This week, the Puy du Fou theme park in western France put some new employees in the field: six trained rooks, members of the crow family, picking up small pieces of paper and cigarette butts in exchange for food.
Boubou, Bamboo, Bill, Black, Bricole and Baco officially started their new gigs on Monday.
For the record, the park would like to note, the corvid colleagues are not replacing any human cleaning staff.
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