Thursday October 29, 2009, 1:22 am
Interesting. Thanks Katie.

Thursday October 29, 2009, 4:13 am
The biggest problem seems to me that scientists are so full of their own importance that they fail to grasp the all important fact that humans only think they are top of the heap! The sort of things that caring animal owners notice daily without a white coat or PhD to be seen such as cats and dogs recognising their owners car from the many others passing the house and similar memory, perception and intelligence indicators! Along with unconditional love and a whole raft of behaviours alien to science's blinkered thought processes! Thinking outside the proverbial box is something that might even aleviate the plight of nature animals and humans should it ever invade the lab!

Thursday October 29, 2009, 12:39 pm
I wouldn't use a blanket statement that scientists don't see what's under our noses. I'm an animal lover and a science major at a university. Most of the natural scientists I know are also animal lovers and study them as much as the next animal lover. Part of the problem is designing tests to prove the hypothesis of an animal's behavior. Proof is what is looked at in the scientific world because it's repeatable. An example is a cat that fetches, which we have two cats that have this behavior. It can be proven that these two cats fetch simply by filming them in action. But this doesn't prove all cats fetch, just the two in our household of three cats. The third is a tamed feral.
Other scientists that are not natural scientists have to focus on the issue at hand, like chemistry or physics. These sciences are only marginally related to natural science, therefor it would be inappropriate for determine animal behavior. Science, as everything else has its niches.

Thursday October 29, 2009, 6:09 pm
I think its awesome that robins can see the magnetic field.

Thursday October 29, 2009, 10:48 pm

I agree that this is very interesting.

Thanks Katie. :)

HUGZ ~ Electra

Saturday October 31, 2009, 4:20 am
Very interesting. Never knew that before. Animals never fail to interest me and make me know more about them. Thanks for the news!