An expert in robotics and artificial intelligence has trained wild magpies to trade-in discarded bottles caps in exchange for food. Hans Forsberg constructed a DIY ‘birdbox’ consisting of a dispenser that releases food pellets and another compartment fitted with sensors to detect when a cap is dropped into a hole. A YouTube video shows a bird, … Read more
I will NUT be beaten! Squirrel jumps off house ROOF to land on bird feeder after its attempts to climb the pole fail A homeowner’s quarantine bird feeder project was ruined by a cheeky squirrel The squirrel found new ways of getting on the feeder in White Plains, New York Footage shot on Wednesday shows … Read more
‘Down!’: Hilarious moment guy orders bear to leave his bird-feeder alone and the huge beast obeys by climbing down tree A bear climbed a tree to get to a bird feeder in Steamboat Springs in Colorado Scott Bixby saw the bear and managed to get it to back off by telling it ‘down’ After getting lots of … Read more
A giant fish that lived around 380 million years ago fed in a similar way to basking sharks, the second-largest living shark in the world today, scientists report. The Titanichthys, from the class of pre-historic fish called the placoderm, was a suspension-feeder – it captured and ingested food particles suspended in water. A Titanichthys fossil that was … Read more