Do Wild animals Commit Suicide.

[Peter Wolf]

To be fair to the wolves they were *probably* simulating intercourse without penetration which doesnt mean they are actually gay.

"AARooooOOOOOOH  Dont you start !  Doesnt the moon look beautiful tonight big boy !!"

Also shoving the tail of an Anaconda/Boa Constrictor is probably much easier said than done.

[ThryllSeekyr]

This is even better than Thryllseeker's 'cake-making' thread.

I think I vaguely remember that one. Something about adding the butter after I had already started cooking it.

No it doesn't. After spawning, a salmon swims back downriver again to the ocean and has to swim back upriver to spawn again the next year. It's why some salmon get very big: they live a lot longer than one spawning season, in which time they grow a lot and put on a good deal of weight.

I'll get back to you on this. You may be right also. But I will check some other sources. I have about thirty "Survival of the Wild--Time-Life-- " vidoes and  I'm sure one of them is about the Salmon. Although you can't always be sure about the valididity of these so called wildlife experts. The camers never lies, but it can be doctored.

Another one of these videos is called -- would you beleive -- "Cuddly Sharks"  As there might just be speices of Shark that is cuddly, but I might need another opinion.

Would you agree?

Just reading the name on the cover blurb in tempting me to wonder "Is this a glitch in the Matrix"?

To be fair to the wolves they were *probably* simulating intercourse without penetration which doesnt mean they are actually gay.

I'll see if I can find that book and give evrybody here a blow by blow account of what actualley happened. Concerning the werwwolfism part. The fully transformed werewolf wasn't just a man running around naked on all fours.
They say Lycanthropy is just a mental state. It's probably not so bad, but they were supposed to be a real pack of wolves that the werwolve encountered and became a part of while he was locked into his so called lupine state.  In the story, he's supposedly fully transformed and unable to change back longer enough for him to gain the trust of these other wolves and join their pack for a few seasons. Otherwise it might have been just as well, as they very much could have been  a bunch of similar transformed humans.

Stimilating sexual intercourse...

Isn't that what dogs use fire hydrants for?

AARooooOOOOOOH Dont you start ! Doesnt the moon look beautiful tonight big boy !!"

I heard that some people have it wrong about dogs and wolves only howling at the moon. It's supposed that they howl at the sky every night and we the humans only notice because we are more likely to be standing outside looking at the full or nearly full moon ourselves.

[Peter Wolf]

"A blow by blow account ...."

 

 No need for that !


Absolutely right that wolves howl all the time as they do.Its just communication.

As for Lycanthropy there is a name for this within the Furry community but i forget what it is.There are those who claim to shapeshift physically but of course no one has ever been a witness to it so its just bullshit if anyone says that they do shapeshift [delusional].Like you say its more of a mental state.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Stimilating sexual intercourse...

Isn't that what dogs use fire hydrants for?

Just wait , I got that wrong. They use those things to urinate against. Don't know why though.

[ThryllSeekyr]

As for Lycanthropy there is a name for this within the Furry community but i forget what it is.There are those who claim to shapeshift physically but of course no one has ever been a witness to it so its just bullshit if anyone says that they do shapeshift [delusional].Like you say its more of a mental state.

Have you heard about the old English accounts of peasants living in the lowlands. The fungal problem that arrose from the flooding ofcrops of weat had a LSD like effect on these peasants who would then haullucinate, embellishing their claims that the baditry and outlaws that roamed near their properties at night were described as wolf-men.

Perhaps they had wolves with them as well.

--Remebering one of my first converstaions with Peter Wolf when he first appaered on the board back in early 2007...

Did I say this before?

Maybe you told me--

Anyway....

The thing about Silver was just made up as well. Apparently Werewolves were really rich folk who would done the skins of a wolf or other wild animal and go a murdering spree in the nearby villages, farms and towns. Peferably through the lands of peasant folk whom couldn't afford any silver. So they also spread rumours that these mystical wolf-folk could only be slaine by silver or weapons forged from silver and silver projectiles. Something that might have been very rare in the areas where they preyed.

Of course those peasants might have been really gullible through lack of education to beleive those rumours in the first place and maybe these currupt noble folk made up a whole set of lies just so these potenial victims beleive these were-wolves to seem more powerful than they actualley were.

I remember being very excited about finding out about a ancient tribe of Dogheaded men about ten years ago, now. Read about them somewhere on the internet. Linked from one of those Werewolf web sites. On the net and then I took one of the strange long words that were used and looked this up in the dictionary and found that it referred to the same thing.

I was astounded.

Now I realise that perhaps they just wore wolf skins.

[House of Usher]

Have you heard about the old English accounts of peasants living in the lowlands. The fungal problem that arrose from the flooding ofcrops of weat had a LSD like effect on these peasants who would then haullucinate, embellishing their claims that the baditry and outlaws that roamed near their properties at night were described as wolf-men.

The fungus is ergot and it affects rye. Poisoning by ergot of rye is called ergotism. This story was elaborated by Pietro Camporesi in Bread of Dreams to explain the witch panics of early modern Europe. It was a standard historical anthropology text in the 1990s, to be considered alongside many other theories rather than to be accepted as fact. However, Camporesi's theories have never been substantiated and there are many, many other political, economic and religious factors at play besides hallucinogenic poisoning. Most sociologists don't find a purely medical explanation for witchcraft panics at all satisfying, and it tends to absolve everybody of any blame for the witch-hunts and executions which resulted.

The theory that the witch panics were all about political and religious hegemony and social control places blame on the political and religious establishment and rivalries between neighbours who saw an opportunity to maximize their competitive advantage by screwing each other over and getting them before they get you.

The laughable and baseless theory that the witch panics were a concerted attempt by the patriarchal Christian church to wipe out the competition it faced from pan-European matriarchal pagan Earth-goddess worship still practiced in the C16th and C17th places the blame on the victims of the witch persecutions themselves: i.e. they were asking for it; when in actual fact most of the victims were themselves practicing Christians and not pagan nature worshippers at all.

[TordelBack]

A salmon would merely need to spawn. Which what it is meant to do and then it's body falls apart.

No it doesn't. After spawning, a salmon swims back downriver again to the ocean and has to swim back upriver to spawn again the next year. It's why some salmon get very big: they live a lot longer than one spawning season, in which time they grow a lot and put on a good deal of weight.

Hate to be a knob, but the there's more than one type of Salmon (or to be more general, species of anadromous fish (spawn in fresh water, live in salt water)) involved here - and the Mayoral Assertion is more right than it is wrong.  

All species of Pacific Salmon do indeed die from starvation and exhaustion just a few days after spawning - their varying size is a result of different numbers of years spent at sea before spawning.  

Atlantic Salmon, the type wot we do 'ave round these 'ere parts, can survive 2 or more spawnings, although plenty do die.

Knew those Mesolithic Economy lectures would come in handy one day!

[House of Usher]

Cor!! Them poor Pacific salmon! My apologies, your Mayorship. I shall have to pass that information on to the missus. She's a biologist, so she ought to know this stuff; I'm not. So apparently some can make the return trip and some can't. And Pacific salmon can't? Well I never!