Watch the crows learn to throw a bunch of cigarette butts in a pile on the street from a trash can in order to get more food.
Too bad cigarette butts don’t look like French fries. If they just coated cig butts in powdered cheese, every bird, not just crows, would be out scooping them up.
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I’ve been watching a pair of large ravens for 10 years. They are incredibly intelligent. They seem to be the leaders of all the ravens in the area. I could go on for hours on the things I’ve seen them do.
What a waste.
Now this is what I would train birds for.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHlb6ukdek
Just a couple of years ago, researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone’s relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.
However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird’s beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.
MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.
The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger.
The scientific conclusion was that while all the lookout crows in the Boston area could say “Cah”, none could say “Truck.”
But I’d be done seen ‘bout everything, when I see a cigarette butt fly.
Better to train crows to attack people who throw out cigarette butts…
Fable the Raven. This bird is funny and smart.
https://youtu.be/2d3dOam9Hg4
If the people who smoke were intelligent enough to be trained not to throw down cigarette butts the crows could be doing more important task.
“one billion cigarette butts are dropped on Sweden’s streets each year”
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NFN, but who died and made smokers king?
How hard is it to ensure that one does not by one’s lifestyle thoughtlessly add to the total quantity of trash left behind in the public streets?
Are cigarette butts like wild broncos, impossible to contain or corrall, once they are created?
Is it a fact that all the world is an ashtray and non-smokers just missed the memo?
Okay, dismounting holier-than-thou soapbox now.
Still disgusted though.
I once saw a crow that was a recycling crow
He talked too...”recycle, recycle!”.
Cans, paper, plastic, glass.
Couldn’t pick up a beer bottle though.
As soon as the crows learn that a stick or pebble dropped into the bin returns the same result as a cigarette butt it’s game over.
Hmmm, with all the environmental actions I find it interesting the tobacco hasn’t been banned or at the very least, cigarette filters.
Cigarette filters are unsightly, aren’t that biodegradable, werent developed until around the later 40s... cigarette trash would be literally nonexistent without filter material laying about.