Mandu 🥟we meet again my elusive nemesis
salmonwelldunn9876a@yurnidiot nice😃
Cassandra
Tomas
Celine warns of Idiocracy@yurnidiot Schattenboxen 😻
Peter Kisner ≈
Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer (Official HD Video)
Alexander KarnLive feed of MAGA führer conducting legal strategy via Truth Social.
Korallenherz
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@yurnidiot I love the standing hops lol
Kim Possible 
@Pineywoozle @yurnidiot Right? It's impossible not to smile, watching this!
@kimlockhartga LoL Yeah, I just sent it to two buds who hate social media. 🥰
myrmepropagandistCats have imaginations. The chase invisible mice, shadow box, knock things off tables for the thrill of seeing a small thing rolling away...
The ability to pretend and rehearse is something we have in common.
I wonder what is the most distant relative of humans that can play in this way? I think a case could be made for birds. What about fish? hmm.
Of course something analogous could be happing but we simply can't recognize it in our more distant relatives.
Dr Suzanne she/her@yurnidiot @futurebird Isn’t play present in most mammals? So interesting to wonder about. Where are our animal biologists?
Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@futurebird @yurnidiot tbh really surprised this post has cats and humans and birds and fish but not ants!!!
Howard Cohen@futurebird @yurnidiot I've heard Corvids play - they were dinosaurs once [sic].
Ben de Bivort@futurebird @yurnidiot Unlikely to be a hard cutoff on "most distant"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551880v2.full
trachelipus@futurebird @yurnidiot I saw one article suggesting that bumblebees will play with beads, and another that captive octopus will play with items in their tanks. I think play capacity varies on the complexity of survival skills needed. If you are an armored siphon feeder, like a clam, you don't need much brain. Hunters, prey animals that survive by fleeing & social animals depend more on learned skills. Thus more need for practice, adaptation & planning.
Óscar Morales Vivó@futurebird @yurnidiot octopi and some squid are probably the farthest relatives in the evolutionary tree that we know play and entertain themselves.
johncarneyau@futurebird If you’ve ever seen Australian magpies at play you’d agree that there is definitely a case for birds.
PD@futurebird @yurnidiot Octopuses play.
Gavroche@yurnidiot soooo cute! 🥰
Catherine Schmidt
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@yurnidiot /me cranks The Angels - Shadow Boxer…