Last summer I cleaned the chimney. It was full of blue razors clothes pegs in the jaybird's nest. They have blue eyes.Picasso Período Azul Bowerbird:
Early Georgia O'Keefe BowerBird:
Andy Warhol Bowerbird:
And Bankster Bowerbird attracting a female)
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Don't worry, the nest was empty and jays wouldn't reuse it (it's related to the vegetation period of trees on which they feed).
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I knew that the Lotka-Voltera model was wrong!
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Any Monkey Can Beat The Market
"Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel claimed in his bestselling book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, that “A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.”
“Malkiel was wrong,” stated Rob Arnott, CEO of Research Affiliates, while speaking at the IMN Global Indexing and ETFs conference earlier this month. “The monkeys have done a much better job than both the experts and the stock market.”"
"Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel claimed in his bestselling book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, that “A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.”
“Malkiel was wrong,” stated Rob Arnott, CEO of Research Affiliates, while speaking at the IMN Global Indexing and ETFs conference earlier this month. “The monkeys have done a much better job than both the experts and the stock market.”"
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Jennifer Mather is also a strong advocate of ethics in cephalopod experiments... and kitchen. Afaik the pseudo-scientists in many countries can do to them anything they like without anaesthesia - not that we can tell how effective anaesthesia is in those species. Same about lobsters - tell that to idiots who buy the "humanely skilled" bullshit.
I can lend you a great book she co-authored, "Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate". After you finish the two previous ones
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Elaborate pls.
BTW, octopuses would be too much for the Bayesian brain theory.
The history of the future of the Bayesian brain - it seems one can time travel in any field
BTW, octopuses would be too much for the Bayesian brain theory.
The history of the future of the Bayesian brain - it seems one can time travel in any field
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It happens more and more often.
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Yeah, they have to adapt to the new habitat. I don't understand why people despair over the fact that wild animals wilfully grow dependent on us - we don't leave them much choice. Where I come from we prepared and checked platforms, on which the returning storks nested. It probably just looks better in a bucolic landscape than a shabby town full of cars.
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I am actually watching two falcons flitting about outside my office window right now. I am pretty sure they nest in the really tall building next door.
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It must be an enthralling view. We have quite a few couples in London too (they pair-bond - or just never got caught?): on the chimney of Tate Modern, OXO Tower, Houses of Parliament, ...I am actually watching two falcons flitting about outside my office window right now. I am pretty sure they nest in the really tall building next door.
"There were three pairs in London at the turn of the century; now there are 30, probably the second-highest density of peregrines anywhere in the world – after New York." The Guardian, March 2017
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Nice story! While playing golf today, we saw two pairs of raptors out hunting just around us. Probably red-tailed hawks, but they somehow looked bigger.
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Amazon chicken farms (Amazon does not directly own the farms, but distributes their dead chickens)
The girl who talk asked that pathetic little humanoid parasite about them is Priya Sawhney, an activist and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere movement. She was arrested on trespassing and burglary charges and now faces felony charges for approaching Bezos
The girl who talk asked that pathetic little humanoid parasite about them is Priya Sawhney, an activist and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere movement. She was arrested on trespassing and burglary charges and now faces felony charges for approaching Bezos