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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on May 31, 2013 18:16:08 GMT
I have a Welsh Terrier & other family members have had Terriers of one type or another. Based on experience, I will say that they are pretty good at training their humans & following commands.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jun 22, 2013 11:49:23 GMT
Like a duck to water - meaning that someone is able to pick up a skill/task quickly and easily. But are ducks really that good at learning how to swim?
(The answer is that ducklings are not born with the ability to swim. Put a duckling in water before it has started to produce the oils that water proof its feathers, and before it has figured out how to groom itself to spread the oil around, and it swims like a sponge. Meaning that it will chirp loudly, absorb the water and sink. I know this from first hand experience.)
Related; Like water off a ducks back.
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 25, 2013 9:42:56 GMT
Related, Tighter than a ducks a***, and thats waterproof.....
However....
Dusks, on a personal experience note, once they HAVE reached the age where their feathers are waterproofed, are taken to water, where they fall in....
They may have problems keeping up, but almost always, they do know instinctively How to swim?....
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Post by the light works on Jun 25, 2013 15:30:12 GMT
wood ducks, to cite an extreme example, are born in a nest that averages 5-6 feet above the water - when it is time, mother herds them out of the nest, and they fall to the water - not to return to the nest until it is time to make their own the next year.
and a semantic nitpick - when they are too young to br properly oiled, they are still ducklings.
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Post by the light works on Jul 21, 2013 22:48:52 GMT
catlike reflexes:
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Post by rmc on Oct 8, 2018 15:46:03 GMT
"MORE FUN THAN A BARREL OF MONKEYS"
Nope.
I found a barrel. Opened it. It was simply full of understandably angry monkeys. I'm afraid I have to report that I did not have all that much fun.
Oh, and one of them was apparently armed with a hand grenade for some odd reason. Again, not all that much fun.
I say the idiom is probably somewhat flawed.
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Post by the light works on Oct 8, 2018 17:00:10 GMT
"MORE FUN THAN A BARREL OF MONKEYS" Nope. I found a barrel. Opened it. It was simply full of understandably angry monkeys. I'm afraid I have to report that I did not have all that much fun. Oh, and one of them was apparently armed with a hand grenade for some odd reason. Again, not all that much fun. I say the idiom is probably somewhat flawed. but did THEY have fun? the monkey trap: you drill a hole large enough to allow a monkey to put an open paw in, but not pull a closed paw out, and then bait it with a treat. knowing some primates can develop simple tools, would such a trap be ineffective on some primates? |
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Post by mrfatso on Oct 8, 2018 22:56:23 GMT
It would depend on the treat I suspect.
Chimps and Bonobos I know have been observed such twigs as tools for fishing or hooking out termites from mound, it the treat was soft enough to be speared and pulled out form the hole they yes they could get it.
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Post by the light works on Oct 10, 2018 4:55:47 GMT
It would depend on the treat I suspect. Chimps and Bonobos I know have been observed such twigs as tools for fishing or hooking out termites from mound, it the treat was soft enough to be speared and pulled out form the hole they yes they could get it. the trap is based on the idea the victim will reach in to grab the bait, and then be stuck because it will refuse to let go of the bait. |
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Post by mrfatso on Oct 10, 2018 5:51:52 GMT
It would depend on the treat I suspect. Chimps and Bonobos I know have been observed such twigs as tools for fishing or hooking out termites from mound, it the treat was soft enough to be speared and pulled out form the hole they yes they could get it. the trap is based on the idea the victim will reach in to grab the bait, and then be stuck because it will refuse to let go of the bait. Yes wbut the ability to create tools to get food items that they would not otherwise be able to reach implies that they can judge what they can reach into or not. It is also probably a far greater conceptual leap to create tools than let go of something. |
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Post by the light works on Oct 10, 2018 13:40:51 GMT
the trap is based on the idea the victim will reach in to grab the bait, and then be stuck because it will refuse to let go of the bait. Yes wbut the ability to create tools to get food items that they would not otherwise be able to reach implies that they can judge what they can reach into or not. It is also probably a far greater conceptual leap to create tools than let go of something. which is why I am questioning it. |
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