Some say it's never too late to learn new things, but can it be too early?
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Two gopher frogs are shown at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. For the first time in 10 years, a pond in south Mississippi got enough rain this year to let gopher frogs, one of the nation's most endangered animals, turn from tadpole to frog without human help. [Agencies]
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Apparently not, if the behavior of wood frogs is any indication. Those amphibians can learn to identify predators while still in the egg, according to new research by Alicia Mathis of Missouri State University in Springfield and several colleagues.
After hatching, many amphibians and fish learn to recognize a predator by associating its odor with an alarm pheromone released by injured conspecifics. Mathis' team wondered whether frogs might have that cognitive capacity even earlier, as embryos.
For three hours a day, on six consecutive days, the team exposed wood-frog eggs to water from a bucket containing crushed tadpoles mixed with water from a bucket housing fire-belly newts. (The newts, native to eurasia, are unfamiliar to wood frogs, but eat tadpoles of other species.) A control group received newt water alone.
Two weeks after hatching, only the tadpoles that had experienced the combo of crushed-tadpole and newt water reacted when newt water was presented by itself: they stopped moving, a typical anti-predator response.
The study complements previous research showing that frog embryos can learn to distinguish between food flavors even before they hatch. Classes start early in a frog's life, it seems.
The research was detailed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
In egg, frog knows predators already (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-11/18/content_7215463.htm)
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What, you might ask, is the significance of this finding
RELATIVE to Kmtyw people?
I encourage us to take a page from
this study and begin to seriously consider
how we can start thinking of creative
ways in which WE CAN PROTECT ALL OF OUR
Kmtyw CHILDREN (and adults) BY TEACHING
THEM EARLY HOW TO DETECT AND IDENTIFY
a PREDATOR-
Our historical experiences as Kmtyws shows us
clearly that WE MAKE MANY HUGE MISTAKES, time
and time again, IN CONTINUING TO put FAITH
AND TRUST in white people's politics, health systems,
education systems, cultural systems (they shove their
horror-days down our throats earlier and earlier
each year-buy, buy, buy, spend, spend,
spend, debt, debt, debt, slave, slave, slave,
duped, duped, duped), religious system, etc.
In my book, "You Should Be Ashamed of Your
Nice, but Duped Parents", it is maintained that
those Black people 38,39,40 years old and older,
for a vast majority of them, have been duped
by the white predators into supporting the
various predatory systems (eating 3 times a day,
buying gas guzzlers, running heat and air all
day long spending tons of money,etc.) or
committing some form of Subtle Suicide.
In summary, let's take a look at this study
and know that if frogs can identify predators
while in the egg, we certainly, as the highest
form of life on this planet, ought to be able
to teach our children how to spot white
predators (white female teachers, white cops,
white insurance agents, etc. and protect themselves
from getting gobbled up by a predatory system of
white domination.
Having foreknowledge of what a predator looks like,
or does, is a LIFE SAVING ABILITY!! The Kmtyw
child we save, just might be the one to come up with
the Once and For All Solution to the biggest
problem on planet earth!
Assignment: a.) Go to the site and read the article
and see how we might EXTEND
our own thinking about being able
to help our children deal with
accurately identifying predators-white
and Kmtyw.
b.) What is it in Kmtyws that prevents us
from identifying predators-
c.) Any other thoughts on this topic?