Does Your Parrot Laugh?

Its

Science Saturday

and here is an observation by me.

If an

Alien Race

came from outer space,

landed on the

Earth,

whose say they wouldn't be looking to talk to one of the other species living on the planet other than us?

If we can't even decode some of the different languages that animals speak,

how are we going to understand an

Alien Race?

We have taught

Gorillas

to do

Sign Language

to communicate with us.

Why don't we learn their language to talk to them?

Because,

sooner or later,

we are going to find out all animals have conversations among themselves in their own way,

but we are not intelligent enough to decipher it.

Maybe we should before all species go extinct!

Case in point of communicating.

Parrots find ‘laughter’ contagious and high-five in mid air.
From the Daily News on NewScientist.com
"If your parrot is feeling glum, it might be tweetable. Wild keas spontaneously burst into playful behaviour when exposed to the parrot equivalent of canned laughter – the first birds known to respond to laughter-like sounds. The parrots soared after one another in aerobatic loops, exchanged foot-kicking high fives in mid-air and tossed objects to each other, in what seems to be emotionally contagious behaviour. And when the recording stops, so does the party, and the birds go back to whatever they had been doing. We already knew that these half-metre-tall parrots engage in playful behaviour, especially when young. What’s new is that a special warbling call they make has been shown to trigger behaviour that seems to be an equivalent of spontaneous, contagious laughter in humans. Moreover, it’s not just the young ones that respond, adults of both sexes join in the fun too."

 Those monkeys know what they are doing when they toss their feces at you.

Talking about

Alien Life.

Astronomers Find Nearby Planet That Could Host Alien Life. 

From International Business Times on MSN.com

"There might be another Earth out there, and its name is LHS 1140b. It’s not too catchy, but it could be the best candidate for finding alien life in our galactic neighborhood in the reasonable future. According to Harvard’s MEarth Project, which searches the universe for potentially habitable exoplanets, the rocky planet LHS 1140b orbits a star that is only 40 light years away. One of the key similarities between it and our own orb that we call home is that it receives similar amounts of energy from its star that Earth does from the Sun, which means it may have liquid water on its surface. An exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star about 40 light years from Earth may harbor alien life, because it is within its star’s habitable zone. The European Southern Observatory is calling it a super-Earth because the planet is both larger and heavier than Earth — its radius is about 40 percent greater than our planet and it is 6.6 times more massive." 

This next story isn't about

Science,

its all about how greed.

Dow Chemical urges Trump administration to ignore pesticide findings.

From the AP on USAToday.com 

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration that's open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species. Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO is a close adviser to President Donald Trump, and two other manufacturers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three of Trump's Cabinet agencies. The companies asked them "to set aside" the results of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed. Dow Chemical wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump's inaugural festivities, and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, heads a White House manufacturing working group. The industry's request comes after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced last month he was reversing an Obama-era effort to bar the use of Dow's chlorpyrifos pesticide on food after recent peer-reviewed studies found that even tiny levels of exposure could hinder the development of children's brains. In his prior job as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt often aligned himself in legal disputes with the interests of executives and corporations who supported his state campaigns. He filed more than a dozen lawsuits seeking to overturn some of the same regulations he is now charged with enforcing."

This is,

I Remember Monarch Butterflies

And Fireflies Flew All Around When I Was Young

Before Dow Chemicals Sprayed Everything Dead

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
- George Carlin -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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