- Birds have been known to follow roads
- Birds can hear infra sounds and smell really well
- Most pigeons do not get lost, they either die or go home with someone else
- Starlings track their seven nearest neighbors, Starling of metric distance
- “Was math invented or discovered?”
- Vulture defecate on their legs to disinfect them
- Hummingbirds
- Smallest warm blooded animals (except some shrews)
- Aztec God of War
- Beaks are very flexible
- Go into suspended animation for sleep because they cannot get enough to eat to stay alive
- Are not social and do not flock
- Can become too heavy to fly
- Most animals live for one billion heartbeats
- Fear invokes a range of responses, not just Fight or Flight
- Water fowl spoke easier and flee further during hunting season
- Penguin ditch circadian rhythms in the summer but keep them in the winter
- Vocal mimicry is a limited in animals
- Chickens
- Have a strongly enforced pecking order
- An egalitarian coop tends to be more violent because no one knows their place
- Have better color vision than us
- Are insighted to violence when they see red
- Art and utility used to be synonyms
- It is best to be nice in the wrong run
- Cooperating sometimes benefits the kids and sometimes the parents
- Generosity satisfies a primal need
- Albatross
- Mate for life
- Can lock its shoulders to hold it’s wings without using muscles
- Fly an estimated four million miles in its life
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