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#124030 02/29/04 07:42 PM
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Train geese to guard? The same way the Romans did the
geese that warned them that the Gauls were attacking
in the night.


#124031 02/29/04 07:45 PM
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I think it comes natural to them.


#124032 02/29/04 07:52 PM
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When we had chickens, we had Guinea fowl to warn about
hawks overhead. But the Guinea fowl insisted on sleeping
up in tall pines, and racoons got them. What a racket
those Guinea fowl could make!


#124033 03/02/04 12:17 AM
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A few years back I was in a park where everything was peaceful: sun shining, woman reading on a park bench, swan nibbling grass nearby and me walking. Then another woman started Tai Chi. One of the moves (snake something) made her arm look like a birds head and neck. The swan had, quite literally, a hissy fit. Up on tiptoe, wings out and flapping, feathers all fluffed out to twice his peaceful size and hissing like a cobra. We were the ones who backed down! The woman left muttering something about doing her martial arts somewhere else where the birds wouldn't object.


#124034 03/03/04 01:04 AM
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Great story, Zed!


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