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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 4:12:13 PM   
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Disregard x 4

Does this mean you are really, really, really, really biting your tongue?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 4:29:20 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 4:35:46 PM   
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As Kurt Cobain put it, Mother Nature is a whore.



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 4:47:26 PM   
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I was led to believe that the whole "species" concept was a bit squishy no?

As Kurt Cobain put it, Mother Nature is a whore.



Really? Can you introduce me?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 4:54:54 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 4:56:09 PM   
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I was led to believe that the whole "species" concept was a bit squishy no?

As Kurt Cobain put it, Mother Nature is a whore.




Monogamous pair bonding in birds does occur. My ornithology professor quietly told us in class one day that there is a lot of "sneaky ****ing" that is more the rule than the exception.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 5:01:31 PM   
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I was led to believe that the whole "species" concept was a bit squishy no?

As Kurt Cobain put it, Mother Nature is a whore.



Really? Can you introduce me?


Here ya go: Nature is a whore.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 5:05:47 PM   
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I was led to believe that the whole "species" concept was a bit squishy no?

As Kurt Cobain put it, Mother Nature is a whore.




Monogamous pair bonding in birds does occur. My ornithology professor quietly told us in class one day that there is a lot of "sneaky ****ing" that is more the rule than the exception.


Yeah right!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 5:19:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		There's lots of variation. Talk about the Rhea, the flightless bird from South America. The females get knocked up while running around like Valley Girls and when it comes time to lay their eggs, they find some male somewhere and lay them in the nest he built and he need not be the one who knocked her up. Males have been known to care for around a hundred chicks and there's no reason to suppose that any of them are his. He takes all comers.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 8:21:25 PM   
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There's lots of variation. Talk about the Rhea, the flightless bird from South America. The females get knocked up while running around like Valley Girls and when it comes time to lay their eggs, they find some male somewhere and lay them in the nest he built and he need not be the one who knocked her up. Males have been known to care for around a hundred chicks and there's no reason to suppose that any of them are his. He takes all comers.

I take it the word cuckold comes from Cookoo, which lays its egg in other birds nests and the latter poor sapsuckers do all the work raising it? From your post the word should be changed to rheald!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 9:23:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		They are related but which comes from the other isn't clear to me. And it's cuckoo. Cookoo is an island named for James Cook after he was introduced to Cocoa Puffs.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 9:30:02 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/5/2016 11:54:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		There were some studies done back when genetic testing was still pretty "advanced;" not sure if more rich data exists at this point as I've been out of the academic fields that are concerned with the question for some time . . . Anyway, studies said something like 15% of all paternity tests revealed "Daddy" could not have been the one donated the sperms. These were studies in the UK I believe.

I'd guess that is toward the low end of the range with populations of misogynistic and fundamentalist theocracies having rates more like 35%.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/6/2016 12:21:10 AM   
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There were some studies done back when genetic testing was still pretty "advanced;" not sure if more rich data exists at this point as I've been out of the academic fields that are concerned with the question for some time . . . Anyway, studies said something like 15% of all paternity tests revealed "Daddy" could not have been the one donated the sperms. These were studies in the UK I believe.

I'd guess that is toward the low end of the range with populations of misogynistic and fundamentalist theocracies having rates more like 35%.

Well that loose lady Momma Nature intended that there be a lot of gene mixing to ensure survival of species. Who am I to resist her intentions?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/6/2016 12:28:15 AM   
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Speaking of mass, Über is testing out self driving cars. Really. An empty car drives up, you get in and it takes you where you're going. What's going to happen if a cop tries to pull one over? Bad things. Errors in judgement. Bigotry against cars with no drivers....


What about road rage shootings? With no driver in the Über car the shooter would be forced to shoot at the passenger!

Über should be required to install bullet proof glass and side panels on all of these things.

Or an auto-automatic rooftop weapon that shoots at the sound of gunshots. People whose cars backfire would get them fixed tout-suite!


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/6/2016 12:32:07 AM   
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Excuuuuse me! That's a Western Flicker. The northern has a red patch on the back of the head, both males and females.





As you can see, the Northern has a black marking coming back from the bill, whereas the Western has a red marking instead. In Bill's pic it looks kinda rusty but if it weren't splashing around in a dirty clogged gutter it should be as bright as the marking on the Northern.


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/6/2016 1:02:11 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/6/2016 2:32:57 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/6/2016 6:28:55 AM   
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mating calls





....so true....

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 3:16:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		This isn't a very good pic, but I was totally unprepared for it. I've never seen an owl in my back yard before. It's night and I just happened to look out the window and saw the silhouette of a large bird fly to my maple tree. I didn't hear a thing. I had the camera set on a tripod too high to get the shot.
I shortened the tripod legs but not enough for the flash to work and out of desperation I shined a flashlight on the bird and took the shot.





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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 3:36:39 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 3:44:16 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 4:34:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Had a Grey Owl in a tree below my apartment a couple of years ago. There was a flock of about 30 crows that were going NUTS!

They swooped around the tree and generally raised a ruckus. When I mentioned it to a friend who really knows his bird stuff, he said that those owls will go through crow rookeries just as dark is falling and pick off the crows one at a time with their talons. Blood feud!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 4:39:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		The owls don't always get the best of it. Blue jays can be pretty fierce as well and act collectively like the crows.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 12:34:36 PM   
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If not fed enough a owlet will eat its siblings.

The ears of a owl are offset one higher than the other to enhance their hearing, 3D hearing. This is what allows them to hunt at night, not their eyesight.

A human can approximate this by using their hands cupped on the ears and then twisted into different positions. Very helpful in determining where a sound is comming from.

I like to do owl calls and get them stirred up. When they really get going they sound like monkeys hollering. Except for a barn owl which has a HISSSSSing call and sounds nothing like a owl.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 1:56:37 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 2:34:28 PM   
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These birds migrated on mass and "destroyed" a significant area of Arlington Texas





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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 4:38:44 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 8:38:06 PM   
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There's no "fund me" campaign yet but I expect there will be.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 10/7/2016 9:12:15 PM   
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In a separate note : A large migration occurred out of Toronto Canada area this week.

These birds migrated on mass and "destroyed" a significant area of Arlington Texas






Word has it that discarded beer cans marked their swath of destruction.

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