See!?! I'm not the only one.
I also have another story. I've told three or four people this story and none of them appreciated it at all. But I think it's a great story! So here goes: I got to lab early yesterday morning (like 8 am) and started preparing some flow probes for an upcoming surgery. About 10 minutes later I heard some of the people in the lab laughing so I went over to check it out. We've had a magpie in a cage for a while and I always feel bad for him because he's big and the cage is small and I don't even know if anyone is doing any experiment on him or if we're just keeping him there. The magpie's cage is right next to a cage with six or seven zebra finches (MUCH smaller birds). In the magpie's beak was the head of a zebra finch. No body anywhere, but the magpie was chowing down. Upon closer inspection, we could see blood and feathers on the zebra finch cage and on the magpie cage. The magpie must have reached through the cages with is long beak and grabbed a zebra finch, pulled him through both cages, and had himself a nice meal! Realizing that, and then looking back at the magpie now playing with the zebra finches head for some reason made me laugh pretty hard. I guess natural selection is at work....the zebra finches smart enough to stay far away from the magpie cage will survive!
Oh, poor zebra finch! When Joyce Alsonso (neighbor across the street) used to complain to us about cats in general, and Bear specifically, (they eat the birds in her yard) I used to think about survival of the fittest. The healthy and fast birds will stay alive. Now we have no cat, we have lots of birds. Dad has installed a cat trap in the back-yard to catch the cats loitering in our backyard, licking their chops at the thought of a nice bird meal.
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