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As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating."

In the first recorded instance of fire being used by animals other than humans, three Australian birds of prey species have been seen carrying burning twigs to set new blazes. John Pickrell reports.

 

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“At or around an active fire front, birds – usually black kites, but sometimes brown falcons – will pick up a firebrand or a stick not much bigger than your finger and carry it away to an unburnt area of grass and drop it in there to start a new fire,” says Bob Gosford, an ornithologist with the Central Land Council in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, who led the documentation of witness accounts. “It’s not always successful, but sometimes it results in ignition.”

“Observers report both solo and cooperative attempts, often successful, to spread wildfires intentionally via single-occasion or repeated transport of burning sticks in talons or beaks. This behaviour, often represented in sacred ceremonies, is widely known to local people in the Northern Territory,” write the authors behind the find in the Journal of Ethnobiology.

Gosford points to two Dreaming fire ceremonies in particular – the Lorrkon and Yabuduruwa ceremonies from the Arnhem Land region of the Territory – which incorporate scenes involving the re-enactment of birds spreading fire from places to place.

 

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No, no, no, they are wrong! It’s target shooters using Russian ammo and tracer rounds fired from Assault Weapons used by 4x4 drivers that run over endangered species to get to where they want the fires set.  

 

 

 

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Original Freebirds   

Michael Hayes , Terry Gordy ,  Buddy  Roberts  :o:huh::P

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6 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

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              I thought the thread was going to be about:

   

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