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Africa In Europe?
Situation
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.Situation
A man, visiting Europe, hears an African bird call. There are no African birds in the area. How can this be?
Answer
He heard a marsh warbler. Native to Europe, these birds imitate the calls they hear when they migrate to tropical regions in the winter.Hide Answer Show Answer
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the bird could of phoned him and made a noise down the phone
He could have been at the zoo???
It could have been any number of things...for all we know he was watchin tv....
Hi:
A nice teaser.
A nice teaser.
Hmm... He could have heard it through the radio, tv, phone, etc. Who knows?
Europe could be a girl's name and she could live in Africa
Gotta agree with the rest,,,nice try though
Being at the zoo wouldn't work; I said there were no African birds in the area.
could have been lots of things...good teaser anyway.
there are no african birds in the whole of europe ?????
Very neat teaser! Learned something!
Very Good Teaser. I thought he was watching a documentary about african bird or was at the zoo. but i never knew about the birds u mentioned in the answer. so thanks for posting!
Oh yes, marsh warblers. WHO IS EXPECTED TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS?
Too many possible answers
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