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Crow shows she's no bird-brain
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| 8/9/02
Posted on 08/12/2002 4:06:00 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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posted on
08/12/2002 4:06:00 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Jack-A-Roe
But Betty's older male lab-mate Abel had a more direct route of securing his meals -- he would snatch the wire or steal the food from Betty. He was not tested to see if he could bend the wire. Betty is a Republican. Abel is a Democrat. Clear enough?
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posted on
08/12/2002 4:08:37 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: Jack-A-Roe
Pretty cool!
"What is more, she didn't do it the same way each time..."
Wow! She's already shown that she's smarter than Gore.
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posted on
08/12/2002 4:09:19 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: ikka
LOL....perfectly.
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posted on
08/12/2002 4:10:23 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Bigg Red
Wow! She's already shown that she's smarter than Gore.ROFL!
To: Jack-A-Roe
Flipper returns. Betty can be his tool-making side kick.
To: Jack-A-Roe
She was able to repeat the skill nine times out of 10, using more than one technique.I wonder what happened the one time out of ten? Why would she not repeat the skill that tenth time? Maybe she wasn't hungry?
To: Jack-A-Roe
Not even chimpanzees, our closest cousins, have this ability. Save the crow, eat the chimp.
To: Jack-A-Roe
I don't believe it. Seriously, I really don't believe it.
To: ikka
Betty is a Republican. Abel is a Democrat. Clear enough? ROTFL! Thats too funny, and true too I bet. In their next study, Betty was able to succesfully poke a hole clear through a butterfy ballot without getting confused. More evidence!
To: Jack-A-Roe
Aren't parrots supposed to be very smart too?
To: Jack-A-Roe
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posted on
08/12/2002 4:59:28 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
I do. THose crows are smart. I've seen them immitating my dog(vocally) just to p. off the dog to amuse themselves. THen when the dog gets tired of a crow that pretends to bark, the crows steel her dogfood from her bowl just to get her to chase them. My poor dog hates those crows and there's nothing she can do to get them back.
To: aristeides
African greys are
To: mamelukesabre
LOL! Never bet FR against a crow.
To: mamelukesabre
You bet, crows are very intelligent.
To: Jack-A-Roe
The feat, it is said, makes her the first animal other than a human that has shown a clear understanding of cause and effect, and fashioned a tool for a specific task using new materials not encountered in the wild.
Smart birds is old news.
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To: mamelukesabre
But what would Betty's wind velocity be, if she was coconut laden?
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Believe it.
On the long documentary series about birds, a crow is shown fashioning twigs to hook and also poke out grubs from holes in a log. In Japan, crows are filmed carrying nuts to a light pole over a road, dropping them onto the crosswalk, then picking up the meat - during the flashing "Walk" sign of course - after the cars have cracked the nuts open.
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posted on
08/12/2002 5:41:52 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: D-fendr
Well, I guess I will just have to eat crow.
Seriously, many people wouldn't be able to figure out that trick with the nuts...
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