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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Baya bird and fireflies
Message-ID: <1050@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 88 17:15:22 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Followup-To: sci.bio
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In article <1902@imagen.UUCP> isaak@imagen.UUCP (Mark Isaak) writes:
>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.

Would all those who see it coming PLEASE not subject yourselves to the
following:



Maybe the baya bird just enjoys a light snack of an evening...


				--Blair
				  "Some of us find it harder to
				   shake this monkey from our backs..."