General Chat

a bird pood on me at the weekend!!
chris x

because birds are so fascinating and so wonderful I feel it is a crime against nature to ever cage a bird - they were born to fly and be free, it breaks my heart to see a bird in a cage

Yes, birds do communicate whilst still in the egg. We breed/hand rear owls and when they have started to "pip" (that is make the first indent in the eggshell) we move them from the incubator, which turns the eggs regularly, into the hatcher.

Once they have indicated that hatching is iminant, they do not need to be turned, hence moving to the hatcher. We always ensure that the eggs touch, because they do "talk" to each other. One will hatch but is still kept close to the other eggs, this is encouragement to "ger a move on".

I have two White Faced Scops Owls that hatched yesterday, one at 8am and the other at 10pm. Now is the time when i have to watch where I go as they require hand feeding 3/4 times a day.

kathlyn

carla
saw a same sort of program
dolphins of wales have a welsh accent apparently

Me too, Amanda.

For what it is worth ..........I believe in a Creator........but also in evolution........some thinking mind started the whole thing rolling and has been watching the un-folding of it's Creation ever since.

What human scientist truley knows what his / her
experiments are going to do ? ........only time reveals the answers........as I'm sure it will for each of us in due course.

There was an item on the TV stating that birds are now developing regional accents??& they sort of proved it.
The thing about the ark that's always worried me is -where did that dove come from?

MY FAMILY
CALLED FINCH
WERE BIRD CATCHER

Going back to the birds Colin mentioned in the first bit of this thread.

One of my children is a Paleoanthropologist (ie Evolutionary Scientist) and I remember proof reading one of the essays she wrote for her Master's Degree which mentioned about a particular kind of seabird.

That one used as an example is one which has gradually spread around the world (I can't remember which one it is and she's at work so I can't ask her). Anyway as it has increased its range, it has subtly changed (bit like humans changing accents, colour of skin, hair etc.)

Each adjoining population of this seabird is able to mate with its neighbours but if you look at the two extremes of the range the two at either end are now so different in their calls, appearance, behaviour etc that if they were seen in isolation a biologist would see them as different species. They would not mate because they do not recognise each other as the same.

Sue

Do you know..........the really sad thing about Creationists is that they are now having to add a revised form of evolution into their ideas simply because even the most extreme believer realises that you could never have fitted all those animals onto an ark?
They are now saying that microevolution must happen and that it was simply types of creature on the Ark. So for example just a couple of beetles which then developed into the millions we now see.
For those who'd like to read about the whole controversy here is an interesting link
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-creationists.html

Why do so many scientists from very different science backgrounds agree?
Astronomy, biology, physics, geology, chemistry and archeology all find no problem with evolution.

When they let all those animals off the Ark what did the carnivores eat? If the Creationists are to be believed then there were very few individuals of any creature so you couldn't have all those lions, tigers, wolves etc going out and eating the only remaining examples of wilderbeasts before they had a chance to breed into a herd!

Sorry but it all gets too silly.

Sue

A friend of mine was lucky he managed to 're-home' himself by Xmas,but it was more upsetting to him losing all his stuff.
Can't begin to imagine what it would be like to lose your kids.

Makes you think though,there are still loads of people living in Caravans and B&B.after all this time,their homes are still not ready to be lived in,I wonder when this lot will get their collective act together and do somethind about it? **M**.

Thanks-I just hate upsetting people,life's too short (& so am I)
Anyway your right that Govt seriously got their act together,I can't think of another country that has responded so efficiently in years.A lot should be learnt from this but I doubt the powers that be will take any notice. :)

Carla,The thought never entered my mind,It was just a bit of fun.:o)>. Re China,The Plates Moved as they frequently do,and cause disasters.I do admire the way in which the Chinese Government acted so Quickly, far better than the Burmese did,and probably better than our government did in the flooding.**M**.

Eeeeerrr No Merlin I wasn't sniping-
Take what's happened in China is it more feasable that thousands of innocent people annoyed a God?
Or
Plates in the earth moved & caused a major disaster?

Could his name possibly be "Eldrick?" **M**.:o)>. pmsl.

The all seeing,all knowing one with a sick sense of humour?

Erm...you know..God..Allah..The man with the white beard..the one that William Blake painted so aptly..

which God do you mean though......please try to be a bit more specific! lol

Perhaps it wasn't a big bang,maybe it was more of a small boooom?
I quite like the theory of evolving,it's better than being descended from a rib?