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1:26pm on Thursday, 18th August, 2022:

Magpie

Anecdote

I've just watched a magpie in our garden do the following a dozen times, one after the other.

It picked up in its beak a berry (the same one) from next-door's laurel tree. It dropped the berry into a crevice between the paving stones on the steps to the garden. The berry rolled down, then the magpie pecked at it.

I think that the crevice is used by ants as a road. The magpie was using the berry (which was split open) to collect ants as it rolled down. It scoffed the ants (which it couldn't do direct from the paving stones), then repeated the exercise.

If magpies could afford the £9,250 per year fee, they could probably have a decent stab at our undergraduate programming degree.




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