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Architecture: Building and maintaining communal homes: Weaverbirds
The nesting colonies of the Sociable Weaver in Namibia are among the largest bird-created structures, such as this permanent, compound community nest that might house more than a hundred pairs of birds.The nests are highly structured and provide birds with a more advantageous temperature relative to the outside. The central chambers retain heat and are used for nighttime roosting. The outer rooms are used for daytime shade and maintain temperatures of 7-8 degrees Celsius inside while outside temperatures may range from 16-33 degrees Celsius. The entrances to the chambers of the permanent sociable weaver bird nests are from below the nest. The nesting colonies of the Sociable Weaver are amongst the largest bird-created structures.
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agreed. very interesting model of communal building in an environment with broad temp changes. Thank you for posting the video of their social organization and behaviors. That too is instructive with a couple of caveats. I watched that video and didn’t post it b/c I wasn’t quite ready to provide a critique of eurasian evolutionary theory and concepts like cost / benefit analysis in order to optimize genetic survival. When I attended college, I was trained to see nature as mechanical which never made sense to me. It is only after starting my re-education am I beginning to see that Darwin’s theories are focused on competition, winning, reproductive fitness, genetic survival b/c these are rooted in his eurasian worldview or as Dr. Marimba Ani might say, rooted in his alienation from life which becomes translated into philosophy, medicine, science, etc. When the researcher in the video asks, “why would a bird expend so much energy (costs), if there were no benefits for doing so”. My caveat: This question represents an assumption, embedded in the evolutionary sciences which states that animals are ONLY driven by instincts, mechanical drives and they lack “free will”, emotions, desires, choice, intellect, etc attributes that are believed to be found in humans (aka white men in the eurasian pov).
I raise this as a caveat b/c I do not want folx to simple swallow these concepts or the narrative as the whole truth. Science is full of yurugu philosophy. My process now is to tell myself, “this is how eurasian scientists explain this, I will learn the Afrikan pov elsewhere”. What I/we really need is an Afro-centric view of neter (nature) that allows everything to have the full capacity of aliveness, since the eurasian worldview cannot do this. If I could find examples, I’d love to hear from the people who lived in the Kalahari and learn what they make of the weaver birds, their history, their construction techniques, their culture, their disasters, wars and recoveries and inventions. Other questions for us might be what collaborations or friendships have existed between weaver communities and other communities (animal, human, insect, etc).
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Those Darwinian constructs and economic concepts are unstated assumptions in all of the nature docs created by Eurasians. This particularly one they are stated overtly more because the two researchers made them an active part of their research agenda.
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This is interesting,-
@KwasiDa’te Is there anything that catches your attention or that you’re curious about?
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@ajayrevels wowɔ he?
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@obadelekambon thanks for asking. I’m still alive, still raging and still talking to folk about anti-parasitic models of behavior. Glad to see that you’re still keeping on! The new building looks blacktastic!! 🤩
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Meda wo ase! Come to the conference!
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It’s so great to see you dada Ajay!
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