Another Sign of the Coming Apocalypse

Birds in Germany are adapting to their environment is bizarre ways.

GERMAN ORNITHOLOGISTS fear that birds in that country have started to imitate the ring tones.

Richard Schneider of the NABU bird conservation centre near the university city of Tuebingen said that the birds have an uncanny ability to mimic ring tones and are suddenly doing so.

The worst offenders are the jackdaws, starlings and jays who seemed to be doing it to wind up bird watchers.

Apparently they see bird watchers, with their maps on strings around their necks and binoculars, and watch them scrabble for their mobiles, with a cunningly mimicked call. Schneider said the phenomenon was that these birds were increasingly common in German cities and were adapting to their environment -- which includes ring tones.

Birds are evil. I watched one last week (brown with a broad white stripe across the edge of the wing) toying with a squirrel. It would swoop across the yard, in a dive-bomb maneuver; then it began to hover over the terrified squirrel and try to snatch at it. Evil.

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