Wild animals acting weirdly...

[Haighermeister]

Over the last couple of days I've witnessed wild animals doing some weird things..

This morning I saw a large rabbit (possibly a hare) being chased by a small jack Russell dog. After about 100yds the rabbit stopped dead and fell over. The dog stopped, sniffed the rabbit then ran off, 2 seconds later the rabbit hops back up and legs it off. I've never known rabbits could 'play dead' or would even have that in them...

Secondly, I saw a group of 6 magpies stood at the corner of a busy junction fighting. 4 of them stood in a circular formation while the other 2 scrapped on the floor with each other. The 4 stood around, shrieking and jumping up and down as if saying 'fight fight fight'. The 2 fighting were pinning each other down, pecking and clawing but making no attempt to fly away.

Are these normal things I've just not seen before or just really random?

[Road Pest]

Disney channel?

[Nightmare]

I had a large carrion crow land in a tree in the garden last summer and pull a 'something' to pieces and eat it. a jackdaw then joined it and proceeded to beg scraps for the next ten mins - and the crow happily fed it. utterly bizarre

[Haighermeister]

No, real life, in Cornwall though...

[Road Pest]

I did watch rabbits boxing the other night. Very odd little noises they make.



Not in Cornwall.

[P101]

Haighermeister said:

This morning I saw a large rabbit (possibly a hare) being chased by a small jack Russell dog. After about 100yds the rabbit stopped dead and fell over. The dog stopped, sniffed the rabbit then ran off, 2 seconds later the rabbit hops back up and legs it off. I've never known rabbits could 'play dead' or would even have that in them...

Rabbits play dead when under threat, or very scared. Ours did it when they saw our dog for the first time.

[Kudos]

end of the world?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-136...