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From: isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Baya bird and fireflies
Message-ID: <1902@imagen.UUCP>
Date: 26 Sep 88 13:23:18 GMT
Organization: Imagen Corp., Santa Clara CA
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The following appeared in the "Grab Bag" column of the San Francisco
Examiner 9/25/88:

        The baya bird of India doesn't like the dark, evidently.
    With bits of moist clay it attaches fireflies to its nest.  Am
    told the baya's nest at night looks like a street lamp.

Anyone know how accurate this is, or what's the full story?  My references
at home say only that the baya is a weaver bird which eats insects and nuts.
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Mark Isaak    	{decwrl,sun}!imagen!isaak  or  imagen!isaak@decwrl.dec.com
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