Most of our outdoor creatures have learned the bells mean to sit up and pay attention. The smarter ones head for the side fences.
]]>Our house is a tear down. So the odds of a developer dealing with such a thing over a season is practically nil. Assuming they even leave it up.
And PM houses require work to keep out the "riff raft".
]]>Except for the "very large population" part, that is what happened. It probably started millennia before Campei Flegrei and continued until the last morphologically distinct Neanderthals were gone.
]]>Yes, these long-term relationships are always a tricky to set up. I'd suggest doing it anyway and leaving a note for whoever follows you."
Our house is a tear down. So the odds of a developer dealing with such a thing over a season is practically nil. Assuming they even leave it up.
And PM houses require work to keep out the "riff raft".
That's my situation too; Zero dollar house sitting on a $300k piece of dirt, and all the house flippers keep calling me because they think just because I'm getting old I'm going to be stupid enough to let them steal the property out from under me with some ridiculous low ball offer.
I'm losing the battle to keep the "riff-raff" (critters) out ... but what are "PM houses"?
]]>Purple martin houses, I think. The riff-raff are bugs, rodents, and probably less desirable birds
]]>https://www.thespruce.com/purple-martin-houses-386646
https://nestwatch.org/learn/all-about-birdhouses/birds/purple-martin/
By the way, if you folks across the pond want them we now have a about 150 million you can take back.
]]>and nearly all the pm human "landlords" are over 50 cos de yoot are too busy fiddling with their iphones or something
]]>Had no idea spadges were similarly inclined, though.
]]>Starlings are vicious little fuckers. They kill each other by grabbing the other bird's head with one foot and squeezing a claw in through each eye to meet in the brain, which is quite splendidly gruesome.
I found this surprising; most animal fights are much more about posturing to persuade the other one to back down; actual fights to the death are very rare. But a quick look around the Net found this (see pages 295 and 296), and also more photogenically, this.
]]>Crow mobbing behavior is also sometimes invoked for other large birds of prey, though they generally leave vultures alone.
]]>Not as rare as people used to think:
19.4% of all meerkat deaths are caused by another meerkat. That's the highest rate of intraspecies killing of all mammals. Puts "The Lion King" in a very different light!
Also note that numbers 2 through 6 are all primates.
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