Merle, No balloons or candles at my funeral. Just lots of bottles of ketchup.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > > >  bill..you said it not i... > are you having 300 white balloons and 400 lit candles at your funeral?..merle >  > Merle, > > Dogs, other canines, and many other predators bury bodies to preserve them so > they can eat them later. > > But...if after they buried them they released balloons or lit candles I could > be wrong... > > ...Bill! > > --- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >The question I (jrf) have is whether this behavior on the part of the > > >living dog is burying another dog because the dog is dead and it is better > > >that dead dogs be buried rather than just lying on the top of the ground. > > >That could be anthropomorphic projection. The alternative hypothesis is > > >that dogs frequently bury food to eat later. If one feeds a dog to satiety > > >and then gives the dog a beef bone with meat on it, the dog will almost > > >certainly bury the beef bone if given access to the outside where there is > > >dirt. In burying a bone, which might qualify as what some ethologists call > > >"action sequences," there are three different coordinated motor patterns > > >used. One is a running type motion of the front paws that creates the hole > > >in the ground, second is the placement of the bone in the ground with the > > >mouth, and third is the behavior seen on the video, which is a forward > > >shoving motion of the face that pushes the dirt back into the hole. What > > >was > different > > in this video compared to burying a bone with meat on it is that the only > > behavior used was the forward shoving motion of the face that pushes the > > dirt. Instead of covering a bone with meat in a hole, the dirt was covering > > a dead dog that was lying on the surface of the dirt. I suspect that one > > could do some experimentation to figure out what was motivating the dog's > > behavior: a sense of reverence for a deceased member of the species, or an > > instinctual behavior to bury a large piece of meat. > > > > > > > > >To see the video, go to > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rrCnUN5LN0&feature=youtu.be > > > > > > > > >Mark Bekoff reports that he has observed a fox "bury" another dead fox > > >killed by a cougar (mountain lion) in the wild. See > > >http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/200907/fox-cougar-and-funeral > > > > > > > > > > > >Regards, > > >Jay R. Feierman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
