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And crows and other corvidae, ravens, rooks and so forth, are incredibly smart birds.
So childhood is the reason why the crows end up on the cover of Science and the chickens end up in the soup pot.
Other creatures, like the crows, aren't very good at doing anything in particular, but they're extremely good at learning about laws of different environments.
And of course, we human beings are way out on the end of the distribution like the crows.
No crows are brought up.
And he asked that particular person, what do crows and fish have in common?
They reveal a beautiful range of colors: glossy, dark plumage, reminiscent of crows, alternating strips of black and white, or splashes of bright red.
So this is a vending machine for crows.
We were sitting there, and he was complaining about the crows that were all over his yard and making a big mess.
And I'm talking specifically about synanthropic species, which have adapted specifically for human ecologies, species like rats and cockroaches and crows.
But the story of the vending machine is a little more interesting if you know more about crows.
It turns out, crows aren't just surviving with human beings; they're actually thriving.
And these crows use sticks in the wild to get insects and whatnot out of pieces of wood.
It turns out, we've been finding more and more that crows are really intelligent.
For example, in Sweden, crows will wait for fishermen to drop lines through holes in the ice.
And when the fishermen move off, the crows fly down, reel up the lines, and eat the fish or the bait.
On an entirely different tack, at University of Washington a few years ago, they were doing an experiment where they captured some crows on campus.
Some students went out, netted some crows, brought them in, weighed and measured them, and let them back out again.
And they were entertained to discover that for the rest of the week, whenever these particular students walked around campus, these crows would caw at them and run around, and make their life kind of miserable.
So, the moral being: don't piss off crows.
So now, students at the University of Washington that are studying these crows, do so with a giant wig and a big mask.
So we know these crows are really smart, but the more I dug into this, the more I found that they actually have an even more significant adaptation.
Video: Crows have become highly skilled at making a living in these new urban environments.
What's significant about this isn't that crows are using cars to crack nuts.
In fact, that's old hat for crows.
And since that time, all the crows in the neighborhood are picking up this behavior.
So we know that there's lots of crows.
Basically, what happens is that we put this out in a field or someplace where there's lots of crows.
So when they get really used to that, we move on to the crows coming back.
The crows learn that all they have to do is show up, wait for the coin to come out, put it in the slot, then get their peanut.
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