Although the vulturine guineafowl are small-brained even among birds, scientists discovered that they live in multilevel societies reminiscent of our own.

Hills Shire council said it had received 40 complaints over three years about the magpie, and several people had been injuredA local council in Sydney’s north west has said a decision to shoot dead a “particularly aggressive magpie” that had allegedly swooped and injured people for years was “not taken...