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Ranchers watch lone beaver herd curious cattle on Saskatchewan pasture
ITUNA, Sask. — It's about as Canadian as a cattle drive can get.
Ranchers northeast of Regina are shaking their heads after watching a herd of curious bovines slowly follow a beaver across one of their pastures.
Adrienne Ivey and her husband Aaron were out checking their 150 cattle near Ituna on Good Friday when they noticed something odd.
The cattle were gathered together and walking slowly behind a beaver, with some of the heifers lowering their heads to get a closer look at the furry cowboy with a funny-looking tail.
When the beaver stopped, the herd would stop, and then follow again when the rodent resumed its stroll.
Ivey told radio station CJME that she and her husband are used to herding their cows with horses or quads, but nothing like this.
She said young cattle are naturally curious, while the beaver seemed to ignore all the attention.
"We knew that people would get a great chuckle out of it because you cannot get more Canadian than that," said Ivey, who posted a video of the beaver-bovine cattle drive on Facebook.
"We talk about how awesome our Canadian beef is, but a beaver leading cattle around? It's the most Canadian thing ever!"
Ivey said the beaver was probably looking around the pasture for a place to build a dam.
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https://ca.yahoo.com/news/ranchers-watc ... 28985.html
Ranchers watch lone beaver herd curious cattle on Saskatchewan pasture
ITUNA, Sask. — It's about as Canadian as a cattle drive can get.
Ranchers northeast of Regina are shaking their heads after watching a herd of curious bovines slowly follow a beaver across one of their pastures.
Adrienne Ivey and her husband Aaron were out checking their 150 cattle near Ituna on Good Friday when they noticed something odd.
The cattle were gathered together and walking slowly behind a beaver, with some of the heifers lowering their heads to get a closer look at the furry cowboy with a funny-looking tail.
When the beaver stopped, the herd would stop, and then follow again when the rodent resumed its stroll.
Ivey told radio station CJME that she and her husband are used to herding their cows with horses or quads, but nothing like this.
She said young cattle are naturally curious, while the beaver seemed to ignore all the attention.
"We knew that people would get a great chuckle out of it because you cannot get more Canadian than that," said Ivey, who posted a video of the beaver-bovine cattle drive on Facebook.
"We talk about how awesome our Canadian beef is, but a beaver leading cattle around? It's the most Canadian thing ever!"
Ivey said the beaver was probably looking around the pasture for a place to build a dam.
Check out the video
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/ranchers-watc ... 28985.html
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LOL, the cows are curious to what it is, could be a midget cow
I like the video after where the duck was playing chicken with the tiger.
I like the video after where the duck was playing chicken with the tiger.
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I think I read before that these mole rats have a queen much like ants, bees wasps and termites. I didn't know that their colonies were that large. on the average 200 individuals. If they can survive on almost no oxygen then that also makes me think that the odds are higher now that there is life elsewhere in our universe.
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Yeah moles are strange to how other Mammals are, they are a hive as the bees ran by a queen.
If you have moles you need to get rid of her if you can, and also the food they eat like Grubs.
If you have moles you need to get rid of her if you can, and also the food they eat like Grubs.
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Those must have been cool. Cowboys might have a tough time trying to rounfd them up on the ranch. Scientists must have learned a lot from this so well preserved fossil.
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I saw better images online, it is amazing the detail still there.
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I wonder if they don't have fairly advanced communication or even a language that has been passed down and developed of the many thousands of years. I was lucky enough to see one very clearly lying on the ice in Invermere BC the February before last.He/she was about 30 feet away from me.
Otter genius! How the animals are just as clever as chimpanzees: 'Tupperware test' finds species are one of the few who learn from others how to do tasks
Found the use paws, back legs and teeth to unclip boxes
Test boxes were fastened at four sides and animals could even open a jar
ey have been spotted juggling with stones and holding paws while asleep to stop a partner floating away.
Now otters have shown they are not just cute, but clever, after displaying a surprising talent at opening Tupperware.
It is easy for us to get into our lunchbox during the work day, but otters find it much harder, with one taking three hours to open a screw-top lid.
However a study has found they can use their paws, back legs and teeth to even unclip a box fastened at four sides and open a jar.
They do so because they learn from each other, British scientists found, which puts them among the cleverest creatures in the animal kingdom.
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Dr Neeltje Boogert, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, said: ‘We know that sea otters hold paws when they are sleeping and use tools to crack open clams, and smooth-coated otters work together to “round up” fish when they are hunting.
‘Now otters have shown another fundamentally cultural trait, which is social learning. Very few animals are known to teach their young, but anecdotally this puts them among highly intelligent creatures like dolphins and chimpanzees.
‘We hope to use this knowledge to teach captive otters how to avoid new predators like dogs and other human threats, and how to find food in the wild, which will improve their chances of survival when they are released.’
The study tested Asian otters with ‘puzzles’ consisting of Tupperware containers of varying shapes filled with otter treats, including fish heads, mealworms and peanuts.
For otters, each container became harder work, ranging from a simple lunchbox with a lid to a frozen shrimp on a bamboo cane which needed to be lifted upwards and to the right to fit through a hole.
Videos of the experiment, in 24 otters taken from British zoos and wildlife parks, show them shoving the containers, trying to use their front paws, hind feet and jaws to prise off the lids.
But the ‘solution’ to opening each soon spread through the otters, who hunt together and typically live in groups of four and five.
In smooth-coated otters, those that spent most time together were most likely to solve the problem together.
The solutions spread through this group, helping them get into containers in an average of 20 minutes, which showed they were copying each other.
Dr Boogert said: ‘The order in which the young otters solved the puzzles followed the strength of their social ties. This indicates that the juveniles copied those siblings they spent most time with.’
Just as human children often master internet tasks more quickly than their parents, the young otters were six times as fast as their parents.
In the smooth-coated otters, although not Asian short-clawed otters, the authors found they used social learning more than a quarter of the time, with the results expected to apply to native British otters too.
This is important for areas where endangered otters are being reintroduced into the wild, such as the Isle of Skye.
The Tupperware test could lead to animals being shown videos of other otters looking frightened around dogs, for example, which could teach them to be wary.
The study, published in Royal Society journal Open Science, states: ‘Conservation organisations facilitating reintroduction programmes could benefit from using social transmission as a way of training captive-bred otters to cope with life in the wild.
‘Previous research suggests that animals trained on important life skills (e.g. anti-predator behaviour) through social learning have a higher survival rate once reintroduced into the wild.’
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Otter genius! How the animals are just as clever as chimpanzees: 'Tupperware test' finds species are one of the few who learn from others how to do tasks
Found the use paws, back legs and teeth to unclip boxes
Test boxes were fastened at four sides and animals could even open a jar
ey have been spotted juggling with stones and holding paws while asleep to stop a partner floating away.
Now otters have shown they are not just cute, but clever, after displaying a surprising talent at opening Tupperware.
It is easy for us to get into our lunchbox during the work day, but otters find it much harder, with one taking three hours to open a screw-top lid.
However a study has found they can use their paws, back legs and teeth to even unclip a box fastened at four sides and open a jar.
They do so because they learn from each other, British scientists found, which puts them among the cleverest creatures in the animal kingdom.
Scroll down for video
Dr Neeltje Boogert, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter, said: ‘We know that sea otters hold paws when they are sleeping and use tools to crack open clams, and smooth-coated otters work together to “round up” fish when they are hunting.
‘Now otters have shown another fundamentally cultural trait, which is social learning. Very few animals are known to teach their young, but anecdotally this puts them among highly intelligent creatures like dolphins and chimpanzees.
‘We hope to use this knowledge to teach captive otters how to avoid new predators like dogs and other human threats, and how to find food in the wild, which will improve their chances of survival when they are released.’
The study tested Asian otters with ‘puzzles’ consisting of Tupperware containers of varying shapes filled with otter treats, including fish heads, mealworms and peanuts.
For otters, each container became harder work, ranging from a simple lunchbox with a lid to a frozen shrimp on a bamboo cane which needed to be lifted upwards and to the right to fit through a hole.
Videos of the experiment, in 24 otters taken from British zoos and wildlife parks, show them shoving the containers, trying to use their front paws, hind feet and jaws to prise off the lids.
But the ‘solution’ to opening each soon spread through the otters, who hunt together and typically live in groups of four and five.
In smooth-coated otters, those that spent most time together were most likely to solve the problem together.
The solutions spread through this group, helping them get into containers in an average of 20 minutes, which showed they were copying each other.
Dr Boogert said: ‘The order in which the young otters solved the puzzles followed the strength of their social ties. This indicates that the juveniles copied those siblings they spent most time with.’
Just as human children often master internet tasks more quickly than their parents, the young otters were six times as fast as their parents.
In the smooth-coated otters, although not Asian short-clawed otters, the authors found they used social learning more than a quarter of the time, with the results expected to apply to native British otters too.
This is important for areas where endangered otters are being reintroduced into the wild, such as the Isle of Skye.
The Tupperware test could lead to animals being shown videos of other otters looking frightened around dogs, for example, which could teach them to be wary.
The study, published in Royal Society journal Open Science, states: ‘Conservation organisations facilitating reintroduction programmes could benefit from using social transmission as a way of training captive-bred otters to cope with life in the wild.
‘Previous research suggests that animals trained on important life skills (e.g. anti-predator behaviour) through social learning have a higher survival rate once reintroduced into the wild.’
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Could it be their loving positive energy penetrating into it's owner ? One friend told me that the dog is Gods friend for man and I think that this very well could be the truth.
Having a dog can help you live LONGER by slashing risk of premature death
DOGS really are man’s best friend when it comes to living a long and healthy life.
By SARAH WESTCOTT
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/8 ... ive-longer
Having a dog can help you live LONGER by slashing risk of premature death
DOGS really are man’s best friend when it comes to living a long and healthy life.
By SARAH WESTCOTT
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/8 ... ive-longer
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There doesn't seem to be much friendly chit chat in these octopus cities but with the internet finding mates might be a bit easier.
Here's the never-before-seen 'octopus city' scientists recently discovered
A group of scientists discovered an underwater "octopus city" off the coast of Australia in Jervis Bay, and they've named it "Octlantis."
This discovery of octopuses interacting in a high-density den challenges scientists' previously held belief that octopuses are solitary and antisocial creatures.
http://www.businessinsider.com/octopus- ... red-2017-9
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Here's the never-before-seen 'octopus city' scientists recently discovered
A group of scientists discovered an underwater "octopus city" off the coast of Australia in Jervis Bay, and they've named it "Octlantis."
This discovery of octopuses interacting in a high-density den challenges scientists' previously held belief that octopuses are solitary and antisocial creatures.
http://www.businessinsider.com/octopus- ... red-2017-9
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I think they are really cool animals, and one of the more interesting.
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nature, if it works keep it up
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The grizzlies claws are quite a bit longer than the polar bears. In one documentary I watched the grizzly killed the polar bear. I think that the grizzlies far larger head would give it increased biting power and give the grizzly an increased amount of punishment that it could endure. The siberian tigers claws are also quite a bit bigger than lions. I didn't know that ravens had talons.
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So your saying size does matter
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It tried
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That shark intended on making a nice little snack out of him
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Good thing he wasn't sitting with his legs dangling.
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Can you imagine walking through the deep forest and seeing this monster so close.
Hikers in Canada encounter huge Grizzly Bear in forest
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/watch/h ... ailsignout
Hikers in Canada encounter huge Grizzly Bear in forest
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/watch/h ... ailsignout
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big beautiful creature, I would want more than bear spray with those around.
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