Ask Tippi Hedren about Angry Birds: Rovio, the maker of the popular “Angry Birds” smartphone game, is teaming up with an animal conservation group to help save birds in the South Pacific threatened with extinction. The game helps explain how nonnative predators are going after the eggs of real birds.
Rovio might also want to explain, particularly to kids whose only exposure to birds is through the video game, that in real life it’s a bad idea to use a slingshot to fling birds at pigs.
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Speaking of angry birds: A new study projects that 1 in every 13 species on Earth will eventually be pushed into extinction because of climate change.
Surprisingly, one species expected to survive, scientists said, is headium deepus sandii, also known as the common climate change denier.
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Don’t bother to wrap it; I’ll eat it here: A stranded sea lion pup was rescued after it was found on a sidewalk in San Francisco.
The seal lion admitted he was lost and asked his rescuers for directions to Seattle and the Ballard locks or that fish monger’s shop at Pike Place Market where they throw salmon.
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