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La WSPA en campaña por los lobos marinos en Chile - 0 views

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  • El Senador Girardi -aliado de la WSPA en otras iniciativas como la campaña para lograr una Declaración Universal sobre Bienestar Animal- anunció, como medida inmediata, la elaboración de un proyecto de acuerdo con respaldo parlamentario, que solicite al Presidente chileno la eliminación de la entrega de permisos y cuotas de caza, matanza y captura de lobos marinos en aguas chilenas. En un acto simbólico, el Senador fue el primero en firmar una petición que impulsa la campaña “SOS Lobos Marinos en Chile” a nivel nacional y con la cual se pretende involucrar a la ciudadanía en la defensa de los lobos marinos y su bienestar.
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Thinking like an octopus | Harvard Gazette - 0 views

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  • “This suggests that animal minds lack the cohesiveness that humans have,” said Godfrey-Smith, a philosophy professor at Harvard. “It may have something to do with consciousness. Maybe it acts as a unifying tool.”
  • more than half of their 500 million neurons are found in the arms themselves,
  • “Octopuses let us ask which features of our minds can we expect to be universal whenever intelligence arises in the universe, and which are unique to us,”
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  • identifying two strategies by the male octopus, one at close range and the second at a distance
  • The second strategy seems to be employed when the male is smaller than the female
  • the male extends a sperm packet at the end of an arm.
  • Females, it seems, sometimes eat the males.
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Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine - 0 views

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  • have developed intelligence, emotions, and individual personalities. Their findings are challenging our understanding of consciousness itself.
  • more than 95 percent of all animals are invertebrates,
  • Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss
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  • an octopus can taste with all of its skin
  • but first they go senile, acting like a person with dementia
  • Octopuses die after mating and laying eggs
  • “You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,”
  • Octopuses in captivity actually escape their watery enclosures with alarming frequency.
  • Some, she said, “would lift their arms out of the water like dogs jump up to greet you.”
  • How do you prove the intelligence of someone so different?”
  • Small brain size was the evidence once used to argue that birds were stupid—before some birds were proven intelligent enough to compose music, invent dance steps, ask questions, and do math.
  • BIOLOGISTS HAVE LONG NOTED the similarities between the eyes of an octopus and the eyes of a human.
  • Three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its arms.
  • “It is as if each arm has a mind of its own,”
  • Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate
  • the skin of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, a color-changing cousin of octopuses, contains gene sequences usually expressed only in the light-sensing retina of the eye
  • In other words, cephalopods—octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid—may be able to see with their skin.
  • “Home,” Mather found, is where octopuses spend most of their time. A home, or den, which an octopus may occupy only a few days before switching to a new one, is a place where the shell-less octopus can safely hide: a hole in a rock, a discarded shell, or a cubbyhole in a sunken ship. One species, the Pacific red octopus, particularly likes to den in stubby, brown, glass beer bottles.
  • octopuses who dismantle Lego sets and open screw-top jars.
  • This octopus wasn’t the only one to use the bottle as a toy.
  • not only can these animals play with toys, but they may need to play with toys.
  • researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it—and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body. 
  • “Octopuses,” writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, “are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.”
  • the natural lifespan of a giant Pacific octopus is only three years
  • Except to mate, most octopuses have little to do with others of their kind.
  • we have to change the way we think of the nature of the mind itself to take into account minds with less of a centralized self.”
  • “I think consciousness comes in different flavors,” agrees Mather. “Some may have consciousness in a way we may not be able to imagine.”
  • This time I offered her only one arm. I had injured a knee and, feeling wobbly, used my right hand to steady me while I stood on the stool to lean over the tank. Athena in turn gripped me with only one of her arms, and very few of her suckers. Her hold on me was remarkably gentle.
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Carnism: Why Eating Animals Is a Social Justice Issue | One Green Planet - 0 views

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  • Widespread ambivalent, illogical attitudes toward a group of others are almost always a hallmark of an oppressive ideology. Oppressive ideologies require rational, humane people to participate in irrational, inhumane practices and to remain unaware of such contradictions. And they frame the choices of those who refuse to participate in the ideology as “personal preferences” rather than conscientious objections.
  • It is essential that those of us who espouse progressive values and thus support social justice initiatives recognize the paradoxical mentality of meat. Because although this mentality is pervasive, it is not inherent in our species—it is the product of an oppressive ideology so entrenched that it is invisible, its tenets appearing to be universal truths rather than ideologically driven assumptions. This ideology shapes and is shaped by the same type of mentality that enables other oppressions, and it is therefore essential to address if we hope to create a more just social order. Eating animals is not simply a matter of personal ethics; it is the inevitable end result of a deeply entrenched, oppressive ism. Eating animals is a social justice issue.
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