One of the RULES OF SCIENCE is .. Keep Asking Why. And here's a practical and real example ... February so far has been bitterly cold and very wet. And the daylight is very short. BUT ..every morning the birds don't appear as soon as it gets reasonably light. It actually takes a long time for them to get going .... about 30-40 mins after " reasonable light" appears . Surely, with long, freezing, windy and soggy nights, and very few hours of light, you would think they'd be desperate to get eating and drinking and whooshing about. So ... why don't they ? Are they so cold that it takes 30-40 minutes for them to become mobile ? Or do they get into a "torpid state" that takes a while to de-torpidise ? Or is it a competition to see who can stay asleep the longest ? Or are they simply gormless nits ? There's something for you to think about. And me too. It seems to bit a Bit of a Baffler Here's a previous ( and more important) version of Keep Asking Why .. 31-keep-asking-why.html Maybe this will help ............ ... and now Melys ( sweet) and Cysgu ( sleep) .... very appropriate .
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