NPR Science: The Crow Paradox

[llgla]

I would love to see a crow turn upside down mid flight in real life. I wouldn't do anything to make them hate me though.

[H4NN1B41]

see "A murder of crows"



[mrcrisp24k]

Paradox? No.

All credit to the crow paradox goes out the window now.

[moharishi]

That was amazingly insightful, nice food for thought.

[crackedcookies]

look up definition of paradox. does not apply

[Ericclapton24000]

Quails have issues with Dick Chaney! LOL As do humans!

[CiceroHill]

What if you shave or get a haircut? Can they still recognize you?

[daniyellowjello]

Should be the crow theory

[Orenotter]

How is that a paradox?

[Necromas]

I kind of want to tag a bunch of crows with a justin beiber mask on and then release them at one of his concerts.

[SirDude456]

ceci n'est pas une paradoxe 

[CyaelDobson]

So um...since we cant recognize crows individualy (outside of the one they made a movie about) are they better than us :l

[IgnoranceAlliance]

@CyaelDobson yes.

[scottGod4u]

an ai would explod if it saw this

[springdom]

more like a dumb paradox

[kendambu]

where is the paradox?

[gamesbok]

Strikes me that crows see the mask as a 'tagging badge' and not a face at all. I think more work needs to be done.

[Zareste]

dumbass

[darksidehero]

amazing, crows also have the ability to use tools

[Pyronaut]

"Crow" is just code lingo for "black person".

[TT99976]

Uh... that's not a paradox!

[eleeses]

he just recognized the one who make feel afraid... obviously,, who can forget people who makes you feel afraid?...no one!

[1GXG]

PARADOX: any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.

CONTRADICTION: a statement or proposition that contradicts or denies another or itself and is logically incongruous.

1]The assertion is that crows DO NOT RECOGNISE HUMAN FACES , but identify us individually through other ways.

2]This experiment proves that not only do crows recognise faces but associate that face with a good or bad experience !

[RapidEyesCream]

This isn't a paradox, as many people have already pointed out. Someone care to explain?

[rippemies]

Soooo... What's the paradox?

[YouCanCallMeCharlz]

I ran into a crow a couple weeks ago I hadn't seen in years. Good thing he recognized me or I might never have gotten the chance to catch up with him....

[MrSkullface]

Pictures or it didn't happen!

[gamegod9000]

So thats why so many Crows attacked me in Mother 1... T_T

[iamviewingurvideos]

This is a paradox; but it probably isn't the usual literature paradox you're use to.

[blueskiesmev]

@iamviewingurvideos what type of paradox is it?

[mmaaxx1198]

Stupid crows, Dick Cheney is satan!!!

[lsisoccer5]

@mmaaxx1198 wow says a loser who has his/her head stuck up their ass, go suck obamas dick already why don u

[mmaaxx1198]

@lsisoccer5 Only a faggot stuck in the left right paradigm would say something like that, guess what, I hate both parties, because both parties are in fact the same party, but by far Cheney is an evil evil man, ive met him, im not talking out of my ass.

[lsisoccer5]

@mmaaxx1198 oh yea hes realll evil, how so moron, and no they arent the same party, albeit they both do suck nowadays

[NizzBomb69]

If I was a crow and I saw dick Chaney, I'd take a shit on him.

[lsisoccer5]

@NizzBomb69 way to mispell his name copernicus

[tachimegun]

umm, sorry, what's so paradox about this? :p

[shoshanish]

you know there original meaning of paradox is something impossible or something that doesnt make sense.

[TheDedRedHed]

Lmao, crow thinking pose For the fucking win!

[marvin666777]

i have to go poop

[magicbuskey]

People's faces are large compared to a crow's face. Try recognizing those tiny faces sometime.

[randomlaughingman]

any animals can recognise specific people and any other type of energy they can avoid or go towards or ignore. obviously yes, some are more aware of things at similar levels of consciousness as people - hence why there are people that notice it moreso than with some other animals, and how they can devise ways to test it. some birds for example, all they want is to avoid possible damage so it suffices to merely fly off in event of a noise or sudden movement etc.

[The3rdPlateau]

But it isn't a paradox...? It's just a biological phenomenon...no paradox here

[HotForCooking]

Crows and Ravens are amazing. Use the search box above and type "Tool-Making Crows" or "Crow Using Tools" . Crows are very honorable. They always help each other and stick together. That's why they attacked the caveman mask. I think some people could learn a lot from crows.

[Angelgun2621]

This video presents a true paradox. My previous statement is false. Exactly one of these statements is true.

[josephl123]

paradox, this is not.

[1CravenMorehead]

Cannot find the paradox connection here?

[1CravenMorehead]

par·a·dox /ˈpærəˌdɒks/ Show Spelled[par-uh-doks] Show IPA

noun

1.

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

2.

a self-contradictory and false proposition.

3.

any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.

4.

an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.

[jnthnbush]

@1CravenMorehead good job, all of those people screaming, "it's not a paradox". But, I'd rather just say to them, "your mom is not a paradox"

[AdeptSix]

Really NPR? For tens of thousands of years crows have had to worry about being shot by humans?

[jingeshan24]

its all interesting and cool but its not a paradox....

[RLeehigga34]

coool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shepardskinsoup]

We can. And we can disinguish white people's faces when they commit crimes too.

[pd68333]

clearly not a paradox... disappointing because it was, in fact, interesting. That is until all legitimacy was extinguished by misuse of such a common term. Oh well.

[ralphwiggum1414]

someone else should probably point out the fact that its not a paradox..

[PopePea]

umm.. not a paradox. still interesting though

[happyfingers69]

All very clever and interesting until he said it was a paradox.

[AlexPleaseHelpDotCom]

That doesn't sound like a paradox at all. Just sounds curious. Interesting, but not a paradox.

[intindse]

this is not a paradox

[jnthnbush]

@intindse yes, your comment IS not a paradox, but your mom is! Zing!

[kionay]

@intindse The American Heritage Dictionary describes a paradox as a contridictory term in 3 of it's definitions. However, it can also be defined as "A statement contrary to received opinion." If the received opinion is that crows do not recognize humans by their facial features, or if it is anything other than that, it is a paradox.

[gestrosystem]

@intindse the paradox is this is not a paradox but they call it a paradox. ... PARADOX!

[determinist48]

The paradox part is that they didn't know they should have been scared of Chaney too. But then again, most of the country didn't either until it was too late.

[lsisoccer5]

@determinist48 if ur scared of that man ur a pussey

[dolofonos]

@determinist48 That would be _irony_, not _paradox_.

[92359hg]

@determinist48 good for you - if quails could master facial recognition Cheney would be dead ..... at that canned hunt reserve where he missed half the quail and hit his friend and near killed him .... he had the nerve to announce on a television interview afterward that he was quote "a seasoned hunter" sauced was more like it - the moron

[MrHelios77]

@determinist48 lmao

[bhuntin7061]

should be re-named "the crowing effect"

[Creocsial]

No paradox here...

[purplestain69]

this is not a paradox.

[BrokenFish]

agreed that was gona be my comment

[llgante]

the paradox is that we played the video to know about the paradox where there is no paradox.

[Tokechan]

The full length documentary on this was pretty sweet.

[DannyAces]

What is the paradox part?

[m3n3t3k3l]

Exactly. This doesn't fit the definition of paradox. Stupid NPR.

[gigglesmurf]

um.... quite possibly because its easier to tell humans apart then crows???

[RuudJH]

lol crows flying upside down.

[jama463]

How is this a paradox?

[MothsAndMosquitoes]

How is it a paradox?

[Eralen00]

it isnt

[Hidious10]

Crows can also recognize and tell apart different cats as i have witnessed.

[twizelby]

WHAT thats crazy

[EyeLean5280]

Crows are especially intelligent birds. I wonder if other breeds have such sophisticated abilities of recognition? It would be interesting to study - after all, we feed/shoot all kinds of birds, not just crows.

[jama463]

@EyeLean5280:

species, not breeds.

[EyeLean5280]

Right! Thanks!

[PrivateSlacker]

Maybe the crows don't like bushy eyebrows or beards.

[ilm444]

So, crows can recog. our faces, but I want to know by how much or by what face feature is most particular to them.

What happen if the caveman-mask person wears a hat or wears a caveman-mask that has a different hair color?

[superpridefighter]

I like crows. Perhaps the paradox is that paradoxically speaking any paradox is para dox.

[brukins]

Halloween Mask=Crow Bait

[MattyMatt761]

A paradox is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation that defies intuition. How is a crows ability to recognize human faces but our inability to recognize their faces a paradox? Is it also a paradox that they can fly and we can't?

[WatcherThePunk]

That's not much of a paradox. It's just an asymmetry.

[shsdebate1]

I love these videos. I wish more teachers would show stuff like this in high school. Maybe kids would actually like science then.

[voyeurdug]

We recognize crows by their feet.