A friend of my brother's had been over protected as a baby. For some reason his mother didn't allow him the freedom to crawl around at will and he simply didn't develop the ability to judge distances, which caused him real difficulties in life. So that article makes a lot of sense to me. Luckily for ospreys, I don't think there's any way an adult could stop youngsters bobbing their heads!
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08/27/13 12:54 pm
So I wonder how to tell the difference between when they're bobbing to judge distance and bobbing to "put over" the contents of their crop: