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Birds Gather For "Funeral" After Seeing Stuffed Kin

(That's what they are calling it...sillies) Researchers at UC Davis found Western scrub jays screech in chorus when they see a dead kinsman.

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Added: Sep-13-2012 Occurred On: Sep-13-2012
By: bellava
In: Science and Technology, Nature
Tags: bird, funeral
Location: Davis, California, United States (load item map)
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  • Do that with black birds you will hear " yo, yo, yo, moefuker! Git back! that bro be dead!!! A WHITE CAT did it! No he not be chillin! he be dead as a moefucker! fuk the poeleese! "

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    mutterfudder (692.88)  

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  • They're chirping "Allah Akbar" in bird talk.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    USA1 (3680.24)  

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  • Memo to UC Davis researchers: Jays will do this with many dead creatures in the woods. Big game hunters use the noise to locate game when they return with the pack horses.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    camarriott (51.74)

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  • according to the CSI report the victim had his throat cut before being brutally raped then stuffed....we are dealing with a sick son of a bitch here.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    elmexicano92 (230.24)  

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  • Let us all bow our heads and say a prayer for our fallen fellow comrade, Tweety.

    Oh great winged one in the sky
    Please guide our beloved into your feather breast
    Let not his spirit fall prey to the cat demons
    And join you in eternal paradise in the birdfeeder in the sky

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    Neil Griffith (90.30)  

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  • They're saying "don't eat the fucking bird food".

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    nonad (296.20)

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  • If you found a dead human a metre away from your dinner you would probably want to tell someone as well.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    fr33thinker (900.70)

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  • interesting.
    Shout out to the dead?
    A farewell?

    Jays are freaky birds, had a baby blue jay land on the roof of my garage, fell out of the tree and couldn't fly.
    Watched as mom or dad swooped around coxing the chick to do something?????
    It jumped off the roof and ran around like crazy!
    I tried to 'scooch' it out of the alley and mom/dad went fucking nuts!!!
    Decided to let Darwin do his work and drove away.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
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  • Florida realtors hate scrub jays. Fact...

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    T_Bone69 (474.76)  

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  • there are several varieties of birds that do this ... magpies and i've heard crows go at it if one is injured on the ground... and swallows go apeshit with their dive-bombing anything that comes close to the body on the ground.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    geoleojoh (273.94)  

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  • Very interesting.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    Yukon6400 (963.32)

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  • They split up the inheritance.

    Posted Sep-13-2012 By 
    Megadeth (1433.30)  

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  • Did the genius who posted this really go through the trouble of stuffing a dead bird to try to prove that birds call out to each other when they see a fellow species member?

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    maxx99bx (1.50)  

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  • Maybe they suspect the seed is poisoned now, and that the dead jay died from eating it.

    One question: Why would anybody want to mindfu*k birds like this?

    Posted Sep-14-2012 By 
    beer foot (92.90)

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