What attracts us to the forests? Is it the unknowing of what lays within them or is it more about wanting to be scared of getting lost within them? The forest is “just a step beyond the boundaries of civilization”1 and yet it is foreign to us. Who knows exactly what lingers in that thicket of trees it could be a dear, a bear, or maybe sasquatch.
People have feared the woods forever within our history. One example is the movie “The Village” it plays on the communities fear of the woods and of what lingers within them. Many horror movies are in the woods because of the instant fear people get within them. The forest holds many secrets and one day they will be answered, until then I will question.
Notes
1. A field guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels, and other subversive spirits by Carol . Mack and Dinah Mack. pg 91.
In The Tarantula in My Purse and 172 other wild pets by Jean Craighead George she talks about a crow she raised that could say “hello”. Another example is the millions of videos of animals speaking english that ranges from a cat, a goat (below in a video), and commonly a parrot or other bird. Yet, an animal language is something far different. Think about animals and how they use series of grunts and roars to understand each other. One animal that I am extremely interested in understanding the language of is pigeons which I have been raising for the last seven years.
The communications my birds use are mainly fighting and affection to get their messages across. I have walked by them sometimes to find they are facing each other in a circle. I usually refer to these as their “meetings” since they do it only once a while. I don’t know if they are exactly communicating or just keeping warm but they do it in the same way a group of friends would sit around and talk. But they stay silent while they are together in a circle so how are they talking?
An interesting theory brought up was by Rupert Sheldrake is that pigeons use a ‘morphogenetic’ field, which they link to because the information about the location of their home is stored there. They are linked to one another and their home by invisible threads which they probably use to communicate with each other instantly, as schools of fish do that move in unison. Telepathic animals is not ended with pigeons or even animal to animal communication but that of human to animal and animal to human.
Wynter Worsthorne is a person who believes she can communicate with animals through telepathic means. She says you can to by following her steps which requires mainly sending love to your animal and seeing bubbles with their thoughts as well yours.
While I think about animal communication and that of animal to human and human to animal communication I think on how we display communication and who is to count out telepathy. So rather animals use a morphogenetic field or bubbles to communicate both Sheldrake and Worsthorne believe animal use telepathic means to communicate so who is to say that telepathy with animals is not real. I believe that science should be even more open to the idea and embrace it for you never know what you will find.
A video of a goat saying mom not even as related earlier.
Homer pigeons fly straight home, no matter where they are dropped. How do they know where their nest is? One example is given to us by Rupert Scheldrake who believes that information (memory) is not stored in the brain. He speaks of a ‘morphogenetic’ field which connects generations of creatures so that the experiences of one are beneficial to all. They are linked to their home and eachother. It is strange but something I believe. I had taken in a wild pigeon when he hurt his wing and upon release he kept coming back no matter where we took him to. He was determined to get home and after I gave him to another pigeon fancier I haven’t seen him since, but that is way homers are they always know where their home is.
Another example closely related is that I own many fancy pigeon breeds, not homers. I have countless examples of birds knowing where their old nest is, where their parent’s old nest, where each of their nest is in each coop. It is a strange idea to that maybe the pigeon knows what his/her mother or father knew. Maybe they can talk to eachother like us, maybe they are smarter then we give them credit for.
Found in the Fujian providence of China in the early 1900s. A possible explanation for the blue tiger is that much like lynxes and bobcats that are blue, they are a combined expression of two mutant genes which are dilute and non-agouti. Whether this creature is real I do not know but there is a possibility that this creature could be possible since there are/were blue lynxes and bobcats, so why not tigers?
Sources:
http://www.cryptozoology.com/glossary/glossary.php
http://paranormalblog.info/?p=25
From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings by Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker
The Ouzelum or Oozlum bird is a legendary creature found in Australian and British folk tales and legends. Some versions have it that when startled the bird will take off and fly around in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up itself, disappearing completely, which adds to its rarity. Other sources state that the bird flies backwards so that it can admire its own beautiful tail feathers, or because while it does not know where it is going, it likes to know where it has been.
This talk of a bird going backwards when startled reminds me of two differenet domestic breeds of pigeons mainly the parlor tumbler who when scared will flip backwards as in the video below. Another is the Birmingham roller who flips back in the air. Is the Oozlum bird a pigeon? The parlor tumbler or parlor roller originated in Scotland and the United States around 1850 or earlier well the birmingham roller who flips while it flies was orginated in England and whose time of origin is unknown. Whose to say what the Oozlum bird is, but I believe it is a parlor roller or birmingham roller, or even one of the ancestors of these domestic breeds after all it had to come from somewhere. So to the ancestor of parlor roller and the birmingham roller the Oozlum.
Sorces
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/oozlum_bird
Encyclopedia of pigeon breeds by Wendell M. Levi
