I knw crows were smart, but I didn't realize they could do this!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023295.stm
Maybe it'll be a compliment to be called bird-brained.
Crazy Rambles
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 6:32am- Login to post comments
I knw crows were smart, but I didn't realize they could do this!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023295.stm
Qyn
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 6:46am<3 crows.
Crazy Rambles
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 7:07amAye, forget the status of "pet," if I have a chance I'll get a few as roommates!
Vasya
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 7:50amYeah, Crows and Ravens and such are mad smart. My favorites are Rooks though - we had them back in my hometown.
Qyn
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:59pmI like PRAWNS.
Vasya
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 8:15amYo Rooks are CRAZY SMART:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8059688.stm
[Scientists] found that the rooks would bend a piece of straight wire into a hook so that they could retrieve a retrieve a bucket laden with food from the bottom of the vertical well.
Qyn
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 2:25pmTimmeh
Tue, 05/26/2009 - 8:34pmily chris
Crazy Rambles
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 12:10amChris will never rest until the crow pet is his!
John
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 1:37amCorvids are pretty notorious cannibals- they eat the young of other, smaller birds. Don't know if that has any pertinence to this topic. Also not sure if cannibal is the right word. Specieble?
Vasya
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 11:24amIt's sort of like humans eat the young of other, smaller mammals. I think that's just carnivores.
John
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 12:29pmYeah, okay.
Timmeh
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 9:25pmYeah I don't think eating babies is really that rare. Their fault for being delicious! Mmm.
For your consideration: Smart animals tend to be bigger on things like bullying/murder for the hell of it and wacky sexual behavior, and these birds don't seem to be into that. Woo!?
Vasya
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 9:38pmMaybe we just don't know how sexually deviant rooks are yet.
Qyn
Thu, 05/28/2009 - 6:30amThe report failed to cover the 'other tools' that they created in certain situations.
Timmeh
Sat, 05/30/2009 - 4:03am<__ Also, Qyn, can you fix the painful-looking title of this thread, as you have done oft before? Or Brambles, whoever gets around to it first.
Vasya
Sat, 05/30/2009 - 8:42amWhat's wrong with it?
Narrative
Sat, 05/30/2009 - 9:37amMmmm, delicious babies. No wonder I've such a fondness for corvids. They know good food. Babies. Eyeballs. ;)
Crazy Rambles
Sat, 05/30/2009 - 11:30am^.^;
Sorry. My fingers can't keep up with my mind, and then I sometimes forget to grammar check.