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tags: politics, humor, satire, why did the chicken cross the road
A friend set this to me, asking me if he was the last person to read this important philosophical essay. Well, apparently not, because I have never read this, either. But I found it amusing anyway.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road…
If you can only read one thing today, make it Skeptico's answers to Why did the chicken cross the road?
It's dead-on funny—read the hypothetical answers from all the skeptics and loons like John Edward and O'Reilly and Icke and many others, which are just perfect—I'm stealing Behe's answer!
A…
A turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) landing to scavenge a deer carcass. Photographed in suburban New Jersey.
The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is a creature that I am at least somewhat familiar with; I see them every day on my drive to work. Whether they're just circling overhead or picking on a deer carcass, turkey vultures don't seem to have any problem inhabiting the landscape with people and are…
Lovely. Reminds me of when I was in Florida in '07 and saw a squished armadillo on the side of the road, and three black vultures feeding from (what was left of) the carcass. Of course I took pictures, what kind of biologist would I be if I didn't?
While viewing this post, I can't help but hear the vultures from Ice Age 2 singing Food, Glorious Food...
Same thing happens around here every year.
One or more of our deer herd die due to old age or disease. They sit in the field or forest until the big birds show up or the coyotes start to munch on them. We have quite a collection of deer bones, mostly skulls. The daughter just loves them (she's 20).
Our vulture flock nests about a mile from my house. They use an old, abandoned stone farm house and have lots of baby vultures every year.
Living beside a highway, I see these uncomely birds (and their roadkill meals) frequently. BTW, I suppose you've heard of the turkey vulture's annual sojourn to Hinkley, Ohio, which, like the swallow's visits to Capistrano, have never, to my knowledge, been explained.