First, you have to be smarter than the birds you are studying......................
First, you have to be smarter than the birds you are studying......................
Heckle and Jekyl
Clearly they need a smaller device.
This story has everything. Birds, flight, microelectronics, altruistic animal behavior.
It reminds me of when a tracking device was put on a humpback whale. The first thing the video device showed was the whale pack communicating with each other and one by one, the whales looking at the device trying to remove it.
I suggest that they mandate that all magpies must be jabbed with an experimental substance which contains a tracking chip. Preferably one which can link to a 5G network.
Magpies can see what’s happening.
They didn’t want to end up in some Aussie covid concentration camp.
I’ve observed a bunch of videos (you’re great, internet!) over time of wild animals maybe not helping each other but knowing that humans will help them if they’re in trouble. One involved a bunch of fishermen helping a beluga whale that had some type of harness on it. They used a giant grappler to cut the harness away and the whale was like “Thanks, guys!” and swam off.
A documentary I watched once upon a time said naturalists would sometimes find evidence of a wolf being injured at a kill and so the other wolves would bring it food while it was recuperating. Their evidence seemed pretty sound, but I wondered about it because wolves aren’t usually that nice to each other. We tend to believe media a lot, so not sure if I trust that.
Animals, especially birds, are more likely to persecute a member of the gang who has something odd about him/her, so this is interesting in that regard.
The genus Corvus, including the jackdaws, crows, rooks, and ravens.
Corvids display remarkable intelligence for animals of their size and are among the most intelligent birds thus far studied. Specifically, members of the family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (European magpies) and tool-making ability (e.g., crows and rooks) skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other higher mammals. Their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to that of non-human great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than that of humans.
The genus Corvus, including the jackdaws, crows, rooks, and ravens.
Corvids display remarkable intelligence for animals of their size and are among the most intelligent birds thus far studied. Specifically, members of the family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (European magpies) and tool-making ability (e.g., crows and rooks) skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other higher mammals. Their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to that of non-human great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than that of humans.
Isn’t this how that Hitchcock movie started?
Ha! Magpies are a form of Crows. Don’t mess with Crows. They are smart. And evil. Spawns of Satan.
These little birds are much smarter than most Americans -the birds don’t allow themselves to be traced, traced, experimented on, taxed, regulated, controlled, or killed by “superior species” (sic)
Ruined it.
Magpies are conservative and don’t want the government tracking them everywhere. Who knew?
I’m going to look at magpies with newfound respect.
Interesting
I for one look forward to our new magpie overlords.
Seriously could they be any worse?
How many people have to work an extra week a year to pay for this?
Total BS. Lost much credibility with the line designed to keep government grants rolling in.
These birds are smarter than 90% of humans.
