Tim Lysyk wrote:
rw wrote:

Tim Lysyk wrote:

rw wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqWv8luZrM

Nice link. Those flying carp kind of remind me of the fainting goats.
Strange thing for them to do.


Fainting goats? I must have missed something.


See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9_CdNPuJg

The connection for me is just that they both seem like pretty strange,
counter productive behaviors for animal to have.

It's a genetic disorder, probably due to paired recessive genes. It's
not adaptive behavior, unless you count breeding for the trait to be
"adaptive.". Those goats would not survive in the wild. It's likely that
the unpaired recessive gene confers some beneficial trait.

A similar genetic disorder common is Doberman Pinschers causes
narcolepsy, which makes those individuals rather unsuited to guard-dog duty.

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