Their thought processes, demeanor, and speed are pure rush hour. Woods time is the opposite of clock time. There's an initial disturbance followed by a wave of responding animals. I call these concentric rings. Every animal out there pays enormous attention to every other animal.
Birds are the sentinels of the forest.
They sound off at any disturbance. If you're stalking correctly, you can actually hear the ring pass over you and know where the disturbance came from. Modern man spends 99 percent of his time in tunnel vision. It's like seeing the world through a telephoto lens. Animals and primitive peoples spend 95 percent of their time in wide-angle vision.