re: Thousands of snow geese fall dead from the sky

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That is atrange thoigh. Like do birds not say "frick I'm sick, I'm gonna chill here for a minute"?

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Birds will hide their sickness until they literally drop dead. Showing weakness in nature makes you a prime target for predators.

Learned this the hard way in middle school when i woke up with my parakeet chilling in his cage like he always did till he dropped dead 5 minutes later.