Marks & Sparks hit a new low..
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I spent over an hour once helping a shopkeeper to remove a bird from his shop - an hour well spent IMO. The RSPCA free trapped animals all the time - or should they just kill them to save time?
Forget domestic cats, if there were no 'animal huggers' there would be no animals left.
Forget domestic cats, if there were no 'animal huggers' there would be no animals left.
I suppose it depends on what one thinks the point of life is really. If altruism doesn't fit into one's psyche then that IMHO is a bit of a pity really.
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Did I say gormless, I meant to say dumb.
Birds are not all that clever, did you not know that?
I freed a terrified bat from a hospital corridor once.
Really?
Does this include those ultra-stupid animal huggers that free vicious mink only for those mink to go on to kill our indigenous species?
"noseall" = "sheep worrier".
Really,lets take the Cuckoo as an instance,it is raised by foster parents,finds its way to Africa,comes back again if its lucky, to mate with another Cuckoo,how the hell does it do that if its not clever.
A bird will fly into an open window then batter itself to death against the glass, trying to find its way out again.
Ever hear the term "bird brain"?
Mating, eating, surviving. These don't require an awful lot of brain power.
Ever hear the term "bird brain"?
Thousands of years of doing the same things over and over again. It's caled instinct.
Mating, eating, surviving. These don't require an awful lot of brain power.
Like it."noseall" = "sheep worrier".
So you think watching a terrified bird batter itself to death against a supermarket window is altruistic?
What activity does man do with instinct? nothing, so which is the cleverer.
Probably not before closing time, when its flutterings would possibly prevent the alarms being set. That, and pecking at / carping on stuff, sealed its fate.
I remember a pigeon wandering in through the open doors of Rackhams in Brum, back in the early nineties when I worked there. Came in off the Cathedral grounds.
There was a rotund south african store security guy - can't recall his name - who chased the thing around for a while, all the time becoming redder in jowl, and gaspier in breath. Each time he wheezed past, I gave him an encouraging round of Dastardly and Mutley's "Stop the pigeon! Stop the pigeon! Nab him, Jab him, Tab him, Grab him! Stop that pigeon now!"
A baby is born with no outside learning yet they are equipped with instinctive traits.
Eating and surviving are there the instant a baby is born i.e. aquatic reflex and suckling for instance. A baby is not taught to eat.
You seem to be confused about instinct and intelligence.
Birds ARE stoopid. Some posters on here are rather dumb too.
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