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   Normally cave art shows people hunting large or dangerous prey. This just shows the person trying to kill the vermin. Finding a new cave could be either because of the infestation or because the pictures are too depressing.

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   He has been unsuccessful in catching the mouse. He has drawn on the walls all the ways he has tried without success to catch the mouse. You know, like those cave paintings where the hunter stabs the deer.

   He has given up trying. The mouse is still there. Maybe he can find a new place to live that doesn’t have mice.

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   The mouse/rat also lives in a cave, only a little one judging by the doorway. But I wonder if the inside of it isn’t some relatively vasty chamber of art full of enormous drawings of huge scary monsters with pointy sticks.

   As far as mousekind is concerned, it is only relatively recently that the hairless bipedals started getting an unfair advantage with the using of tools, and the evolutionary arms race has not settled down. This is one doughty mouserat, to be able to survive the new existential crisis. Either he is a horror mouse ratist who likes to scare his fellows, or perhaps more kindly he is a brave research artist, finding out all the ways bipedals go about using their new arm extensions and illustrating them for the benefit of other micerats. Yea, unto the present generations, for we can see he has been successful in his endeavour.

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   Well, Narmitaj, as they say, “You can’t spell ratist without artist!” Thank you for coining a new trade name :^)

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   @Treesong Nice catch.

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   Agreed! And, Following!

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   “Thank You” Mark and Arthur. The evolution of hunting had its comical moments…and still does.

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   So…. nothing about watching fire as though it were a television? This isn’t the equivalent of vegging out in an apartment with…. pictures of your work around you? as you contemplate moving and ….. Ok, I don’t really get it.

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    In their distant future, people will be able to watch a nice warming fire right on their televisions.

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    Mitch4: Well, it wasn’t actually warming, but I remember last year during the holiday season Netfix did have “hour-long video of a lit fireplace” in its selections.

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    There is also an extensive genre of videos for pets. My cats have never gotten excited about fish swimming in an aquarium, mildly curious about scurrying rodents, and immediately concerned to find meowing cats. But this seems to me mostly about the audio; every once in a while a story on the radio contains provocative animal sounds, which get the same reaction.

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    We had an electric fire(place) in our WI house . . . but I missed the crackle and pop and scent of real wood. It was still kind of nice ‘in a pinch’, tho; the alternative was to have nothing at all, as the TV was in Hubby’s office. Also that one could turn it on or off on demand, and not vacuum out ashes afterwards.

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    ” . . . provocative animal sounds, which get the same reaction.”

    Some of my ‘music with nature background’ has thunder . . . and of course the dogs hear it and when one barks, all but one of the others barks . . . .

    I’ve noticed that when I first bring a foster dog into the house, ANY music played sets him/her off, but s/he soon acclimates to it. Except for thunder.

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    . . . like this . . .