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Flock

Flock

to gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock.

(Science: zoology) (Dryden) Flocking fowl, the greater scaup duck.

Origin: Flocked; Flocking.


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Re: Why do you keep talking about species

... not just because they don't share the same habitat. They are instinctively territorial. Animals within the same family, genus or species school, flock, pack or stay together, and breed together except in rare cases. I corrected the attribution for you... :) No they do cross breed in captivity. ...

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by canalon
Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:28 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
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Views: 580

Re: Why do you keep talking about species

... not just because they don't share the same habitat. They are instinctively territorial. Animals within the same family, genus or species school, flock, pack or stay together, and breed together except in rare cases. Since you seem to think creationists don't have any proof or know anything at ...

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by AFJ
Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:31 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
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Lethal Emotions in Birds

I was wondering if strong emotions could kill birds. My friend had a chocoyo (a type of parakeet) as a pet in his house, and every time a flock of chocoyos would fly by (he lives in the tropics) it would answer them. After a few weeks it died for no apparent reason, (it was fed well, no obvious ...

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by Chmeee
Sat Sep 27, 2008 4:57 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Lethal Emotions in Birds
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Sugar Allergy

... that one molecule (drug) can end one condition (symptom) in all people of differing size, gender, race and genes. It can't and that why millions flock to anything alternative. BTW, Osteopathy in America is not considered alternative, it has been taken under the wing of the medical schools with ...

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by DrDahlman
Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:20 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Sugar Allergy
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Being in love...

... by pairing people up by matching them up on "compatibility" traits. But you also have people who do the whole "birds of a feather flock together" and also "opposites attract", which leads me to believe that love has a very irrational component to it.

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by mith
Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:43 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Being in love...
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