Although,,
I was watching an interesting doco about a famous painting the other day, cant
remember the name. Anyway, there was a crane in the background. The presenter said that
Cranes were a symbol of vigilance in greek mythology. The legend goes that the
cranes have one foot on the perch, and in the other foot they hold a rock. So if
they fall asleep, the rock falls and hits the standing foot, thus waking the
crane up.
Taking
that ‘one step further’ heh heh, my throwing hand is my right hand. I am right
handed. And as cockatoos often seem to be throwing twigs and branches at me, you
could say that the foot being held up is their footedness.
Benj
Yes - think of the
effort involved in balancing a stretching bird, particularly when the purchase
is on a slender twig or a wire
From:
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Sent: Friday, 26 February 2010 10:46 AM
To: Geoffrey
Dabb
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] RE: 3 food preferences at the
Narrabundah shops #2 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
interesting
point
From: Geoffrey
Dabb [
Sent: Thursday, 25 February 2010
10:18 AM
To:
Subject:
[canberrabirds] RE: 3 food preferences at the Narrabundah shops #2
Well, yes Philip - the
only modification was that I did flip one of pictures. Nearly all
cockatoos are said to be ‘left-footed’, but one does occasionally see the odd
flipped photo, as with the Gang-gang on the cover of ‘Birds of the Australian
High Country’.
Personally I believe that it is
right-footed birds that hold the food in the left foot. It is less serious
to drop the food than fall out of the tree.
From: Philip
Veerman [
Sent: Thursday, 25 February
2010 10:08 AM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb'
Cc:
Subject: 3 food preferences at the
Narrabundah shops #2
But they
are using a different foot. I wouldn't dare ask if either picture has been
altered in any way, apart from asking: has one of the pictures been
reversed?
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