Best Twit the French/Science Joke on the Web recently…

…Comes from that trenchant blogger, Charles Darwin.

He writes:

Elsewhere the Telegraph’s Mr Highfield reports that starlings know when humans are watching them. A trait that first developed in France, is my guess.

Stumus Vulgaris Bardotis, no doubt.*

Image: Brigitte Bardot. Photograph taken at a cocktail party in 1968. Licensed under a GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

*Betraying my age here, I think.

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