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Originally Posted by PMG 
As for the sparrowhawk using drowning - husband has watched a sparrowhawk at work deliberately take a fiesty noisy starling and drown it in one of the ponds ........ which is a hugely interesting thought that raises a lot of very interesting questions .... so some creatures - maybe only predators - understand what death is and what can cause it ......... I'm still reeling from the fact that killer whales put other whales onto their backs and cause a sort of catatonia in order to overcome and kill something larger than themselves.... there is something far more sophisticated going on than mere 'animal savagery' here isn't there ........
Pauline
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Interesting question that. Do the sprawks understand death as a concept? Or have they just learned that by sticking their prey in water it stops them struggling? One for the animal philosophers out there.
Nice rant Dan, totally agree. Maybe you SHOULD be a presenter. I'd find it entertaining anyway
If we are to attract new people to wildlife, we have to do it in new ways. I can't wait for a wildlife show presented in the style of The Word myself
