Culture vultures! Zoo penguins check out the art at a locked-down museum (and it turns out they prefer Caravaggio to Monet) Three Humboldt penguins visited the empty Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Kansas City Zoo birds missed seeing visitors and were taken on a day out The birds were said to prefer Italian artiest Caravaggio … Read more
Upper classes pretend they prefer football to hunting and opera… to avoid being labelled as snobs, new study finds Wealthy elite say they like pop music and football instead of hunting and opera But new research shows such claims are a pretence to appear more ordinary The analysis is by Oxford University and the London … Read more
They’re the thievers of food, the pinchers of chips, the scourge of the seaside skies. Now scientists have revealed what we’ve always suspected — seagulls do prefer to eat food that has been handled by us hapless humans. When the birds were presented with two identical food items — one of which they had seen a human … Read more