Seagulls defend their young from a couple of innocent women living in a flat nearby

Two female flatmates terrorised by two seagulls pecking at their window. Why?

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 …

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The evolutionary genius of the great grey owl in catching voles

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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Do hyenas eat humans?

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 …

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Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in tortoises being attacked by rats

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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Cows have a very interesting social life and have friends

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 …

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