Tuesday, January 24, 2012

News at Eleven: What keeps certain breeds of birds

returning every year to the same place, many thousands of miles away, when equally suitable conditions exist nearby? And what makes people leave behind family and friends to encounter hostility and strangeness in a foreign land?

As the final poem in the volume, "Time to Fly", shows, the reasons are many and varied: some are biological imperatives, some financial, some emotional.

from The Independent: The Mara Crossing, By Ruth Padel

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