While looking for something completely unrealted to this thread, I found out that there are such things as the Robo Alive Crawling Spider!2 years on and I still love a good spider.
One of our customers complained about a wasp in her yurt almost a week ago .. I couldn't find it so I left two complementary open mini jam jars in there instead ..We had a wasp in the warehouse a few weeks ago when it was really warm. So I got some blue roll and it simple walked on it and sat there while I carried it outside. I found it rather strange that it almost felt like it knew that i was going to transport it outside.
Wasps are bastards usually but it is early summer so it was quite calm.
And now I will acknowledge that I am WAY off topic--I got lost on the forum and thought I was in the "A Fun Little Nature-Themed Happening. AKA: Too Much Anthropomorphising" thread instead of this one!
I know what I'm getting for my bday now! (Not for a few months, sadly).While looking for something completely unrealted to this thread, I found out that there are such things as the Robo Alive Crawling Spider!
Agghh! But you might like it, Ghost In The Machine.
(Forgive me, I didn't dare go to the site so I could provide the whole link for you.)
One of our customers complained about a wasp in her yurt almost a week ago .. I couldn't find it so I left two complementary open mini jam jars in there instead ..
One of our customers complained about a wasp in her yurt...
We should do a pop charity single.First World problems, eh?
I'm sure some of you have seen something about this newly released research:
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733615938/scientists-explain-puppy-dog-eyes
The study suggests that certain eyebrow muscles in dogs gave them an evolutionary advantage due to the way humans anthropomorphize animals.
Note that the scientist in this interview, Anne Burrows, calls humans "this weird species that decided to bring other species to live . . . in our house."
But earlier studies they've done suggest that this relatively small inner eyebrow movement in pooches that makes their eyes look larger and more baby-like evokes a protective instinct in people.
Hmmm... I'm never quite sure what to think about studies like this, to be honest.
Speaking as someone who's never had a maternal instinct in her life (e.g. babies crying make me feel annoyed rather than concerned!) I'm not sure how looking more baby-like would appeal to me... and yet I melt into a puddle of goo at the sight of puppies. So perhaps when they say "baby-like" are they referring to babies of any species as opposed to just human?
I've seen the dog-expression of which they speak, on all the dogs which Mr Zebra and I have owned over the years, and it definitely makes me want to cuddle said dog, so... I dunno.
One thing is for sure... dogs are clever little tykes and they know how to appeal to their owners!
Babies fill me with anxiety, and the sound of crying babies fills me with anxiety AND hurts my ears.
These eyebrow muscles, which have evolved in dogs, and which wolves don't have, enable a dog to give you that "can you help me?" look.
It has given dogs with a more developed eyebrow muscle an advantage in that humans are more inclined to respond favorably, indulgently, helpfully when that muscle goes into action. "Puppy dog eyes" show humans that the dog wants to eat their food, not them.
("Can you help me by giving me a biscuit,? And another and another and another . . . ")
My youngest works in a high end designer shop for fashion victims in a retail outlet. (Think, shirts that cost over 100 quid, etc). They have daily targets like shift 25,000 quids' worth of stock and it's only a small shop, put it that way.
Yesterday he came home and said he was in the stockroom and someone told him to go outside and look at the dead mouse. So he went outside to look at the dead mouse (he's 16). It wasn't inside the building - outside so just a random mouse, not that they're infested. But it still amused me to think of yards away from all those people spending hundreds of pounds on a few items of clothing - dead mouse. And that two lads in the stockroom thought it was the highlight of their day to go look at it...
At least he didn't poke it with a stick.
Oh yes, when we sit sadly eating our bodyweight in biscuits to console us for the latest mammary-skyward event, and the dog comes and puts a consoling paw on our knee... we read it as 'I feel your pain, empathise with it and lend you some of my strength'.
And the dog thinks 'biscuitbiscuitbiscuitbiscuitbiscuit...'
Hopefully, it would get old very fast if he saw it daily... Made me laugh though, as we think of him as so grown up now - and then there he is, in his designer clothes (they have to wear the brand in the shop), being all grown up... rushing out to look at a dead mouse like he's 9.He should come and stare in my downstairs bathroom, where Arthur has left yet another dead rodent in the bath. The novelty wears off pretty fast.
Hopefully, it would get old very fast if he saw it daily... Made me laugh though, as we think of him as so grown up now - and then there he is, in his designer clothes (they have to wear the brand in the shop), being all grown up... rushing out to look at a dead mouse like he's 9.