Do you think birds know when you are watching? ORBuffalo

["Steve Ransom" <>]

Did it too have a gun?

Stephen Ransom



-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Wendy
Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 11:15 AM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: Do you think birds know when you are
watching? ORBuffalo

I've not met one too personally, but I'd never have thought of a Buffalo
as
defenceless!
Wendy

>
> > If I were about to kill a defenceless animal, I doubt I'd have to
> > courage to look it in the eye either.
> >
> > Stephen Ransom
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> >  On Behalf Of Denise
> > Goodfellow
> >
> > I behaved similarly when shooting buffalo years ago.  I'd walk
> > indirectly
> > towards them and not look  them in the eye.
> > Denise L Goodfellow
> >
> >
> > on 7/5/08 8:51 AM, Peter Shute at  wrote:
> >
> >> What do you mean by "walking obliquely towards them"?  Do you mean
> > that
> >> your body is partly turned away from them too?  If that really
helps
> >> then perhaps they're sensitive to whether a predator is in a
position
> > to
> >> launch themselves at them, irrespective of whether it's looking at
> > them.
> >> I guess it would make sense.
> >>
> >> But if all these things are true then you'd think predators would
have
> >> evolved the instinct to do all these tricks too.  Maybe they do.
> >>
> >> Peter Shute
> >>
> >>  wrote on Wednesday, 7 May 2008
7:38
> >> AM:
> >>
> >>> This article descibes how birds focus on the eyes of a human,
> >>> a human equally close to them, but looking away, is not
> >>> perceived as so much of the threat as one looking direectly at
them.
> >>>
> >>> I think this is soemthing that most birdwatchers will have
> >>> learnt by experience. I have had this reinforced in my
> >>> expereince of bird photography, where often you can get
> >>> closer to birds by walking obliquely towards them with your
> >>> head turned away, and then just turning back at the last
> >>> minute to lift the camera and snap!
> >>>
> >>> John Leonard
> >>>
> >>> On 06/05/2008, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> >>>> Dear All,
> >>>>
> >>>> When you are out in the field and watching a bird, do you
somertimes
> >>>> feel that they know you are watching? Well have a look at
> >>>>

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