UW is finally ending the caveman mask crow study after 16 years, which is apparently about the time it takes for the cultural memory of the caveman mask to fade out of local crow society 🥺 “It just doesn’t pay to keep scolding this [caveman] guy,” Marzluff said. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
Researchers have made startling discoveries in recent years about a crow’s ability to communicate, solve problems, remember people, and use tools. What they’re discovering about crow brains is changin...
No, they are really not "challenging what we know about evolution".
I've been following the caveman study for a while. It's fascinating.
Crows in the Grand Canyon learned to open backpack zippers decades ago.
even crows are like "ugh i'm tired"
I’m reading a book right now about a Seattle crow who is shockingly smart as he watches a zombie apocalypse overtake humanity. It’s called Hollow Kingdom. P good!
I love the bit in this story about how the Seattle-area crows are in the process of moving their roost southeast to Redmond. (Thanks Doug Wacker!) I've noticed that they now head directly east across Lake Washington from N. Seattle, rather than north toward Bothell. I'd wondered what was going on.
Hope I’m around to read the headlines the day we figure out consciousness ain’t unique to humans.
It's a shame they're sunsetting it. So the original crows are dead, but how long will others continue doing something just because their forecrows did it? Do crows have institutional memory? Do they form traditions?