Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks

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kropotkitten:

These birds figured out that fires flush their prey out of the brush and into the open and have literally coordinated massive feeding frenzies using strategic burning. 

“We’re not discovering anything,” cautions co-author Mark Bonta, a National Geographic grantee and geographer at Penn State University. “Most of the data that we’ve worked with is collaborative with Aboriginal peoples… They’ve known this for probably 40,000 years or more.”

Nice to see someone acknowledging that. Also I’m pretty sure this makes Australian kites and hawks the most metal of tool-using birds.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE ON SO MANY LEVELS

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