Consider these pictures, taken last weekend at
Kobe Kachoen (Bird and Flower Park), our refuge from the miserable Sunday weather. The idea is that you get to interact with birds, and both of the older boys were able to feed and/or hold first owls, then toucans, then other smaller water-fowl. A larger selection of pictures can be found
here, but what is most interesting is the following sequence of Julian feeding a toucan (the bird of choice of Guinness drinkers everywhere):
Now it may be pure coincidence or a fevered imagination, but the psychologist in me sees a boy subconsciously imitating a bird: down-up-down (all that is missing is the fruit in Julian's mouth!). Parrot-fashion, if you don't mind awful puns.
Mirror Neurons, anyone...?
