Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows

So we know that there's lots 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.

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

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.

He was accused of murder.

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

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

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

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

The police accused him of murder.

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.

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

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

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Calvin Washington was convicted of capital murder.

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He avenged the murder of his father.

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You shall not murder.

He witnessed the murder.

You shall not murder.

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

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

He confessed to the murder.

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.

Most of it's about murder, corruption, diseases, natural disasters.

The man is wanted for murder.

What's his motive for committing murder?

You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder ' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder ' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

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