would smother under its own weight - a result of the effects of gravity.
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![]() Istiophorus platypterus ![]() Mysterious Speed Demons Sailfish are a very well-known species of fish (you've probably heard of them, and maybe even seen one mounted) because of their popularity among sport fishermen. They are world-renowned for the challenge they provide even the most experienced anglers. In fact, there isn't much science knows about this species of fish, except what observations fishermen have gathered from encounters with it. Over-fishing of this magnificent fish has led to a noticeable decline in their numbers, so that many people who fish for them are putting them back after they've caught them (called "catch and release"). Even as well known as they are, sailfish are a difficult species to study because they are highly migratory and are typically found many hundreds of miles from shore. These two factors make it very difficult for scientists to locate, tag, and collect data on specimens. Cooperation from sport fishermen who prize this species is essential for scientists to learn more about the sailfishes' range and behavior. ![]() What little we do know about the Range and Habitat: Sailfish are found in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with different scientific names assigned to the fish in either ocean (Pacific - Istiophorus albicans; Atlantic - Istiophorus platypterus). However, scientists now believe that these fish are actually the same species, the only difference being the ocean in which they live and their size - the Pacific ocean sailfish tend to grow significantly larger (up to 10 feet). Based on catch rates and water temperature, it has been determined that sailfish prefer to live in warm waters (approximately 79°F), although they have been caught as far north in the Atlantic as Cape Cod. Growth: Some studies have been done to examine the growth rate of the fish with some pretty amazing findings. After a female sailfish lays her eggs they hatch 36 hours later! They are also a fast growing species, where a hatchling can grow up to six feet long in one year's time. How big do they get? The average length is 6 to 8 feet, but the world's record holder caught in 1994 weighed 141 pounds and was over ten feet long. Diet: They eat flying fish and squid, preferring tunas, mackerels, jacks and other fish that swim near the ocean’s surface. Divers have reported seeing several sailfish work together to corral their prey, using their high fins to create a wall that keeps the smaller fish from escaping, as well as scaring them into smaller, denser groups. They've also been observed using their long, sharp bills to stun and skewer their prey. Scientists have also photographed them hunting in groups, flashing brilliant colors on their bodies when excited by their predatory behavior during feeding. ![]() Why Study this Fish? Photo of sailfish leaping from the water A sailfish leaping from the ocean with its large sail-like dorsal fin retracted against its body. Sailfish usually raise their sails when they are excited or swimming on the surface. When you first look at a picture of this fish there are lots of questions that come to mind; "Why the tall fin? Tell us all about that big fin!"; "Why the long beak?", "How did it get to be so fast and why is it so fast?". If scientists can study this fish more closely, many of these questions can be answered. Most importantly, we study this fish, and all other fishes, to learn more about their contribution to their ecosystem (the ocean environment) and how they affect all other creatures, including humans. Since we put significant pressure on this particular species of fish by fishing for them for sport and for food, we need to learn as much as we can about them to protect their numbers. Once we have a better understanding of how sailfish live, how often they breed, how quickly they grow, the best conditions for them in the ocean, what they need to eat to stay healthy and robust, we can work to ensure that the numbers of sailfish we take from the oceans isn't more than the species can sustain without a decline in population. Video:
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