Sunday, August 27, 2017

Scientists rediscovered a "missing" primate

Scientists rediscovered a "missing" primate—the bald-faced Vanzolini saki monkey—after 80 years http://bit.ly/2sgzhoX

Pass the vole, please! Doting falcon fathers deliver meals to young even after they’ve left the nest http://bit.ly/2vsGoIs

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A pair of gray foxes is at home in a tall ironwood tree, high above the Sonoran Desert floor http://bit.ly/2nADdhy

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Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."