do they care that many people think they look silly, as they "disgracefully" bounce around like drunken pieces of paper? or do they do it on purpose to mock us?
i have dwelling on this one for a while now....
2006-11-11 20:06:34 · 14 answers · asked by chazam 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Yes. It's a source of constant embarrasment to them and you're just making it worse.
2006-11-11 20:16:31 · answer #1 · answered by strawberri_shortcake 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drunken pieces of paper? I like that discription.
I don't think butterflies actually know if they're all that awkward though. I think a butterfly would be too happy to notice the fact that they fly in an awkward manner. I mean, really, how can you be sad when you're a butterfly? Maybe you get all depressed one day, but then you stop and think "Wait, I'm a butterfly! I have pretty colors and I flutter and I frolic!" Really, I don't think that flying awkwardly would get them down (besides, have you ever really seen a butterfly act emo?).
2006-11-12 08:53:40 · answer #2 · answered by spasekadet_42 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking a leaf out of a trees book at this time of the year, then they get up and flutter around, if they are not looking for a place to hibernate.
2006-11-11 20:33:59 · answer #3 · answered by Perseus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, dwelling on the flight of butterfly's, if that's all you have to worry about in your life you're not doing to bad. But to answer, if tomorrow you sprouted wings and had do fly or die, i would think your efforts wouldn't be seen as too brilliant!
2006-11-11 20:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Avon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have absolutely no regard for what people think of them. They are not clumsy nor are they disgraceful. Their flight pattern is adaptive for them to avoid predation and to make use of air currents to help them fly. Why would you care what a butterfly thinks anyway?
2006-11-13 17:00:49 · answer #5 · answered by cero143_326 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The navy do it, when there is a submarine around, they call it zigging and zagging, in other words, frequent changes of direction to "unsight" the enemy.
It makes them slightly more of a challenge to a pursuing bird
2006-11-11 20:17:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you ever stop to think the butterfly might have the same opinion about the way we move around? Do you really even care?
2006-11-11 20:17:06 · answer #7 · answered by eccentriclady 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Flying about randomly is part of their defence mechanism. It makes it hard for birds to catch them.
2006-11-11 20:15:29 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No - they think of little other than how the stupid hairless monkeys of this word have more time to contemplate their existence than fixing there own
2006-11-11 20:13:54 · answer #9 · answered by likeitis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's more freaky that they change from an ugly maggotty thing, sleep for ages then come out as beautiful as they do!
2006-11-11 20:18:27 · answer #10 · answered by Melc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋