Color by Numbers and Numbers by Color(Animal intelligence)

Okay. I think I missed the joke...:) Going back now...

41 posted on 09/24/2006 1:06:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)

BWAAA HAAAAHA AHAAAHHA AHHHA HAAAA HAAA!

THAT'S GREAT! I got COMPLETELY sucked in!!!!

But...I maintain as always, for satire to be effective...it must be somehow distinguishable from reality!

42 posted on 09/24/2006 1:10:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)

You bring up an interesting perspective. Sure, animals of all kinds have intelligence. Some even more intelligent than humans. But once we've used our intelligence to figure something out, we have the capacity to share that information to others. It's that capacity to share and build upon what we've deduced through our use intelligence that separates us from animals. Mathematics is one good example. Alex the Parrot won't be teaching his wild kin what he has learned. Every generation of parrots or octupi must rediscover what the past generation has. And even then, that information will not be disseminated to others of their species effectively.

43 posted on 09/24/2006 3:29:29 PM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)

Think about it from the octopus's perspective. It can see all these snack swimming around in other neighboring aquariums. And he has nothing to do all day but to figure out how to get to them for a late night snack.

44 posted on 09/24/2006 3:31:19 PM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)

45 posted on 09/24/2006 6:20:14 PM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)

When I was a young man I had the same perspective on female companionship...didn't help me none though!

46 posted on 09/24/2006 6:21:24 PM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)

I hope you are not comparing the application of your intelligence to that of this octapus :)

47 posted on 09/24/2006 6:46:09 PM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)

Well...given my success rate, I would have to give the nod to the octopus!

The octopus sounds like he/she was scoring on a nightly basis for a while!

48 posted on 09/24/2006 6:48:40 PM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)

To: null and void

I find that very interesting, N. Our cats dread going to the vet. We take them in for regular checkups. The curious thing is that they are anxious all the way to the vet's office, but when they leave and return home, they are relaxed.

I had a favorite cat who developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She and I were very close. She stayed alive for a long time, treated with chemotherapy. The night she died, my wife and I were away for several hours. We returned just before she died. I am convinced that she held on until we could get back.

When she was a small kitten, she fell from an upstairs porch and then disappeared. We lived in a city, surrounded by heavy traffic. We put up fliers around the neighborhood; however, after two weeks, one Saturday morning I told my wife to give up hope of finding her, that after two weeks in that neighborhood, she would not come back. My wife said, "No, I think she's going to come back today." Less than 30 minutes later, the telephone rang. It was a neighbor. The kitten was in her front yard.

She gradually became my favorite cat of all time. We had a mystical connection. We still do.

49 posted on 09/26/2006 6:26:22 AM PDT by Savage Beast ( 9/11 was never repeated thanks to President George W. Bush.)

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