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Re:A girl who gets gifts from birds by gaius on Thursday February 26, 2015 @12:37PM (#9113767)
Perhaps they smelled the family on it, and just returned it to a place that smelled similarly.

Can you do that?

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Re:A girl who gets gifts from birds by kaybe on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:02PM (#9113986)
Most people never try. Feynman found he could, to some extend.

https://books.google.de/books?id=Z7g-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105&lpg=P...

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Re:A girl who gets gifts from birds by lotsofmangos on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:29PM (#9114183)
That story makes me suspect that Feynman was also a genius at flirting.
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Re:A girl who gets gifts from birds by dragonwriter on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:04PM (#9114002)
> Can you do that?

Maybe not, but then, humans have a pretty poor sense of smell compared to lots of other animals.

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Re:A girl who gets gifts from birds by pavel_lishin on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:40PM (#9114290)
I can't, but I have no idea what that's supposed to prove. That animals have abilities I don't? I can't fly, either, or swim in the arctic ocean and catch fish with my mouth.
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