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Journal: January 2, 2012
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Animal Souls                 Thought Process

Corvids: Crows. I’ve seen them all my life, briefly watched them occasionally, tried talking to them lately, though I also had a crow call, wooden, when I was but a youngster. They seem to fly:
                                                  Crows Flight Patterns
                                                                    (drawing of crow flight patterns);

playing all the while, at least is seems like playing. Sex games at least in part I suspect. But with apparent, quite active social lives. Gossiping? Changing arrays of friend and enemy? (the “game” is to keep track of “whose on first”, and as humans do, “to score” the game)

It seems they play just as we do. Or perhaps that is pure anthropomorphism, "‘cuz humans are the only ones God gave the spirit of play (i.e. soul)". Just now a crow is playing with a squirrel. Territorial games I suspect, food more than sexual drives, I suppose. No injuries, but probably a little, pleasant adrenaline rush.

Perhaps individual birds and flocks in general over short times occupy highly flattened, oblate ellipsoids, size and shape proportional to species. When migrating ellipsoids change shape with the nose pointing upstream or down depending on whether the day saw more leaders than stragglers or vis-a-versa.

From what appears to be random locations and actions of crows (I generalize, as far as I know, I have never seen the same crow for more than a few minutes). Higher magnification and clearer definition can define the shapes and assign them to different species, like hawks, manatees, and electrons in a feldspar crystal as it moves through the galaxy (as a Helix)