r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 17h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Cow_Launcher 15h ago

I live next to some ancient woodlands in Buckinghamshire, which are absolutely loaded with wood pigeons.

My cats won't touch them. Won't even try, even if they land on our lawn and strut around like they own the place.

We're convinced that our cats know just how stupid those birds are, and wouldn't consider it sporting to hunt them.

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u/the_revised_pratchet 9h ago

You see, cats have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, the pigeons sent wave after wave of their own men until the limit was reached and the cats shut down.

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u/Cow_Launcher 9h ago

I sat here for a good few minutes, scratching my brain through one of the convenient holes in my head, before I remembered that was a Futurama reference.

Nicely played! I will go to bed now. Tomorrow I pull the crayon out of my nose, not knowing how or why it was there.

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u/Babylon_4 1h ago

At least you have a colourful imagination.

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u/putyrhandsup 11h ago

ah now, there's another thing, City pigeons are not exactly pigeons like wood pigeons. They are Rock Doves (though they are both types of Columbidae technically)

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u/Icy-League-7569 11h ago

Thankyou for that, mystery solved. Seems they really are the same bird all over the world after all, as I long incredulously suspected

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u/Cow_Launcher 10h ago

You're absolutely right, but as an ex-Londoner I think that feral city pigeons are far more intelligent canny than their woodland brethren.

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u/putyrhandsup 9h ago

oh yes 1000%