Because they may someday grow up and beat your children! Well, that is not exactly what researchers from Wake Forest have figured out about the cycle of violence in Nazca Boobies, but what they have found – that birds that are abused as chicks are more likely to abuse chicks when they are adults – is eerily familiar to those who study violence in people.
By an astonishing coincidence I touch upon this very subject in my post going live tomorrow. Scooped!