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Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night (www.theguardian.com)

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Photographer who noticed his items were mysteriously moving around discovered an industrious rodent was organising his workbench

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Wildlife photographer Rodney Holbrook noticed that objects he left out of place were being mysteriously put back where they belonged overnight.

Holbrook, from Builth Wells in Powys, Wales, set up a night vision camera on his workbench to find out what was happening, and captured footage reminiscent of the 2007 animated movie Ratatouille, where a rodent secretly cooks at a restaurant.

Night vision footage showed the seemingly conscientious rodent gathering clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts, and placing them in a tray on Holbrook’s workbench.

Holbrook even experimented with leaving out different objects to see if the mouse could lift them, but the creature was undeterred and was even seen carrying cable ties to the pot.

A similar incident occurred in 2019, when a viral video showed a mouse “stockpiling” items in a man’s shed near Bristol.

Steve Mckears told reporters he thought he “was going mad” when screws and metal objects kept reappearing in a box containing bird feed.

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