Comments on: Science http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:08:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/comment-page-1/#comment-15857 Jeff Tue, 09 May 2006 16:52:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/#comment-15857 gorgeous writing! gorgeous writing!

]]> By: Sam Gralla http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/comment-page-1/#comment-15858 Sam Gralla Tue, 09 May 2006 14:24:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/#comment-15858 I love Garrison Keillor. I love Garrison Keillor.

]]> By: Plato http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/comment-page-1/#comment-15859 Plato Tue, 09 May 2006 10:41:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/#comment-15859 I think our mistake was ever giving them a ball to run and fetch, now it is an obsession as well. Have to hide it, just to have some piece and quiet. It's strange how the animal can reveal it's dominance over one another? If you have had animals for a time, such a thing as standing over another, asserts some kind of message, in what ever form? Peeing, and "the smell" as to marking their place in the world. Females and territory is another one. Having a litter just makes them very possesive sometimes about their homes? Protectng the little ones, even when they are gone. Tried to look deeper into the article but on dial up it is hard at this time of the morning, as duty calls. So will have to look for the science connection later, or see the connection written by someone. :) I think our mistake was ever giving them a ball to run and fetch, now it is an obsession as well. Have to hide it, just to have some piece and quiet.

It’s strange how the animal can reveal it’s dominance over one another?

If you have had animals for a time, such a thing as standing over another, asserts some kind of message, in what ever form? Peeing, and “the smell” as to marking their place in the world.

Females and territory is another one.

Having a litter just makes them very possesive sometimes about their homes? Protectng the little ones, even when they are gone.

Tried to look deeper into the article but on dial up it is hard at this time of the morning, as duty calls. So will have to look for the science connection later, or see the connection written by someone. :)

]]> By: Elliot http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/comment-page-1/#comment-15860 Elliot Tue, 09 May 2006 02:21:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/05/08/science/#comment-15860 Amen, Our Beagle is so singularly focused on food and how to obtain it, that he's got no room in his canine cranium for anything else. Were he able to jump on the counter and wrestle an entire turkey breast to the floor, I suspect it would be a "religious" experience as far as I can tell. Elliot Amen,

Our Beagle is so singularly focused on food and how to obtain it, that he’s got no room in his canine cranium for anything else. Were he able to jump on the counter and wrestle an entire turkey breast to the floor, I suspect it would be a “religious” experience as far as I can tell.

Elliot

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