Wildclickers #74 - The "Tree from Hell??"

Speaking of the latin -
This is Day of the Dead in Mexico - - -

Happy Day of the Dead everyone!!

Somehow, that just doesn't sound right -

clicked

I've got the flu.

Sounds perfect to me.

[burp]

Bless You.

thank you

undulating through and clicking

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Migration news!

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November 1, 2006 - Migration crossing Indiana

Monarch's arrive!



Why is This Place So Special for Monarchs?
Monarchs travel to a very small region in Mexico from across eastern North America. You can see it on the map above. The region is only about 70 miles wide. Within the region, only 12 places have the habitat the butterflies need to survive.


Monarchs, Dia de los Muertos, and Mexican Tradition

Since Pre-hispanic times, people in Mexico noted the monarch's arrival at precisely the same time every fall. In fact, the name for the monarch butterfly is the "harvester butterfly" in the native language of the Purépecha Indians. As the people observed, the monarchs appear each fall during the corn harvest. The Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos also occurs at this time. Many people in the region believe the monarchs are the souls of their ancestors, returning for their annual visit.

That has always been a mystery to me, Stradee. How do those tiny brains think of this each year at the very same time?

Life is strange.

clicked.

Dan, that's a good question.

A migratory brain chip seems the only logical explaination.

Humans also migrated - the ancients were nomads till someone invented a town. <grin>

Urban development, plus other considerations have almost elliminated land animal migration. Sea mammals and birds seem to be the last of migratory animals.

I recall something from many years ago about the migratory urgings of some bird. Their directional capability was/is due to some form of iron in their brains - or somewhere around there. That would help keep them on a southerly heading - but, the timing of it all still escapes me. Then there are those turtles - - - egads - they wait all year for a certain night with a full moon to go beach themselves and lay their eggs. Someone must be sending them calendars and astrological information.

????

One of the great unsolved mysteries of nature. It seems that some sort of migratory site locator is hard-wired into the nervous systems of many animals. The butterfly actually has no brain to speak of. There's a neural system, but nothing that would make them capable of what we think of as "thinking" or "planning". At least not in the sense that we apply these words to the mammals. There also appears to be some sort of telepathic means of communication, for lack of a better term. Have you ever seen a flock of Canada geese suddenly take off from a pond and fly straight to the same destination? How did they all know to take off at the same time? I've seen this phenomenon may times with a single mated couple. They will take off together and fly to the same place just as though they've talked it over and both decided to go. It's really quite amazing. I firmly believe that some sort of communication takes place between them on a level that is neither verbal nor visual nor connected to the other senses. It's ESP is all.

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Watch this space for a migration to a new thread

our new migratory stroll ... click ... the 75th wildclickers' stroll

Dan,

Diverse regulation of sensory signaling by C. elegans nPKC-epsilon/eta TTX-4

Sensory neurons are mostly specialized to detect different environmental stimuli. For example, photoreceptor cells sense light exclusively and olfactory neurons sense odorants. In each sensory neuron, different molecules are involved in primary sensory signal transduction. In mammals, light is received by the G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin, which in turn activates G transducin and phosphodiesterase (PDE), and leads to the closure of a cGMP-gated cation (CNG) channel (Ebrey and Koutalos, 2001). Activation of an odorant receptor by an odorant stimulates Golf protein, which increases the level of cAMP via activation of adenylyl cyclase, resulting in the opening of a cAMP-gated cation (CNG) channel (Pace et al, 1985; Firestein et al, 1991). Nociceptive signals directly activate TRP channels, TRPV1 and TRPV2 (Caterina et al, 1997, 1999). Given the numerous specific sensory neurons, we are led to ask how the activation or inactivation of the signaling molecules is regulated to respond properly to environmental stimuli.

Molecular mechanisms for the highly tuned regulation of the signaling pathways still remain largely unclear. {fgs}

http://www.nature.com/emboj/journal/v24/n12/full/7600697a.html

Howdy, ehBeth!

Merry, esp and the fact that animals are sensitive to enviornmental changes - and possessing sofisicated navigational skills [whales use the stars system] allowing them to return to birthing areas, and food and water sources for land animals during drought.

Animals read their environment.

Stradee - g'day - come on over and join me on the new thread (link above).