The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17871   Message #174977
Posted By: wysiwyg
08-Feb-00 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Thought for the day - February 6, 2000
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - February 6, 2000
LOLLOLLOL

They DO have meetings and captive sheep can be quite the complainers. Whining, "Corn! Corn!..... corn? Corn??? Corn... No corn.... no, no corn.... corn.... corn..."

They do however generally reach agreement among themselves and so maintain their community in harmony, if fugally so.

Imagining "clueless turkeys" and "follow-anyone sheep" meeting together is just too too much this early in the morning. I know my 3 turkeys would have just invesitgated you but a crowd of the size you describe... I just don't know.

Ducks have committee meetings when you let them out in the morning. "Sun?? Go go go.... Water! Water??? Water water waterrrr!!!!!" They also take votes on which way to go when running around, they clack at each other to say, no here... no here... here? here..... and they all veer to go there as a body.

What is really sad is when you are down to your last lonely duck and she decides to flock with the chickens. Ducks go toward each other, chickens go away from or parallel to each other. So the duck in its loneliness just followed the chickens till the chickens almost died of starvation-- had to keep moving!!! Duck finally went to live with more ducks. Such joy of quacking when she heard the other ducks (just out of her sight) and was released to streak across the grass into them. To be a duck among ducks once more.