Animals are Magical

[Bluegreen]

Study Reveals a Simple Technique to Communicate With Your Cat

This may not be news to some, but a new scientific paper proves it ...





Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and floofiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't bonding, maybe you're just not speaking their language.

Never fear – research from 2020 has shown that it's not so difficult. You just need to smile at them more. Not the human way, by baring your teeth, but the cat way, by narrowing your eyes and blinking slowly.

By observing cat-human interactions, scientists confirmed that this expression makes cats – both familiar and strange – approach and be more receptive to humans.

"As someone who has both studied animal behavior and is a cat owner, it's great to be able to show that cats and humans can communicate in this way," Karen McComb, a University of Sussex psychologist, said in a 2020 statement. "It's something that many cat owners had already suspected, so it's exciting to have found evidence for it."

If you've spent any time around cats, you've probably seen their 'partially closed eyes' facial expressions, accompanied by slow blinking. It's similar to how human eyes narrow when smiling and usually occurs when the puss is relaxed and content. The expression is interpreted as a kind of cat smile.

Anecdotal evidence from cat owners has long hinted that humans can copy this expression to communicate to cats that we are friendly and open to interaction.

Published 6th May 2025 by Michelle Starr - Science Alert
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-r...-with-your-cat




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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w-L99YML58A

[Ravenlocke]

Posted by avid (here)
This is possibly not the place, but since my wee cat companion was euthenised due to feline hiv last July, I just can’t get over the emptiness. He belonged to my neighbour, she’s moved on, but I still hear his miaows. Am I losing it? The most wonderful tabby cat, never left me alone outside, in the wheelbarrow when gardening, on the wall whilst talking to neighbour, such a great wee friend. Ah well, sorry for being a wimp… Hope other wimps are not alone xxxx

I’m so sorry for your loss, but no you are not alone..they leave a Big hole and I don’t think you are imagining the meaow, I think maybe he wants you to know he is still around you just can’t see him.

[Kryztian]

Posted by avid (here)
This is possibly not the place, but since my wee cat companion was euthenised due to feline hiv last July, I just can’t get over the emptiness. He belonged to my neighbour, she’s moved on, but I still hear his miaows. Am I losing it? The most wonderful tabby cat, never left me alone outside, in the wheelbarrow when gardening, on the wall whilst talking to neighbour, such a great wee friend. Ah well, sorry for being a wimp… Hope other wimps are not alone xxxx

Avid, I've been there and completely understand. I was completely lost for about 14 months after I lost my first cat, also a tabby. Some felines just find a way to embed themselves into your heart and when they go it leaves a big hole. And tabby are the best - I know, I am on my fifth one now. What finally got me over it, was adopting a new one. There is a kitty out there who needs you just as much as you need them. When you meet them, their personality and look might be quite different, but eventually, they will learn how to heal all the wounds from the departure of your last friend. All the best to you.

[RunningDeer]

I discovered a perfectly round Chicken Egg... Will it hatch?! (11:45)

A Chick Called Albert (YouTube)
May 10 2025
3.55 M subscribers

For those short on time skip to:

• @ 6:34 for speed x 100
• @ 7:32 - Little Guy is about to greet the new world
• @ 9:40 - Little Guy plays a game with the daughters

I discovered an extremely unique, perfectly round chicken egg online and I immediately wanted to incubate it. Collecting such oddly shaped eggs is a thing, apparently. But I honestly didn't expect it would contain life.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Trw7ycZW94g

Hugs to Hervé (his original avatar was ducklings)

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1683084555539054592

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/fee...ars-tank-1950/


Feeding polar bears from a tank, 1950

Photo was taken during a routine military expedition in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union. It isn’t sure if the Chukchi Peninsula has more people or white bears.

The climate is very severe and sometimes weather can be so fierce in winter that the temperature falls 40 C degrees below zero (-40 Fahrenheit) so that poor white bears and their cubs start starving and freezing.

The soldiers, who served in the Army District of Chukchi Peninsula, didn’t turn their backs on the poor and starving animals and started to feed them every now and then.

Of course, you do not have such big amounts of meat at home to feed several white bears. And soldiers decided to feed the bears up with what they had in abundance – tins, or to be more exact, condensed milk.

Soldiers would open such a tin with a tin-opener and then give the can to the bear who licked all the milk from tin and then feed her little bears with it. Those blue and white tins of condensed milk were the winter dessert staple of every Soviet kid.

The condensed milk (called in Russian: sgushchennoye moloko) had an indeterminately long shelf life and there was always plenty of it. It was a common dessert in the army too.

It isn’t surprising to see it given away to bears because unlike some stuff that was rationed condensed milk in USSR was available in unlimited amounts.

The tracked vehicle you see in the photo is a GT-SM GAZ-34036, fully amphibious. This vehicle was widely employed by the Soviet Military.

It was an over-snow vehicle designed for a variety of roles, but primarily as a general cargo/troop carrier and light artillery/heavy mortar tractor. The GT-S is also capable of traversing shallow swamp areas.

The layout is conventional, with an engine compartment at the front, a cab behind that, and the cargo/troop section behind the cab. The towing capacity of the GT-S is 2 tons.



Note: click on the article link above to see the photos of the men that fed the bears face to face

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/siberian_times/status/1274354371430580226

[grapevine]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EkDYPDEqP5U

[Kryztian]

A very operatic little birdie!

[Johnnycomelately]

Here is something for fish lovers, especially ones who are fascinated by weird ways of procreating.

Better title would be “Anglerfish Are Magically Weird”. Enough of this kind of clickbait negativism.

Why it sucks to be a male anglerfish

Real Science

1.91M subscribers

May 10, 2025

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w9UYJfNd3No

[avid]

Posted by Kryztian (here)

Posted by avid (here)
This is possibly not the place, but since my wee cat companion was euthenised due to feline hiv last July, I just can’t get over the emptiness. He belonged to my neighbour, she’s moved on, but I still hear his miaows. Am I losing it? The most wonderful tabby cat, never left me alone outside, in the wheelbarrow when gardening, on the wall whilst talking to neighbour, such a great wee friend. Ah well, sorry for being a wimp… Hope other wimps are not alone xxxx

Avid, I've been there and completely understand. I was completely lost for about 14 months after I lost my first cat, also a tabby. Some felines just find a way to embed themselves into your heart and when they go it leaves a big hole. And tabby are the best - I know, I am on my fifth one now. What finally got me over it, was adopting a new one. There is a kitty out there who needs you just as much as you need them. When you meet them, their personality and look might be quite different, but eventually, they will learn how to heal all the wounds from the departure of your last friend. All the best to you.

Thanks, but my ill health prevents me from rescuing another tabby, only to be left again when I’ve gone. 😿

[rgray222]

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1922262043731640332

Steve 🇺🇸

@SteveLovesAmmo
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14h
This made my skin crawl.

[Inversion]

05/13/25 (0:43)

Grok: Cats often fear aluminum foil due to its crinkling sound, which their sensitive ears (up to 64 kHz) find irritating. The foil's smooth yet rough texture feels unstable, and its shiny, reflective surface may mimic water, which many cats avoid. These factors can startle cats, triggering a fear response. However, not all cats react this way; some adapt or even play with foil. It’s a temporary deterrent, as cats may get used to it. Rarely, foil’s sound can cause seizures in older cats with feline audiogenic reflex seizures (FARS).
Hilna: This reaction is not universal among all cats, but it is common enough that many pet owners use aluminum foil as a deterrent to keep cats off certain surfaces, such as counters or furniture, leveraging the cats' natural caution towards unfamiliar materials.

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v6r5cp7

[Ravenlocke]

An elk being rescued by the crew of the nuclear icebreaker named Yakutia. They had to use the ship’s crane to free her.
Text:

🇷🇺⛑️🫎The crew of the nuclear icebreaker “Yakutia” stopped for an unusual rescue operation
The sailors freed an elk cow stuck in the ice in the mouth of the Yenisei.

The animal was first freed from its icy trap by hand, but the exhausted cow was unable to climb out on its own. The rescuers then used one of the ship's cranes to help her.

https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1922666036454662195

[Eva2]

These amazing birds (400 of them) are due to all be slaughtered today in British Columbia, Canada. The farm is developing antibodies that could put an end to coronavirus. See the link for the full story on this whole fiasco and how as part of a research study program with their natural immunity to viruses, etc. would be of great benefit to humanity. Instead all these happy, healthy, birds are being murdered and the family who love them are losing everything

https://saveourostriches.com/about/

[gini]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jZ0fxVtOPLg

48 min-- May 9, 2025 #chimpanzee #humanity #scienceexplained
In 1976, a bald chimpanzee with eerily human traits shocked the world. Nicknamed the “Humanzee,” Oliver walked on two legs, preferred human company, and defied scientific explanation. Was he a human-chimp hybrid? A missing link? Or something science had never seen before? Subscribe to Our World: https://bit.ly/3xnPuGL

Humans and chimpanzees share an estimated 98 per cent of genetic material, having branched off from one another two and a half million years ago. Genetically it is very likely that humans and chimpanzees could produce offspring. This fascinating special has unique access to the most famous purported human-chimpanzee hybrid called Oliver. He is 41 years old, walks upright on two legs, has a pronounced nose, human-like teeth and is eerily, always rejected by other chimpanzees. But is he really a chimp-human hybrid? Drawing on archive footage and interviews this film explores the taboo of hybridisation and the ethics of such a Frankenstein-science.

This film was first broadcast: 2003

[onawah]

I think it was the geologist, sacred site tour guide and channeler James Tyberonn who reported that sometimes a human soul will temporarily incarnate as an animal in order to school humans in realizing how closely connected the animal kingdom is to human beings.

Posted by gini (here)
48 min-- May 9, 2025 #chimpanzee #humanity #scienceexplained
In 1976, a bald chimpanzee with eerily human traits shocked the world. Nicknamed the “Humanzee,” Oliver walked on two legs, preferred human company, and defied scientific explanation. Was he a human-chimp hybrid? A missing link? Or something science had never seen before? Subscribe to Our World: https://bit.ly/3xnPuGL

Humans and chimpanzees share an estimated 98 per cent of genetic material, having branched off from one another two and a half million years ago. Genetically it is very likely that humans and chimpanzees could produce offspring. This fascinating special has unique access to the most famous purported human-chimpanzee hybrid called Oliver. He is 41 years old, walks upright on two legs, has a pronounced nose, human-like teeth and is eerily, always rejected by other chimpanzees. But is he really a chimp-human hybrid? Drawing on archive footage and interviews this film explores the taboo of hybridisation and the ethics of such a Frankenstein-science.

This film was first broadcast: 2003

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
I think it was the geologist, sacred site tour guide and channeler James Tyberonn who reported that sometimes a human soul will temporarily incarnate as an animal in order to school humans in realizing how closely connected the animal kingdom is to human beings.

Yes. (I was just about to share the same thing before I read your post. ) Oliver likely had a soul/spirit in him that had been a human previously.

[Bill Ryan]

A Telegram video of Russian paratroopers exiting their aircraft — with their dog. We can assume this is a magical animal, as it must have been well-trained, didn't seem alarmed in the slightest, and had probably done this many times before.
(Do we have a little emoji of a dog on a parachute? )



https://t.me/ZOV_Voevoda/30899

[onawah]

There is also the threory (backed by some animal intuitives) that some animals, by repeatedly incarnating as pets to the same owners and thereby forming ever-closer bonds, will eventually begin to incarnate as human souls.
And of course in Hinduism and Buddhism thought, animal souls are designed to eventually become human souls, and human souls can also regress and return to the animal state.