“Listening in two directions”
I was watching a deer in my upper field one day. He was eating grass. All of a sudden, he looked up towards the woods. He was perfectly still looking in that direction, eyes glued on the woods. Then I noticed, one ear was turned toward where he was looking and the other was turned backward in the opposite direction. He was listening in two directions at the same time. The forward facing ear was listening for what he had heard and the backward facing ear was listening for what he might hear. He couldn’t see what was before him and what was behind him at the same time, but he could hear what was before him and what was behind him at the same time. Continue reading ““Listening in two directions””
