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Except for Australian Hawks, who use wildfire to flush out smaller animals.
by groby_b 6y ago
Except for Australian Hawks, who use wildfire to flush out smaller animals.
- minitoar 6y agoDo the hawks create or aid the spread of fire? One could say Redwood trees are similar for having evolved to take advantage of fire.
- groby_b 6y agoIIRC, Australian hawks intentionally spread fires by dropping burning pieces of wood. They do this cooperatively, too. (Don't piss off Australian Hawks, I guess ;) https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-37/issue-4/0278-0771-37.4.700/Intentional-Fire-Spreading-by-Firehawk-Raptors-in-Northern-Australia/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700.full https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-3...
- liability 6y agoProbably neither. The evidence for any of this is about as strong as the evidence for Bigfoot. A bunch of tall tails from people who swear they're sincere.