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Animal Grief: Another Understanding of Death

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:01:32 +0000

Cult of death has long been one of mankind’s cornerstone in terms of acknowledgement of the abstract, understanding of the universe and the sacred. Rituals of the last rites to honour death and most commonly celebrate a person’s life.

Research in ethology (a branch of zoology studying animal behaviour) has focused in recent years on the way animals mourn their own. While the outcome showed animals do not care for deaths in animals of other species except in some specific cases, such as death of an individual of another species replacing a child, theories are still ongoing as to how animals treat death, a scientific discipline known as thanatology.

How Advanced Understanding of Gestures in Apes Shapes Early Human Developments in Language

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:46:06 +0000

By developing complex languages, homininans have been able to achieve a better understanding of their surroundings, develop more complex group behaviours and share information helping expand upon adapting to new environments using new necessary skills.

A bigger brain and its many connections are what helped the hominina branch gain distance on its ape counterparts. It did also create a chasm when it comes to language.

Three theories to explain gesture languages in great apes

Indeed, recent developments in research on language in apes have exploited different theories to explain how apes possess the ability to use gestures in order to communicate.

Undersea Minerals: not the electrifying discovery thought out to be

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:24:18 +0000

A few weeks ago, HBO show Last Week Tonight aired an episode about deep sea mining where they exposed how companies and in particular disruptive ones such as TMC, The Metals Company, are searching the ocean floor to find rare-earth elements. Mining companies have begun to look at previously unattainable places in abysses as new potential mineral rich locations now made valuable since the increase in demand for rare-earth minerals. HBO show Last Week Tonight Researchers have found those minerals inside nodules lying on the deep ocean floor, their layout waiting for companies to just scoop them up seemingly making the industry less polluting and resolving mankind’s crisis in transitioning to greener energies. As the show displays, while these places seem barren, they are nonetheless inhabited with life and the machinery employed to displace tons of these little rock formations would undeniably destroy the environment of those organism and microorganisms and we would ultimately lose natural wealth. The company MLC had commanded an environmental study to take a look at the rate of destruction mining these locations would involve and weigh destruction to benefits.