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[Cobstopper]

You know it.

 

[Frankthetank]

There has been some excellent research on crows recognizing people, they not only do it, they teach their kids to recognize "bad" peeps even though the youngsters never have a chance to see the bad behaviour. I can't recall the details of the work, but it was a serious multi year study on one of the US university campuses, and I think the learning demonstrated was passed on for at least two generations without further bad interactions with the individual who originally scared the crows.

Some of the research done on Indonesian crows demonstrates abilities that I find damn near unbelievable. They can plan complicated multiple step retrieval of foods by just looking at the problem, figuring it out, and only then undertaking the correct sequence of moves to get the grub, including for example immediate recognition and use of the only tool in the environment which would allow the food to be retrieved.

In one of the sequences the food was hung on a piece of string from the birds perch. The bird had never seen the puzzle or anything like it before. After casing the situation for several seconds, the bird hopped onto the perch, grabbed the string and lifted it, pinned it with its foot, and repeated this until the food was lifted all the way (it was a long string). Many of the other puzzles were even more difficult, and most were solved in one go. As birds go, the crow family is up there in the genius department.

I think there was a study involving researchers wearing masks so they wouldn’t be recognized…. And the crows figured out what car was this one particular guys, followed him until he got out, saw who he was…. And told all their friends who he was….and he got antagonized for years

 

[Frankthetank]

@iWumbo

Wait a fucking minute! So, you’re telling me that adult circumcision was fine for your new religion……but you reject the idea of not eating pork products (ie: the lard in your tortillas)…. Maybe you should have taken that punk rock attitude the day Dr. Richard Cutter showed up to nip your tip

 

[Frankthetank]

 

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[Cobstopper]

Also a band way back when.

 

[PinkyNotTheBrain]

Awww shiiiit

 

[Frankthetank]

 

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