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> Think a bit, etaoin. Winter birds are not like everready human bunny rabbits, they court only in the spring.
that don't mean they don't think the girls aren't still watching.
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that don't mean they don't think the girls aren't still watching.
Etaoin, let's say for example you have a bird brain.
Could you remember in the spring that cute chick you saw when flocking around during the winter?
Sixty-six...sixty-seven...
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… let's say for example you have a bird brain.
Could you remember in the spring that cute chick you saw when flocking around during the winter?
Considering what we're learning about bird brains lately I wouldn't reject that hypothesis so readily. Besides, the behaviour is shared, the members of a given flock are probably closely related and share the genetic trait. The trait contributes to the overall survival rate of the flock. What more do you need?
I do eagerly await whatever whackadoodle milo nonsense you're about to come up with. Get to a hundred already.
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Just who in the hell elected them as leaders?
They have elections, but it is at night when you can't see them and they clean up all of the balloting materials and put them away before the sun comes up.
Four hundred twenty seven, six and three quarters, forty two point oh eight five.
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eighty-six...eighty-eight... aaah, stick it! I'm tired of counting. The time of reckoning is now. You all have did your dids and dabbed your dabs and now you must stand naked before reality. In a short minuite I will post the truth about flocking birds and presto-chango you all will magically become wiser. See you post-haste (so to speak). 
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uh, maybe they get more girls?
Think a bit, etaoin. Winter birds are not like everready human bunny rabbits, they court only in the spring.
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I certainly did address the problem. Your question, so it would seem, asks for behavioral incentives, and I provided several, of which one might be sufficient for a black bird... And I would hasten to add that this behavior in itself does not make them leaders, but guards. I will be interested to see what solution you offer, and what supporting evidence. Your speculations can be interesting but, all things being equal, one speculation is as good as another.
Now inselpeter, you really must take care with your semantics.
In "speculations", as in everything, all things are never equal,
and since nothing at all can be "proved" absolutely, we are left with our attempt to understand the World by reasoning with words.
But we won't get far if you keep anthropomorphizing birds as "guards" and not "leaders".
...seventy-eight....seventy-nine...
You know, Milo, I happen to think you can be pretty funny, so I read you, but what you call a discussion is such a heap styrene bear traps as to be at best perplexing. If I am anthropomorphizing, it is only following your lead (and I should know better). 'Twas you who first suggested the role of leader. This is IP signing off this evidently non-interactive thread. All the best, mate.
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He's at his funniest when he thinks he's trying to fool us into thinking he's pretending to be serious.
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He's at his funniest when he thinks he's trying to fool us into thinking he's pretending to be serious.
Notso Faldage, but I'm at my best when I'm trying to provoke you into chiding me in your 10,000th AWAD post. 
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