One of the most iconic birds around is a disabled Kea called Bruce. He's achieved dominance over his rivals by developing an innovative method of stabbing them with his broken beak

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-04-21/disabled-nz-parrot-uses-lower-beak-to-dominate-as-alpha-bird/106571404
#birds #wildlife #kea

"Bruce the kea—a species of alpine parrot native to New Zealand—lost his upper beak in an accident as a young bird. But that hasn’t stopped him from becoming the dominant male in his kea community (known as a “circus”) at the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, Bruce achieved his alpha status via a unique fighting method, essentially “jousting” with what remains of his beak."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/meet-bruce-the-beak-jousting-parrot/

#Birds #Behaviour #Nature #Kea

A disabled kea parrot, who is missing his upper beak is nonethless the dominant bird in his flock (circus) of 12. And he's totally chill about it, with the lowest stress hormone metabolites in the group.

Summary: https://www.iflscience.com/even-a-severe-impairment-does-not-have-to-mean-an-animal-wont-succeed-despite-having-half-a-beak-bruce-the-kea-is-the-ringmaster-of-his-circus-83246

Original paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00259-9

#Science #Nature #Birds #Kea #Dominance

CVE Alert: CVE-2026-3608 - ISC - Kea - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2026-3608-isc-kea/

#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2026-3608 #isc #kea

- LAN on eth0: #Kea #DHCP serving internal hosts
- WAN on eth0.3: DHCP client talking to ISP

Kea: „I don't care about VLAN tagging, give me all your packets for my raw socket. By the way, how about using this nice internal LAN address for my hosts WAN interface?“

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/issues/1117

At least the issue has recently been closed (after six years). Now waiting for an updated package to arrive. Or an alternative - whatever comes first. Any recommendations apart from dnsmasq?

#opnsense migration: Complete.

The preparation legwork made lots of things easier, but even once swapped I realized I had about 5% of it wrong.

I also still had a #virtualip in the config from the first hour of having it running when I was trying to migrate away from my VIPs in a #fortigate, which are a TOTALLY different thing.

NAT Reflection eluded me for a good hour, but all the VLANs behave, #kea DHCP seems to be all up and running and #ntopNG is much nicer than some of the built in systems of #fortinet.

#IDS feels innately trickier than before but pros and cons.