Or I am crazy. Either way. I like to watch animals do stuff sometimes. I find the noisy ones that fight with each other humorous, because they are noisy and they fight with each other. Like ducks, cats, and Tasmanian devils (there was a program I saw on Tasmanian devils a long time ago that I'd like to see again, but have never been able to.) In fact, it is an almost daily ritual to walk down with a friend to the park and see the ducks (at first I just walked down, watched them for as long as it took to walk down the length of the dock and back, but since he started coming, we've stopped to watch them and the geese. They've gotten boring; haven't really been doing much the last few times we've been down there. the best was when one of the ducks laughed. Or it sounded like it.) I love a friend's description of ducks: "They're all sitting there until you walk up to them, and then they stand up and look at you from the corner of their eye, going, "Hey! Hey! Hey!"

Crows and/or ravens, I think, are also pretty awesome. When I worked in Yellowstone, while I was waiting for my boss to come in, I'd sit on the steps to the dorms and watch them chatter with each other. My favorite was when one would just be sitting there, crowing at seemingly nothing (maybe he was crowing at me?) I've heard a study that said that crows recognize people's faces. So they recognize people who are assholes to them, and will crow at the person whenever they come around. Like, the people who did the studying wore a mask, which the crows recognized. When they put the mask on upside down, the crows would look at the mask upside down and recognize the face, or something.

I've also always been fascinated with bugs; particularly the ones that work in colonies. I've been fascinated by ants breaking apart bigger insects and carrying them away, for example. Strange. I am also fascinated when I see animals that I usually don't see. For example, one day when I walked down to the docks, there were some canadian geese there, along with the ducks. And the last few days, there have been these other birds that I'm not sure of the name of. Zoos are fun, too, but I think the nearest one is in Portland, where I don't go every day. On the coast, there was the Marine Science Center too, which I liked going to as a kid.

Do animals fascinate you? Do you go out of your way at times to go see a particular variety, that are near where you live? Are you a weirdo? Anyhoo...

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