The Commander and Lord Kadizzle have been skunked for about three days in a row hunting pheasants. In areas where we have seen hundreds there are none. Then one day you go back and they are there again. It would seem to most people that our problem is they just moved. Not so, we searched everywhere they could have move. In the winter the pheasants must hide in the brush. In the snow they are easy to spot.
This is where evolution comes in. Pheasants have figured out how to become invisible. Now, if someone told you dinosaurs could fly you would look at them like they are nuts. The idea seems insane, but the reality is birds evolved from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs realized the advantage of being able to fly. Certainly with people chasing them around with guns they have figured out the advantage of being invisible. Fortunately the pheasants are still working the bugs out of it. To find each other they have to be visible. The only logical conclusion is they are not invisible all the time. Once they get the bugs worked out we either have to figure out a new way to find them or give up.
Friday, January 04, 2013
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