About animals

It´s not beautiful to look at, but it´s resistent and long lived. Meet the Naked mole-rat:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ancer-research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DcOEzW1wA

I have never heard of naked mole rats before. Their communal behavior is interesting.

I am glad to hear you did not give those mice electric shocks.

I have no intention of trying to condition our cat to do anything. She might be trying to condition me, but we probably both have better things to do.

Neither did I.

I didn´t think seriously you would. As for the cat, she might eventually consult her manual on humans to see how she could make you improve her confort (if that is at all possible!).:wink5:

double post

Ants´ rescue of injured member:
http://www.livescience.com/58658-ant...ers-video.html

That is good to know about ants. Selfless behavior benefits the entire community.

I clipped this from a newspaper years ago, but copied this off the net; my favorite: Attachment 9805

Lol!At least here the birds are pals.

That's a nice one about those buzzards. It makes me wonder what animals think of us.

Other people also aske themselves this question and in the net. I just found this:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-th...k-of-us-humans

I remember my cat using a lot of tail language. When he looked satisfied his tail danced lightly.
When he got nervous or irritated his tail flogged the ground like a whip.

I didn't know that part about a cat's tail curling. I think the cat we have likes us.

She certainly does!

Islands dominated by an animal species. I was astonished about the quantity of islands.

http://www.livescience.com/58707-isl...y-animals.html

The Earth as an island of sorts would be dominated by us. It occurred to me that our species is rather young, 30 to 200 thousand years. I figure we have hundreds of millions of years ahead of us, maybe billions if we can keep the Earth in the habitable zone of the Sun. It is like a climax forest where a few species of trees dominate indefinitely.

I would add, ...and if our species is able to keep itself out of mischief.