Dowsing?

[Haipule]

Dowsing has nothing to do with any religiosities realities.

Fixed that for ya.

K'den 'splain the squirrels ability to find it's buried treasure of nuts?

I have done several experiments with these critters when I was on the mainland. They do not smell it. They do not do it from memory and they aren't triangulating.

My interest in squirrels peaked when I went to London's Hyde Park on a warm sunny day in June. Their were squirrels everywhere and signs posted, "Do Not Feed the Squirrels".

Yet this guy comes walking down the path with a bag of peanuts hand feeding these squirrels. They would run up his leg and he was hand feeding them. WARNING: Only hand feed a squirrel at it's eye level as they cannot see below their snout! I learned that one the hard way--OUCH!

So what is so weird about that? Peanut is a subtropical plant. It is mostly used here in Hawaii as ground cover. It is a pretty plant with little yellow flowers. There is no way those squirrel knew what the heck a peanut was until it was introduced to them.

I introduced peanuts to squirrels in Rhode Island. They had no idea what it was but once they analyzed it, they wanted more. I did the same thing in Florida, where peanut do grow, but not in that area. Once they figured it out, they would find my peanuts anywhere I hid them and they where in a jar.

So, I moved to another part of Florida where squirrels used my back fence to run from tree to tree. I put a cashew(not found in South Florida) and they would all hop over it without even investigating. If people want to do experiments with squirrels in the NE, use hazel nuts, they know them well. Or, peanuts of which they are clueless.

So the reality is Sir, that dowsing is done in nature all the time. By squirrels, deer, bees and your cat!