Friday, November 25, 2022

How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads


There are few Australian animals more reviled than the white ibis. It has earned the moniker "bin chicken" for its propensity to scavenge food from anywhere it can - messily raiding garbage and often stealing food right out of people's hands.
 But the native bird may have figured out how to overhaul its bad reputation.
 It has developed an "ingenious" method of eating one of the only animals Australians hate more - the cane toad, a toxic and pervasive pest. 
 
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