Have
you ever been sitting at a stoplight in the evening and noticed birds sitting
on the wires and poles in every direction?
Have you ever taken the time to really look at them? Because if you did, you’d notice that birds
truly understand the concept of personal space.
Each one is spaced almost exactly the same distance apart from each
other. You will rarely find them
touching, unless the population of birds outnumbers the available wire
space. But what is truly amazing is what
happens when a new bird flies onto the wire.
It doesn’t just fly to the middle of the open space, it will land and
then parallel park into an equidistant space from the bird next to it, so that
it can leave room for another bird.
So,
the question is why do birds do this.
What are they trying to achieve by sitting in these seemingly random, regular
patterns? Well, Brazilian composer
Jarbas Agnelli had the same question when he saw a picture of birds sitting on electric
wires. But the answer he had was that
they looked like notes on a sheet of music.
So, he decided to turn their pattern into music and listen to the song
of nature. I’ll never be able to look at
birds on a wire the same again. Here’s
the link, if you’d like to check it out:
