Fact-based Weird Facts
Flamingos Are Not Born Pink
A baby flamingo hatches fluffy and pale grey, and it only turns that famous pink because of what it eats, a colour its parents can lose again while feeding it.
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Bowerbird Rejects Bottle Cap for Being the Wrong Blue
The cap was round, clean and undeniably blue, and after four minutes of silent inspection the bowerbird carried it back out of the garden and dropped it by the shed.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Penguins Announce Standing Rota
Under the new arrangement, everybody takes a turn on the outside of the huddle, and nobody is to mention how long anyone else has been in the middle.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Seagull Declares Chip Shop a Protected Site
The designation covers the pavement, the low wall, the bin, and a strip of air above the doorway that the gull describes as historically significant.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Duck Files Noise Complaint Against Fountain
The fountain has run since April. The duck has held the north bank since March, and says that order of arrival is the whole point.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Pigeon With a Season Ticket
Every weekday for six years a pigeon has boarded the 7:14 at platform two, ridden exactly one stop, and then walked all the way home again.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Heron Issues Statement Regarding the Six Hours
The bird stood in eleven centimetres of water from dawn until early afternoon and wishes to make clear that this was, at all times, work.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Local Crow Files Formal Complaint About Bird Feeder
In a measured statement, the crow described the seed-to-suet ratio as “frankly insulting.”
Fact-based Weird Facts
Crows Hold Grudges and Never Forget Your Face
In a study that began in 2006, Seattle crows learned one masked face and kept scolding it for up to 17 years.