I'd like to tear the flesh off your bones...

Not my own sentiment, of course (unless you are you-know-who-you-are). We went to the Raptor Foundation yesterday. The birds are beautiful, but like they say - flying is wasted on them. Apparently, THEY SEE IT AS A CHORE.

How do they know that, though? Seeing a kestrel hovering in the air, then swooping down, I can't help but believe that it's having a good time. Am I anthropomorphising? And if birds think that humans are stupid for wanting to fly, which is really more bother than it's worth, are they ornimorphising?

My favorites were the vultures. Did you know that they have a stomach pH of 1.0 to 1.5. For comparison, yours (I am assuming you're human here) is around 3.0. That means that a vulture's stomach is 100 times more acidic! That's to kill the maggots in rotting flesh, apparently.

Oh, I hope you weren't eating your dinner.