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Pheasants are as dumb as boxes of rocks. Their road sense is awful, and generally do exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.

In the dim and distant past I worked as a programmer at a company that bought an old country estate for one of its offices. As part of the estate there were about a dozen peacocks. There were none left when I joined though. My manager explained that they were completely dumb and kept get run over.