Comments on: Proof that Noah’s Ark was Real

By: John Slade

John Slade — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:29:50 +0000

The fact that some animals display strange behavior is hardly proof that the Noah’s Ark tale is true. I mean come on, millions of speicies of animals all over the planet? How did all of them manage to make their way to the ark and how would they all fit, The Bible says how big the Ark was. It was not big enough. What we know now about evolution through painstaking work and fossil records, I think we have proof that Noah’s Ark is just a fable.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:53:03 +0000

I think the crow was actually expressing its fierce hatred of worms, by trying to train a new predator into the worms’ ecosystem.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:22:23 +0000

Gall:This is why I tried to say at several points that these are generalizations. In fact, while this is a picture of a goose, most instances I know of are tree-nesting birds, and there is a divide between water birds, ground birds, and tree nesting birds as to how the young develop. There is parental care in all cases, and we are seeing the manipulation of bits and pieces of a “normal” system by, in this case, circumstance (usually). The point is misdirected parental behavior.

By: laurisa

laurisa — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:18:09 +0000

Wonder what happens when the nice lady starts feeding the cat meat and said cat develops a liking to it? Taste like chicken or crow? An Aesop Fable in the making….

By: Gallstones

Gallstones — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:58:00 +0000

In the case of the goose above, the gaping maw of a carp may sufficiently resemble the gaping maw of a hatchling goose to cause the parent bird to be respond by feeding these fish. Bonds involve drives and satisfactions, affective and motivating emotional states. The goose is driven to find morsels of food when it sees the fish’s gaping mouth, and is satisfied … literally feels “better” in some goosey way … when it puts the food in there.

Except for one tiny nit picking problem. Goslings are born precocial and feed for themselves.

By: troy

troy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:47:51 +0000

There is a lesson to be learned, if you are dumb enough to spit up food into a predatory mammals mouth, you deserve to get eaten… I’d like to see a long term study of these animals to see what happens when the crows feeding instinct goes away, or the cat gets big enough to see the crow as food.