Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

A pretty amazing video.
What I find incredible, but completely believable from my own experiences of observing chickens, is the team have been tracking and observing this group of whales for twenty years, 20 years! And, if I've understood correctly, this is the first time they witnessed a whale birth.
That's an awful long time before one witnesses something essential to a species survival. Think what else the team may have learned about communication, family structure, social structure...all from being able and of course wanting to, observe.

Encouraging to see technology being put to good use.
https://www.euronews.com/video/2026...ghter-whales-unite-in-supporting-newborn-calf

Very interesting.


I was just watching something that said whales closest living DNA relative are hippopotamus. They also give birth in water.

 

[Skyeknight]

Very interesting.


I was just watching something that said whales closest living DNA relative are hippopotamus. They also give birth in water.

True! They belong to the eventoed ungulates. Whales are more related to pigs, deer and cows than horses are.

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

True! They belong to the eventoed ungulates. Whales are more related to pigs, deer and cows than horses are.

Another shocking one: chickens (or any bird) are more closely related to crocodiles than lizards are. So you if you want to define a clade called "reptiles" that includes both lizards and crocodiles, it must also include chickens

 

[Perris]

Another shocking one: chickens (or any bird) are more closely related to crocodiles than lizards are. So you if you want to define a clade called "reptiles" that includes both lizards and crocodiles, it must also include chickens

 

[Perris]

Very interesting.


I was just watching something that said whales closest living DNA relative are hippopotamus. They also give birth in water.

 

[BDutch]

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Where are the dragons?

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Humans, apes and monkeys?