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Night lights cause severe loss of sleep for pigeons and magpies

23 July 2020

City lights could have a serious impact on the sleep patterns of birds, as pigeons were found to sleep around 4 hours less under illumination equivalent to street lights
Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

Hungry foxes have been raiding our bins for thousands of years

22 July 2020

Foxes rooting through our rubbish to scavenge for food isn’t just a modern-day phenomenon – analysis of animal bones in Germany shows foxes were eating human leftovers 42,000 years ago

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