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Great Tits are Killing Birds and Eating Their Brains. Climate Change May be to Blame.

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 03 2020, @01:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the ~blame dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies. This typically goes off without a hitch, and the birds return to Africa a few months later, offspring in tow. But recently, some flycatchers have arrived to find their nesting sites occupied by haughty, territorial great tits. And those birds don't just chase flycatchers away—they brutally attack them, kill them, and eat their brains.

Source: https://www.popsci.com/great-tits-murder-climate-change/

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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 03 2020, @06:13AM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday March 03 2020, @06:13AM (#965881) Journal

    Obviously a submission of our aged incel, The Minorityreport Buzzturd. Likes great tits,but also fears commitment, and having his brains eaten. And after what happened to Runaway, well, he is quite right to so fear. If he had any brains to begin with, which, I must report, has not been established! !

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Tuesday March 03 2020, @10:29AM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 03 2020, @10:29AM (#965927) Journal

    Once again, you miss the essential context:

    Someone does a science, someone else writes a narticle, someone else's copy/pastas it to a sub, then we cut out most of it and pretend like readers are totally gonna click through to the article even though we know they're not even reading the summary then everyone shitposts about how systemd is made by white supremacists or whatever

    You just carry on twisting what people say or write to meet your own agenda. And then you wonder why so many of your contributions are rejected. Of course, you'll claim that it is 'humour'....

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 03 2020, @04:22PM (1 child)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday March 03 2020, @04:22PM (#966026) Journal

      What or whom are you quoting here, janrinok? I was not whining, since I am not a Knowledge_Troll, but a Philosopher Troll. Who said systemd is white surpremacist? And what is a "narticle"? Nano-particle? Sub-section of a Narwhal? Or a bit of Narnia?