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It's Aidan's BRAIN EMPTYING TIME! *catchy theme tune plays* here's your host: Adonis!

"Hi folks, welcome to the show. How are you?"
*uninteligable cheering*
"Thank you thank you. Ok, so today on 'ABET' we're going to talk about animals. But of course, we're going to explain why first. Ready for the long winded bits? Good, then I can give up trying to pretend this is a game show right about..."

Now!

Ok, so, this week I have been on a necessary course, provided by a company called A.T.S. at the behest of the Jobcentre. The course is called Gateway To Work and is pretty much just being taught how to get jobs/job interviews. I have spent from 0930 to 1630 each day at that place, and it's exhausting. On Wednesday however, we have half a day, so after leaving A.T.S. I made my way to my favorite outdoor location for to read my latest book (The Magician's Nephew, for anyone who cares. I'm re-reading Narnia). I spent a good few hours there, and finished the book quite quickly, and upon completing it, decided it was time to watch some birds and stuff, given that it was Horrid Hill in Roverside Country Park, a location famous as an RSPB reserve, and popular among birdspotters.

There was a seagull entertaining itself flying across the water.

I know it was doing so simply to amuse itself because there is no way it would do exactly this by chance:

It was flying as low as it could manage, while following the exact edge of a cloud's shadow (or specifically, the edge of the light cast by a hole in the clouds) on the water's surface. I know it for sure because the bird did three laps around the edge of the shadow (light), following it perfectly and meticulously.

This lead me to think seriously about 'dumb' animals. If they feel a need to be entertained, then obviously they are creatures of more than basic, near-instinctual intellect. They need to have enough thought to realise that there was a challenge in following such an odd line so perfectly, and that the challenge could occupy their time and give them something to do between meals.

So what do other animals do to be entertained?

I don't know, so if anyone can relate an incident of an animal doing something that entertained them, please, no dogs and cats, they are fairly 'smart' animals. I'm talking things like badgers, owls, wild, free animals.

Aidan has no more energy left to relate his thoughts, so "it's time to wrap up this imaginary, prizeless gameshow with the usual (even though this is the first and there is no established 'usual')! See you all next time!"
*bad theme music plays again, ingraining into your mind and bugging you just when you thought you had forgotten the cursed sound of it*

I resonate Mercurim

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