lunes, 31 de diciembre de 2012

Bird Soul personality


SO YOU'RE A BIRD SOUL?
 the very basics of a bird soul, if none of these fit you you may look upon other animals



1. Independence. Birds do not like to be crowded. They have to be able to take off without interfering with each other's flight paths, so they generally do not forage too close together. In parallel, bird people need space in which to work and live and don't appreciate others clinging to them.

2. Flock mentality. It varies in strength between species, but social birds are conscious of the conspecifics around them. Flocks are formed for safety in numbers, and if an individual bird is reducing that safety by behaving inappropriately (like being too noisy or not watching for predators), the flock leaves them behind. Bird people watch the people they're with and modify their behaviour accordingly. Birds who find it hard to get along with all different kinds of people are probably unhealthy.

3. Detachment. By definition flocks are loose aggregations of birds with general social laws. They're not strongly cemented, although some birds do form strong ties within social groups (but those groups aren't technically flocks). Flocking birds are social, friendly and outgoing, but not committed to their friends; if life moves them apart, birds rarely make the effort to keep the friendship going.

4. Non-hierarchy. Almost no birds exhibit true, continuous hierarchy. The bird version is a pecking order, which can switch on and off, changes fluidly, and describes the relationship only between the bird and one other person at a time; that is to say, it does not dictate group dynamics, only individual relationships. Also, pecking orders have three ranks: Above Me, Me or Below Me, meaning that in a system with more than three people some will always share the same rank as others while the pecking order is active. (This is the complete opposite of canine and feline hierarchy in which only one person can fill each rank; there is no equality of hierarchy.)

5. Honesty. My favourite theory for this is that birds have an audiovisual communication system with no smell component, so for them things have to be stated explicitly in order to happen. In contrast, smell-reliant animals like mammals and primates have implicit contracts about their motivations and preferences. The famous bird-mammal divide is, according to my theory, here - where birds fail to receive or ignore discrete mammalian messages, and where mammals fail to be clear enough to communicate their intentions to birds.


written by-
Jory from The Daemon Forum/TDF

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