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Birds Seem to Intentionally Spread Fires!
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| 1-15-18
| Jay Wile
Posted on 01/17/2018 1:43:18 PM PST by fishtank
Birds Seem to Intentionally Spread Fires!
Jan. 15, 2018
Birds are incredibly intelligent animals. They work through certain probability problems better than some students, they communicate with people in order to hunt, they build structures with perspective in mind, they can figure out other birds’ desires, and they use and modify tools. Well, now we have one more thing to add to the list. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, at least three species of bird (Black Kites, Whistling Kites, and Brown Falcons) also use fire!
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.drwile.com ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: birds; blackkites; brownfalcons; fire; honeyguides; kites; tooluse; whistlingkites
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To: fishtank
Probably learned this from those firebats we were training.
I say we give the squirrels some ack ack guns.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:04:55 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Larry Lucido
You can click the link for the journal article in post 2.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:05:40 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:06:27 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Red Badger
The von Trap singing family?
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:08:20 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
They’ve all passed away, now..........
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:12:55 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: Candor7
Just a bunch of academics believing the fairytales the aboriginals tell them. Raptors follow grass fires to capture the little creatures caught in the flames.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:16:07 PM PST
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Red Badger
The birds are all gone?
Maybe they just all mitigated to the north or something.
Like the swans do at Capistrano.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:21:19 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
I’m sorry.
It should be
Like the swans do at Cilantro.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:23:29 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: fishtank
They like to spread hemp seed far and wide too, the little dopers.
They love the stuff!
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:36:19 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
To: Larry Lucido
What kind of birdbrain posts blogs under News? Is humblegunner sick today?
To: fishtank
Yup....
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:54:06 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:08:31 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: DoughtyOne
Taken from Smokey the Bear's top ten most wanted. As a former New Mexican, I have to take exception. It's just "Smokey Bear."
Smokey's Story
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:15:42 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
To: fishtank
Brown FalconsI hear they taste like chicken...
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:15:42 PM PST
by
NutsOnYew
(If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
To: fishtank
Everything in the world was fine until some BIRDBRAIN invented fire. Been down hill ever since...
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:17:18 PM PST
by
TalBlack
(It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
To: Disambiguator
Smokey and his sow never had cubs.
Every time she got hot he beat her with his shovel.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:19:46 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
To: Disambiguator
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:21:43 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(a/o 01/17/18 DJIA close 26,115.65, 45.993% > the morning of 11/07/16. 716.77 to 50% increase..)
To: tumblindice
Uh oh!
A flaming fire chicken
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:22:39 PM PST
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
To: fishtank
Reminds me of Viking King Harald plundering Sicily who lit birds on fire and released them to fly back to their roosts under the eaves of houses in a town his was laying siege.
Roofs all over town erupted in flames and the people surrendered.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:27:54 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
(1/12/18 read the word 'shithole' more times in one day than in my entire life up to that that point.)
To: TangoLimaSierra
What kind of birdbrain posts blogs under News?Is humblegunner sick today?
He and or his automobile are getting lubed today. Probably both.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:28:00 PM PST
by
dennisw
(The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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