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What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you.
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,303 Views)
stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

calling us children was also uncalled for
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Ignacio
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Why you keep provoking conflicts? I agree that Kohana could have worded the warning in a better way, but she has a point. This section of the forum is always the cause of a new discussion. Now a mod told you to stop the flaming and go back on topic, so you all should do that.
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stargatedalek
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I admit I stepped out of line, my apologies

and again, also sorry to tris


@ as for dodos, we don't even know for certain they were unintelligent in the slightest, just that ignorant people hundreds of years ago thought they were, they could have been highly intelligent
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Sep 28 2014, 07:53 PM
@ as for dodos, we don't even know for certain they were unintelligent in the slightest, just that ignorant people hundreds of years ago thought they were, they could have been highly intelligent
Pigeons are pretty smart, they can discriminate between people, and I think dodos would have a similar amount of intelligence.
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Unfortunately most people think any animal that isn't a primate, cetacean, or dog is dumb as a nail.
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stargatedalek
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The little dodo is highly intelligent, as it became more terrestrial it could have become more or less intelligent
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Burns
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I love this video on dodos. It is kind of off topic.

The Lonely Dodo
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Sep 28 2014, 08:09 PM
stargatedalek
Sep 28 2014, 07:53 PM
@ as for dodos, we don't even know for certain they were unintelligent in the slightest, just that ignorant people hundreds of years ago thought they were, they could have been highly intelligent
Pigeons are pretty smart, they can discriminate between people, and I think dodos would have a similar amount of intelligence.
No question that the dodo comes from an intelligent lineage of birds, and that would suggest the dodo itself was no idiot either.

An island animal with no predators, (at least not any that remotely looked like anything like a human) likely wouldn't have a fear of people. If anything, they were probably curious as to what the heck the weird bipedal figures in their habitat were.

Then again we also have to remember that the first dodos were encountered hundreds of years ago, and back then we did jump to a ton of conclusions.
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Burns
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How come every cool bird from Madagascar, Seychelles, the Mascarene islands and Comoros we had to kill off?
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Sep 28 2014, 09:20 PM
How come every cool bird from Madagascar, Seychelles, the Mascarene islands and Comoros we had to kill off?
Because humans and our introduced pests are A-holes.
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stargatedalek
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Don't forget Hawaiian birds
Oh the stories I've heard, even military using endangered birds as target practice during WWII
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Sep 28 2014, 09:18 PM
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Sep 28 2014, 08:09 PM
stargatedalek
Sep 28 2014, 07:53 PM
@ as for dodos, we don't even know for certain they were unintelligent in the slightest, just that ignorant people hundreds of years ago thought they were, they could have been highly intelligent
Pigeons are pretty smart, they can discriminate between people, and I think dodos would have a similar amount of intelligence.
No question that the dodo comes from an intelligent lineage of birds, and that would suggest the dodo itself was no idiot either.

An island animal with no predators, (at least not any that remotely looked like anything like a human) likely wouldn't have a fear of people. If anything, they were probably curious as to what the heck the weird bipedal figures in their habitat were.

Then again we also have to remember that the first dodos were encountered hundreds of years ago, and back then we did jump to a ton of conclusions.
Yet said animal could have developed anti-predators behaviours.
Mouflons have the same history (island animals with no predators except foxes and eagle for the calves), however they were the ones intorduced outside their range.
And guess what ? when wolves and mouflons came in contact, thepopulation of the latter dropped drastically, even to extinction point in some areas.
But those populations that survived have started developing defensive strategies.
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Here are some things that always get on my nerves >__<
1. A lot of people I meet thinks that the Ice Age killed the dinosaurs. Now I should even have to say it was a meteor and of course the conditions after the meteor impact would have almost like a nuclear winter but when I ask people they mean the "Ice age" with the Mammoths and Cavemen as they say. The Ice Age was not what came directly after the dinosaurs. In fact the epoch after the Cretaceous known as the Paleocene was also a hot humid tropical environment much like the Cretaceous was. The climate didn't really start to change until the end of the Eocene when the climate started to become much dryer. And the "Ice Age" didn't really start till about the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epoch. The Pliocene started about 5 million years ago and the dinosaurs died about sixty five million years ago so there is about a 59,700,000 million year difference between the two events. -.-
2. I am sure people have said this here about 1 trillion times but it is still one of the things that annoy me the most. The fact that people think anything that is extinct is a dinosaur. >_<
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Oct 4 2014, 12:15 AM
Here are some things that always get on my nerves >__<
1. A lot of people I meet thinks that the Ice Age killed the dinosaurs. Now I should even have to say it was a meteor and of course the conditions after the meteor impact would have almost like a nuclear winter but when I ask people they mean the "Ice age" with the Mammoths and Cavemen as they say. The Ice Age was not what came directly after the dinosaurs. In fact the epoch after the Cretaceous known as the Paleocene was also a hot humid tropical environment much like the Cretaceous was. The climate didn't really start to change until the end of the Eocene when the climate started to become much dryer. And the "Ice Age" didn't really start till about the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epoch. The Pliocene started about 59,700,000 million years ago and the dinosaurs died about sixty five million years ago so there is about a 5 million year difference between the two events. -.-
2. I am sure people have said this here about 1 trillion times but it is still one of the things that annoy me the most. The fact that people think anything that is extinct is a dinosaur. >_<
The Pliocene actually started 5.33 million years ago so around a 60 million year difference between the Cretaceous and the Pliocene.
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