Short story, chicken style

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Curious animals, those chickens.

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It all starts with one interested chicken, looking for something nice to eat. As soon as it notices you’ve got something worthwile, more chickens show interest.

“Gimme gimme” - roughly translated: pôk poak pôk.
So I try to be a smartass and run around the corner to watch them go at the back of the shed.
Guess what happens, once a chicken has shown even some interest in you or your “stuff”, they are virtually unstoppable.

“Ha!” I think, watching those primitive animals behind the glass of the garden shed door.
One of the chickens is smart enough to fly against the glass to draw my attention. *bang*. *bang*.
So I open the door. The unstoppable chickens win some territory by immediately entering the shed.

Crazy beasts, watch it! Okay, maybe I can fool you all by closing the door, but leaving the hole open…
(For clarification: the chickens can access a restricted area of the shed through the hole by night to sleep)
Well, guess not, since Mrs. (No cocks) Smarty Feathers (lack of pants, you know) send me the “what are you waiting for?” look - via the hole.
Pretty smart, eh.

Look at the right one, she’s clearly the chieftain of ChickTown here. “I’m the master and I’m watching you!” - sounds like a usable lyric.
Something like “old McDonald had a form chickchick…” Urgh, sorry, I won’t.

So yeah, I guess animal planet was right:

Chickens do not just live in the present, but can anticipate the future and demonstrate self-control, something previously attributed only to humans and other primates, according to a recent study.

Raf Freire, a lecturer in the Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behavior at the School of Biological, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences in the University of New England, Australia, agrees, but already suspected that animals and birds, particularly chickens, had higher levels of intelligence than currently thought.

“An ability to show self-control improves an animal’s survival in their natural environment and would be expected to have been selected by evolutionary processes,” Freire told Animal Planet News. “Hence, it did not surprise me that chickens show self-control.” He added, “What is astonishing, however, is that the researchers were able to so elegantly and convincingly demonstrate this in chickens.”

So there you have it! Story conclusion:

chickens are smart. Q.E.D.

Short story, video style