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[KNat <knat@sprintmail.com>]

John S Gamble wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Imagining our design world including a place where this study is given 
resources to exist....
Here, a slower world, with chickens as participants, allows interaction 
but "conclusions" would be, at best, anecdotal. It takes little time for 
them to be as individual as the hawks or jays (which share mind clearly, 
and make one feel silly looking them up in a book by their plumage.) 
Some chickens (I don't have human names now but can think of specific 
individuals) walk with me when I work, some only when I wander. Some 
chose to be with me others choose not to. A study area based on 
confinement and dependence would be limited. What portion of group 
resources would I allot to this researcher? What portion would the 
chickens allot?

My child friends have been doing a quiet project writing a nature book 
of human identification. The religion thread sounds like some adults are 
too. We can't understand details enough by color patterns so we look to 
sounds, then someone points out we should do more behavior studies. What 
page in the guide would you be comfortable being predefined for another?
(I've been fascinated with the choices of "representative voices" by CNN 
recap of the march on Washington last weekend. Jane Fonda and a croaky 
older male voice speaking of past times. There were more 20s than in a 
generation and over half the crowd were military and their families. 
Let's not get too caught up in quickly written guides for human types 
they tend to use summaries and not go to original sources.)

A different kind of guide would be fun and much more useful to me. A 
nature guide based on passions. Doesn't matter whether one is 2, 4 or no 
legged. What matters would be digs in dirt, or moves fast wherever it 
goes. That would help in planning space needs. Orthodox Religion is very 
useful in discussing needs for isolative meditation, special dietary 
convictions, and committed desire to only be directly in contact with 
others of similar ideals but, ultimately, we live with/as individuals.

Peace,
Kathyann