August 24, 2010 | By admin In
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If you haven’t seen this yet it’s a video of some folks that were hired by the city of Barcelona to help remove pigeons from the city and thus reduce the flying rat’s fecal impact on buildings and landmarks. And this is how they do it: with some sort of magic net-gun , possibly similar to this thing . Whatever it is, one thing’s for certain: Spiderman seriously blew his chance to make a little extra pocket-money. Didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU, PETER PARKER?! *SCREEEECH!* Haha, is, uh, is this thing on? Hit it for a very short video of the other other grayish-white meat.
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How To: Catch A Ton Of Pigeons. Or, Why Is There So Much Bird $#!7 Right Here?
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This wireless speaker system by Japanese design studio Nendo is shaped like a bird cage and plays music via Bluetooth from any computer or cell phone. It can hang from a ceiling or sit on a table. Nendo’s main page [via Dezeen ]
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Bluetooth speaker shaped like a bird cage
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May 27, 2009 | By admin In
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In an experiment that helps prove some birds are smarter than they’d look in the bottom of a KFC bucket, a British rook was able to make a tool ( hook ) in order to accomplish a task (score worms ). Allegedly, this puts them on par with monkeys and toddlers. But I haven’t seen any toddlers making tools. Just stools . Yeah, in their pants . Birds: 1, toddlers: 0. They were presented with a small bucket of wriggling worms out of reach at the end of a tube, and next to it a piece of straight wire. Remarkably, despite never having seen the set-up before, they immediately got to work bending the wire so they could hook out the bucket and tuck in. Unlike most animals which learn tricks through trial and error, they solved the problem immediately and, since they were raised in captivity, had no other birds to show them how to do it. Just what I’ve been waiting for. Now I’m going to use a flock of rooks to finally rob the local bank. God knows the squirrels couldn’t do it. Could you, you stupid tree rats? I swear, one of you spots a nut and you act like it’s the first time you showered with daddy. Hit the jump for a couple more action shots and a video.
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Hmm: Birds As Smart As Monkeys, Toddlers
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