Give A Shit About Nature, Author at Give A Shit About Nature

Before anything else: which sparrow are you dealing with? If the answer is house sparrows, the chunky, aggressive, brown-streaked bir [...]

Crows eat eggs, nestlings, and given the opportunity, they’ll eat adult birds too, though that’s considerably rarer. If y [...]

Raccoons are genuinely intelligent animals. They’re curious, dexterous, capable of learning, and, when raised from kithood by p [...]

Yes, toads are poisonous to dogs. Every toad species produces some level of toxin from the bumpy glands behind its eyes. When a dog l [...]

Wolf spiders bite. They’re capable of it, and under the right circumstances they will. But “the right circumstances&#8221 [...]

The raccoon tipping over your trash can at midnight isn’t coming for you. It’s planning to eat whatever’s in there [...]

House centipedes are venomous. That’s the scary-sounding part. And yes, they can technically bite. They are, objectively, one o [...]

Great horned owls have attacked and killed cats. This isn’t an urban legend. There are documented cases, wildlife rehabilitatio [...]

If you grew up catching fireflies in a jar and your kids have seen maybe a handful total, you’re not imagining the difference. [...]

Here’s the truth: yes, garter snakes bite. They’d rather not, and they’ll usually flee well before things get to th [...]