Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Can I celebrate with some calamari?
P.Z. Meyers says that if you do, you'll get no scantily-clad women.....
Somebody has found their way to the inner sanctum of the cephalopod lords, and returned with pictures. Yes, it's true: cephalopod worship, for some reason, involves scantily clad women.
Wait a minute…eating cephalopods? No scantily clad ladies for you, Rick.
Kat, I have it and will send it to the email address I've used for you before...
Sparky, you ROCK! you're like the super sleuth librarian! THANK YOU!
There's a national institute for play.
Which I found by tracking down this instance of wild and domesticated animals playing.
How is "play" defined? Activity that is not immediately beneficial to the creature doing the action? One that's not related to food/shelter/survival?
From the snopes page:
We note that although these photographs are genuine, the interpretation of what they depict is somewhat subjective. Although most lay observers would characterize the activity shown in these images as "play," animal behavioralists differ as to whether it truly constitutes play (i.e., activity engaged in purely for pleasure) or whether that description is an anthropomorphization of more instinctive, survival-based behaviors.
It sure looks like play when my dog does it at the dog park.
Sparky, you ROCK! you're like the super sleuth librarian! THANK YOU!
She really is, and has all the best databases as well.
play (i.e., activity engaged in purely for pleasure) or whether that description is an anthropomorphization of more instinctive, survival-based behaviors.
I call false dichotomy. Surely activites engaged in purely for pleasure can also be instinctive and/or survival-based. (Otherwise, why have orgasms?)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure when my cat plays it's both fun/pleasurable and keeping his survival skills somewhat up-to-date.