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Flying For Fun

ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
in General Banter
After re-reading the Jonathan Livingston Seagull I saw a bird yesterday around dusk that seemed to be just flying around without any kind of direction or purpose. Do you think birds ever fly around for fun and not to simply look for food or something mundane like that?

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  • karastikarasti Breathing Minnesota Moderator
    I have read that book numerous times, and thought that and similar questions. I like to think they do. We have a large flock of birds that winters here and flies in patterns around town. They aren't looking for food, so what are they doing? It seems like a social thing to me.

    I also wonder if animals experience annoyance, lol. When snow falls off the trees and lands on them, do they get annoyed like I do? Do they dislike high humidity on hot days? or do they only seek relief for survival reasons?

    Bears are pretty fascinating to study. They have some very human-like qualities in how they care for young and such. They definitely do things just for fun. So I imagine other animals do as well.
  • ZaylZayl Veteran
    @Karasti Annoyance? oh yes, very much so. I spilled a glass of water on my dog's head, she just stood there for a moment, huffed, and walked away. And you could see it in her eyes, she had the whole "Really? did that just happen? goddamnit" look on her face.
    ThailandTomkarastizombiegirl
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Gentle Man Veteran
    Well, birds ride warm air currents, thermals, so they may be riding what lifts them invisibly to human eyes partly because it takes less energy and perhaps because it feels good to be warm.
  • karastikarasti Breathing Minnesota Moderator
    Yeah, I can definitely see it in our dog sometimes. Especially when we wake her up from her cozy ball to take her outside into the frigid weather. She tries to pretend she can't hear us and looks at us from the corner of her eye, giving us the evil eye look.

    I see, for example, bears in the woods who are covered in ticks. Sometimes they have hundreds of them. Is that annoying to them? or don't they "bother" to get annoyed because they can't do anything about it? Do the deer get annoyed by the flies? Or is them flipping their ears and tails just a natural response? Do they say "OMG. Horseflies SUCK" to their friends?
    ThailandTom
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    karasti said:

    Yeah, I can definitely see it in our dog sometimes. Especially when we wake her up from her cozy ball to take her outside into the frigid weather. She tries to pretend she can't hear us and looks at us from the corner of her eye, giving us the evil eye look.

    I see, for example, bears in the woods who are covered in ticks. Sometimes they have hundreds of them. Is that annoying to them? or don't they "bother" to get annoyed because they can't do anything about it? Do the deer get annoyed by the flies? Or is them flipping their ears and tails just a natural response? Do they say "OMG. Horseflies SUCK" to their friends?

    hehe yes I have seen this before in dogs, I cannot remember where though because I have never owned a dog. I think it was a friends dog looking back on it now. But yea the dog would sometimes look at you from the corner of it's eye without actually moving it's head properly.
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