http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?onNews=3D1&GRP=3DA&id=3D23780
Sorry this is the link too :)
Martyn
Martyn Stewart
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Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
When the animals come to us,
Asking for our help,
Will we know what they are saying?
When the plants speak to us
In their delicate, beautiful language,
Will we be able to answer them?
When the planet herself
Sings to us in our dreams,
Will we be able to wake ourselves, and act?
-Gary Lawless
-----Original Message-----
From: Martyn Stewart
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:40 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Amazing pictures from Metafilter
Aaron
This is the story that goes with this :)
Martyn
A series of photographs capturing a barn swallow mourning over its dead mat=
e
have taken Taiwan Internet users by storm.
These unusual photographs, captured by bird lover Wilson Hsu, show a barn
swallow crying over its dead mate, refusing to leave its side, trying to
revive it and even trying to grasp its corpse and fly away with it.
Hsu posted his photographs up on the Internet and in less than a month, he
received over 400 written responses. A further tens of thousands of Net
users visited the site.
Hsu, a manager in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. described how he
set off to Hsinchu on the day of the presidential election to bird watch an=
d
take photos.
On the road were a flock of swallows. Then a truck roared past and some
swallows did not fly away quickly enough. Several were hit by the truck. Hs=
u
pulled out his camera and caught the barn swallow grieving for its mate.
Hsu, a member of Taiwan's wild bird protection society, said that in the
process of capturing the barn swallow on film, he could not help but feel
its grief too. He said when he saw the love and pain in its eyes, he had to
stop filming. When he posted the photographs up on the Internet and tried t=
o
describe what he saw, he said, the feelings rushed back and he had to stop
writing.
Hsu said he was concerned that the grieving bird would not pay attention to
traffic on the road, and put the corpse on the side of the road.
After this the barn swallow seemed to realize that its mate would not
revive, uttered several cheeps and flew away.
The photographs raised questions about the safety of animals on the roads i=
n
Taiwan. In Western countries, such as Australia, it is common to see warnin=
g
signs urging drivers to pay attention to wandering animals, such as
kangaroos. Taiwan's system for protection of wildlife from traffic is not s=
o
developed.
Hsu urged drivers to take care on the roads and protect wildlife, saying
careful driving could save lives.
Some net users wrote that the photographs reminded them of pets they used t=
o
have; it provoked others to discuss the philosophy of Confucian thinker
Mencius and his theories that there are not many differences between humans
and animals.
Barn swallows are the world's most widespread swallows. Their name derives
from their affinity to nest in wooden barns in old-style farmhouses. They
are characterized by their glossy, steel-blue upper side, white underside
and chestnut forked chin and throat.
They are very sociable birds. Males and females usually construct a nest fo=
r
their young together. Sometimes this can take eight full 14-hour days to
complete.
Martyn Stewart
Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
http://www.naturesound.org
N47.65543 W121.98428
Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
When the animals come to us,
Asking for our help,
Will we know what they are saying?
When the plants speak to us
In their delicate, beautiful language,
Will we be able to answer them?
When the planet herself
Sings to us in our dreams,
Will we be able to wake ourselves, and act?
-Gary Lawless
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Ximm
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:24 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Amazing pictures from Metafilter
I am quite moved by the image of two birds at the top of this page:
(sadly my orinthological ignorance is total, I'm afraid I can't name the
species for those without the bandwidth to load the pictures)
http://www.dcview.com.tw/gallery/showmsg.asp?sre=3D2&msgid=3D271976
which seem to show, if I am interpreting correctly, mourning?
At least, that's the "narrative" implied by the images in the order they
are presented... I realize how much of a construction, not to mention
anthropomorphozation, that is...
Can anyone translate the text, or shed light on what was documented?
best,
aaron
http://www.quietamerican.org
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
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Yahoo! Groups Links
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