In all seriousness, no one wants to be a student for life, but in reality we are. The very simple act of waking up each morning is signifier that we have began the day ready to learn something. Yes something's we can learn or be in to he process of learning over and over and over again. Example: "ugh, I won't drink that much before work again!" Then we proceed to do the opposite and drive that same amount if not more, the night before work.
There is so much in the world, so many things to see and so many people to meet. What do you want to do with your life, because whatever it is, you will always be learning something different about, whether it be procedural memory or not is a different story, but the point is, without people willing to constantly learn more, the world would be stagnat and unmoving, we would not want move further in life or achieve anything more than what we already have.
I know as a teacher I'll never have a chance to stop learning, that is going to be my area of expertise, an experienced student.
I'll leave with a story about the first ever recorded orca whale taking down and eating a great white shark. Ya very uck #truestory! I was not there but saw a special on discovery YouTube channel about it.
It was 27 miles off the coast of LA and involved one orca whale from the LA orca whale POD and a great white shark. Orca whale watchers were on a regularly scheduled expedition when they noticed in a distance, an orca whale splashing around and as they got closer, then realized it was attacking, or at this point, killing- a great white shark.
The orca whale has never been seen or recorded in anyway as a killer of great white sharks. How is this possible!? Sad day for shark lovers. #sharkweek if you don't know what it is.
This rare case led to the investigation of the incident which resulted in these findings; the orca whale attacked and barrel rolled the great white shark, turning him upside down. Then after holding him still for a short period of time, he drowned the great white shark then allowing another orca whale to come feast on the liver (that was the main thing the orcas wanted).
So how was it able to take down the great white without even so much as a Real splash frenzy? Simple really, but how did the orca whale know to do the trick to the great white!? Sting rays And sharks come from the same ancestry and whales constantly feed on them. Whales will turn upside down and blow bubbles towards the ocean floor which spooks th eating day into open water where the whale will bite onto a fin and swim up wards with it while it is upside down putting it into tonic immobilization and then eating it without being stung.
Tonic immbilization is much similar as to the idea moving chickens. When you are moving chickens, you hold them by both legs upside down in which they do not flip, they hold out their wings and remain still.
Sharks experience tonic immoblization just as sting rays. This occurs in certain creatures brains as defence mechanism. Playing dead would be the best way to classify and describe it. Unfortunately it makes the great white shark an easy target for he orca whale. The creature gets turned over and chemicals in the brain release endorphins which put the creature in a state of relaxation.
So when the great white is stopped from escaping, it is also held still. Unlike other sea life. great whites need to be moving through the water in order for their bodies to absorb the necessary components from the water into their bodies. So if they are not moving they drown, much of the same reason fin collecting in Asia is so controversial. The fishermen will catch sharks, cut off the fins and toss the body into the ocean where they bleed out and drown.
Back to the story though, so what though, a great white was taken down, champion, win, hashtag it idk. Well apparently the orca whales are careful and accultured killers. This means that they develop over long periods of time, a way of killing a certain type of prey, and it is learned and passed on through generations of pods. So the astonishing part about this first recorded kill is that this was unexpected and there has been no evidence regarding it ever before.
Something to think about.
Cheers!
CB
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