on our earth, the killdeer
we are on earth for such a shorttime, we have no more than a picture. the picture is what we think of when we say, 'the way things are.' just yesterday or tomorrow, something new, perhaps a bee. the bee pollinates a flower shortly after our death. there is a storm somewhere. just now, i am beginning to understand the alarm calls of the killdeer. the ghost of a shorebird, the feint, the run, the back and forth. everything, everyone, lives in a different world. i can say this because the image is always a sad image, the image is in mourning for our death. http://www.asondheim.org/killdeeralarm.mp3 like neural signals, the killdeer calls are a mix of analog and digital phenomenology - their frequency is very narrow, and the repetitions of standard (most likely territorial or display) calls are easily comprehen- ded - at least they appear to be (the cry of the killdeer is easily iden- tified) - on the other hand, there are temporal processes, non-standard pitch and repetition, which present information, in this case alarm based on distance, degree of threat, etc. - as far as i can tell - which means nothing at all - on the sample you hear both calls and responses and the changes within individual calls as well. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
