Birds

[pisa]

There r 100 birds on a tree, if you shoot 1 how many remain on the tree?

[Quizmonster]

None...the noise of the shot will have frightened those left away.

[Goofy]

my thoughts exactly

[Bangkok]

Unless your gun has an effective silencer or you are sufficiently far away.  The effective of one bird falling on the other 999 cannot be calculated. 

So, 0 or 999 or somewhere in between

[Bangkok]

Or 99 even

[Bangkok]

or 99 even, had I read the question carefully

[scrambler]

How about the dead one still being left dangling there? - Who's the daftest amongst us? the submitter of the puzzle or those who submit an answer?

[Tiesto]

Well, if you killed it by throwing a stone, you may have killed two if the old saying is anything to go by, leaving 98?

[trilobite]

I might've painted all the branches with glue. Then they couldn't fly off....

[Bangkok]

A net would be more efficient...

unlike my last efforts at posting

 

[thebookbloke]

there were 15 black cockatoos in a tree across the lake...I hit a golf ball at them and cleanly whacked one of them...it spiralled down...very dead.

the rest of the birds stayed sitting on the tree...they had no idea what had happened..

therefore.. I reckon they sat dumbstruck and didnt fly off

[pisa]

All wrong i'm afraid, the answer is 5! There were 5 ostriches......which couldn't fly away!

ha ha ha!

[trilobite]

So, pray tell, how did the ostriches get 'on the tree' and wouldn't they run away at the gunshot?