(09-06-2021, 01:50 AM)ABNARTY Wrote: Smart and friendly??? If birds are any indicator, I'm not sure this is achievable. Ever hang out with Chickens? Geese? Turkeys? Not exactly the brain surgeons of the animal kingdom. If it moves, they eat it. Even if it doesn't move, they'll eat it. They'll eat each other.
Giant birds (dinosaurs) were contemporary with early humans. The early humans were the ones on the menu. Plenty of evidence pointing that out.
Didn't they make a movie about this?
Yup, chickens are as dumb as a box of rocks. Way back when, many moons ago, back when bell-bottoms were a thing, I had a pair of bell-bottoms that had little brass stars running down the seams at the outside of the leg. Chickens, not being overly bright critters, would flock around me and try to eat those brass stars off my britches. Thought they were grains of corn, I reckon.
On the other hand, I used to sit on the front porch and watch the chickens running around the yard doing chicken things, because chickens just chicken right along. More than once I got the disturbing feeling that I was watching little dinosaurs in action - and that was LONG before birds got reclassified into "avian dinosaurs".
We kept mostly "game chickens", the sort that some folks fight. Couldn't keep 'em in the chicken coop for nothing. No matter what we tried, they would eventually go back to roosting in trees in the woods, and hiding their nests out in the tall grass. Now, with a game chicken, you don't just walk up to it, snatch it up, and wring it's neck. Nossir, when it came time to kill chickens, we hunted them. No lie. I'd tear the outer square cover off of a book of matches, and set it in a split stick in the bottom across the road about 40 or 50 yards away, then shoot at it from the yard with my trusty .22 until I could hit it every shot... because that matchbook cover is just about the size of a chicken's head. Then I'd take that .22 and go chicken hunting.
I mention that because this thread has set me to wondering - do you reckon they'll require a license to hunt dinosaurs once they get 'em into production? Asking for a friend... but I bet they'd taste just like chicken!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’