This God thing

When it comes to the Tsunami...You realise that there are persons that were trying to get a worldwide tsunami warning system set up prior to the Dec.26th tsunami which was so devastating. I actually spent a lot of time studying Tsunamis in 2001, all along the Pacific coast of the US and part of British Columbia. When I heard of the Tsunami on Dec.26th, I was very sad, but I new that the devastation would only get worse and worse. I still say that memorials should be built for the dead and lost from that. I would make them in the shape of pyramids with local archetectural features. These would be a place that people can go in the event of a warning. Animals may be more attuned to the natural world, but humans have memory, and the ability to prepare for these disasters.

Many different animals also have memory, this is something that has been well stuided and observred within animals.

And I have already spoken before about varrious different animals that have thier own rites of morning for the dead that are not so different then some of ours.

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

Many different animals also have memory, this is something that has been well stuided and observred within animals.

And I have already spoken before about varrious different animals that have thier own rites of morning for the dead that are not so different then some of ours.

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Example: Elephants according to Animal Planet, I think, it was on TV, they have something we don't: Generational Memory. An elephant will remember where a water hole is because their ancestor knew and they were born with the memory. They care for the sick as well as Dark's funeral rites.

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

Example: Elephants according to Animal Planet, I think, it was on TV, they have something we don't: Generational Memory. An elephant will remember where a water hole is because their ancestor knew and they were born with the memory. They care for the sick as well as Dark's funeral rites.

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I believe this refers to memestic memory, which is not a "genetical" transmission but a behavioral one, particularly through imitation. A non-biological evolution, if you want.

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Originally Posted by Pendragon

Example: Elephants according to Animal Planet, I think, it was on TV, they have something we don't: Generational Memory. An elephant will remember where a water hole is because their ancestor knew and they were born with the memory. They care for the sick as well as Dark's funeral rites.

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Elephants also have thier own version of day care, in which they will arrange playdates, which are done in shifts so each of the elephants get a bit of a break from taking care of the young and get some time to themselves.

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Originally Posted by Etienne

I believe this refers to memestic memory, which is not a "genetical" transmission but a behavioral one, particularly through imitation. A non-biological evolution, if you want.

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You may be correct on the name, I saw the show again, it was on "News of the Weird", but the facts as given by the scientists who had been doing the study for a long time was that an elephant could find a water hole in the dry season even though they hadn't been alive last dry season but their grandmother was. They also dealt with the complex death rituals, how the bones are passed around, then restacked, the care for sick elephants even to rude medicine, and the kindergarten or nursery Dark mentions. A elephant that falls on the march is only abandoned after every effort is made to help them, even if delays the herd or endangers them.

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

It is also true that during the Tusami that happend just last year, there were several people that survied becasue even before anyone knew what was happening, the animals began to head up for higher ground and the people followed suit with the animals.

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In fact animals have more powerful and intense sensory organs than human beings, for they are closer to nature and they can read natural forces and happenings faster than us.