Birds avoid straw men. The reasons are deception and fear. Birds’ brains see a man about to kill them. But the farmer has made not a man but an effigy of straw. Thus the birds are influenced by his deception and flee.
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Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author
Welcome to all who, like me, still have so much to learn and understand
Birds avoid straw men. The reasons are deception and fear. Birds’ brains see a man about to kill them. But the farmer has made not a man but an effigy of straw. Thus the birds are influenced by his deception and flee.
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