#OZWATCH: JEREMY ZAKIS, NEW SOUTH WALES. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY. SUMMARY: Dallas the spoodle encountered a teenage magpie that rolled onto its back, initiating play as magpies do among themselves. Confused, Dallas sat and wagged his tail. Cockat
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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| 0:21.4 | Debating Society. I'm John Batson in Blue Sky, New England, and Jeremy Zackis, spring coming on |
| 0:27.0 | in New South Wales and Dallas the Spoodle, who supervises a menagerie in the morning, Jeremy does |
| 0:35.3 | his bidding by providing fresh treats for the bird population, |
| 0:40.2 | has a new friend, perhaps from a new family. Who is it, Jeremy? Well, John, it's a new family |
| 0:47.7 | of magpies. And when I say a new friend, what I'm actually speaking about is that it seems |
| 0:53.7 | to be one of these new magpies |
| 0:55.4 | has taken a shining to Dallas. And judging by the color of his whiteness, because |
| 1:00.2 | magpies, you can tell their age by how white the white parts on their body are. If you have a gray |
| 1:05.7 | magpie, you know it's a little bit younger. If it's very, very bright white, it's probably |
| 1:09.8 | an older magpie. If it's in between, it's probably an older Megpie. If it's |
| 1:11.0 | in between, it's probably an older teenager, I guess you can say. Well, it looks like this new |
| 1:16.5 | family has an older teenager, which this week definitely took a shining to Dallas. And what I mean by |
| 1:22.0 | that is the Megpies all came down, landed, got their breakfast in the morning like they normally |
| 1:26.6 | do. That was dutifully let me know and went out and supervised their eating, I guess you could |
| 1:31.4 | say. He loves to trundle around the backyard while they're eating and he wags his tail and just |
| 1:35.7 | watches them and they love to interact. But this one magpie, he took it a step further. |
| 1:41.9 | What he actually did was as Dallas came by, he rolled on his back and basically put his feet up in the air and just effectively eyeball Dallas the whole time. |
| 1:51.0 | And now, I don't think we've spoken about this much before, John, but what that is is actually how the magpies play. |
| 1:57.4 | What typically happens is the younger magpie will roll over on its back, show it submissive, and then the older magpies will come and effectively play. What typically happens is the younger magpie will roll over on its back, show it's submissive, |
| 2:02.7 | and then the older magpies will come and effectively play around with it. And they'll kind of |
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