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The Magical creative energy enabling animals incredible survival instincts....

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change,-Robert Burns.


Most people don't associate extreme intelligence with animals, but that's a misconception, while
they are not able to match the computational and meta cognitive power of the human brain
there are certain things some animals specialise in for which their minds are uniquely adapted.
In some ways you could say that they are smarter, or more functional, than even humans at
performing these tasks.
Here are the most intelligent animals in the planet.
SQUIDS
Squids are said to be among the brainiest invertebrates in the world, their brain structure is
different from other invertebrates in the ocean, as they share complex features similar to the
human brain, like human beings, squids can be very curious about their environment.
They have the ability to learn new skills and develop the capacity to use tools that can either
help them repress their boredom and protect them from harm.
SPIDERS
Spiders are among the smallest creatures to possess a proportionately high level of intelligence,
especially the White-Mustached Portia spiders, these spiders dwell African, Asian and Australian
forests and have demonstrated special learning skills.
The Portia spiders often hunt in ways that seem intelligent and can improvise by trial and error
against unfamiliar prey, they are capable of trying out a behaviour to obtain feedback regarding
success or failure, and they can plan ahead, make detours to find the best attack angle and some
times the planned route leads to "abseiling" down a silk thread and biting the prey from behind,
or forming a lasso to catch the prey.
BABOONS
In Egyptian mythology, "Babi" was the deification of the "hamadryas" baboon and therefore a
sacred animal. It was known as the attendant of "Thoth", so is also called the "sacred baboon".
Baboons are old world monkeys who have cognitive abilities very similar to orangutans and chimpanzees, in terms of the way they behave, we see how these creatures resemble people,
unlike other animals, studies show that at some level baboons know how to identify stress and
cope with it. They create extremely complex social systems and can think critically when
confronted with difficult situation.


Creative animals that use tools;
Scientists once thought of told use as a defining feature of humans, but research is showing adept tool users on land, air and sea in the animal kingdom.
CHIMPANZEE's are humanity's closest living realatives and apparently learned how to make and use tools long ago without human help, with stone hammers found at a chimp settlement in the Ivory Coast, dating back 4,300 years.
They are capable of making spears to hunt other primates for meat, and are known to have developed specialised tool kits for foraging army ants.
CROWS have exceptional bird brains, proving adept at crafting twigs, leaves and even their own feathers into tools.
Researchers have discovered that crows might learn to drop stones in pitchers to raise the height of water inside, just like in Aesop's fable, as the water rises in the pitcher a worm floats to the top in reach for the crow.
THE BALD EAGLE
The Bald eagle is the national bird and symbol of United States of America, they are the only birds found in all fifty states and are also known as the American Eagles, fishing Eagles, Washington Eagles and white-headed eagle, the name 'Bald' comes from piebald, spotty or patchy.
Bald eagles are one of the few birds that mate more life, living like a married couple, the female lays approximately two eggs every year, it is only when one of the Eagles dies that the other will look for another mate.

ORANGUTANS in the wild have developed and passed along a way to make improvised whistles from bundles of leaves, which they use to ward off predators.
A Bornean orangutan was photographed using leaves stripped from a twig to alter the frequency
of its kiss squeak call, which it makes when it feels threatened.
ELEPHANTS are among the "most intelligent animals" in the world, with brains larger than those of any land animal.
Anecdotes suggest they can intentionally drop logs or rocks on electric fences to short them out and plug up water holes with balls of chewed bark to keep other animals from drinking them away.
Asian elephants are known to systematically modify branches to swat away flies, breaking them down to an ideal length for attacking the insects.
GORILLAS aren't just extraordinarily strong-roughly 10 times stronger than a full grown-grown man, but they possess brains as well. Wild gorillas are known to use branches as walking sticks to test water depth and trunks from the shrubs as makeshift bridges to cross deep patches of swamp.
While other apes mostly use tools to help get at food, gorillas apparently use them to help deal with their surroundings in other ways.
when being observed a female gorilla crossed a pool by using a detached stick to test the depth of the water and using it also as a walking stick.
RODENTS can be taught how to use tools. Degus-small rodents closely related to Guinea pigs and chinchillas -can be taught how to use rakes to obtain food.
The degu is placed on one side of a see through, plastic fence and sunflower seeds are placed on the other side, When provided with a small rake, which they use to pull the seeds out through the fence so that it can eat them.
DOLPHINS are extraordinary intelligent animals who also display culture, something which was long believed to be unique to human beings, although recognised in various species.
Dolphins have been observed teaching young how to use tools, they cover their snouts with soonges to protect them while foraging.
Dolphins have several highly developed forms of communication , they have a "signature whistle" which allows other individuals to recognise them.
Dolphins are "altruistic" animals, they are known to stay and help injured individuals, even helping them to surface to breath. Their compassion also extends across the species barrier, they are many accounts of dolphins helping human beings and even whales.
Animal survival traits.
THE SPOTTED SALAMANDER
Spotted salamanders are the first known vertebrates to "effectively be solar-powered".
They are a living amphibians that get energy from "photosynthesis" like plants.
Scientists have long thought that algae had a symbiotic relationship with salamander larvae, giving them only the resources it's didn't need , research in recent years has proven the salamanders have algae ,all up, in their very cells. aside from being very, very gross, this trait helps them put a new, very literal meaning behind green energy.
If humans are one day able to adapt this amazing trait as our own, we could bolster the world's food supply by becoming slime-hybrids!
ATLANTIC WOLFfISH
At first glance, it looks like wolffish got beaten with the short end of the evolution stick. These terrifying yet inexplicably stupid-looking fish inhabit the deep sea, and like most deep sea creatures they have cleared massive biological hurdles in order to survive where they do.
They thrive in a area where it's too cold for most things to exist, the wolffish have to make their own 'antifreeze' literally , this same antifreeze protein can be found increasing the freezing tolerance of crops, improving farm fish life in cold climates, lengthening the shelf life of frozen foods, enchanting preservation of tissues for transplant in medicine, and even improving the texture of low-fat ice cream.
TRIPOD FISH
The tripod fish's fin rays have evolved into long, bony protrusions that it uses like a biological BarcaLounger .
The tripod fish's whole strategy for survival is to sit on the ocean floor, using its hind fin-legs to angle its body so that it faces against the current, this way it can simply open its mouth to eat small shrimp, and crustaceans that the current sweeps by, and it doesn't even have to move.
The deep ocean is a terrifying and unforgiving place, if you're going to survive down there, you need at least one amazing trait to trip up the animal reaper when it comes swimming for you.
Most creatures evolve to be faster, camouflage themselves better, or simply scare, the tripod fish, on the other hand evolved nature's version of a disability scooter.
JAPANESE PUFFER FISH
When an underwater photographer off the coast of Japan found these almost 6 foot wide intricate structures drawn on the ocean floor,me had no idea what made them, these "underwater crop circles" excited all who saw them.
A television crew observed the tiny Japanese puffer fish painstaking carving the design all day and night using just one fin, the more elaborate he "crop circle" the most likely a male was to find a mate, the intricate carved walls do serve other functions, the underwater crop circles act as a buffer for the ocean currents, which allow the puffer fish eggs and young to stay in one place.
THE SCALY-FOOT GASTROPOD
There exists a species of hydrothermal vent snail that "can incorporate metal" from deep sea vents into its own flesh, the snails foot(the big pad of flesh it moves around on) is covered with iron-mineral scales that it culls from sulphides, and it's shell comes complete with an outer layer of greigite.
Scientists have observed deep sea crabs attempting to break these snails between their claws unsuccessfully, though the crabs get through on occasion, for the most part the scaly-foot gastropod just slides around, covered in the maritime equivalent of the Iron Man suit, laughing at natures ineffective attempted murders.
The mollusk' sir on plating is so tough that the US army is even taking from its unique she'll makeup to design better armour for solders, experiments at MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies have shown that the scaly-foot gastropod's organic middle layer absorbs mechanical pressure(from things such as squeezing) while dissipating heat; the outer, metallic layer is extremely hard to pierce; and the innermost layer is -well snail.
If the evolutionary race between prey and predator that has created these snails is any indication, somewhere down the line will eventually be a species of crab that can take down this snail, and then, the world.
DUNG BEETLES
Dung beetles are ' coprophagous' meaning they eat excretment of other organisms.
Most prefer to feed on 'herbivore' droppings, which are largely I digested plant matte, rather than carnivore waste which holds very little nutritional value for insects.
Dung beetles play key roles in improving soils and controlling pests.
Reasons for its recent decline in some beetle species include comic into contact with 'anthelmintics' a type of drug given to livestock to control intestinal worms that prevent the farm animals from thriving.
As well as their importance to agriculture, the beetles and their grubs are food for the wild birds and mammals.
RAILROAD WORM
In the darkness of its hideaway beneath logs and rocks, or under the ground, the railroad worm
usually goes unnoticed. It's dull brown colour helps keep it safely hidden from its enemies.
But at nighttime, when the railroad worm is active,it is a worm of a different colour, it crawls
out of its hideaway under cover of darkness to hunt for food, measuring only about 2 and 1/2
inches long when full grown,the female railroad worm appears to be easy prey.
But creation has given her an effective defence mechanism against would be attackers.
If she feels threatened, she suddenly turns on her warning lights,maher head glows a fiery red,
and her body gives off a greenish-yellow light,this amazing display of lights warns an attacker
to "get back", and usually the startled predator quickly retreats.
The railroad worm also turns on her lights when attacking other creatures and when mating.
The lights are a product of a chemical reaction inside the body of the worm, amazing, however,
this little creature is able to turn its lights on and off and at will, the railroad worm can turn
all its lights out at once, or a few at a time.
The railroad worm really isn't a worm,it is larva of the Phrixothrix beetle.
It's name, which means "with bristling hairs" refers to the tiny hairs covering its body.
The railroad worm got its name because of the way it looks when it is glowing, it's body light
looks like the windows of a train at night, and the red head resembles a bright red headlight.
The railroad worm has eleven spots on each side of its body that shine a pale greenish-yellow.

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Man can learn a lot from the animal kingdom, animals only kill for survival or food, unlike
The humans, that fight over power,land,hate or just pure evil.

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The Aye Aye and the Finger of Death.

At night, in the forest of Madagascar, a dark specter drifts through the canopy..
The creature has black, wiry fur, radar dishes for ears, a witches broom for a tail, and enormous,haunting eyeballs that shine blood-red in the beam of a flashlight.

Local legend,though, says it's the "aye aye" fingers you need to worry about.

On each hand, the aye aye, which is actually a species of lemur, boasts one ex-tra-long digit that looks like the
crooked finger of death itself.
Some believe that the aye aye can curse a person by pointing at them, others believe that the creatures sneak into
homes at night and use their skeleton finger to pick at the hearts of their victims.

The precise threat posed by an aye aye varies from village to village, but the antidote is usually the same.

In the wild, th aye aye prowls along branches and rotting longs, tapping its digit along the bark and listening with
it's out-sized ears to the sounds that bounce back.

Once the aye aye zeros in on a potential snack, it excavates a hole in the bark using its long, chisel-like teeth.
The aye aye's teeth are so strong that captive animals have been known to chew through concrete walls when they're
bored.

But it's the aye aye's 'middle finger' is an adaption without parallel in the animal kingdom.
The middle finger sits on a ball and socket joint, just like the human shoulder,Mathis allows it to swivel in any
direction, a full 360 degrees, the finger slips into the tree trunk and snakes around looking for grubs, if it finds one
a specialized claw on the end of the finger 'hooks' the larva and whisk sit away to the aye aye's mouth , slurp,crunch
and gulp.

What an amazing creature.

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The amazing frog that lays it's eggs on land, the female deposits a few eggs in a cluster of jelly under a leaf or in a
small burrow in the ground, after the male frog fertilises them, he guards them until they hatch into tadpoles. Then
the tiny tadpoles wiggle onto their mother's back, so that she can carry them to a water filled bromeliad that she has
chosen for their home, the journey may take several days if she climbs high in the forest canopy.

The poison arrow frog drops the tadpoles into the rainwater in the bromeliad, each tadpole in a separate tiny pool that has collected between the leaves of the plant. The tadpoles feed on algae and mosquito larvae, but to be sure
they have food, the female frog returns again and again to deposit a single unfertilised egg in the water for each tadpole. After about 6-8 weeks, the tadpoles emerge as frogs and return to the forest floor.



Painting by Rebecca Doughty

Vaquitas are beautiful, timid aquatic mammals that look like mini-dolphins.

There are only 30 vaquitas left in the world! They're dying because they become trapped in what are known as ‘gillnets’ and drown.

However, given a rapid reaction of universal mind, we can still prevent this magical species from vanishing forever. For it is only a permanent ban on the treacherous ‘gillnets’ that kill them which can save the species. And in a way we are learning to save ourselves as a species in the fundamental act of making the effort to preserve other living treasures on earth.

The Mexican government is currently deciding whether to ban the use of these nets, but needs a global groundswell of support to enable it to stand up to the opposition, the infamous ‘Wall’ has gone away for the time being, so environmental focus surely must take pride of place at la tabla superior (the top table).

I am looking to write to President of Mexico Pena Nieto, Environment Minister Rafael Pacchiano, and Fisheries Minister Jose Calzada, perhaps you might consider the same.

No more cetacean extinctions in the last chance saloon!



Vaquitas in the Sea of Cortes

The White Rumped Shama
These birds can mimic noises made by other species but their own song is melodic and was the subject of one of the earliest known recordings in 1989!
Living in very dense undergrowth of tropical broad leaved forests, natural predators are limited to snakes,raptors and nest robbing omnivores however the most significant threat comes from live capture for the caged birds trade.
The Malaysian Forestry Department has recently banned the export of these birds.
Unfortunately due to their amazing song they are still caught and sold illegally for the caged bird industry.



Photograph by Colin Smith

Shama means light,flame or candle.

This is a spot reserved for pictures or stories about the animals that share their lives with us.... whether they are pets or just something that has caught your interest. I happen to think that we are defined those wonderful creatures, great and small... and when the world gets stressful they are there to comfort and stabilize our emotions....I think that they happen to be able to teach us how to be better humans....

So Please.... this is the spot..

And Rose... if you can take a picture of the little pup that you rescued.... lets put it up here.... Maybe someone will have a spot in their heart just for him?

Linda

Worm-eating mushrooms found in Uk.

The new described marram oyster mushroom "Hohenbuehelia."

A worm hunting mushroom new to science has been hailed as Kew's find of the year after being
indentified on sand dunes.
Small but deadly, the mushroom is believed to produce sticky blobs which trap worms which are
consumed as the fungus grows through the immobilised body, absorbing the nutrients as it goes.

The marram oyster mushroom, name 'HOBENBUEHELIA" is one of 22 species of fungi discovered
by scientists at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
It clings to the dead stems of tough marram grass found in sand dunes, and has been named as
Kew's top discovery of the year. It was identified from specimens near Littlehampton on the south
coast and has since been recorded in other parts of the U.K, including the Welsh and Scottish coasts,
and France.

"An oyster mushroom that eats nematodes? Wow


Dr Martin Cheek, a senior researcher at Kew, described it the "find of the year". He added: "It truly
is. We have published more than 200 species of plants and fungi from around the world at Kew, but
this for me definitely the most gobsmaking one"

Fungi are not plants. They are, like animals, classified as a different kingdom which includes mushrooms,
and lichens.

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UN-bee-lievable!

If you have ever bumbled home loaded down with heavy shopping bags, spare a though for this
little red weaver ant.

It managed to balance a dead bee,many times its own size, in its jaws as it stood upon a thin
twig.
It's all the more remarkable because the weaver ant weighs around 5mg-that's 0.00018 of an
ounce-and a typical bee is up to 200mg, or a hefty 0.007 of an ounce.
In other words, the bee is about "40" times the weight of the ant. A short while later some more
weaver ants, which carry loads up to 100 times their own weight, arrived to help him bear the
prize back to their nest.



Photographer Eko Adiyanto, 43, spotted the scene in the front garden of his home in West Java,
Indonesia. He said;These ants are small animals but have enormous strength and are able to work
together.

The weaver ant managed to balance a dead bee many times his size in its jaw as it stood upon a
thin twig.


Photo's by Colin Fernandez,Science Correspondent Dor The Daily Mail
19th July, 2017


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What the humble (but mighty) ant can teach us humans..
Ants make up around a quarter of the Earth's animal numbers,with about ten quadrillion of them-that's
10,000,000,000,000(more than a million ants to every person and size for size they are mind boggling
much stronger than us,as the stunning picture, first seen in last weeks Daily Mail, of a weaver ant in
Indonesia lifting a bee 40 times his weight, confirmed.-picture in post above, here we reveal what ants
a could teach us , in areas as diverse as health care, defence,transport and creating empires..

Mini Olympians
No amount of training or performance-enchanting drugs will enable humans to emulate the physical
feats of ants. One record belongs to,the common American field ant, which can bear up to 5,000 times
it's own weight(the equivalent of a 10st person carrying more than 300 tons). Thanks to its sticky feet,
the Asian weaver ant can carry more than 100 times its own weight-while hanging upside down from a
sheet of glass.

Inside their exoskeletons,ants muscles don't have to provide much support holding up the body, so they
can use their strength to lift other objects.


Empire Builders
The largest ant colony found is more than 3,750 miles wide, created by Argentinan ants on the Mediterranean
coast. They are thought to gone there in cargo ships, this colony is estimated to comprise more than a
billion ants in nests that border each other like nation states. Th EU contains half as many people and
they clearly can't do-operate so effectively. By generally working in concert, ant brains combine to create
one huge super brain which, arguably makes the insects collectively the most intelligent in the animal
kingdom.
An ants brain contains only 250,000 cells, compared with a honey bee's 960,000 and up to 100 billion in
the human brain. But collectively, they create a highly developed social system where millions of
individuals operate in perfect synchronicity, with queens to lay eggs, drones to fertilise the queen and
sterile wingless females as workers and soldiers, their colonies are the largest democracies.

One example is the way some colonies choose their new homes, Arizona State University studied a colony
of Temnothorax rugatulus red ants, and noted that when they had to move, worker "scouts' examined
potential new homes.

There is so much more information on these clever & intelligent insects, it's worth clicking on the link
below...




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No amount of training or performance-enchanting drugs will enable humans to emulate the physical
feats of ants.

Ravens Can Plan For The Future..

When you are a scientist who studies birds as inquisitive and intelligent as ravens, doing experiments is easy.
"If they find the task intersting enoug, they all line up, and almost fight over who gets to take part in the
study", says Mathias Osvath from Lund University, who keeps 16 of the birds on his farm. As we talk on the
phone, I can hear them cawing in the background.

For years, Osvath has been trying to work out if animals have foresight--if species other than humans can
plan for the future, and his latest experiments suggest that Ravens can.
Based on their previous experiences, the birds will select tools that can help them to solve a puzzle in the
future, or pick up tokens that they can later use to barter for food with human experiments. And that
Osvath says,puts them "on par with apes".

As was the case with many mental abilities, scientists used to think that only humans could take themselves
out of the present and anticipate their future needs. They assumed that other animals are entirely
motivated by their current state, thinking only about whether they're hungry 'right now'. If animals looked
like they were preparing for tomorrow, as a squirrel does when it buries nuts, that's just because they're
carrying out rote, instinctive.



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Raven Poem by Edgar Allen Poe-Short version

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.
Over many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door,
"Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more,"

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor,
Eagerly I wished the morrow:-vainly I had sought to borrow,
From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore-
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before:
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"Tis some visitor entreating at my chamber door-
Some late visitor entreating at my chamber door;-
This is it, and nothing more,"

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir", said I, "Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scare was sure I heard you "-here I opened wide the door;--
Darkness there and nothing more,

It was a Raven tapping at the chamber door....


Do Ravens have their own "tap tap tapping" code?



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Daily mail 8 August 2017-Charles Legge

WHICH ANIMAL PRODUCES THE MOST EGGS IN IT''S LIFE-TIME ?

THE Sunfish, also know as the Mola mola, is one of the ocean's most bizarre animals, it is the heaviest
bony fish in the sea, weighing up to 1 ton and growing to more than 14ft.
It's scale-less, with a thick rubbery skin and irregular patches of tubercles over its body, notably, adult
ocean sunfish do not have a caudal fin or caudal peduncle. They instead have a clavus, which is a
truncated tail, used more like a rudder than for propulsion.

Mola is Latin for 'millstone' and is a good description of the sunfish' shape, sunfish are found in water
warmer than 10c (500f). They are known for their surface basking behaviour, in which the fish swims
on its side, presenting its largest profile to the sun, this is a thought method of thermally recharging
following dives into deeper water.


The Another remarkable feature of sunfish is its spawning, females release an estimated 300 million eggs
into the water at a time, they are thought to be multiple spawners, possible releasing billions of eggs
each year. Large mature sunfish have a solitary life in the open ocean where finding mates is a
challenge, so producing lots of eggs in multiple spawning increases of chances of fertilisation, only a
few eggs will develop into mature adults.



Sunfish' life span is unknown but similar species can live up to 100 years..

The record holder on land is thought to be the African Driver ant (Dorylis) which can produce up to
4 million eggs every 25 days.