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Myrna M.
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Charlestown, New Hampshire
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I am a veterinary ethologist and author interested in the interaction of health, behavior, and the...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 179
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Dead Zones and the Subconscious Mind Young human and nonhuman animals possess less experience and, as a result, possess less data in their subconscious data bases. Or ...
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More on the Benefits of Play
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Apparently the cybergods think play is an important subject too, because this link just showed up in a veterinary news service I receive. Enjoy. Play. Smile.
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February, 2012 Commentary Now Available
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Requiem for Companion Animal Play Wow! How’s that for a morose title for a dead-of-winter commentary? I could blame it on a fascinating article by Paul Tullis in ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 178
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Animal Laughter You can see what I consider a likely example of a laughing dog here and read an article about the increased scientific interest in ticklish animals he ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 177
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Dognapping Baboons Dognapping baboons? If you don’t believe me, check out this video clip . Aside from being fascinating, this is the kind of clip that makes me glad ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 176
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Meditation on Animal Play When you listen to this podcast, you’ll notice that there’s no mention of Bamboo the cat’s behavior during these intervals. This is because f ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 175
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Rewriting the Rules Even though I recognize the need for rules in order for a society to function (regardless of species) I also recognize that, like all behavior thei ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 174
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Behavioral Webs Sometimes when I listen to these podcasts after I’ve recorded and edited them, it strikes me that I may have meandered a little bit more off the path t ...
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January, 2012 Commentary Now Available
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There are many sayings and phenomena in human behavior that remind us that connections between fact and fiction, art and life, and perception exist even if we don’t notic ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 173
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Triple Resolutions 2012 I have a love-hate relationship with New Year’s. Because I’m a morning person who doesn’t enjoy late night events during which people get loude ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 172
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Holiday Greetings, 2011 Right after I recorded this, I heard a linguist talking about how often we forget the source of the words we use every day. One of the example ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 171
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Human-Avian Encounters For those who never heard of parahawking (which I’ve since discovered has been demoted to a sport), here’s a trailer for a film on the subject. ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 170
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Treatment Obesity My guess is that once you listen to this podcast, you’ll be able to think of other trends that occur in physical health that have parallels in behavi ...
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December, 2011 Commentary Now Available
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Holiday Cheer Would it surprise you to learn that I was once an angel? For those considering renouncing your faith if the likes of me can achieve such status, pe ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 169
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Unifying Challenges For those who have never read any of Edward O. Wilson’s groundbreaking books about nature and the environment, you can find them here . Although I ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 168
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Thanksgiving – 2011 Just a few meandering thoughts about my favorite holiday.This year I again get to lounge about while my treasured daughter-in-law does more than th ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 167
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Semantic Contagion Redux The other part of this subject that I’ll leave you to think about is whether animals do the same thing. It’s seem they must. But how would it ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 166
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About Books The links mentioned in this podcast can be found here . The new book has working title and no cover, but here’s a picture of a group of animals, Bamboo and ...
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A fun message about a serious topic
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I receive a fair number of video links, but living in the a dead zone with a dial-up connection prevents me from opening most of them. Either I can’t open a clip at ...
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Meandering With Myrn: Episode 165
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The Power of Nonverbal Communication Click here to hear the interview with biologist and conservationist Alan Rabinowitz that I was listening to during my early Sunday ...
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