2nd October 2005, 10:56 AM
Ryan Wrote:Use of tools is not uncommon in the animal kingdom. Finches, for instance, use twigs to ferret out grubs. Otters use rocks to crack open shells. Certain types of spiders use leaves as rafts to feed on surface-skimming insects.
Birds have a extinct for nesting leaf and twig gathering all sorts of things together to make one,The Penguins unabled to make nests dueto harsh climate sombody was too dumb and decided to live on a frozen wasteland ,Penguins have the males adapted to making their feet into well thermally insulated nests for the egg and chick, Although I never understood why male penguins would become the nester and not female ones its reverse of other birds and animals, Of course the male is biggest sized to accomidate a nest I guess penguins have a closer relationship to Pappa then mama must suck for the male to have carry a egg and then chick on his feet for months just sit idle untill the female comes back with food.
Penguins sometimes do migrate to warmer regions like the islands off the coast of New Zealand for a vacation, Penguins though are screwed they cant fly and are open game for sharks and killer whales although they can swim quite quickly.So they have to stay in lonely barren chilly Antartica which they have all to themselves though.
Who taught the beaver how to make a dam and lower water levels to create natural barriers for their shelters from predators?
Zarathustra the ancient persian sage prophet and wiseman surprinsingly had a great understanding of beavers and taught how they were of importance to farmers in maintaining marshes for irigation and prevent "floodings" as the marsh sponge up water making homes for other animals and birds, For them beavers were of the "wise class of animals" many later persians made it a crime to kill beavers believing the animal was to inteligent to be a coincidence had to be holy in the form of Arc Angel Vohu Manaah the tender of wisdom and animals according to their mythology.So the greatest crime besides murder at one time in the persian empire was killing a Beaver or animals simular to Beavers like Otters. Zoroastrains have some ecological ideas simular to native american traditional beliefs believing some animals to be blessed others to be cursed (snakes) that God and his order of angels would be displeased for wasteful management of nature and the water purity so they had good hygiene and frowned on abusing animals .
But for a evolutionist, They would believe humans come from nature as do the animals to say they would be incapable of inteligent behavior or clever tricks would be arogant, I have heard that dolphins were trained to solve puzzels and they have the optimum brain capacity of a 5 year old human child making them the second smartest animal tested to date besides humans.
Another myth is that "size" of the brain is what counts, But if you think about how much we have managed to continue to compact and micro size computers and shrink them without losing capacity and ability same could be true for gold ball sized brains or even less in some animals. What prevents "apes" from talking is that the portion of their brain is far undeveloped compared to humans the portion that allows advance verbal speech besides groans and screeches for communication ,Although their "gestural" abilities are capable of alot why some can learn 100 or so "sign language" gestures, Its not just that our brains are bigger but have more hardware hooked into it theirs is more primal with small rooms and areas for growth.
Its amazing that Gorillas have enough brain capacity to check for the depth of water with sticks and use them as rulers to measure it, I know some humans including myself have done it before if we were trying to figure out how deep a specific area was if we couldnt see due to murkyness.
If a golf ball brain sized gorilla could do this, A pre homosapien hominid could have done alot more.
Neanderthals had bigger brain capacity then rival Homosapiens(Humans) neanderthals had everything else bigger , But it prooves size doesnt matter as cause black Humans emerging from africa kicked their asses and had taken their women :) ,In this curiousity didnt kill the cat it made him a fierce tiger where as neanderthals were isolative more shy creatures not botherd about the outside world and were left behind.
Although sadly some thousands years later the skin pigment of african originated humans who settled into europe would become lighter and pinkish in color due to the difference climate in europe and forget they were once negroes themselves and became prejidicial toward their cousins.