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May 14, 2022 22:42:15 GMT merh said:

I'd have a pretty good joke if he had chosen the violin instead. 

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www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10261-5

Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives

Abstract
Humans communicate with each other through language, which enables us talk about things beyond time and space. Do non-human animals learn to associate human speech with specific objects in everyday life? We examined whether cats matched familiar cats’ names and faces (Exp.1) and human family members’ names and faces (Exp.2). Cats were presented with a photo of the familiar cat’s face on a laptop monitor after hearing the same cat’s name or another cat’s name called by the subject cat’s owner (Exp.1) or an experimenter (Exp.2). Half of the trials were in a congruent condition where the name and face matched, and half were in an incongruent (mismatch) condition. Results of Exp.1 showed that household cats paid attention to the monitor for longer in the incongruent condition, suggesting an expectancy violation effect; however, café cats did not. In Exp.2, cats living in larger human families were found to look at the monitor for increasingly longer durations in the incongruent condition. Furthermore, this tendency was stronger among cats that had lived with their human family for a longer time, although we could not rule out an effect of age. This study provides evidence that cats link a companion's name and corresponding face without explicit training.

Introduction
Many human words have referential meanings: they evoke a visual mental image when heard or read1. For example, the word “apple” causes us to imagine a red or green fruit even if no such fruit is present. This language property, which expands the plasticity of communication, is also seen to some extent in non-human animals, mainly in the context of intraspecific vocal communication. Seyfarth, Cheney and Marler reported that vervet monkeys (now called Chlorocebus pygerythrus) responded differently to different types of alarm calls (although some of the calls overlap acoustically and this view is currently debated). More recently, west African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) rapidly learned the novel referent of an alarm call that was given in response to a drone5. Referential signaling is not limited to primates. Suzuki showed that tits (Parus minor) detected snake-like motion more rapidly when a snake-specific alarm call rather than a general alarm call was played back, suggesting that tits recall things to which at least one specific call refers. Such studies show that animals have specific calls with a referential meaning, increasing the likelihood of responses appropriate for survival.

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My dog sleeps like he's been killed.

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Wayward sea lion named Freeway is once again found exploring urban San Diego
The sea lion found early this year on a freeway was discovered in a creek in San Diego.

May 16, 2022, 8:56 PM PDT
By Bill Feather and Dennis Romero
SAN DIEGO — Freeway the wayward sea lion, who is continuing his exploration of the city, was found waddling in a creek roughly a mile from the ocean, SeaWorld officials said Monday.

The mammal has been in urban — decidedly non-seaside — locations before: the median of a busy freeway, near a delicatessen and at a busy boulevard.

Freeway was pulled out of Chollas Creek, a concrete-lined stormwater channel, on April 7, SeaWorld San Diego said in its statement Monday. Rescuers took him to the park's Rescue Center, where he remained.

Freeway was headed away from the marine traffic of San Diego Bay.

After the sea lion’s previous caper, in which he was found weaving in lanes of State Route 94 before he was plucked from a median about 4 miles from San Diego Bay on Jan. 7, rescuers gave Freeway his name.

He was rehabilitated at SeaWorld alongside other sea lions that may have spent too much time away from the Pacific, the park said after the freeway episode. He dipped back into frigid waters in early February after he was nudged off a small boat by animal rescuers.

Last month's storm drain rescue was the seventh time SeaWorld rescuers got a report of Freeway’s exploring the state’s second-largest city.

While other sea lions have been caught loitering near diners in La Jolla or coming uncomfortably close to beachgoers, none in recent times appears to have amassed the inland mileage of Freeway.

Freeway is grounded for now. SeaWorld officials said Monday they're keeping him for further assessment.

California’s sea lion population has been growing enough that San Diego officials have closed some areas popular with tourists to give the animals space

Doesn't seem like he's been rehabilitated

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May 18, 2022 3:12:28 GMT merh said:

Wayward sea lion named Freeway is once again found exploring urban San Diego
The sea lion found early this year on a freeway was discovered in a creek in San Diego.

May 16, 2022, 8:56 PM PDT
By Bill Feather and Dennis Romero
SAN DIEGO — Freeway the wayward sea lion, who is continuing his exploration of the city, was found waddling in a creek roughly a mile from the ocean, SeaWorld officials said Monday.

The mammal has been in urban — decidedly non-seaside — locations before: the median of a busy freeway, near a delicatessen and at a busy boulevard.

Freeway was pulled out of Chollas Creek, a concrete-lined stormwater channel, on April 7, SeaWorld San Diego said in its statement Monday. Rescuers took him to the park's Rescue Center, where he remained.

Freeway was headed away from the marine traffic of San Diego Bay.

After the sea lion’s previous caper, in which he was found weaving in lanes of State Route 94 before he was plucked from a median about 4 miles from San Diego Bay on Jan. 7, rescuers gave Freeway his name.

He was rehabilitated at SeaWorld alongside other sea lions that may have spent too much time away from the Pacific, the park said after the freeway episode. He dipped back into frigid waters in early February after he was nudged off a small boat by animal rescuers.

Last month's storm drain rescue was the seventh time SeaWorld rescuers got a report of Freeway’s exploring the state’s second-largest city.

While other sea lions have been caught loitering near diners in La Jolla or coming uncomfortably close to beachgoers, none in recent times appears to have amassed the inland mileage of Freeway.

Freeway is grounded for now. SeaWorld officials said Monday they're keeping him for further assessment.

California’s sea lion population has been growing enough that San Diego officials have closed some areas popular with tourists to give the animals space

Doesn't seem like he's been rehabilitated

it's not his fault.........it's a disease  

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May 17, 2022 20:13:23 GMT merh said:

There was a group of scooter riders that called themselves the Thundering Herd or some such thing  

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