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Post by Lokifan on Jan 31, 2017 21:33:08 GMT
Our Bothans need some help. Got an myth idea for our 4 (more or less) legged pals? Post it here. It may end up somewhere very, very cool.  |
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 1, 2017 0:20:23 GMT
Our Bothans need some help. Got an myth idea for our 4 (more or less) legged pals? Post it here. It may end up somewhere very, very cool. How about the age old argument about what's smarter, a dog or a cat. Maybe not such a good idea. Why p*ss off half your audience. There's a lot of cat myths, but testing most of them may be detrimental to the cat. I'm sure PETA would object. |
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Post by ponytail61 on Feb 1, 2017 1:19:01 GMT
They did an episode on contagious yawning. We know dogs yawn, but would they yawn in response to a human yawning?
You could also do cats, but may have a hard time keeping their attention....or even cats vs. dogs
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Post by the light works on Feb 1, 2017 2:46:24 GMT
can dogs recognize the sound of their master's car? I know that was a popular one on the old boards.
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Post by the light works on Feb 1, 2017 2:48:47 GMT
one of my personal ones: the claim that parrots are only repeating what they hear people say, without comprehension.
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 1, 2017 2:50:08 GMT
can dogs recognize the sound of their master's car? I know that was a popular one on the old boards. That's a good one. Based on some of the dogs I've owned, I tend to think they can. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 1, 2017 3:02:30 GMT
can dogs recognize the sound of their master's car? I know that was a popular one on the old boards. That's a good one. Based on some of the dogs I've owned, I tend to think they can. It has also been suggested that they can tell time. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Feb 1, 2017 3:16:50 GMT
That's a good one. Based on some of the dogs I've owned, I tend to think they can. It has also been suggested that they can tell time. I know C-64 said they owned a parrot that could tell when it was time for his dad to get home by looking at a digital clock. When the clock broke, the bird stopped expecting his dad to get home. I think dogs may have some type of natural chronometer built in. My current dog always wants to go out at 6:07 each morning. I thought he may be getting a que by the sound of a neighbor going to work or something, but he even does it on weekends. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 1, 2017 3:20:58 GMT
It has also been suggested that they can tell time. I know C-64 said they owned a parrot that could tell when it was time for his dad to get home by looking at a digital clock. When the clock broke, the bird stopped expecting his dad to get home. I think dogs may have some type of natural chronometer built in. My current dog always wants to go out at 6:07 each morning. I thought he may be getting a que by the sound of a neighbor going to work or something, but he even does it on weekends. that could be bladder related. the question would be how one would test it. |
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Post by the light works on Feb 1, 2017 3:40:13 GMT
in minimyths, one could do the question of whether a cat uses its whiskers to gauge if it can fit through a hole. but that wouldn't take much more than a camera, a cat, and a hole.
they've already tested goldfish's memories.
they've also messed with bloodhounds.
they could consider whether pets help prevent asthma, but that would be a lot of research and not much TV.
another minimyth would be pets and blood pressure. - does petting an animal reduce your blood pressure, and how universal is that?
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 1, 2017 7:20:58 GMT
Our Dog can tell time... same time every day he gets out of bed and goes and waits by the door, 10-15 mins before our Kid gets home from Work, he knows he will get a walk about that time.
If any other car parks on our drive, he will bark.
Not mine.
Not my Mate who comes over almost weekly, he knows the sound of that car by now, but he will bark at my Mums car, she changed it recently, and she doesnt come here that often anyway.
He doesnt bark at the postman any more, he has got used to him, but of they change postie, he barks.
Our dog lets us know "If things change"... therefore, now we have one kid away at Uni, when he comes home, the dog has a woof until he recognises who he is.
Change of routine, our dog will "learn" that times change, it took him almost a month to learn the difference in time between kid returning from college to kid returning from work to take him from a walk...
Its routine, I ant sure if its clock watching, but its more "That time of day", and I think dogs tell time by "That time of day" in the same way we all did before we all had clocks.
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Post by ironhold on Feb 1, 2017 7:28:35 GMT
can dogs recognize the sound of their master's car? I know that was a popular one on the old boards. That's a good one. Based on some of the dogs I've owned, I tend to think they can. Cats can. I've actually seen it happen. We used to have a cat (since deceased) that would react to the sound of my mom's van, and there's a neighborhood stray that reacts to the sound of my car. It's a matter of stimulus / response over a prolonged period. |
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Post by silverdragon on Feb 1, 2017 7:40:29 GMT
Parrots and words.
From what I can find at the latest edge of what we all know... subject to change as we understand more.
Parrots understand "Calls"..
Take any set of birds and learn their alarm call, same as the garden birds we have here, when a bird of prey flies over, there is one shrill scream from one or two of them and they all dive for the bushes.
Doesnt matter what breed....
If a sparrow cries, they all dive.
Parrots are highly intelligent, for birds.
They can understand a stream of different calls, and have learnt to mimic.
We have a blackbird in our garden birds that can do phone's ring, and house alarm... we also have a local Starling that can do Seagull, "Fax machine"(I dunno how either?..) and several different car alarms.
If a longer more complicated call "polly wanna biscuit" means "Food", they can lean that if the say that whole call, they get a biscuit. If they do certain other calls, "Hello", they get attention...
They know the difference in string value of each call?
Maybe...
But they dont know the difference in the containing words, to them, the whole sentence is one word.
My Dog understands Lie down, get your dinner, come here, "Go away", he also knows the names of at least two of the kids, if you say their name they will look for them, even go out from one room to the next to find that kid, so animals understand the basics of different "Calls", maybe not words, but collections of words in one call, they understand what that call means.
And that crosses breeds....
The Dog understands the hiss of cat, and which hiss means "I dont like you" against the hiss that means "I am going to take your face off", the part time cat we have hasnt said much else to the dog other than that yet, its only been 18 month or so since he started coming in the house, and that cat is uneasy around dogs.
That cat understands "No", it also understands come here, and it understands that its not welcome on the beds, maybe we will find out more what other words it knows?. time will tell.
Final cross-breed "Understanding", Fish.
If I tap the post on the pond in a certain rhythm, the fish know "Food"
If the dog starts a barking that says "Intruder" in the back yard, for some reason, all the fish go hide under the shelf...
How to drive a Dog NUTS...
Done by kids, not me, but no less funny...
Make a recording of Kid who does the dog walk saying "Walkies" and rattling the dog lead.
Play it back at some un-usual hour of the night, either early morning or late night?.. do this by Video where the dog can come "see" the television...
And ours peers behind the TV to see if it can find the kid, or runs around the house searching for him.
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Post by the light works on Feb 1, 2017 14:54:57 GMT
The next step from there is to note that my bird (now an ex-parrot) has used inflection and conjugated phrases, as well as making some eerily specific comments.
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Post by Cybermortis on Feb 2, 2017 16:28:27 GMT
Please keep posts to ideas.
This section is specifically for ideas the show is interested in, and as such is likely to the first place the researchers look when they pass by the board. They don't have the time or inclination to read a conversation between members that have no value to them in this regard.
Thank You, Cyber
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