Subject: Re: bird brains
Date: Jun 28 14:33:06 1995
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu


Why did the chicken cross the road? ... To show the opossum that it
could be done.

[though maybe you hadn't heard that one]

Gene Hunn.

Maybe this will start yet another thread!

On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Don Baccus wrote:

> Herb Curl:
> > My favorite examples of the bird brain in action are chickens trying
> > to get to food when there's a fence in the way, even if the fence
> > is only five feet long and they could walk around it at either end
>
> On the other hand, a few years ago one of the chickens living in
> Frenchglen, OR (south end of Malheur NWR) (are these "free range"
> or "open range" chickens???) would look both ways before crossing
> the one and only road through town.
>
> I swear it's true, cracked me up.
>
> I still have no idea WHY it wanted to cross the road, though...
>
> - Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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