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Josh Blunt's avatar

"O say can you see?" Made me laugh, Mike.

I didn't know crows have it in them to forgive. But I don't doubt it. I'm sure you know more about crows than I. In any case, I once read an article about crows' intelligence that blew my mind. You may know of it already, but I'll share:

An experiment was done to see if crows had the intelligence to use tools. (I believe it was at one time decided that intelligence in human beings was indicated when we started using rocks to break open shells... or something like that.) Anyway, the experiment went like this:

Meat was placed under a grate, out of reach of crows. A few pieces of wire were placed near the grate. Scientists wanted to know if the crows would be smart enough to use the wires to try and hook out the food. Lo and behold, they did try. But, when the meat repeatedly got knocked off the end of the wire as it was being pulled through the grate, the crows became frustrated, and took a different approach. They actually BENT the end of the wire so the meat would not fall off, and were able to hook the meat from under the grate. In other words, they not only USED tools, they actually MADE one! Astounding!

Anyway, thought I would share. Thanks for the article.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

"suspiciously fingering Hunter". LOL, LOL, LOL.

Okay, calm down Dave.

The pic of crows is wonderful. How was the garbage can dumped out? Raccoons? I have that problem here. Just last night one got up on my back porch and took apart the hummingbird feeder. Luckily, I was able to clean and reassemble it. The hummers are back eating.

I LOVE crows. Be sure to tell them that, I value my wipers.

By the way, I have never done coke, so was unfamiliar with the terms bandied about, like "bump".

I did however do blotter acid ONE time in 1972.

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