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Old 05-31-2003, 07:11 AM   #12 (permalink)
duckznutz
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More interseting to me is how mammals are all supposed to have the same number of heartbeats (however many milion it is I cant remember) . . anyway, the theory being that a hummingbird or a mouse or something small like that burns up its allocation of heartbeats quite quickly, whilst humans and elephants have a slow heart rate and therefore usually spin things out for over 70 years or more.

If you swipe your hand quickly to swat a fly . . . . . . the fly is living in a much faster time-frame . . so it yawns and perceives your hand to be moving very slowy down towards it . . like in slow motion . . it waits till the last minute and then takes off. So perception of a 'lifetime' varies from animal to animal . . . . . . regardless of the actual time that its lifetime takes. I suppose its a bit like if someone said you only had 1 month to live . . . you would go nuts and live life at an incredible rate.
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