1. Subscribershortcircuit
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    10 Nov '12 15:45
    Originally posted by Suzianne
    Procrastination is the main barrier to greatness for most of us.

    The truly great in ANY field do not procrastinate. Think on that.
    I did that...YESTERDAY!!! ;-)
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    10 Nov '12 15:49
    "He who hesitates is lost", or doesn't have a map/GPS.
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    11 Nov '12 07:101 edit
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    Incredibly, incredibly cute. It's so interesting how animals seem to "adopt" other baby animals. In the one I posted with the baboon carrying the little kitten around, I just wonder: Does the baboon think of the kitten as a "teddy bear" or whatever? Or does the baboon really intend on raising the kitten? Is it instinctive for these animals to "adopt" others?
  4. SubscriberKewpie
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    11 Nov '12 07:52
    I suspect stray babies are adopted in wild tribes, it's a survival technique that babies are born with and it would be an evolutionary advantage to add new genes to the tribal pool, so there's a mutual evolutionary benefit. It would only be humans who would bother themselves about the species of the stray baby, I suspect. I guess that mothering gene must have existed before the human and ape branches separated from the common ancestor, if both branches have it.
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    11 Nov '12 08:19

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  6. Standard membersumydid
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    11 Nov '12 10:20
    Originally posted by Kewpie
    I suspect stray babies are adopted in wild tribes, it's a survival technique that babies are born with and it would be an evolutionary advantage to add new genes to the tribal pool, so there's a mutual evolutionary benefit. It would only be humans who would bother themselves about the species of the stray baby, I suspect. I guess that mothering gene must ha ...[text shortened]... efore the human and ape branches separated from the common ancestor, if both branches have it.
    Let me get this straight. Babies stray into wild tribe communities as an evolutionary, instinctive technique of survival? Um.. I don't think so. As far as the "evolutionary advantage" of different species of animals mating? Um... I don't think so on that one either.

    What an odd post.
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    11 Nov '12 11:19
    I'm an odd poster.
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    11 Nov '12 15:46
    Originally posted by Kewpie
    I'm an odd poster.
    Are you framed?
  9. SubscriberKewpie
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    11 Nov '12 21:37
    I am actually. You can buy me here: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Curiosity-Posters_i855779_.htm
    They don't sell me with a tinted background though, you have to add your own.
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    12 Nov '12 14:051 edit
    Originally posted by Kewpie
    I am actually. You can buy me here: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Curiosity-Posters_i855779_.htm
    They don't sell me with a tinted background though, you have to add your own.
    How would it look with a black background?
    Please get back to me "soon".
  11. SubscriberKewpie
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    12 Nov '12 20:36
    Originally posted by Great Big Stees
    How would it look with a black background?
    Please get back to me "soon".
    The eyes have it.
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    13 Nov '12 03:37
    Originally posted by Kewpie
    The eyes have it.
    I concur.
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