Posted on 08/06/2024 4:53:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff
"The birds and the bees" is a story parents tell their children to deflect the question "Where do babies come from?"
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It doesn’t deflect it at all.
It puts things in a easy to understand biological perspective without the need for explicitness or overly sexual explanations.
That’s a Great illustrative pic.
Wolverton exists in Century Village, Fl. They ran fiber to the condos. I’d move there. So why do I bring it up? it’s not a mountain there.
Birds are extremely useful to train children in the responsibilities and importance of parenthood.
I’ve been involved with/working with animals all my life, and I’ve never seen more dutiful ‘parent animals’ than birds.
They are dead serious about their bird lives. Some humans could learn a great deal from them.
Birds are rude and uncool. When I was little I was trying to catch one with an obvious broken wing. It managed to stay just ahead of me all the way across the yard. Then it suddenly flew away.
Dad explained to me how it had lured me away from it’s nest with babies.
Deceitful little animals.
Was it faking a broken wing? Maybe it was a pro soccer playing bird...
Relevant to nothing else, but there is that old country song about all those birds and the bees going on on Wolverton Mountain. Witch can't be in Florida either, since there ain't no mountains in FL. (Good number of witches in the LA swamps outside of N'Leans. And even more in the DC Swamp.)
Nor are there any caves under Tiger Mountain in deep south GA - where a guy got lost in Millers Cave.
Way down in the state of Georgia
Amongst the swamps and the everglades
There's a big ol' hole in Tiger Mountain
God help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave
An acquaintance of mine who knew that area said he didn't think there were any caves in southern Georgia.
It flopped! A Euro soccer bird.
And extremely intelligent, for such tiny brains...:-)
I don’t know that song but it reads like a Jim Stafford/Don Bowman piece of work
Woolverton Mountain--Claude King (1962)
I'm the Girl from Woolverton Mountain--Jo Ann Campbell (1962)
Flip it over! The B-side is boss!
Sloppy Joe--Jo Ann Campbell
Her treachery was unequalled.
Bird was a Killdeer.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Birds are absolute killers. Without a seconds hesitation they attack. After stalking. After watching. After planning. As someone said above, that’s a lot of work for such a small brain.
Yes. Their drive is to survive and reproduce.
(Have you ever seen house sparrows doing murder to get another pair out of a good nesting spot? If you’re a soft-hearted human-centric person, it’ll put you off birds forever...)
The birds refer to family care and nuturing, the bees refer to industrious labor.
An example of lyrics referring to love, romance, and a frolicking:
“We can discover the wonders of nature’
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside” (Hunter, Weir)
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