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they can't fly away
According to the info page put out by the charity which runs the historical palaces, the ravens’ wings are only partially clipped “in order to encourage them to stay” but they can still fly and some have flown away in the past.

 
People can have brains full of amyloid plaques and tau protein tangles and not show any sign of dementia all the way to their death. This is astounding and hopeful. I learned it from watching this
 
Sacagawea was only 16 and six months pregnant when hired as a translator for the Lewis and Clark expedition. She was married to a 37-yo fur trader who had either purchased or won her through gambling, less than a year earlier. Her baby was born in winter and she carried and raised him over the course of the two year travel. When the group encountered Native American tribes she was presented with her baby to assure they wouldn’t be attacked. One group of Shoshone they encountered was led by her own brother whom, along with the rest of her family, she had been taken from as a slave less than two years prior—she wept with joy upon seeing him but was not allowed to stay. She died about five years after the end of the expedition and William Clark adopted her son who became a celebrity, becoming friends with a German Duke of Württemberg and living in his palace for a number of years.
 
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While Magellan led the expedition to circumnavigate the globe, he was not the first since he did not actually complete the journey. He was killed by a band of Filipinos led by Lapu Lapu, who is revered as a national hero of colonial resistance to this day.
 
Ants are the only other animal we know about that perform life-saving surgeries and have public health systems! When an ant's femur is injured, another ant will amputate it. If the ant's tibia is injured, the other ants will clean it using their tongue which has some antimicrobial properties (for e.g. Florida ants do not have this, but still engage in cleaning processes). Ants also have 'pipelines' in their colonies where dead ants are transported out of the colony and into a graveyard, and sick ants are transported into a separate area for quarantine. Ants. 🐜
 
Honeybees are as complex as ant's and maybe more. On hot days, they will "fan" the hive (push air in one side and pull it out the other.)
In winter when a be can only fly a short distance before succumbing to the cold, they take on the waste of others before flying out to their doom.
In the fall when their use has ended, the male bees (drones) wings are unhooked so they can not fly and they are carried off and dropped to die.
A Honeybees life goes full circle, when young, they fly out and collect nectar, when their wings are worn they return to clean the brooding cells and feed the young.

Taking care of a hive one day and there is something odd. Remove frames and find a largish lump in the bottom of the hive. It was a mouse that got in, stung to death, then entombed in wax.
 
when young, they fly out and collect nectar, when their wings are worn they return to clean the brooding cells and feed the young.
I think it’s the other way around? I learned that when they first eclose from their pupal shell they spend a week or two getting familiar with the hive and feeding their cell-bound younger larval sisters. Then as they get older they begin to learn the dances and fly zones from their experienced sisters.
 
as complex as ant's and maybe more
Don’t forget termites! 🙋‍♀️ (which by the way are pretty much special cockroaches.) IIRC, the superorganism animals are bees/wasps (ants are essentially flightless wasps), termites, and naked mole rats. I think the hallmark of super organism anImal species are a “neuter caste”, which are workers who are unable to or are killed if they mate.
bees have fun!
I saw that! And there is also evidence that jumping spiders do something like play! God those things are cute 🥹
 
I think it’s the other way around? I learned that when they first eclose from their pupal shell they spend a week or two getting familiar with the hive and feeding their cell-bound younger larval sisters. Then as they get older they begin to learn the dances and fly zones from their experienced sisters.
Depends on time of year some. Gathering nectar from some sources, like Canola tears their wings up quickly, so there are plenty of not so old who's flying days are almost over that are still useful for cleaning and caring. That part is far more complex than many make it out to be though. It's almost like they are assigned a job shortly after emerging depending on the needs of the hive.

The learning curve is quicker than a couple weeks, and they usually learn dances very quickly.
 

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