The_MattJones
A Murder Scene
In a recent study, a New Calcedonian crow repeatedly fashioned a hook from a piece of wire in order to retrieve a basket of food from a tube. "In addition to the tools they are normally seen to use in the wild, they are capable of making new instruments when the necessity arises..."
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060606-crows.html
Crows are eerily intelligent. A large murder has infested the dead field by my house, and has done an amazing job at thwarting and evading my attempts to photograph them. Although totally heedless of the average pedestrian, they would eye me suspiciously the moment they noticed that I was lingering around instead of passing by. On two different occasions, raising and aiming my camera at them elicited a general alarm, sending all 30-40 crows to the trees and telephone poles in a cacophony of caws. I believe that they identified the posture I took as that of somebody holding a rifle of some sort. When I kept crouched and kept my arms and elbows close to my body, they didn't mind in the least so long as I kept my distance.
A Murder Scene
In a recent study, a New Calcedonian crow repeatedly fashioned a hook from a piece of wire in order to retrieve a basket of food from a tube. "In addition to the tools they are normally seen to use in the wild, they are capable of making new instruments when the necessity arises..."
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060606-crows.html
Crows are eerily intelligent. A large murder has infested the dead field by my house, and has done an amazing job at thwarting and evading my attempts to photograph them. Although totally heedless of the average pedestrian, they would eye me suspiciously the moment they noticed that I was lingering around instead of passing by. On two different occasions, raising and aiming my camera at them elicited a general alarm, sending all 30-40 crows to the trees and telephone poles in a cacophony of caws. I believe that they identified the posture I took as that of somebody holding a rifle of some sort. When I kept crouched and kept my arms and elbows close to my body, they didn't mind in the least so long as I kept my distance.