Animal Thinking

This morning on the Bob and Tom morning show one of the hosts brought up how animals do weird things. His example was how his dogs, before doing their business, will always give him a look that says “do you mind? Some privacy please.” And how even though it’s just a dog he feels the need to turn his head and not watch.

I have similar wonderings about the logic that birds have, or lack there of to be more exact. Why is it that birds always seem to sit in the middle of the road and not move until the last possible second? Then, when they do fly away they sometimes seem confused about which direction to fly in. Couldn't they have determined the best path out of the way in the minute and a half they had when they first saw me coming? Are they having little bird contests of Russian roulette to determine who’s brave enough to stick around in the road with a 2000 lb. metal vehicle charging it the longest? Or are they really just that dumb?