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reminds me of Werner Herzog's classic rant on the stupidity of chickens..

"Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world."

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The eye of the beholder... I've had hens understand how to jump on handles to open doors. Certainly, they lacked the subtlety to shut up once they started gobbling up food, but they knew how to open doors, creep in and stay silent until they reached the kitchen. Nobody trained them to do so, and they certainly had never tried jumping against doors before that happened. Not only did a hen figure out what we were up to with those door handles but suddenly, from one week to the next, each one of our 4 or 5 hens got the memo. I'd venture the guess that most humans find it more convenient to disparage whatever creature they happen to exploit.

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