Their courtship rituals can include: preening, croaking, puffing, tail fanning and attack. But at the Tower things can get complicated. Ravens mate for life, more or less, he explained. “From a child.”Īfter three years and hundreds of gruesome deaths, Britain’s ‘Cat Killer’ case has been solved Skaife said the ravens, like most Brits, have a weakness for potato chips, which they scavenge and then wash in puddles if the flavoring - say, cheddar and onion - is not to their liking. What do they do all day? They perch on benches. When they do a mouse, a few surgical snips, a hard tug, and fur is peeled away as a glove from a hand. They’re positively iridescent, with tool-like claws and beaks “like a Swiss army knife,” Skaife said. Up close, the ravens look like enormous crows dipped in oil. They take up their territories and waddle-hop the premises with a movement Dickens compared to “a very particular gentleman with exceedingly tight boots on, trying to walk fast over loose pebbles” - one of many nice bits Skaife has scattered across the pages of his book. In the morning, he releases them from their dormitories, in order, from the least to the most dominant. Watch Yeoman Warder Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife at Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London feed one of Queen Elizabeth II's ravens.
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