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The Crow and the Pitcher more than fable?
The Crow and the Pitcher, originally uploaded by AnnaleeBlysse.
Scientists believe the fable of the crow and the pitcher might have been fairly accurate given the new research showing rooks using rocks to raise the level of water where a worm resided… to bring the worm up to their level.1
They are such incredibly intelligent birds. The [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2010 under Aesop, corvid, corvid brain, Corvid Cognition, Corvidae, Corvidae Family, Corvids, Crow, crows, Crows in literature, Fables, feeding, folklore, Food, intelligence, Literature, lore, research, Rook, Tool Use.
Tags: Aesop's fable, crow and the pitcher, crow intelligence, fluid mechanics, intelligence, the crow and the pitcher, Tool Use
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Rooks and tools
Researchers in the Britain may have stumbled upon something interesting about rooks that Aesop observed some two-thousand-five-hundred years before. Rooks use different size stones to raise water levels in a tube that contains a worm. Is this really a recent ‘discovery’…read Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher:
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Aesop, Corvidae, Corvids, Corvus Frugilegus, intelligence, research, Rook, Tool Use, video.
Tags: Aesop, Aesop's fable, britain, corvid fable, corvid myth, corvid story, fables, pebbles, research, rook myth, rook story, stones, the crow and the pitcher, the pitcher and the crow, Tool Use, tool use and crows, tool-use and birds, tool-use and rooks, water level, worm
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The Validity of the Crow Vending Machine
The validity of the Crow Vending Machine has been put into question because of misinformation given to reporters. Josh Klein never worked with Binghamton University like he claimed but the newspaper didn’t catch it. John Klein says it was a misunderstanding. Who knows what the truth is? I would like to see the experiment repeated [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2009 under American Crow, Corvidae, Corvids, Crow, Crow vending machine, crows, Crows and Birdfeeders, intelligence, New York Times, research, vending machine.
Tags: Crow vending machine, Josh Klein, vending machines for crows
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