For many, Iowa is heating up to be a prime indicator of how the political field is about to turn in 2012; but for one researcher, there is another fascinating story involving heat that may lend itself to rethinking the intelligence of some of our cousins in the animal kingdom.
Every year, we are able to look back on the last twelve months or so with certain wonder with regard to some of the items that captivated minds everywhere and became newsworthy. Many are the instances where such stories involve our animal kindred, and the amazing feats they manage to accomplish that sometimes leave us thinking, “gee, maybe we aren’t all that different, after all.” Such was the case for me, when I first observedphotos of Kanzi, a bonobo from the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, who has been in the care of Dr. Savage-Rumbaugh for a number of years.
There are many striking things that bonobos and chimpanzees have managed to learn to do over the years, ranging from swimming to the use of tools. Therefore, it was particularly “striking” (and you’ll have to pardon the intentional pun here), when Savage-Rumbaugh began to observe Kanzi striking matches, lighting fires, and cooking food in a frying pan!
What is it we’re actually seeing in the footage above, purported to show a “wild person” captured in Russia?
I first learned about the footage late last night, after it was linked to the Cryptomundo website. What are your thoughts? Real or fake… or perhaps even a viral video promoting some kind of a film? The answer is hardly surprising…
It’s Christmas in the Bunker! This week, the Gralien gang celebrates the Season from deep within the dark heart of the Moho… but there are still many pressing questions on the table: for one, is Santa Claus really everyone’s favorite rotund messenger of gift-giving, or is he in fact an alien? If not an extraterrestrial life form, what else could he be? The startling results of our inquiry could have you reeling for weeks, if not even further into this most cataclysmic of doomsday years to come.
We also get into a holiday discussion of Fortean Folk Devils, as well as a number of other oddities occurring in recent news from around the world. For instance, what was the strange, cobweb-like growth found dispersed among nuclear waste containers earlier this week at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina? Also, was Mothman really a winged monstrosity, or was it something else altogether? All this and more are discussed on this week’s edition of the show… and for those lovers of prose out there, here’s a little holiday link-love to go along with this week’s main dish…
Did advanced civilizations exist on Earth in ancient times? If this were case, how advanced was the technology such societies managed to obtain… and could they have even harnessed the power of the atom and atomic weaponry? This incredible mystery is examined on this week’s edition of The Gralien Report Podcast.
We also discuss ancient people’s knowledge of insecticides, dating back as far as 77,000 years, as well as references to alleged flying vehicles called “Vimanas” in Sanskrit holy texts. Is there far more to Earth’s history than most of us realize, and if so, what startling implications might they have for us even in the present day? This and more will be addressed… also, below are a few links to intriguing headlines from the past week’s news…
