How did the macaques in Bali come to racket humans?
26 May 2017 Gurumed
For years, tourists visiting the picturesque Uluwatu temple in Bali are warned that a local band of marauding macaques skillfully tear out some personal belongings and then exchange them for food.
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moinsdewatt wrote:...
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The treasures of exploring the abyss off Australia
Published 16 / 06 / 2017 lemarin.fr
This Friday 16 June ended a one-month expedition off Australia, Blogging the Abyss, to explore the biodiversity of funds from 2 500 to more than 4 000 meters. Slide show preview of the strange creatures caught by this international team of more than 30 researchers, in hostile and unrecognized.
Researchers from the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Austria, Russia and Malaysia took part in the expedition led by Dr. Tim O'Hara of the Museum Victoria. At the greatest depths, deploying and raising the nets took up to 7 hours.
Their discoveries are detailed on the site of the expedition, with all the details about the species discovered and the scientific and technical processes implemented during this expedition.
The Bathysaurus ferox or Bathysauridae, with its elongated body and tapered, flattened head, is pale with tens of teeth. It devours the fish and crustaceans it crosses. (Photo: Asher Flatt)
A rock crab (Neolithodes-cf-bronwynae) with custom armor to live in the depths. (Photo: Asher Flatt)
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moinsdewatt wrote:Finally the blackbird also loves bigger than the earthworms?
Re: Merle and Lizard
Post by Galiser »17 May 2014, 19: 15
I witnessed in my garden the attack of a blackbird on a lizard that he swallowed with a certain ease
I will add for the anecdote that it took about ten minutes to swallow it because he had to spit it a first time because too big.
He then cut it with beaks and swallowed the pieces soon enough.
It was last summer.
The Blackbird diet is omnivorous. They feed on a wide variety of insect species, worms and various other small animals and they also consume fruits and sometimes seeds.
Blackbirds mainly seek their prey ashore. They run, jump, jog and lean their heads to the ground. They hunted mainly at sight but also sometimes use their hearing. They are important consumers of earthworms that they catch while searching the humus. They could make them emerge from their galleries by tapping the ground before extirpating them. They also scrape the litter of the decaying leaves in a noisy and demonstrative way, making the leaves fly in search of all kinds of invertebrates: insects as larvae as imagos, spiders, Myriapodes, slugs, small snails13 ... Exceptionally, they feed on small vertebrates such as tadpoles, small adult amphibians or lizards. Even if they are mainly ground hunters, blackbirds do not hesitate to explore the trees and bushes to collect the insects laid on them, especially the caterpillars.
Animal intelligence: the elephant would be aware of his body
An Asian elephant has brilliantly passed a test of intelligence that fails a two-year-old child: one can not pull a carpet if one is on it. Experimented by Think Elephants International, shows that the elephant is conscious of its own body, as the mirror test also shows. A rare ability in the animal world.
The exercise seems simple: this elephant of Asia has before him a person to whom he must give a stick laid on the ground, which the animal obviously already knows; However, the object is attached by a rope to a carpet ... on which is the pachyderm. The solution is to take one or two steps aside, of course, but you have to be aware of the presence of your own body on the carpet.
For a human, reasoning goes unnoticed as it is trivial, but for an animal it is not obvious. Moreover, it is not so for a child of two years. Representing one's body as an object distinct from the world is not a common ability in animals, since it implies a certain self-consciousness.
https://francais.rt.com/international/4 ... -sauvetageA maritime patrol in Sri Lanka carried out a miraculous rescue operation in Colombo. After 12 hours of effort, an elephant eight kilometers from the coast was brought back to the mainland.
A large pachyderm, which had been carried to the sea by a strong current, was discovered by a military vessel, which carried out an ordinary patrol. It took three boats to come to the rescue of the animal, which risked drowning to bring it back to the shore by means of ropes.
Returning to the mainland, the elephant was entrusted to the department of fauna and flora, which had provided its advice during the rescue operation.
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