Aaron,
The text is a sentimental anthropomorphized story of two barn swallows.
One was hit by a truck in the raining day, some swallow seems to be its
family approaching and refusing to leave even another approaching and
telling he it's a fact that won't change. Somtimes cars passing fast and
the body of dead swallow was turned over, the barn swallow seems to be
encouraged and came down to the body again. He then tried to carry his
family with no response away but failed everytime,
all he can do is shouting "wake up! wake up!" again and again..
The messages below were discussing either the swallow was as anthropomorphi=
zed
and sentimental as we depicted, or it is simply a behavior of birds courtsh=
ip.
The story was even reported on tv in Taiwan..
Anchih
-----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
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