In South Africa we have an Afrikaans saying, "
Sy kop is plat" which directly translates to, "
His head is flat", but as a saying it means that someone is so excited about one single idea that they cannot function properly and often make mistakes or do silly things because they hardly have brain power left to think of anything else - in other words they are thinking in one dimension only - flat.
An example of this is when I throw a ball for my dog. He gets so excited when he sees a ball that he will trample over anything and everything to have it; and will quite literally run head first into a brick wall to catch it. Nothing else matters but getting the ball.
Why am I telling you this? Well, at the moment, the male Guinea Fowl here '
se koppe is plat'. They are so focused on mating that they are showing a lack of judgement, being absurd and foolish.
One Guinea Fowl male saw me putting out food for the garden birds. He ran up to me, clearly hungry, quickly pecked only twice at the food, stood up straight, turned in a full circle on the spot, twitched his head from side-to-side, and then ran off at full gallop. I could only watch him with amusement as he turned so quickly at the street corner that he had to put his wing out for balance.
Sy kop is plat.
Silly boys.
