[HPforGrownups] Fawkes and the Basilisk

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 28798

Susanna Luhtanen wrote:
> 
> Susanna Luhtanen
> s_luhtanen at hotmail.com
> 
> >From: Susanne Schmid <pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it>

> >  Yep, and then Fawkes is a bird (now really?-how sharp-witted, Susanna!)
> >which means his eyes are on the left and right side of his head,
> 
> Owls are birds. Their eyes are both in front - just like mammals.

True, and that's one reason they're efficient predators, because
they have stereoscopic vision.  But a lot of birds don't
(especially the non-predatory species) and a lot of mammals don't
either, for the same reason.  An animal that's not a predator
generally needs the wide-angle vision (for being able to spot
predators from =all= directions) more than it needs the depth
perception.  Exception being arboreal creatures like monkeys that
need NOT to miss the branch.

Do we know what phoenixes eat?


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>