"The most striking thing for me though was calf carrying," he said. "They'll sometimes pick up a dead calf with their trunk and drag it. There have even been cases of a female elephant using tusks to carry her dead calf."
"My favourite is a crow using what looks like a plastic lid as a snowboard on a roof," recalled Prof Ximena Nelson from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.Ximena cites was apparently filmed through the window of a building in a Russian town. The crow stands on a jar lid and slides down a snowy roof. It then flies back up and repeats the exercise. It appears to be having fun.
"Animals playing" - with other species, or with unusual objects - is a popular online genre of video.And while it might be a fun distraction to watch, this fun itself can provide insight into the function of play, which is actually something of a biological enigma. Play has no obvious purpose. As Ximena puts it - "it's not going to provide you with food or babies, at least not directly".
Videos uploaded by rich and lucky wildlife tourists who encounter animals in Antarctica is one example.
'Why scientists are also watching animal YouTube videos' you wonder. But of course they know nothing so it's to learn something.
Because Animation is a kind of Miracles.
Learning how to cook them?
You, You, Why you saying everyone that I'm a scientist? 👨🔬
As they should ! Everyone should.
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