Just like your average labrador will inhale food until it's too large to walk. Binging is a natural instinct in feast or famine capable animals.

Working in 'a lab' i.e. laboratory I'm so used to that meaning of the word it took me a few seconds to understand this sentence :P

I assumed it was natural dog / fox/ wolf / canine behaviour. Probably most wild hunters / scavengers?

Either way, dogs are particularly suited to gorging and fasting. And I was under the impression that’s why dogs shouldn’t have free access to food, and why so many pet dogs are overweight.

Do they actually ever come back for more corpses? Or are these, like the article might suggest, actually cases of the fox defending itself from the chicken's ganging up?

There are 4 dogs in my house, one belonging to me and three belonging to my roommate.

Mine won't really overeat unless she's offered a lot of something extremely appealing (like human food). At least 2 of my roommate's dogs will eat until they make themselves sick, though. The last one, I'm not sure.

In the dozens of cats and dogs we've owned over the decades, we've always kept bowls out for them stocked with food.

What I often hear from friends when they discover this is that they'll try to move from their scheduled feeding to free feeding, realize their animal is engorging itself, and then assert "see? doesn't work" or "nope, {cats,dogs} can't do that."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing_(animal_behavior)

He didn't get the job.

Edit: also, there's a final piece of that that's critical:

> Tom West practices the "Mushroom Theory of Management" – "keeping them in the dark, feeding them shit, and watch them grow."

Many companies stop after the first two parts and miss the third.

That was just not a place to keep workers 8 hours a day. If I was more witty I’d precisely ask that question at the end of the interview.

Fifty fifty really.

(I know some people claim to have house trained chickens, but I'm not super convinced it's a repeatable process.

We could pick up, pet and carry our Chinese geese, and they came when you called. They even used to wait at the end of the street and fly along with my father as he drove home.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_goose

So many questions this raises...

We had that rooster for dinner that night, so he got what he deserved. :)

There's literally rose-tinted glasses you can glue onto their beaks so they can't really perceive red. This prevents them from pecking each-other to death.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses

This was a local wild chicken that had presumably escaped from a coop, and it appeared to sustain itself on mice all summer.

And you can't help but feel a pang of regret for the vermin. You lost many of your ancestors in just this way. You're a survivor. Tomorrow you're going to eat that egg. In revenge.

I saw this 2 months ago in Thailand.

However, chickens aren't known to be planners.

One of the more harrowing things i've done was a day addling geese eggs on a lake where they're overpopulated. There was two of us.in the canoe. Whenever we found a nest we'd switch duties between sneaking up to the nest to do the egg addling, while the other stood guard with a paddle to ward off the attacking geese.

Battery cages are slightly sloped so that eggs roll out of the cage, out of reach of the birds and for easy egg collection by workers.

Not necessarily true. An injury by a kick is a huge problem for the predator so they often shy away if the animal fights back. I have seen plenty of videos where single zebras or deer chased a predator away. Obviously this changes if there are several predators.

Just some quick speculation.

https://youtu.be/LU8DDYz68kM

If the first chicken panicked and ran, the rest would. I'm guessing the fox ran into the aggressive ones first.

To put humans into context here. Once, a couple of bombs went off in an Amory. People panicked and ran. Everyone ran in the direction of those who ran first.

Long story short, a few died from the blast. But, hundreds died from falling off a cliff and drowning in a canal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuS2ThE2q4

Sounds like a zombie movie type of fight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses

That they managed to kill a juvenile fox is a bit impressive however.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2174097-honeybees-gang-...

I support research into re-activating latent dinosaur genes in chickens.