animals ability to detect things we cannot - link to the saddest story ever! (Apr/16/2008 )
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/328
why is it that animals are more intune to the environment and situations than humans are?
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-vetticus3-
evolution? basic instincts humans have lost across generations of civilization? i personally don't like cats at all (i think if they had bigger proportions than humans we'd be their snack), but the egyptians had cats as deities and even mummified them. a breed of dogs was shown to detect cancer tumours as well.
-toejam-
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i think if they had bigger proportions than humans we'd be their snack
the little one's are perfectable capable of making me a snack too... more specifically my toes, first thing in the morning.
i wonder what death smells like.
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-vetticus3-
QUOTE (vetticus3 @ Apr 17 2008, 02:30 PM)
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i think if they had bigger proportions than humans we'd be their snack
the little one's are perfectable capable of making me a snack too... more specifically my toes, first thing in the morning.
i wonder what death smells like.
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How about the delightfully-named (or perhaps aptly-named) putrescine or cadaverine???
It sounds like James Lovelock's book about animals who know when their masters are coming home.
-swanny-
It must be evolution. We have evolved to think and even live in fairy tales and science fiction than to be intune to the environment.
That's why even if we cannot smell piece of bone from thrash or smell rain or earthquake, we can write a thesis in our old bugging PC. Let me see a cat do that.
-Bungalow Boy-
QUOTE (Bungalow Boy @ Apr 17 2008, 03:51 PM)
It must be evolution. We have evolved to think and even live in fairy tales and science fiction than to be intune to the environment.
That's why even if we cannot smell piece of bone from thrash or smell rain or earthquake, we can write a thesis in our old bugging PC. Let me see a cat do that.
That's why even if we cannot smell piece of bone from thrash or smell rain or earthquake, we can write a thesis in our old bugging PC. Let me see a cat do that.
Give me an Infinite Improbability generator and a fresh cup of really hot tea, and I'll give you an army of monkeys with their script of Hamlet.
-swanny-
QUOTE (swanny @ Apr 17 2008, 03:35 PM)
How about the delightfully-named (or perhaps aptly-named) putrescine or cadaverine???
how fancy... sounds expensive. eau de putrescine, because you're worth it TM.
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QUOTE (vetticus3 @ Apr 17 2008, 08:52 AM)
QUOTE (swanny @ Apr 17 2008, 03:35 PM)
How about the delightfully-named (or perhaps aptly-named) putrescine or cadaverine???
how fancy... sounds expensive. eau de putrescine, because you're worth it TM.
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That's the type of smell dogs like and start to wallow in.
Anyway nice article. But cats (or this cat) might be able to predict when residents die, but not when they die their self.
There was this story about cats and buzzards: Imagine a pasture landscape with several villages and many cats (as pets). On the pastures lots of mice and rabbits. Birds of prey (buzzards, falcons) and of course the cats were preying on them. Unfortunately the buzzards also hunted down the cats and this with greater success than rabbits. The difference was: Rabbits zigzag, cats not.
Therefore cats seem to be better adopted to human than to natural environments.
-hobglobin-