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How's that, I ask, and he demonstrates, hand cupped around mouth, voice high and throaty. He thinks this small group has been led here by the juveniles. 'The young want to move, and so the parents have to follow/ This seems to add weight to observations local farmers and the student biologist Barbara Pohl have made. More experienced scientists confirm that adults with young do tend to stick together, either in isolated groups, or on the fringe of groups, where the grass in the field is likely to be in better condition.

In North America, the public hearing, the town meeting, where people gather to express their views to the powers-that-be, is a long-standing tradition. Thus in March 1993, the Canadian and British Columbia governments, through Environment Canada and the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, placed an advertisement in the Vancouver Sun inviting people to bring their questions, concerns, and suggestions to a public meeting dealing with urban encroachment on wildlife habitat, hunting, and the management of brant, Canada geese, and snow geese on the Lower Mainland, a topographically vague description of what is in fact the delta of the Eraser River.

To have experience of, 3. to form a mental picture of or perceive the meaning of, or to imagine as a possibility/ The Concise Oxford defines seeas follows: 'i. 5 Both definitions started me on a familiar, baffling quest for clarity, something I think of as the dictionary game, as I leafed through the p's for perceive, the d's for discern. The consistent if minor variations in definitions demonstrated that individuality of perception extends even to the writers of dictionaries. While the differences might seem trifling, think about the impressions evoked by the names orca and killer whale, which both refer to the same marine mammal.