Incredible, no? The presenter, by the way, is Chris Packham, who seems to be pulling into lead position as heir apparent to Attenborough. Chris -- a local lad, and a graduate of Southampton University -- is a genuine and well-informed wildlife enthusiast, who first made his name as the punk-haired presenter of The Really Wild Show.
He is also a keen photographer, and... But now I realise I'm repeating myself -- I've already written this post, two years ago!
[UPDATE: Ah... Actually, it seems in this version Packham is not the presenter! Never mind, it's the crow we care about!]
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Was it Beeheart who used to say, "Watch out for them dolphins"? Dolphins got nutt'n on them crows.
I've heard of another experiment where a crow works out that the way to bring water in a deep bowl to within beak-reach is to drop stones in till the water level rises sufficiently. There's probably a video of it out there somewhere...
Mind you, there is a limit to corvine talents:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhS35f015SQ
Ah, well, ravens... Like all aristocrats, they depend on crows to do the heavy lifting... (and thinking).
Mike
Video on the Hat! Amazing!
Kent,
I know! I'm normally pretty scrupulous about only using my own stuff, but somehow the BBC feels like it belongs to everyone...
Mike
I remember some doofus did a TED talk based on some gadget he had built to train crows to gather some sort of litter or maybe coins?
I remember thinking 'TED invited him to talk on that? But it could not possibly have failed, it's obvious it'll work.' and I'm not even a crow enthusiast.
That was when I realized that TED is a bunch of gee whiz crap selected by dolts.
Funny how TED has gone from hyper-hip to beneath contempt in about two years... I think they ran out of A-list guests, like a chat-show.
As to crows picking up litter, the great thing about them is they'll tackle anything, from litter-picking to brain surgery, so long as there's a decent snack at the end.
Mike
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