Robins do this also. Nothing I have found can dissuade them from crashing
their reflection. I had one persist for over two weeks.
--On Sunday, December 18, 2016 7:56 AM +1100 mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:11:49 -0500:
Hi,
[snip]
My point being, that barely qualifies as conscious. Not as I defined
it: "Awareness of surroundings. Some ability to make choices . . ." It
is more like a set of complicated hard-wired reactions. The cricket
mistakes a plastic object for another cricket. Its perceptions and
awareness of the surroundings are very crude, compared to a bird or
mouse.
Some birds are not much better. I had a little blue jay in mortal combat
with his own reflection in the window during mating season. On the other
side of glass I could sit with my face not six inches away from him and
he still persisted.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
