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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

A photograph I took in the Amazon Rainforest a few years back! <3

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

I got a horse!!!! <3 <3

Make sure to check out today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdJ6o...

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

Meet Chevalier!!! A Texas Longhorn! I'll post a few more pictures on Facebook-- check it out at www.facebook.com/camelsandfriends/
You won't regret it. Because this is one sexy steer. <3

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

New video coming up this morning featuring Nandi and an up-close view of just how affectionate he is.

Check out this screen cap from the new video-- have you ever seen a more serene face in need of some pets? I haven't!

Next up photo is proof of that! :)

And check back soon for the video. There is no talking in it, but I will get to answering your questions about Nandi that you asked in his last VLOG soon.

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

Good morning!

We had a beautiful foggy day this week. Of course I took video :) But here is a sneak preview. I'll be leaving the rest for Monday or Wednesday's video.

And just in case you were wondering... the last video is of Shadow catching her rocks. So you are caught up! I missed Wednesday and Friday's video.

I hope everyone had a great weekend! My birthday was yesterday (Oct 20th) and it was nice spending it at home with the animals and my mom.

But tomorrow we will get back into things with some up and close and personal cuddlings with Nandi (if you are sensitive to ASMR, this could be a trigger for you--)

I will also have some news about a new friend that should be joining everyone soon.

Well-- maybe more of a friend for Nandi-- but that is all I'm going to say for now!<3

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

The Raven Just Behind Death To Become it to the Wolves Who Walk Behind:
The Long Dark Nights Where the Dead Hide

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Ravens are very interesting animals. Even if you know some of this stuff about them, I hope after reading you gain a new sense of respect for what they are.


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I. the crown for the king and the mantel for the one who will steal it
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Earlier I posted a photo that looked like Shadow a feathery crown around her neck. This photo here.

Shadow started fluffing up that feathery crown, called a mantel since going outdoors into her aviary. Looking at the photo you'll see that is quite dense and is good for protection from the cold. But it is also good for another kind of protection and the relationships of ravens to death and wolves of means that foretell life from death.

That mantel I want to show because it makes the raven what he is and it's always quite plainly stated, but not something tending to draw attention of anyone. It sort of makes her look like a rich victorian woman with an ostrich feather shawl or collar expecting to be cold. And that sort of what it is. It is feathers, it is protecting Shadow from the cold in the photo, and Shadow is a rich victorian woman.

She is not a rich victorian women.

And her main use for her mantel is not to protect her from the cold so much as it is to protect the body from carrion that spread bacteria and blood down the throat and without would make contact with the body-- increasing risk of infection every time a raven feeds on the dead.

This mantel is exactly why the raven is often depicted as survivors of during plagues, apocalypses and other large disasters where a high amount of disease may be festering. The raven keeps safe and can tolerate a much more densely population experiencing a sudden mass death.

Ravens are associated with good, but also with the bad due to their tolerance decay. It is disturbing for those that have experienced the black death to see a raven around again when so many were hopping around the corpses of people you probably knew. They are seen therefore to bring bad luck and death with them. Ravens are heavily tied with death, but they are not an omen foretelling it's arrival. But the followers that come in right after death has already visited.

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II. strength is weakness for those able to find another way around
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Ravens themselves recognize their need to follow on the heels of death and have long since learned to manipulate circumstances when required. In cold climates, carcasses are frozen solid and often covered with snow and then uncovered with death long gone leaving the raven with nothing to follow. In heavy snow and freezing temperatures a raven must be there near to the death of an elk to be able to utilize it as food. The following of death becoming a much too narrow time span for the raven to thrive, putting the species as a whole at risk in those regions.

Ravens despite having a rather large beak with what appears to be hardened crest as seen on parrots-- are actually softbills. That means there beaks have very little strength. They are basically just as useless as any songbird, only a bit stronger for the size of it. Parrots are hookbills and their crest or top beak is harder and shaped like a nut cracker. And they can crack nuts. Or break a bone. Ravens crest gives somewhat an appearance of power, but is really to heighten his sense of smell. To find the scent of death from a great distance. Not something parrots need to do.

But ravens need to scavenge to survive and a frozen elk is much too hard for them to peck open an entry. Being that if you count the elk they are easily second- well third after death-- of the scene of corpse due to their wide ariel view and strong tracking through scent. Arriving third place just isn't going to cut it in the winter months and in some places year round.

Ravens would be forced to wait for wolves to hunt the area and come across the corpse. And then open it. But how long would that be? It could be a long time or it could be never. This unknown is too important to leave to pure chance and the decision making skills of an individual raven to know how long to stay or to stay at all.

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III. the death of the raven for the life of the raven
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To unify themselves, ravens developed a collective conscious to take the unknown out of the equation and replace it with the known. Putting themselves back in control of what happens and not the control of predator density and chance. Leaving the elk behind to go out and find the wolves who easily spotted from far distances in contrast of wolf to snow.

If the wolves are feeding, the raven has found what he needs already. But if they are hunting, this could take awhile and wolves are known for being very unsuccessful at this for days at a time. The unknown factor coming into play again. The raven needs to tell the wolves where the corpse is and they will surely open it and take an easy kill.

But how would the wolves know what the raven wanted with no body language or vocalizations shared between them? What does the raven think finding wolves would do if the elk is miles away?

Ravens cognitive abilities are so great that the raven understood that showing up as a raven was all that was needed to bring the two things he needed together. Wolves are familiar with ravens being around, but only when their is corpse present.

A raven flying in to wolves triggered a dinner bell in their minds through previous association. However-- the confusion was likely much higher as this bond developed and was passed down through generations shared for the benefit of both animals. The wolves are still often somewhat perplex.

They just know that ravens = food. Ravens realize this and become death to be followed by the wolf. There is no communication between them, just the herding of the wolves by the very presence of the raven who moves closer and closer to the carcass and becomes an ever present dinner bell just off in the distance. They check it out. There isn't anything there again and again.

Until there is.

The wolf arriving as the raven would and the raven becoming the assured on time arrival of death. A paramount unspoken truth in a region where the climate and topography demand a level of precision that the following in of death lacks becoming a useless tool for the raven.

Instead the raven's ability to to solve complex problems and explore ideas that do not yet exist allowed the raven to choose to another way to get what he needs, using a different kind of tool-- the strength of the wolf. But what really solved this complex problem?

It was not the powerful jaws of the wolf that can get through to the carcass. The wolf and all his strength would never be there after all, if it weren't for the raven. His method of problem solving using the best of his abilities by using the best of his abilities-- the raven thought of nothing more than to think about himself.

Becoming himself now the answer and leaving the problem behind for the creation of new ideas never before in existence until now.

A gift from the raven to all of us, for the raven's sake.

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

<3

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camelsandfriends
Posted 6 years ago

Shadow joined the Air Force at the tender age of fledgling, graduating to test pilot days before any of her nest-mates would fall awkwardly behind.

But she spent years in the service as a dedicated bird before maturing the traditional look of top Air Force models everywhere.

It's not everyone that can beckon you in with a single look and dares you to answer the question of, "Do you want to join?" But Shadow has captured it perfectly.

And even has you stepping into an action packed future as you see yourself surrounded by way more large expensive pieces of equipment than you ever thought possible. And you are jumping off of all of them.

One look. So many dangerous things you can do. Shadow is not an amazing bird. She is a raven. This is only a glimpse of what will be the longest scroll down a bio page of the new web site of any of the animals. Because they are not ravens. And because Baby is too 'laid back' to care. Laid back being what he calls a slow typer.


:)

More photos to come shortly. And a video tomorrow of another talent she has... complex vocal commands understood in a different (human) language and the knowing of the words well enough to wait until the right ones are said to begin to catch rocks with unbelievable precision.

I taught her it and now she is going to show you how much time we wasted in something pointless in a few short hours. :)

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