Australian magpies, like many birds, are smart and sometimes even sociable with animals of a different species.Here's a video of one playing in a backyard with a Jack Russell terrier. By Benjamen Judd 4 years ago "What are you doing, Steve?" Filmed in November, 2018, Georgia Armstrong managed to catch a cheeky magpie hanging on and pulling at clothes on a washing line in her garden. -2 Magpie hangs upside down on clothesline in Australia garden A homeowner in Geelong, south Australia catches a magpie hanging upside down on clothes hung up on a washing line. Please let us know in the comment section below and remember to share the video and sign up for our free newsletter ! See more of Funniest VideOasis on Facebook Magpie forgets it's a bird, becomes a fruit bat instead. Credit: JukinVideo. These extremely intelligent magpies like to goof around every now and then, like this one who grabbed ahold of a hanging towel and dangled upside down from it while its buddy begged it to play. Just hanging around". Magpies are such amazing birds! What did you think of this upside down magpie? "Nothin'. A magpie hangs upside down and tells his buddy all about it. Notice how, when the woman hangs up a sheet on a clothesline, the magpie tries to hang upside down, too.