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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 11:25:06 -0400
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On 6/6/25 11:15 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:55:32 -0400, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/5/25 8:56 PM, Jay Morris wrote:
>>> On 6/5/2025 11:54 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> In article<6ud34kde5lu015vj0j6b9vl37fju2g54ic@4ax.com>,
>>>> Paul S Person<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> Urban ecology is fascinating, in some ways. The dinosaur-descendants
>>>>> are also interesting, even the tiny ones.
>>>> At work, I encountered a squirrel trying to activate a self-opening
>>>> door. No luck, but the fact it tried at all means it's either smart
>>>> enough to have deduced from watching humans that that button would
>>>> open that door, or there's a door somewhere on campus where that
>>>> trick works.
>>>
>>> Videos online that show animals who have learned how to use the door
>>> entering convenience stores and stealing food. Also a stray dog that
>>> watched people handing over pieces of paper at a food stand and getting
>>> food so it picked up a leaf, went up to the counter and dropped. It was
>>> rewarded with a bite so now does it daily.
>>
>> I just saw a short item today that some cockatoos in Sydney have figured
>> out how to use a drinking fountain. They grip the handle with their feet
>> and lean forward.
> 
> IIRC, somewhere in Australia (or was it New Zealand?) the locals are
> waging a virtual war with birds who, whatever the people do to try to
> prevent this, always figure out how to open the garbage bins and do
> their thing.

And then there's Christmas Island (an Australian territory in the Indian 
Ocean), where they deal with this:

https://christmasislandnationalpark.gov.au/static/2c57c569d5f60ff89c1e6628e0456774/83db0/cinp-inline-image-robber-crab-bin-for-scale.webp

OR as a tinyurl
https://tinyurl.com/bdetey24