On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:40:20 GMT, 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.

Tim Lysyk


At least the flying carp occasionally hit one of the idiot grinning
motor boaters who are intentionally annoying them in the face. And
what the hell was that boat doing carrying a kid on board for that
stunt? True, they had him in the safest place, but geeze.

I'm thinking the goat one might actually be useful. Think about what
happens when a predator gets in with penned domestic animals. It
kills the first one it sees. By then the rest are going bananas,
fluttering, running, squawking, making whatever terror sound they can.
Thereby triggering every hardwired killing instinct the predator has.
So the predator goes wild and kills or savages everything in sight. If
it was left with the first goat to fall and carried it off and dined
happily, the rest of the goats might never be harmed.
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