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Can you name the only other living thing that starts fires to hunt for its food....?

Posted - March 17, 2019
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  • Men..They‘re an other living thing. 
      March 17, 2019 2:06 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Men stopped being hunter gatherers when the first supermarkets came about......canned  beer and tv then sealed there fate as their usefulness was over.......most live a sedentary life and are easier to care for once gelded .....



      March 17, 2019 3:30 PM MDT
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  • Lol, you mean you know men who will go to the supermarket by themselves??? ;)
      March 17, 2019 5:01 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    No.....even my dad has to take my mum so he don't get in trouble...lol
      March 17, 2019 6:20 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    I do almost all of the grocery shopping. I have saved at least $200 a year.
      March 18, 2019 9:10 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I blow at LEAST 200 bucks a month on things I should not have bought.  A YEAR?  WHAT IS THAT????
      March 18, 2019 9:48 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    That's why I shop. She can't pass by the bakery without grabbing  a $4 package of cookies. She doesn't know how to look for sales etc.
      March 18, 2019 10:50 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    A $4 pack of cookies IS a sale around here.
      March 18, 2019 10:54 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Actually, she is TOTALLY RIGHT.


    On the possibility of Donald Trump starting World War III
      March 18, 2019 9:47 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Would any other nation back him up if he did :(
      March 18, 2019 10:42 AM MDT
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  • 34251
    Hawks in Australia. 
      March 17, 2019 2:21 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Black Kites actually....They pick up burning wood to start new fires and flush out fresh prey ...  :) 
      March 17, 2019 3:19 PM MDT
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  • 34251
    There are three doing it. Black kites, whistling kites, and brown falcons. 
      March 17, 2019 3:38 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Most likely the other two were cheating....lol.   :) 
      March 17, 2019 4:51 PM MDT
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  • OH!!! I know!  I know!  I know! 
    DRAGONS!  Yep.  DRAGONS.  That's my final answer...Dragons.

    See the source image
      March 17, 2019 4:10 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Is it the one on Puf....:) 
      March 17, 2019 4:53 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Asker's Pick
      March 18, 2019 9:44 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/wildfires-birds-animals-australia/
      March 17, 2019 4:43 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Did you know it or just google it....:)
      March 17, 2019 4:56 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    No, I didn't know; but I always like to include a reference if I can. 

    And do they "start" fires as that word is usually understood as applying to "building" a fire?

    More like they use a tool (a burning stick) from a fire, cary it to another location, and start the fire there.
      March 17, 2019 10:52 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I watched a Sir David Attenborough documentary about them.....the Black Kites don't have pocket to carry matches or indeed money to buy them ,so they mostly pick up burning sticks and fly them to different locations to start  new  fires and get smal rodents running....  :) 

    How the Blazes they worked that out is amazing...:)
      March 18, 2019 3:35 AM MDT
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  • 1305
    I saw it too, absolutely brilliant, the arsonists of the bird world.
      March 18, 2019 12:10 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Interesting. I guess our hawks are stupid.
      March 18, 2019 9:13 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    We have more "wild" (forest) fires in the USA; perhaps USA hawks don't have to work as hard for food.
      March 23, 2019 10:57 AM MDT
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