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shame the 'shiny things' was debunked as a myth https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_406690_en.html https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_406690
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shame the 'shiny things' was debunked as a myth
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_406690_en.html https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_406690_en.html
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- worthless-trash 4y agoI would bet that domesticated birds do not have the same habits as wild birds, so I'm not sure that one can take that as successfully debunked. I have never seen a magpie nest with silver/shiny things though. Most casual observers in Australia might confuse the magpie with the bower bird (lemme smash / want sum bekky bird), which does collect blue/shiny things and its nest is at ground level.
- potatochup 4y agoAlso, I believe Australian and European magpies are not that closely related?
- worthless-trash 4y agoToday I learned, Thanks !