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sun child



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Ecology
#21868558 - 06/28/15 01:18 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ever since I joined this site I've had the thought somewhere of talking about ecology. Today I realized this would be a very good place.
It's one of my favorite subjects, most fascinating and interesting - along with zoology. Reading 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' by Carl Sagan a while ago re-awakened my interest keenly, and since then I've noticed so many things I had previously missed.
So, I have nothing at the moment to offer; I write down all that really strikes me, here or there. . I would like to create this thread to have a space where people can share insights or discoveries about animals and plants, within this fascinating field. .
Over the years it's come to be one of the most intriguing things to me. .
Alright I do have just a few. .
Elephants can hear with their feet, and communicate for significant distances by creating vibrations; and can also hear storms from up to 150 miles away.
I just learned floricans - a type of bird in India - have this very cool mating ritual, the males simply leap up out of the grass fairly high.
So things like that, whatever you'd like to share.
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sudly
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Elephants can feel vibrations with their feet and use this as a form of communication. It's a wrong use of words to say that they hear with their feet.
I'm currently doing a bachelor of ecology at a university in a forest and it has a lot of science in it. A lot of the study so far has been on the biology of plants and animals but we are moving onto environmental factors too.
Ecology is the study of the relationship and interactions between organisms and their environment.
It sounds like you are asking for animal facts and not ecology. Elephants can stomp to communicate independent of their environment. As is the jumping behavior of the birds.
An example of ecology would be a beavers behavior to create a dam which effects the environment around them. They use the environment to their advantage.
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Re: Ecology [Re: sudly] 1
#21986520 - 07/23/15 06:14 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anyone heard of 'Shit you didnt know about biology'? This website has alot of interesting articles that are alot less monotonous than the usual research articles and journals.
http://sydkab.com/
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Edited by AGUARES (07/30/15 11:16 PM)
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Re: Ecology [Re: AGUARES] 1
#22013891 - 07/29/15 09:07 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I highly recommend this book
http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Ecology-The-Cry-Earth/dp/1890350451
I just finished it and it was great to get so many perspectives on Ecology and what's wrong with the way we're treating the Earth and so many other great topics. It's a lot of spirituality if you're into that but they relate it to the environment. There's so much I learned from it It'd be silly to say one thing I learned, but I can tell you I learned a lot. Now I'm reading this and I'm half way through but it's more about shamanism than anything which I also find really interesting
http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Nature-Awakening-Wisdom-Earth/dp/1591431905
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I was surprised when i read about how new the idea of ecology is. If i remember correctly it was acknowledged as a branch of science until the 1960's.
It surprising what great effect on species can have on the entire ecosystem, and what important balance holds all together.
Not to long ago i read an interesting article in one of my hunting magazines about returning wolfs of yellowstone and what a great impact they had. They related the wolves coming back to just about every aspect of the ecosystem. From wolves eating the coyote and elk to the there being and increase in rabbit population and the increase in certain plant life the elk had an impact on, they even related it all the way down to an rise in the wet land creatures such as the frogs.
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I once read a book about those kind of details, but the only one I remember is this: hoverflies have a mating ritual in which the males stay still while flying, and the females watch them and choose the one that can stand longer, because they mate while flying
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