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Thoughts Of Flying BI280893
I first encountered these delightful banded stilts in Coorong National Park, South Australia. were roosting on a sandbank. They were calmly sleeping, or so it seemed until a solitary pelican paddled just that little too close. In unison, the stilts began to march 'as one' in perfect formation. As I often do, I wondered, for no good reason, whether the collective was actually 'thinking' about what they were doing. Were they preplanning a take-off? Were they 'thinking' about flight? Did they, indeed do they, have a mental concept of what flying is?
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