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#OZWATCH: TEENAGED MAGPIE SHARES HAM WITH DALLAS: ALTRUISM IN CORVIDS? JEREMY ZAKIS, NEW SOUTH WALES. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#OZWATCH: TEENAGED MAGPIE SHARES HAM WITH DALLAS: ALTRUISM IN CORVIDS? JEREMY ZAKIS, NEW SOUTH WALES. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY

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0:00.0

Look! Next door are having something done.

0:03.1

That lap panel fencing is gorgeous, though.

0:05.5

Wait a minute.

0:06.4

Juice and handybags.

0:08.1

Said she was in landscaping she did.

0:10.4

Said she had too much on a...

0:12.1

Plate compactor?

0:13.7

I'll flatten her, the lion little...

0:16.2

Get to rally fencing from 24 pound a panel

0:19.4

and tool hired two with plate compact patches from just 51 pound a week.

0:23.2

All trade prices X VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Patels.

0:32.6

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:34.9

I'm John Batchel with Jeremy Sackas, whose 10-year-old Spoodle, Dallas, has been adopted by one or two magpie families

0:44.0

in the backyard of Jeremy's home. That's been going on for months. And it was pretty much a

0:51.4

one-way enterprise. Dallas would, on Saturday morning, wake up and think,

0:57.7

Jeremy's not up yet.

0:58.6

What's he doing?

0:59.7

And Dallas would go into Jeremy's room and wake him up.

1:02.2

Jeremy trying to sneak a few minutes into his busy day.

1:06.6

No, Dallas says, we've got responsibility.

1:10.5

Jeremy would get up, pull himself together.

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