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    "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -- Voltaire

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    Chance visit of a centipede yesterday following the finishing of the object in current avatar.
    Not much online, noted the positive messages associated as this was such a visit.
    Said hello and let it be, but it still was having trouble so helped it find the door.
    8s in abundance, Opal and MoP, 8 and 11 respectively.

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    Forgot about this thread and will for some more time. Going with the flow.
    "To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -- Voltaire

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    Enjoyed catching up on thread today, oh memories, my first meeting with a totem shaman, Robert, a white large very, Aussie. Music was his main energy use but Totem sharing was a blessing he gave, in his work, he let one find their own and as i was in fast learn mode but oblivious to this facet of self knowing at that time, working with these-this afterwards was amazing, this also happens for me after you have communicated Modrad, ion one way or another, to learn one is a teacher with raven on left shoulder and a messenger with kahu on mz right shoulder plus frog on head, was magikcA of eyeist degree imo. Look forward to next installment.

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    Well isn't that a co-incidence Aianawa.
    Robert, The Laughing Monk, Wrex, as were two of his screen names. Wolf emblem all about. I met that guy online about 12 years ago. He sent me some paper work and was looking for me to go to one of his workshops.
    Some how even back then I kept thinking I had already met him. Over the time, he was moving a bit, went back to Australia for a while to look after his mother, then returned and was living in Motueka area. Think he moved to Gisborne way, not heard of for many years.

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    The very same.

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    Crows have been discussed, and for good reason:

    Neat Experiment Suggests Crows Are Even Better Toolmakers Than We Thought



    New research shows that crows can recreate tools from memory, a capacity previously thought impossible for birds.

    Crows are super smart—we knew that already. In addition to understanding causality and analogies, they can remember human faces, plan ahead, and hide their food from others. But crows are also known for their amazing tool-building skills, which they use to construct sticks, hooks, and barbs from plant material. New research published today in Scientific Reports suggests this ability, at least among New Caledonian crows (a particularly intelligent species of corvid), is more sophisticated than we thought, and that these birds are able to construct tools from memory.

    In human societies, cultural evolution and tool building is an iterative process, whereby social traditions improve over time due to teaching, language, and imitation. But among New Caledonian crows, it’s not clear if their tool-making skills are the result of imitation, or an ability acquired through the passing down of cultural traditions. A going hypothesis is that tool designs are in fact culturally transmitted, and that it’s done through a process known as “mental template matching.”

    “Under the mental template matching hypothesis, New Caledonian crow tool designs could be passed on to subsequent generations if an individual used or observed the products of tool manufacture (such as their parents’ tools), formed a mental template of this type of tool design (a mental representation of some or all of the tool’s properties), and then reproduced this template in their own manufacture,” explain the authors in the new study.



    Researchers Russell Grey from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Sarah Jelbert from the University of Cambridge, along with colleagues from several other institutions, conducted an experiment that now provides the first evidence in support of this assertion.

    The researchers trained eight crows to drop bits of paper into a vending machine, which the birds did to receive food rewards. The crows later learned that only cards of a specific size, either large pieces measuring 40 x 60 mm or small pieces measuring 15 x 25 mm, were rewarded. Once the crows were trained to recognize which sizes of paper tools resulted in a food reward, the scientists took all paper pieces away and replaced them with a single large sheet of paper that didn’t fit into the dispenser. Incredibly, the birds tore up the large card to create pieces that matched the size of the paper they previously used to earn rewards. The researchers called it “manufacture by subtraction.”

    Importantly, the birds did not have visual access to any of the previous scraps of paper. The experiment suggests the birds held a mental image of the desired tool in their minds, which they used to construct the new tool. It also means some species of birds may have the ability to improve tools over time (something not proven in the study, but alluded to as a possibility), which they could do by recreating and then adjusting other designs they’ve seen and memorized. That’s an important consideration, because the ability to modify items from memory is typically associated with tool-making cultures, such as humans and some nonhuman primates.

    Edward A. Wasserman, an experimental psychologist and brain scientist at the University of Iowa who wasn’t involved with the new research, says the study is an important addition to our understanding of avian intelligence, and that the conclusions were “clear and compelling.” That said, he wasn’t surprised by the results.

    “The prime limitation on our appreciation of avian intelligence is the lack of creativity in our own experimental methods,” Wasserman told Gizmodo. “Birds keep looking smarter as we conduct more ambitious and assiduous experiments.”

    Wasserman was also keen to point out that crows aren’t the only intelligent birds.

    “Pigeons, parrots, and jays have all been found to exhibit remarkable abilities to learn and remember a wealth of challenging tasks,” he said. “This evidence has come from both naturalistic observations and controlled laboratory experiments. The fact that the last common ancestor of birds and mammals lived 300 million years ago raises a profound question: was that ancestral species also smart or did intelligence evolve independently? That will be a hard question to answer.”

    In the meantime, let’s be sure to admire the intelligence of our fine feathered friends, and finally acknowledge that being called a “bird brain” is actually a compliment.

    Gizmodo

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