What an imagination! Obviously it can tell the difference between a
camera & a shotgun & wouldn't want to ruffle it's feathers.
Alan C
On 12-Aug-20 01:52 PM, Bob Pdml wrote:
On 12 Aug 2020, at 12:37, Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote:
Walking to the pool nearby some days ago I saw this bird when it was
only a few meters away from me.
It looked at my camera outfit (Pentax K-1) and paid no further
attention to me while I took some shots.
There must be some explanation for its quiet behaviour.
https://flic.kr/p/2jtuZrR
Beautiful plumage!
Cormorants can spell (in the Roman alphabet only) using their highly
sensitive sense of smell.
Evolutionary biologists think this strange capability has arisen
through sexual selection, but that’s just their way of saying “fucked
if I know”.
When the colossally enlarged olfactory gland of a mature cormorant
detects certain combinations of letters - they don’t have to be actual
words in a known language, that would be preposterous - it triggers a
release of endorphins that flood the brain with feelings of bonhomie
towards the nearest living creature. This can go wrong sometimes and
lead to unwanted attention of a sexual nature, but mostly it works ok.
Anyway, the letter sequence ‘Pentax’ (Not case-sensitive,
surprisingly) is one such endorphin trigger, but for God’s sake don’t
your back on the creature.
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