Had to read the headline three times before it landed—French police are warning drivers to watch out for drunk deer. Not diseased deer. Not injured deer. Drunk deer. Apparently, spring in France’s Burgundy region brings an annual wave of intoxicated wildlife stumbling onto roadways after bingeing on fermented fruit and…
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When the Food Chain Turns Into a Cage Match – Rats vs. Bats
According to the folks at Smithsonian Magazine, researchers caught something on camera that reads less like biology and more like an R-rated Pixar reboot. Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) have been documented snatching bats out of the air — yes, snatching bats — in the wild. Picture this: a rat on…