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Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Spokesbirds for a clifftop colony insist the bright orange beaks that appear every spring are entirely natural and have nothing whatsoever to do with fashion.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
For eleven mornings a woodpecker has hammered on the metal chimney cap of number four at ten past six, and he would like it understood that he is being polite, not loud.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Every scrap of bread, three grapes and one entire boiled potato went into the stream before being eaten, and the raccoon responsible would like it recorded as inspection rather than laundry.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The outdoor pool on Harbour Road closes every October, and every winter morning since, one retired swimmer has let himself in to sweep it for a summer that is months away.
Fact-based Weird Facts
A hippo climbing out of a river shines orange-red in the sun, and that glossy coat is a sunscreen it makes in its own skin, one that keeps germs away as well.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A statement delivered at length from a fence post asks the public to stop leaving teaspoons out, and requests one very specific kind of bendy twig instead.
Fact-based Weird Facts
The famously forgetful goldfish can remember things for months, learn to press a lever for food, work out what time dinner is served and tell its owner apart from other people.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
A hummingbird the weight of a coin has claimed exclusive rights to a sugar-water feeder with four perfectly good drinking holes, and spends most of his day making sure nobody else uses any of them.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Tens of thousands of starlings swirled over the reed beds at dusk in shapes so perfect that onlookers demanded to know who was in charge, and the starlings insist nobody is.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Offered a shortcut round a tuft of grass by a helpful ant, a dung beetle pushing a ball twice its size climbed on top, looked at the night sky and carried on in a perfectly straight line.