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Dogs are established to have an acute sense of smell along with a lifestyle where they live in close proximity to human beings and communicate with them. Most
by michaelmrose 6y ago
Dogs are established to have an acute sense of smell along with a lifestyle where they live in close proximity to human beings and communicate with them.
Most birds and pheasants in particular have don't have as well developed a sense of smell as you do and aren't liable to be within 100 yards of people for long.
Even if they could smell impending disease why would they particularly seek out a high place to announce this and how on earth would you distinguish this from a call which announced it's desire to mate or warning about predators including yourself.
Birds make noise all the time. They can't smell you from far away ergo they can't smell impending death. It's like an ink blot test any meaning you are finding is smuggled in by you.
- thisCtx 6y agoDogs and smell were one example. Maybe it’s sight related. Maybe it’s electromagnetic field sensitivity. I’m not seeking meaning, I’m seeking falsifiable experiment to conclusively rule out the possibility.
- michaelmrose 6y agoMaybe it was communicating with its own kind?
- thisCtx 6y agoYep, maybe. This is an endlessly circular discussion without falsifiable experiment. Which is my whole point. You have fun falling into the abyss. I’m gonna go see what reality is made of.
- thisCtx 6y agoOh I just remembered neuroscience has revealed we “sync” brainwaves just being in a room with another. We can take on others processing patterns. No reason to assume similar can’t occur between species. Perhaps the bird “read his mind” in such a way as to intuit something was breaking. Perhaps applying simple cost/benefit analysis is too reductionist to reach a conclusion?
- hisnameismanuel 6y agoSeems to me like this story itself is an inkblot test for HN