Complete video at: fora.tv Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, argues that animals may posses a degree of emotional depth by playing a sorrowful call from a male beaver after its entire family was killed by humans. “The world’s really crying out to us for help,” he says of habitat destruction. —– Dr. Bernie Krause, creator of Wild Sanctuary, demonstrates that every living organism produces sound. This presentation focuses on the symbiotic ways in which the sounds of one organism affect and interrelate with other organisms, local and regional, within a given habitat. Learn about unusual soundscapes and their relevance to preserving natural sounds worldwide. Biophony–the notion that all sounds in undisturbed natural habitats fit into unique niches–will be used to illustrate the ways in which animals taught humans to dance and sing. – California Academy of Sciences Since 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruta Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat. Dr. Krause was Scientific Director (appointed by NOAA) of the operation that rescued Humphrey the humpback whale from the Sacramento Delta (1985) using …
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Beaver males are monogamous. They commit to one female and family.
I find it incredibly sad humans even find the need to have this fuckin debate. we are so far up our own asses i doubt we will ever be able to find our way out !!!
@seamoremonster but kitty’s have the best facial expressions
@WellIAMScottish Maybe they were both sick, and the one died first.
when i moved, my cats had to stay with family for a while. when i brought my oldest cat there, she was in her bench, and she didnt want to come out. and then she actually cried. big tears. it was soo sad and beautiful. unfortunately she died five years ago. but she was a very special cat. i still miss her.
when i moved, my cats had to with family for a while. when i brought my oldest cat there, she was in her bench, and she didnt want to come out. and then she actually cried. big tears. it was soo sad and beautiful. unfortunately she died five years ago. but she was a very special cat. i still miss her.
Another crock of BS to stack more unwanted animals on the planet. I’ve lived in Canada for many years, I’ve never heard a beaver make that sound.
Haha what a stupid video stupid city people have no idea what it’s like in the country we have some of those down the road from where I live and they always make that noise and no one killed any of them haha
I have a poem about beavers which I made a year ago. You could check it out if you want. Here’s the link: authspot.com/poetry/the-beavers/
I wonder if humans possess emotions too… nah, silly thought……
Of course, they grieve,! Jesus! They’re not the ‘objects’ that so many humans make them out to be.
There have always been the enlightened few who knew that we were but a gossamer part of a web beyond our imagining.
The ones who pretend to know a certain reality usually are either too insecure to contemplate otherwise, or profit from charging people admission to their own souls, or are just normal, dumb-as-stump human beings.
We too, shall return to galactic gas. Not so bad.
Animals are people too
We are an incredibly ignorant and self-absorbed species. How can we both be the most intelligent species while, at the same time, reject the notion that animals having feelings or that the ice caps are melting?
Intelligence and wisdom are not synonymous. This is demonstrable – we are ignorant due to the baggage of history. For millennia we thought we were the center of the universe. While we no longer believe this literally we still believe this figuratively. And it is destroying us.
The best I ever saw though was this show on elephants. Not only did the young elephant literally cry out for it’s dead mother due to poachers, but it wouldn’t leave her side and kept trying to wake her up.
They also stated that one time the elephants spotted a dead human body in the grass just lying there and so they carefully started to put dirt over it until it was buried.
They said it was because they realized that other animals might eat the body and because they realized it was dead.
Most animals understand death. Just because humans don’t understand them is their fault.
I was watching something today about prairie dogs. When a coyote killed one of the younger prairie dogs, the mother was just left standing and many of the resident prairie dogs went up to her and sort of gave like a hug/nudge and her family members locked teeth with her, however she never flinched but her eyes were glazed and you could just see the sadness that she knew she lost her “daughter”…
lol…
Everyone who lives or lived with animals, know that they grieve. Humans are so arrogant. It’s the humans that are stone cole, don’t feel anything and just kill and destroy everything.
Thanks for answering. I can not criticize the research, just ForaTV for not posting an extended version of the clip. Liked the answer to Brad too.
Kapritchosa, We can say the beaver is grieving because we can hear the markers of grief in his voice. This recording does not sound like a cry of physical pain. It sounds emotional.
There is an evolutionary advantage to being able to hear signs of emotional distress in an animal’s call. It is not always easy to say what emotion leads an animal to cry out, but when the signs of grief are as clearly audible as they are in this sound clip, we have good reason to trust our instinctive impressions.
Brad, you saw one cat who showed no visible sign of grief at the death of another cat. Your evidence might demonstrate an example of one specific cat who didn’t care very much about one other specific cat. It’s nowhere near enough evidence to prove your much broader claim that “cats don’t give a shit.”
We might predict that Rush Limbaugh wouldn’t grieve very much if Barack Obama had a heart attack, but that wouldn’t prove all humans are incapable of grief.
the beaver is wounded,so what you hear is a beaver in pain..now if he is grieving is another question..why don’t you ask the beaver
+ 1 for the sadness but truth
Cats don’t give a shit. I know from experience that a cat can die of a heart attack right in front of another and the living one goes on with life as usual.
It is very natural to assume that animals grieve, but this video clip is very poor. It proves nothing it claims. How can I tell if the beaver grieves if I have never heard the sound of a beaver who doesn’t grieve.