NEWS AND COMMENT – NECASTLE, UK: A couple of female flatmates, Georgina Gray and Helen McKeever, have been pestered by a couple of seagulls for a long time. They peck at the window daily and it starts at 6:30 AM. Gray said that they don’t know what they want. And that they just sit there …
Two female flatmates terrorised by two seagulls pecking at their window. Why? Read More »
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 and distorter. Christopher Clark, from the University of California, Riverside, …
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There is a battle going on between Project Coyote advocates and the red T-shirt wearing members of Evict Coyotes. They represent two sides of the coin on how to deal with the resourceful Los Angeles County coyote who has been there 47,000 years but is now in perpetual conflict with the citizens of Los Angeles …
Kill Los Angeles County’s coyotes or learn to live with them? Read More »
This is a dramatic if not disturbing video of a bald eagle swooping down onto the porch of a home, snatching a Yorkie puppy and carrying the animal away. It ends well because the puppy manages to escape and, in the video, the last thing that we see is the puppy racing into their home …
I can refer to 3 studies which tell us how often coyotes kill domestic cat to feed. In one study in Tucson, Arizona, they concluded that domestic, stray and feral cats represented 42% of the coyote diet. They don’t differentiate in the reports that I have seen between stray, feral or domestic cats. In a …
I would refer to this data as a good guideline only. Maybe it is fairly accurate but it seems that the information comes from specific studies which may not be wise as they may be skewed. It is not wise to take one or two studies and extrapolate the data to the entire species. I …
There’s a story on the Internet which answers the question in the title: ‘Hyenas devour man in attack at his home’. Yes, hyenas do sometimes eat humans. In this instance, in Zimbabwe, officials are hunting a pack of man-eating hyenas. They dragged a 46-year-old man from his bedroom and tore him to pieces. Neighbours found …
Tortoises are being attacked by hungry rats in the UK. The rats are gnawing at the legs of pet tortoises because they have been deprived of food that would normally have been available as waste outside opened restaurants and cafés. We all know about the devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic which has decimated the …
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In respect of social bonding and friendships, a study from the Austral University of Chile found that cows behave like their wild ancestors, aurochs; wild cattle which inhabited Asia, Europe and North Africa. Domestication has not removed from their memory how to instinctively protect the group from predators. Cows have a lot of strategies to …
Cows have a very interesting social life and have friends Read More »
