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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Yes, refer to the Winter 2009 BNS Newsletter starting on page 26, an article about Anting by
John Belbin and an illustration of a crow stirring up a nest.  Cheers, Jean</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">To:                            <b>NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca></b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">From:                        <b>"James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca></b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Subject:                     <b>[NatureNS] re "anting" by crows and other birds</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Date sent:                  <b>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:24:28 -0300</b></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Send reply to:             <b>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">This sounds very much like "anting", a well-known behaviour of a variety of birds.  When
indulging it this behaviour, individual birds find an ant nest and purposely sit or lie on it with
various posturing and acting as if high on drugs, some say or imagine, while grabbing
individual ants and not eating them but applying them to various parts of their plumage.  As
far as I know, the actual function of this behaviour is purely speculation, but it's possible that
it just feels good, and/or the ants remove ectoparasitic mites or fleas from the feathers,
and/or the formic acid from the ants acts like a repellent to those ectoparasites for a while?
 More comments, please?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Begin forwarded message:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>From: </b>Nancy Roberts <</span></font>nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca<font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span
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<div align="left"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><b>Date: </b>June 22, 2010 1:44:55 PM ADT</span></font></div>
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