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Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows

We're seeing a population boom with crows.

In fact, that's old hat for crows.

This is a vending machine for crows.

These are not ravens these are crows.

So, this is a vending machine for crows.

So the moral being, don't piss off crows.

So we know that there's lots of crows.

I think that crows can be trained to do other things.

And this is where we see the difference between crows and other animals.

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And crows and other corvidae, ravens, rooks and so forth, are incredibly smart birds.

So, I spent the next 10 years reading about crows in my spare time.

So what's significant about this isn't that crows are using cars to crack nuts.

Crows, on the other hand, show up, and they try and figure it out.

It turns out that crows aren't just surviving with human beings they're actually really thriving.

Video Crows have become highly skilled at making a living in these new urban environments.

And were entertained to discover that for the rest of the week, these crows, whenever these particular students walked around campus, these crows would caw at them, and run around and make their life kind of miserable.

So, it turns out we've been finding more and more that crows are really, really intelligent.

And since that time, all of the crows in the neighborhood are picking up this behavior.

So, when they get really used to that, we move on to the crows coming back.

For example, in Sweden, crows will wait for fishermen to drop lines through holes in the ice.

And crows eventually come by, and eat the peanuts and get used to the machine being there.

So, what's significant about this to me isn't that we can train crows to pick up peanuts.

And of course, we human beings are way out on the end of the distribution like the crows.

But the story of the vending machine is a little more interesting if you know more about crows.

And these crows use sticks in the wild to get insects and whatnot out of pieces of wood.

At the end the windows close, a cock crows and the tower bells start to strike the hour.

And when the fishermen move off, the crows fly down, reel up the lines, and eat the fish or the bait.

In all four gospels, Jesus predicts that Peter will deny knowledge of him three times before the rooster crows the next morning.

So now, students at the University of Washington that are studying these crows do so with a giant wig and a big mask.

So childhood is the reason why the crows end up on the cover of Science and the chickens end up in the soup pot.

Other creatures, like the crows, aren't very good at doing anything in particular, but they're extremely good at learning about laws of different environments.

And I'm talking specifically about synanthropic species, which are species that have adapted specifically for human ecologies, species like rats and cockroaches and crows.

Mind you, there's 216 million dollars' worth of change lost every year, but I'm not sure I can depend on that ROI from crows.

On an entirely different tack, at University of Washington, they, a few years ago, were doing an experiment where they captured some crows on campus.

Until they finally graduated and left campus, and glad to get away, I'm sure came back sometime later, and found the crows still remembered them.

Some students went out and netted some crows, brought them in, and were weighed them, and measured them and whatnot, and then let them back out again.

So we know that these crows are really smart, but the more I dug into this, the more I found that they actually have an even more significant adaptation.

The crows learn that all they have to do is show up, wait for the coin to come out, put the coin in the slot, and then they get their peanut.

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Basically, what happens is that we put this out in a field, or someplace where there's lots of crows, and we put coins and peanuts all around the base of the machine.

Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.

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