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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/18/2005 : 11:51:47 [Permalink]
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| My father was a michigander, and he used a map all the time. |
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The dog has not been fed in years
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2005 : 23:23:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo
Yeah. It's longer because there are more birds on one side than the other.
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Dik-Dik Van Dik
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
76 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2005 : 09:02:24 [Permalink]
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first reasons I thought of haven't been mentioned really at all, maybe because they are bollocks but here they are anyway...
Geese are big and unmanouverable so the usual cloud formation birds use could lead to collisions if sudden gusts or directional changes are needed.
I may be mistaken here, but geese do no have any airborne predators (maybe a big eagle would hunt them??? I dunno). They main reason many animals flock is to confound predators, the swarm or cloud of animals makes it confusing for hunters to pick out an individual target. Geese do not require this but it is still advantagous to travel in groups.
These are more reasons why they don't travel in a normal flock rather than why they do travel in a V. |
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| Edited by - Dik-Dik Van Dik on 04/04/2005 09:03:43 |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/04/2005 : 11:31:40 [Permalink]
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First we need to stop thinking in Latin, as birds cannot spell.
I cant believe that no one has mentioned this as it was the common answer for the "v question" as a kid in my school. Jets that fly in a line at close range it causes the engine residue to impede the vision of the next pilot, in short they dont fly in a line to avoid getting pissed on. Although I am a fan of the reduced drag thing as well...
On the issue of one line longer than the other or only one line, I suspect they take the shortest path to either end of the line, so that if the leader was in the right position at take off, all the others would then fall in line on one side. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
| Edited by - BigPapaSmurf on 04/05/2005 10:07:38 |
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Dik-Dik Van Dik
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
76 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2005 : 12:15:44 [Permalink]
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| birds don't really piss, they just do runny shits. but same principle I suppose |
DARWIN 3:16
"The simple believeth every word." - Proverbs 14:15
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