ANIMAL NEWS

A fish rain in San Francisco, a catfish near-catastrophe in Florida and new insights into chimp communication and corvid co-ordination

SAN FRANCHOVIES Following the analysis of the Texarkana fish fall that suggested vomiting cormorants were probably responsible (FT420:32-35), another torrent of fish has been more clearly linked to avian digestive fails. In recent weeks, anchovies have been falling from the sky in San Francisco, California, with a Reddit user called sanfrannie reporting that about a dozen 8-inch (20cm) silver fish “rained down from the sky” onto their friend’s roof and back deck, while another local Redditor thought “kids were doing a Tik Tok sardine-throwing challenge on a roof somewhere” after seeing fish hit the pavement in the Outer Richmond district. A third witness said they “heard a whoosh sound behind me and heard a massive splat”, then saw fish scattered on a nearby driveway, while a fourth said that they…

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