Mags and the Ginger Pot
90x90cm
Gouache on board
Framed in Tas Oak
“We can learn so much from nature, especially if we observe them in our human arena.
friendship with a magpie – even when adult males are protecting their nests during the swooping season?
One can form a
Science has just begun to provide feasible explanations for friendship in animals, let alone for cross-species
friendships between humans and wild birds.
‘Magpies may readily come to a feeding table and become tame enough to take food from our hand, but this
isn’t really “friendship”. However, there is evidence that, remarkably, free-living magpies can forge lasting
relationships with people, even without depending on us for food or shelter’.”
