BR: v5

BIRD CALLS AND HOMES:  Because food supplies are limited, many animals have behaviors wired into their brains by their DNA of how to mark out areas–territories–that are theirs.  An American badger leaves a scent to mark what is his space. The badger’s territory is quite large, almost a hundred square miles.  When another badger smells a rival’s scent markings, he knows to avoid entering unless he wants a fight.

BIRD CALLS AND HOMES:   The mockingbirds’s territory is usually small, not much larger than good-sized yard.  It will fly from one object like a telephone pole or a bush to another like an antenna or part of a roof many hours a day.  They usually have less than 10 objects that they fly back and forth to.  Mockingbirds don’t sing because it’s such a beautiful day.  He’s really yelling out, “This is my space.  Stay back buddy!”  This lets other mockingbirds know it’s his territory and that the food in it is his.

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:    A bird call is “weakly” put into the bird’s brain.  The chick has to hear it in order to finish wiring it. You could play the wrong call all day long but it won’t copy it. HOWEVER, once it hears its own call–even if it’s backwards–it’ll put it forward and get it right!

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   When a baby crawls, they all crawl the same way (pretty much…). This hand moves when this leg moves.  They know how to do that. This is NOT an example of the brain putting wiring weakly into the brain.

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   The movements of galloping and trotting of horses has been put “weakly” into the brain of horses.  It’s the muscle sequence of how to move the legs with the correct motions and in the correct order.

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   We are fascinated by the wiring that DNA puts into the brain from before birth for both animals and people.  Scientists say that children are DNA-wired so they can learn languages.  The appreciation of music, however, is entirely NOT prewired by the DNA.

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   We know that the in-row peristaltic muscle firing of both swallowing and the entire intestinal tract is prewired to push food through the tract from the day a baby is born.

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   The elegance of galloping is significantly prewired.  The “wiring plan” is on the DNA code and it is too small for us to see!

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   DNA wires human brains with different critical movements, but we must practice them all to do each and every movement fluidly.

PREWIRING & “WIRING WEAKLY”:   Prewiring muscle movements is like a connect-the-dots puzzle. The picture is already there, the dots just have to be connected. The pattern for each animal or insect movement movement is built into their brain by DNA, but practice is still needed to complete the nerve synapse connections in their brain.  This process takes a colt from wobbling around to a perfect graceful gallop.