NOT MY DEBT,WOOF

You often hear of tales of mistaken identity.But this is odd a dog called freddie  recieved a edbt letter for £33.38p .Her owner -jo hart contacted transcom and after some debate the debt was no longer being dealt with.Freddie is a rehomed greyhound rescue centre dog and has been with her owner for a year.

Euphydryas aurinia-MARSH FRITILLARY IN DEVON

This rare butterfly has been seen at 7 new sites in Devon.Only previously recorded at 45 sites.The reason maybe due to meadow restoration but still stays threatened in Britain and Europe.

duncan-jones-marine-discovery-penzance-interviewd bymark antony riane -ghostman

https://soundcloud.com/ghostman-cole/duncan-jones-marine-discovery-penzance-a better version may be done through cfz onthe track with jon downes as i have original for him to edit.mark..ghostman

Ronan Coghlan interviewed by mark antony raines -ghostman

what inspired you to get into cfz subject?1) Reading Heuvelmans' <On the Track> at university                                           WHAT ARE YOUR AIMS?     I'm past an age where one has aims - I have but memories                                .what plans do you have for the future? Producing an earth-shattering bestseller.

ZEN FOUND IN THE GARDEN

Who said you cant find out new things about yourself as you get older.I was in need of something to do and a friend jon downes asked if i could use a lawnmower ,if you seen me i have a  crutch,move a bit,am paranoid  and ocd .Anyway as i go about using the mower ,cleaning up i gat a sense of inner peace or as some may say zen.I would go into the in and outs to debate but i dont know why and i going to leave it that way ,so dear reader i wish you all great karma,mark,ghostman.

Monkey leaders and followers have 'specialised brains'

Monkeys at the top and bottom of the social pecking order have physically different brains, research has found.

A particular network of brain areas was bigger in dominant animals, while other regions were bigger in subordinates.
The study suggests that primate brains, including ours, can be specialised for life at either end of the hierarchy.
The differences might reflect inherited tendencies toward leading or following, or the brain adapting to an animal's role in life - or a little of both.
Neuroscientists made the discovery, which appears in the journal Plos Biology, by comparing brain scans from 25 macaque monkeys that were already "on file" as part of ongoing research at the University of Oxford.

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Dominance might depend not only on aggression and physical strength, but also on forming bonds and making coalitions - and being quite smart about placing your loyalties”

Dr MaryAnn Noonan University of Oxford

"We were also looking at learning and memory and decision-making, and the changes that are going on in your brain when you're doing those things," explained Dr MaryAnn Noonan, the study's first author.

The decision to look at the animals' social status produced an unexpectedly clear result, Dr Noonan said.
"It was surprising. All our monkeys were of different ages and different genders - but with fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) you can control for all of that. And we were consistently seeing these same networks coming out."
The monkeys live in groups of up to five, so the team identified their social status by watching their behaviour, then compared it to different aspects of the brain data.
In monkeys at the top of their social group, three particular bits of the brain tended to be larger (specifically the amygdala, the hypothalamus and the raphe nucleus). In subordinate monkeys, the tendency read more

Cockatoos teach tool-making tricks

A team of researchers has discovered that the birds emulate tool-making tricks when they are demonstrated to them by another bird.
The results are published in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B.
The researchers are interested in what they call "technical intelligence", which is essentially animals' ability to use objects to solve problems.

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It confirms how innovative and how adaptable this species is to novel problems”

Dr Alice Auersperg University of Oxford

"Cockatoos are very interesting for this, because they're very playful with objects," explained lead researcher Dr Alice Auersperg, from the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna.

She and her colleagues had already noticed that one of birds in their research aviary, named Figaro, spontaneously used sticks to drag nuts under the bars.
Figaro also worked out how to make his "fishing sticks" by stripping long, thin pieces off a wooden block in his enclosure.
"So we had one innovator, and a very important aspect of innovation [is] how it can spread in a group," Dr Auersperg explained to BBC News.
To investigate this, the researchers set up an experiment where six birds were shown, by Figaro, how to strip a block and fish for a nut.
After watching the demonstration, most of the birds were able successfully to make their own strip of wood, and use it to retrieve a piece of food.
Fishing technique "This was the interesting thing," said Dr Auersperg "They were successful and interacting with the materials, but they weren't copying Figaro - they devised their own strategy of obtaining the reward."

They may be in a battle with the crow family for the title of most intelligent bird.

And Goffin cockatoos have now shown an impressive ability to learn from one another how to use and even how to make tools.
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