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Smartest Pets - young reader & writer series - Cover

Some animals are so smart! In this book you will read 25 funny and exciting true stories about our favourite pets. More!

There's plenty of pickings at the buffet

Car parks – barren wastes of metal and asphalt. Hot in summer, cold in winter, and devoid of nature apart from some struggling bushes and scraggly grass. Until I came across 2 Indian mynahs who had adapted to the car parks. I happened to glance along the narrow middle island between two rows of cars. There were the two birds, together, picking insects off a car’s front bumper. Connoisseurs at a buffet table, they eyed up the choices spread before them and picked out their preferences. This was a bumper among bumpers! They spared me only the shortest of glances, so I went back to my car another way and left them to their feast with a “bon appetite”.

Author: Barbara Hock
Country: New Zealand
Age: 47
True story: Yes
Rating: 24 paws up
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mynahs are also great at warning of the presence of snakes; I saw this myself at my daughter's farm near Bremer Bay (West Aust) recently. Very helpful when you have small children on a farm!VHLXPAp

Posted by rae.jay 11 months ago  x

Birds arent fools,I hope they are aware when a car is going to move.They have been at it a long time I expect and know when to move.

Posted by JOYCE TAYLOR 12 months ago  x

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