“The Thing with Wings” by Noah Stryker

  • 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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