Posted on 09/29/2024 7:54:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
Octopuses? Mmmmgnaaaah. That aint raght.
This only happened when I was early on the way to work and could drive at 30-40 MPH at 10PM to 2AM depending on when I had to commute.
We have had a blue heron follow us for over 10 miles when canoeing on the Connecticut River and loons swimming back and forth under our canoe on lakes and ponds in 3-4 foot deep water.
If you go early on the snowmobile trails you will often see more animal tracks than snowmobile tracks. It is their highway at night.
That's a mighty low bar. A cockroach is smarter than the typical Democrat voter
Killer whales used to team up with human whale hunters.
They would corral up a whale and the human hunters would spear it and haul it to a beach. The killer whales would run off any sharks that tried to sample the goods and upon success, the humans would cut off the whale’s tongue and give it to the Killer whales (it was their favorite part of a whale).
“Who decides what they are going to do, where and when? Are the different players “democratic,” in that they come to some form of compromise, or does one species take the lead and the other simply follows (that is, they are “despotic”)?”
What kind of bullshite political descriptions are these? Compromise is not a synonym of “democratic” and “despotic” is not a synonym of leading, following or shared agreement.
We are made up of cells with a nucleus. Every cell is intelligent. The brain is more of a data processing and storage facility. Our intelligence is really comprised of the collective intelligence of each cell.
Every single creature on our planet is made up of the same intelligent cells. In the octopus, for example, each tentacle of the octopus is individually intelligent (has a brain). An octopus can solve a very complex puzzle (like a maze for it to negotiate) very quickly.
There are flying insects that live in holes in the sand out in the desert. When they leave their hole, they push sand into the opening. They take off and fly for miles foraging for food. They can come back over miles of shifting sand which is indistinguishable and fly right to their nest and dig out the sand particles and enter. There is no way a human could accomplish the same.
As a matter of fact, most creatures are more intelligent in terms of survival abilities, and at a much younger age. than humans.
Every single life form on Earth is intelligent. Not just humans, not just animals, even plants are intelligent. And some plants are more than they seem. There are plants that live on the ocean floor. When they need to, they pull up their roots and swim off like a snake, to the extent of actually resembling a snake.
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They had the most Intelligent Designer in the Universe............
Below is the abstract of this paper. Like many scientific papers it is full of painfully and needlessly overcomplicated sentences the authors think makes them sound intelligent and the paper scientifically significant. They’ve taken something simple like Groupers have learned that an octopus hunting in a coral reef will often flush out fishes the Grouper can then feed on, to a complex sociological interaction. It’s ridiculous.
Abstract
Collective behaviour, social interactions and leadership in animal groups are often driven by individual differences. However, most studies focus on same-species groups, in which individual variation is relatively low. Multispecies groups, however, entail interactions among highly divergent phenotypes, ranging from simple exploitative actions to complex coordinated networks. Here we studied hunting groups of otherwise-solitary Octopus cyanea and multiple fish species, to unravel hidden mechanisms of leadership and associated dynamics in functional nature and complexity, when divergence is maximized. Using three-dimensional field-based tracking and field experiments, we found that these groups exhibit complex functional dynamics and composition-dependent properties. Social influence is hierarchically distributed over multiscale dimensions representing role specializations: fish (particularly goatfish) drive environmental exploration, deciding where, while the octopus decides if, and when, the group moves. Thus, ‘classical leadership’ can be insufficient to describe complex heterogeneous systems, in which leadership instead can be driven by both stimulating and inhibiting movement. Furthermore, group composition altered individual investment and collective action, triggering partner control mechanisms (that is, punching) and benefits for the de facto leader, the octopus. This seemingly non-social invertebrate flexibly adapts to heterospecific actions, showing hallmarks of social competence and cognition. These findings expand our current understanding of what leadership is and what sociality is.
There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth!
We’re finding more and more examples of plants communicating with each other and in broad communities as well.
They are called Democrat controlled cities.
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Thus "poulpe" -- a French word for octopus.
Yuccan't live without me.
I was going to point it out if someone else didn’t.
No offense to you, RB, you just posted the article.
And these people call themselves “journalists”….
Probably more intelligent than much of Congress.
I learned something new today!👍
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