I never really encountered Mockingbirds until we moved to Texas nearly 6 years ago. Seems some people have a negative attitude toward them, but I don't understand it. They're delightfult to watch and interact with!
The dove didn't fly out when offered the exit because of a natural learned helplessness. Poor dove was burnt out from trying to escape that it's body/mind was smart to conserve resources to survive by staying put.
Many of the dogs in these experiments would stay in the cages even when the door was left open!
I had a similar story. We have birds that frequent the building at work flying around and around because of the midges that are numerous.
One day I saw a bird (a her w darker color than the colorful males) that flew into a glass door who seemed dead. I touched her and she moved a tiny bit but sadly seemed dying. I decided to grab a piece of cloth to make a little bed and move her away from being stepped on by mistake. She was barely moving but let me pet her head which seemed to give her a bit of energy as she breathed a more normal pace instead of the very spaced out shallow breathing she had before.
It was lunch time so I left to get food and eat with coworkers.
I came back an hour later and she was awake and aware still laying in the cloth bed. She noticed me and was making eye contact. I pet her head and tried to see if she would fly off hopefully. She didn't and I felt sad that perhaps she couldn't fly anymore.
So I picked up the bed she was in to move her into a shed nearby but as soon as she was off the ground she flew away gracefully with the movements these birds do!
It seemed that after the incident she was stuck in bed only because the situation required her to recover from her injury but remained because she didn't get the motivation to go until reminded of what she could do!
BTW, learned helplessness is a strategy of energy conservation which is induced by SEROTONIN, which is not the happy neurotransmitter as the pharma-medicine industrial complex thinks but the "hibernation /sleep" one. It makes sense why prozac and other SSRIs were pushed on us rather than other anti depressants like ketamine, THC, CBD, and psychedelics.
yes sometimes that is true, but she had not been trying long and had not exerted much energy, since I was present for the whole thing, there are a couple outside my door often, so in this instance I don’t think she was doing that… I’ve had that happen before as well. Also fledglings definitely do that, and rabbits, they freeze.
It's fascinating to learn about animals that mimic. It takes a lot of intelligence to hear something, store it in your way of thinking, and learn to repeat it the same way.
According to the article, mockingbirds stop learning new sounds at some point. Fingers crossed your sound sticks! Maybe you can set up a wireless speaker to repeat the sound every 15 minutes or so?
What a delight to read 💚
Lovely take on nature and her ambassadors. Too often we forget that we are merely a part and not the whole show. Great writing. 👏
I never really encountered Mockingbirds until we moved to Texas nearly 6 years ago. Seems some people have a negative attitude toward them, but I don't understand it. They're delightfult to watch and interact with!
Yes, they are! I don't understand it either.
The dove didn't fly out when offered the exit because of a natural learned helplessness. Poor dove was burnt out from trying to escape that it's body/mind was smart to conserve resources to survive by staying put.
Many of the dogs in these experiments would stay in the cages even when the door was left open!
https://robc137.substack.com/p/transmarginal-inhibition-the-way
I had a similar story. We have birds that frequent the building at work flying around and around because of the midges that are numerous.
One day I saw a bird (a her w darker color than the colorful males) that flew into a glass door who seemed dead. I touched her and she moved a tiny bit but sadly seemed dying. I decided to grab a piece of cloth to make a little bed and move her away from being stepped on by mistake. She was barely moving but let me pet her head which seemed to give her a bit of energy as she breathed a more normal pace instead of the very spaced out shallow breathing she had before.
It was lunch time so I left to get food and eat with coworkers.
I came back an hour later and she was awake and aware still laying in the cloth bed. She noticed me and was making eye contact. I pet her head and tried to see if she would fly off hopefully. She didn't and I felt sad that perhaps she couldn't fly anymore.
So I picked up the bed she was in to move her into a shed nearby but as soon as she was off the ground she flew away gracefully with the movements these birds do!
It seemed that after the incident she was stuck in bed only because the situation required her to recover from her injury but remained because she didn't get the motivation to go until reminded of what she could do!
BTW, learned helplessness is a strategy of energy conservation which is induced by SEROTONIN, which is not the happy neurotransmitter as the pharma-medicine industrial complex thinks but the "hibernation /sleep" one. It makes sense why prozac and other SSRIs were pushed on us rather than other anti depressants like ketamine, THC, CBD, and psychedelics.
https://haidut.me/?s=Serotonin+
Keeping us in low power mode to boost learned helplessness only benefits authority.
yes sometimes that is true, but she had not been trying long and had not exerted much energy, since I was present for the whole thing, there are a couple outside my door often, so in this instance I don’t think she was doing that… I’ve had that happen before as well. Also fledglings definitely do that, and rabbits, they freeze.
It's fascinating to learn about animals that mimic. It takes a lot of intelligence to hear something, store it in your way of thinking, and learn to repeat it the same way.
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/why-mockingbirds-mock.htm
I think that's why comedians that are good at impressions tend to be more insightful of the people they are mimicking.
Flexibility in the mind is needed to mock as the article talks about!
yes it does, they are so intelligent. I've been making a specific sound to see if he'll start copying it, he's always around me.
According to the article, mockingbirds stop learning new sounds at some point. Fingers crossed your sound sticks! Maybe you can set up a wireless speaker to repeat the sound every 15 minutes or so?