permaculture

["John S Gamble" <johnsgamble@comcast.net>]

See:   Science News Online
     Week of Nov. 18, 2006; Vol. 170, No. 21

     Chicken Speak: Birds pass test for fancy communication
     Susan Milius

     ..and Feb. 22, Biology Letters



     Shows chickens have different sounds ("words") for individual objects.



     John




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: [permaculture] chicken talk


> Loved the comment about the Hochunk people listening to what the chickens
> were saying. I once met a short old woman, raggy clothes and sparkly eyes,
> at about midnight in a hospital waiting room. There was a finch aviary
> there, with about twenty birds in it, and she was having a lively
> conversation with every bird there. Each time one tweeted she responded as
> if they'd just said the most interesting things, as in "Oh really?" or
> "Yes, I know, but don't worry, they'll hatch soon" or "I'm so sorry for
> your loss, sweetheart." I went and stood next to her and she welcomed me
> into this world, and it made me wonder, as I still wonder today, what goes
> on in my chickens' brains (miniscule as they may be), or how a person can
> listen to plants and know what they need, and how disconnected we might 
> now
> be from things that we once knew. At least maybe we once knew how to 
> listen
> and maybe we can relearn that if we get very QUIET and spend more time
> OUTSIDE.
>
>
>
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