Learning about the navigational feats of animals
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Learning about the navigational feats of animals
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#2I'm not quite convinced that "animals don't get lost". How many lost cats never return for every one that does? Did anyone ever make a real study?
Also there are other questionable bits in the article for example "We now have geolocation devices light enough to be carried by monarch butterflies". Where are those devices described? For years I've been looking for a reliable GPS tracking for cats that don't require the use of a collar (which is a huge risk to a cat in dense vegetation). There is nothing on the market (that I know of) that would be available as a small wirelessly charged implant, or even better something tiny that could be attached to the fur like goosegrass pods.
I bet other outdoor cat owners would pay good money for devices like that, but other than a periodic kickstarter scam there is nothing.
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#3Animals do get lost.
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#4I don't know how far the cat got, but I had a similar experience with moving into a new house. The previous owners had to leave without the cat because it mysteriously left about a week before they had to move and didn't show back up.
Three weeks later, a very scrawny cat showed up at my door and wouldn't leave. I let it in and fed it and then got in contact with the previous owners. They drove two hours back to get the cat. The wife was beside herself with joy. The husband told me quietly he'd hoped he'd never see the cat again. Sorry, buddy.
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#5I'm not quite convinced that "animals don't get lost". How many lost cats never return for every one that does? Did anyone ever make a real study? Also there are other questionable bits in the article for example "We now have geolocation devices light enough to be carried by monarch butterflies". Where are those devices described? For years I've been looking for a reliable GPS tracking for cats that don't require the…
I'm not convinced either, because there are cases of animals found after long periods of starvation when the animal probably knows it can find food at home. But it is possible that those animals are driven to hide in fear instead of braving a return to their home. Also the ones that never return may have just died instead of being truly lost. There lots of dangers out there. And there's also cases of theft.
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#6I'm not quite convinced that "animals don't get lost". How many lost cats never return for every one that does? Did anyone ever make a real study? Also there are other questionable bits in the article for example "We now have geolocation devices light enough to be carried by monarch butterflies". Where are those devices described? For years I've been looking for a reliable GPS tracking for cats that don't require the…
I have a weird feeling when cats go missing they want a new home, or want to roam?
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#7Animals do totally get lost and disoriented. Unless the headline and the article differ wildly, the premise is so preposterously fallacious that i didn’t bother RTFA. It’s like an article titled “why the earth is flat”.
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#8I'm not quite convinced that "animals don't get lost". How many lost cats never return for every one that does? Did anyone ever make a real study? Also there are other questionable bits in the article for example "We now have geolocation devices light enough to be carried by monarch butterflies". Where are those devices described? For years I've been looking for a reliable GPS tracking for cats that don't require the…
Monarch butterflies are tracked by tags, rather like ringing birds
Source https://monarchjointventure.org/faq/track-the-migration
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#9Animals do get lost.
On to the next article that takes a fallacy and makes it an axiom.
Re: Learning about the navigational feats of animals
#10Animals do totally get lost and disoriented. Unless the headline and the article differ wildly, the premise is so preposterously fallacious that i didn’t bother RTFA. It’s like an article titled “why the earth is flat”.
It’s a shame you didn’t read the article. It’s actually good popular science commentary. Hopefully it will snag some readers and make the investigate deeper.