Evolution has resulted in the great grey owl developing advanced, scientific skills to detect voles 50 cm below the snow just by the sound that they make. And it is doubly astonishing they can do this because snow this deep is a great sound dampener …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Here’s a bit of good news for animal rights campaigners. King Charles III has publicly reaffirmed a ban on foie gras. In fact, he has been a long-standing opponent of foie gras for many, many years. As have millions of other people. …
In the US, Thanksgiving this year is Thursday 24th November. It’s a time to roast and carve up the turkey. The problem is that turkeys are far more sentient than many people realise. And in line with the fact that turkeys like an occasional cuddle, …
Two wildlife conservation stories are circulating the news media at present which I’ve picked up and they appear to be linked. They concern two lakes. One is in China (Poyang Lake) and the other in Kenya (Lake Bogoria). Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in …
I don’t know about you but I find that the whistling sound that pigeons make when they take off to be irritating because I feed squirrels and squirrels chuck their food onto the ground. Pigeons come along and eat this food. And pigeons are very …
After a 15-year study from 2005-2019 scientists from UPV/EHU and the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive in Montpellier (CEFE-CNRS) Decided that global warming is making the plumage of blue tits less colourful. They call this a “plastic change” as opposed to a genetic change in …
UK: A 40-year-old man has been arrested on a litany of driving charges including failing to stop at the scene of a collision, dangerous driving, driving while unfit through drugs, drink driving and finally an assault occasioning actual bodily harm. This man was observed by …
The Killdeer is a large plover found in the Americas. It was given its name when scientists heard its call and they thought that it sounded like it was saying “kill-deer”. It’s a simple as that! But some people in their commentaries on videos about …
Pigeons are smart. Yes, they are maligned and shot at and generally despised but they are still smart. Generally, people are ignorant about their intelligence. Perhaps people tend to hate pigeons because they use their smarts to survive and this irritates humans. They are one …
