The ostrich farmer segment came to mind when I recently stumbled upon a rather interesting bit of trivia, which I'd like to check out with you who were ostrich farmer for a day.
I learned that the 2002 IgNobel Biology Prize was awarded to the authors of a scientific paper entitled "Courtship Behavior of Ostriches Toward Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain".
"During the ostrich farm boom in the mid 1990s, the farmers wanted to raise egg fertility and reproduction but the ostriches didn't reproduce much. However, the ostriches always seemed to engage in courtship behavior every time anyone looked. But, in fact, what we discovered was that this was behavior directed at human beings and not other ostriches!" - Co-author Dr. Charles Paxton
Did you experience anything of the sort during your stint at the OK Corral?
I realize that the question assumes that you would have known if any of those ostriches were 'coming on to you' so to speak. (I certainly would have no idea and probably interpet any ostrich advances as aggressive rather than amorous in nature.) If not, and the OKC guys made no mention of such thing, do you (in hindsight) have a sense of any truth to the research report?
Isa-SF
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Must be the Brut he uses. lol.........
, Goran you crack me up
