tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post4959552766613492779..comments2023-10-01T09:35:35.894+02:00Comments on Antipodes: Happiness and harmonyWilliam Skyvingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052367756561555096noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post-38682394437281652242010-02-14T21:17:54.740+01:002010-02-14T21:17:54.740+01:00Regardless of their brain size, I'm constantly...Regardless of their brain size, I'm constantly amazed by the intelligence of my donkeys. Before giving them oats, I first have to step outside and pick up their two empty buckets. Seeing me do this, the donkeys know perfectly well that it will take me about five minutes to walk back to the house with the empty buckets, clean off the mud and refill them with oats. During this time, the donkeys wander around with absent-minded expressions (yes, a donkey can decide to look absent-minded), as if to say that they're not at all excited about the prospect of getting fed. In this way, a donkey behaves with an idea in the back of its mind...like a fellow, madly in love, who makes a deliberate effort to remain calm and nonchalant. But, if I haven't reappeared with the oats at the end of five minutes, the donkeys start braying violently, as if they were being attacked. Then as soon as they see me coming back, they resort once again to their absent-minded look... up until they're within reach of the buckets of oats, which I have to set down as rapidly as possible, otherwise the donkeys would be capable of snatching them out of my hands. They are exceptionally cunning animals, capable of conceptualizing what's happening around them. The whole silly idea about donkeys being stupid and stubborn comes, no doubt, from the fact that a donkey needs time to weigh up all the evidence in favor of acting in one way rather than another. Only then will it behave (maybe) in the way you want the animal to behave.William Skyvingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052367756561555096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post-89906497002954190712010-02-14T19:30:02.199+01:002010-02-14T19:30:02.199+01:00More bare skin lead to bigger brains?
Ergo, no hai...More bare skin lead to bigger brains?<br />Ergo, no hair on your head means even bigger brains? <br /><br />As far as the donkeys are concerned, their brains may be smaller, but they at least have figured out how to be fed large buckets of grain! ;-)<br /><br />Loved the birds tale!Merisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16781937797213521146noreply@blogger.com