And other stories from the stranger side of life
A zoo in Toronto is asking visitors to stop showing mobile phone videos to the facility’s gorillas. The zoo posted signs outside the gorilla enclosure asking visitors not to show photos or videos to the gorillas “as some content can be upsetting and affect their relationships and behaviour within their family”. Hollie Ross, behavioral husbandry supervisor at the zoo, told CP24 that it wants “gorillas to be able to be gorillas”.
Mile-long flying ant swarm on south coast
A mile-long swarm of flying ants has been detected on a weather radar on the UK's south coast. “Every year around this time we do pick them up on the rain radar”, Simon Partridge, a Met Office forecaster, told Sky News. “At the moment it's harder to tell because we’ve got so many showers and the ants look like showers.” Last Friday was dubbed “flying ant day” on social media.
Charlie Watts’ book collection to make history
Books belonging to the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts are coming to auction in the “best collection of modern first editions” to go on sale in 20 years, said The Times. A first edition of The Great Gatsby inscribed with a message from the author F Scott Fitzgerald to the “original” protagonist is among the tomes going under the hammer. A live auction will be held at Christie’s on September 28 and an online sale will accept bids between September 15 and 29.
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