On my phone not laptop or I'd CQ that, old chap.
It was good tbf.
“They lived high up in trees”, did they?
And they were “venerated” were they?
Is this from Professor Brubaker of the Institute of Studies?
Imagine how many millions of years it must have taken for the chickens to realise the rice wasn't going to be tempted up into the trees and they would have to take matters into their own hands feet.
Until they came down from the trees and were domesticated, there were no fry up breakfasts, or chicken soup.
Hence this was probably the crucial stage in the development of civilisation.
The first allowed long distance camel drivers to stop and have a hot breakfast somewhere, facilitating trade and the trade routes:
the second, kick started Judaism, and we know where that led.
IMO this is as important as "Out of Africa"
It could smell a big pot bubbling - carrots, celery, onions, parsley, and very stupidly it thought it would take a look.
They were partially cannibals, of course, surviving illnesses with nourishing chicken soup.
Researchers say that humans came into contact with the jungle birds, which lived high up in trees, during dry rice farming.
A load of bollocks according to other researchers who reckon that despite living in the jungle, the birds were piss poor at flying and ground dwellers before they came into contact with humans.
I thought they came down from the trees because their eggs kept smashing.
When I was a nipper, one of our hens laid her eggs a little way up a tree in a fork which was just beyond my reach. The makeshift nest proved too awkward for her to sit on properly, and the eggs either fell out and smashed, or stayed there and addled.
I thought they came down from the trees because their eggs kept smashing.
hahahahah!
When I was a nipper, one of our hens laid her eggs a little way up a tree in a fork which was just beyond my reach. The makeshift nest proved too awkward for her to sit on properly, and the eggs either fell out and smashed, or stayed there and addled.
Natural selection. Most mutations are harmless, some mutations prove to be advantageous, some not. The one that makes you lay eggs in a really stupid place would be not advantageous.
But if it protected your eggs from predators (and omelette fanciers) , it might be
Even newer research suggests they were tempted down by crystal meth.
Maybe they just wanted to go home to roost?
I hate chickens. They're creepy. They move weirdly. Pecky fuckers.