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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

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 so we made the game, and it has since evolved to a four foot by four foot by four foot Plexiglass structure.

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.

My foot hurts.

It's the ultimate distributed foot its whole body in this case is acting like its foot.

It looks like this buoys that float on the water, project three foot up, three foot down.

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

Jesus said to him, Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.

Jesus said to him, Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.

I was alone on foot.

I will go on foot.

You can do another experiment where you can take a cockroach with a foot, and you can remove its foot.

Your eyes shall not pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Your eyes shall not pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Oh! That was my foot there!

I'm six foot one, and fat.

Tom goes to school on foot.

He goes to school on foot.