Birds are non-extinct avian dinosaurs.

[Dot]

I guess I am the last person to find out that birds are now called non-extinct avian dinosaurs. When talking about dinosaurs, they now use the terms, extinct avian dinosaurs, extinct dinosaurs, and non-extinct avian dinosaurs. I have read many articles about their similarities, but just recently found out about the classification.

So, if anyone accuses you of being a weird bird person, just tell them, "What do you expect? I live with a non-extinct avian dinosaur." :haha:

[bonnie]

LOL. I always call him my little dinosaur. It is always amazing to me how he looks like a raptor sometimes... hehe

[Larry, Baby and Me]

Hey Dot... read this article I wrote... Interesting...

http://www.happybirdy.com/inheritedknowledge.htm

[TikiTalks]

awesome article, Larry :)

[Larry, Baby and Me]

Thanks -- I enjoyed researching it and writing it.

Makes you stop and think as to what you really have in your house.., doesn't it?

What also helps me is what Dr. Irene Pepperberg concluded after her 30 years of working with Alex... They have the intelligence of a 5 year old with the emotions of a 2 year old.

I always keep that in mind when I am trying to figure out Baby and what she does.

[Dot]

Hey Dot... read this article I wrote... Interesting...

http://www.happybirdy.com/inheritedknowledge.htm

Great article.

As soon as you started talking about knowledge that was genetically handed down, I thought, "Cool, I am PM him about that experiment with the flatworms and the light." :haha: In one of those experiments, didn't they feed the worms to other worms and they acquired the light reaction? I think so, but those readings were decades ago.

Thanks for sharing. Do you have any other goodies posted somewhere?

[Larry, Baby and Me]

Nope - no feeding worms to worms - not that I can remember... and I have a pretty good rememberer. :idea:

[Larry, Baby and Me]

The other stuff I have is pretty dry - about PVC and such.

[Dot]

Makes you stop and think as to what you really have in your house.., doesn't it?
...They have the intelligence of a 5 year old with the emotions of a 2 year old.

I always keep that in mind when I am trying to figure out Baby and what she does.


When Blusher says things like the conversation quoted below, I know Dr. Pepperberg is correct.

I am going over to the the forum on talking and post my favorite Fergie quote.



331. Blusher: “What are you doing?”
Dot: “I’m moving you.”
Blusher: “Why?”
Dot “I needed a little extra room to clean Fergie’s cage.”
Said when I moved the tree perch she was on while I was cleaning cages. July 4, ‘06

[bonnie]

When Blusher says things like the conversation quoted below, I know Dr. Pepperberg is correct.

I am going over to the the forum on talking and post my favorite Fergie quote.



331. Blusher: “What are you doing?”
Dot: “I’m moving you.”
Blusher: “Why?”
Dot “I needed a little extra room to clean Fergie’s cage.”
Said when I moved the tree perch she was on while I was cleaning cages. July 4, ‘06
I LOVE IT!!!!

[FoxersArtist]

I call uriel my big, red lizard all the time. Dinos with wings...hehehe. I wonder if the original versions were as much fun...maybe the ones that wouldnt eat you.

[too&me]

I just love Blusher quotes! :yeah:

[Larry, Baby and Me]

Nope - no feeding worms to worms - not that I can remember... and I have a pretty good rememberer. :idea:

Dot corrected me... She gave me a link to an article that talks about "other" research that did feed flatworms to flatworms to determine if knowledge could be passed on by cannibalism. But - alas their methods were flawed.

http://blog.plover.com/bio/mcconnell.html

[Evelyn]

Great article.

As soon as you started talking about knowledge that was genetically handed down, I thought, "Cool, I am PM him about that experiment with the flatworms and the light." :haha: In one of those experiments, didn't they feed the worms to other worms and they acquired the light reaction? I think so, but those readings were decades ago.

Thanks for sharing. Do you have any other goodies posted somewhere?


You might be thinking about some research done at Baylor University 35-40 years ago about memory transfer. They trained rats, who ordinarily prefer the dark, to go into the light by giving them a mild shock when they went to the dark side of a box. Then they took the brains of those rats, mashed 'em up and injected that into new rats who had not been trained to fear the dark. They found that the new rats who received the injections also feared the dark. They finally isolated the substance--an amino acid. The next thing they were trying to do is synthesize it. I'm sure there's been extensive work on that since then. I just haven't kept up with it.

Evelyn

[Larry, Baby and Me]

The research that we studied in that class was about the quest for a smart pill for humans. That class was back in 1963 - if that doesn't date me.