Subject: Re: a duckie sort of question for everyone
Date: Jan 27 23:36:03 1998
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca


Hi Tweets,

Deborah Wisti-Peterson writes:

>...many of the
>females were asleep with their heads curled over their backs and
>buried in their feathers, yet they were paddling along at a moderate
>rate of speed. despite this, they were able to stick together in
>a loose group...how do they do that? were these birds
>asleep or were they "cat-napping"?

Ususally cat-napping when I see them do it, Deborah: a quick flash of open
eye, quick as a camera shutter, then doze for a few seconds. Could it also
be that they have lateral rows of pressure-sensitive cells along their
sides, like fish?

Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)