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Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows

http://www.ted.com Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up...  
 
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luiscabesc (1 month ago) Show Hide
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That vending machine has a very naughty potential. Just start charging them $100 for a peanut.
theMaxyy (1 month ago) Show Hide
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thats incredible :o
nzer48 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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We in New Zealand dont have crows but we do have magpie's......same thing?
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cursingyorick: I agree! I knew crows (and corvids in general) were crafty and intelligent, but Joshua Klein's vending machine is amazing--and he raises an excellent point.

If we CAN teach wild crows, maybe we can teach them not to cause us trouble (crows destroy telecom lines for nesting material, ruin crops, and eat songbird eggs/nestlings).

Since they're multiplying exponentially, I think laws should be changed to allow them to be kept as pets, too. It'd be better than culling them.
bigdirtystefan (2 months ago) Show Hide
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this man is my hero.
crows are one of my favorite animals!
RabbitSpades (2 months ago) Show Hide
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this is why whenever I hear a crow kawing down at me from a tree i don't hesistate to yell profanities back up at it
Xaskus (2 months ago) Show Hide
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I think there would be a war between bums and crows to put garbage in the cans then.
031doolittle (3 months ago) Show Hide
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i like the guy  and his affection to crows)
powergirl07 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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More evidence to prove than animals are not stupid.
Did you know that they can understand human tones? There was a pigon in the bank and everyone was yelling at it and I spoke to it calmly and though it was still terrified, it definatly calmed down a bit and let my carry it outside.

Okay, I think I may have decided to write a Watership Down style story about crows.
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Forget collecting trash. We can try to train those dumb bankers to do that.
Put the crows on Wall Street

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