Those black-and-white birds which for generations have been known as jewellery thieves are, in fact, wary of shiny objects, a myth-busting study has claimed.
In a series of experiments, British animal behaviourists found that, far from being kleptomaniacs, magpies were in fact fearful of unknown objects.
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