Posted on 10/14/2013 8:38:08 AM PDT by null and void
Never Professor? Never?
I'll buy not since the last Ice Age, but not never.
We and they could well have had quite the relationship during and prior to then.
Not much evidence of a civilization left after everything got scraped flat and covered by a 300 ft sea level rise, but perhaps traces linger in our genes...
Dogs inherently understand the human pointing gesture too.
So what the hell good is that tidbit of what they call knowledge. It’s still “ring the bell” cr**.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of the slightest evidence of any technological civilization prior to the most recent glacial period which lasted from roughly 110,000 to 10,000 years ago.
The article does talk about dogs point-following abilities.
Elephants can mourn their dead too, should we elevate them above humans, NO, but we should elevate them above food animals.
Elephants should only be killed if they “become bad” and endanger human lives, other wise we should preserve them as they are of child like intelligence.
Same goes for the great apes and dolphins.
But we should still eat cows and gazelles
Sometimes I wonder how these characters got PhDs in elephontology (and $ 150K/yr. tenured positions) and then come up with the most inane findings. You could have saved the country millions by the above remark. Bet you didn't get a grant, either.
a skill the dogs probably learn from repeated, one-to-one interactions with their owners.”
No. experiments show they understand it inherently.
Yeah?? You run up on a squirrel with a raised stick, they’ll know what that means too.
Nor am I. At least beyond tales of Atlantis and Mu. I’m not willing to totally rule out the possibility, though.
And I’m also assuming that the pyramids really are only 4500 years old.
Still, how much recognizable evidence would there be of a society that was so advanced that everything they built and used was biodegradable and recyclable, after an intervening ice age and major sea level fluctuations?
Keep in mind that so 80% of the world’s population lives within 200 ft of sea level and that sea level rose 300 feet after the last ice age...
Agreed.
It is my understanding that civilization requires agriculture, and agriculture started (in the west) about 7,000 B.C. so if the Spinx really was built 10,000 B.C. who built it? And then there are the Great Pyramids, again there are good arguments that those could not have been built by a (mostly) stone age people, re the 2500 BC Egyptians.
Whenever I point, my cat comes over to smell the end of my finger.
Some do, some don't.
I was never able to get our otherwise brilliant Cairn to look anywhere but the end of my finger.
My old dog surely does, and I never trained him to do anything but lay down and sleep.
What breed?
And what do you do with elephants when they are overpopulated and eating everything in sight? Regulating hunting of wild elephants provides meat for the locals, an infusions of cash from the trophy hunters, and maintains a healthy and stable population.
Half bichon, half cocker.
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