{"id":162,"date":"2009-03-10T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:11:52","slug":"scientists-and-animals-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Scientists and Animals Take Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted about J. B. Rhine and his feelings about baby rats, so I thought I would post a couple of pictures I have from other animals studies that were undertaken at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first is of Gaither Pratt, who had a grant from the Office of Naval Research to study homing in pigeons, and whether or not they used ESP. \u00a0I found a funny little exchange between Gaither and\u00a0Laura Dale from American Society for Psychical Research. \u00a0<em>\u201cI hope all goes well with your pigeons and that they are simply oozing psi,\u201d<\/em> Laura wrote Gaither in 1953. <em>\u201cThe pigeons are oozing something alright,&#8221;<\/em> he wrote back, <em>&#8220;but we are still not at the point of being able to say whether it is psi.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The picture immediately following is of Karlis Osis who conducted experiments to find evidence of ESP abilities in cats.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gaitherpigeon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gaitherpigeon.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gaitherpigeon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-163\" title=\"gaitherpigeon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gaitherpigeon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"581\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/osiscat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-164\" title=\"osiscat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/osiscat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I posted about J. B. Rhine and his feelings about baby rats, so I thought I would post a couple of pictures I have &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-2C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}