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- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+80Early bird gets the 6 o'clock rush hour.
- dan2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72If you like that, check this one out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IntRMVukrX0
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59The funniest part is, if I was given the task to open that shell, I would NEVER think of doing that.
And that's the truth. - wedges, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54jesus christ, they wait for the traffic light? that's pretty incredible.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46 Haven't you heard? Education is rapidly declining, even the crows are stupider.
- super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36even the birds are smarter in japan
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Well, the crow can probably think of better ways, it just can't get a good grip on the hammer.
- DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I saw a similar documentry on Japanese crows that would pick change up from donation boxes at local temples and carry them to a near-by park where they would randomly deposit coins into the vending machine for pigeon food. The crows would then eat the pigeon food that came out the bottom. Quite clever.
Same documentry showed crows placing nuts on train tracks to open them, interestingly they showed that crows from urban areas of Japan were smarter then those from the country side since there were more intellectual obstacles and less opportunities for natural sources of food. - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33You think birds operating vending machines is "quite clever"? That's ***** amazing, man! Jesus Christ, get the name of that documentary for us so we can all see that! :o
- nazsco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32no, they wait for the green light on the crossing
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32gd007 - How does it feel to be outsmarted by a crow?
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I always thought the birds diving in front of my car were stupid. Maybe they're smarter than I thought!
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Here's a video of a crow making a tool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmLVP0HvDg - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Nah, they're too fat like the rest of us.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Do american Crows do this? ;)
- Jowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Something that I find even more ingenious, is how I have seen crows throw nuts into a heavy-traffic area, and trick squirrels to go after them. The squirrels get ran over, and the crows have something bigger than a nut to eat.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Don't like gobbling nuts off of asphalt, maybe?
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20clever girl...
- MetricLobster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20That was cool also
but a sad day when humans have penetrated so far into the jungles and forests of the world that the animals start to sound like car alarms .... *shrug* oh well... time to play some bad music... lets see if we can get these birds yellin for there bitches and hoes... - spikeyone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16or maybe they aren't paying so much attention to the light, but to the cars stopping and the people walking
- applemaggot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The gals at my office have taken to feeding peanuts to the squirrel's that scurry about outside. The crows have developed 3 techniques to get fed too. One, they just wait for the squirrel to run off with a peanut, and then they swoop down and help themselves to the pile, easy enough. Two, they harass the squirrel into dropping the peanut by dive bombing, etc. Third, they watch the squirrel go off and bury the peanut, then they dive down and dig it back up immediately after the squirrel scurries back for more. This is the one I don't think the squirrel's are aware of.
- MikeEnIke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Wow, it bent the little rod and all. That was amazing. That is the basic beginning of human intelligence. Just wait until they learn to pick locks and sell your computer parts individually.
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Only in Japan could crows be this smart.
- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That bird and the beat boxing parrot from this morning would be quite the duo.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9you guys have never heard of lyrebirds?
everyone knows that they make all sorts fo wiered sounds like chainsaws
(upon looking it up it seems only australians would know this because its an australian bird, its on one of our coins) - igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12O
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A bird that makes chainsaw noises...
where can i get one? - akashra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I wish I could provide a link to it, but in Attenborough's latest documentary, it showed a heap of birds which clean and scrub their living/calling areas to try to attract females.
The coolest bit they showed though was one bird which would would expand its feathers (much like a peacock does to scare others away, except with the reverse effect), and jumps around in front of the female. When it comes around and you see it from in front, the thing has this massive blue smiley face imprinted amongst the black feathers - it was the coolest thing I've seen in ages.
If anyone knows of a link to this vid on YouTube, they should post it, it's a great clip :) - thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That's nuts...no pun intended. I always heard crows were one of the smartest birds and i think this is a pretty good support of that.
- Kypt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Meh what's the point of showing off your novel price when the winners have mostly been "imported". In my university's CSCI department most of the people that teach are all immigrants, as well as pretty much about 70% of Computer/Electronic Engineering. Middle eastern and european descent most of all. I give it to them they're incredibly smart, and that they are now citizens, yet it wasn't the "American" culture that made it that way.
Something to think about - LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7God, I love crows. Amazingly smart birds.
- CollegeRuled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Petty Nobel Prize?! Sounds like somebody needs to go back to school.
- mikedpirone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7When I was in Long Island, NY there were birds that would grab muscles and clams then they would fly up real high and drop them on the rocks below to crack open the shells. Guess birds are smarter than most people give them credit for.
- STKD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I for one welcome our new avian overlords.
Wait... this isn't slashdot? :( - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've seen birds at an indoor cafeteria at Stanford University that came in and out through automatic doors. The doors opened very briefly when people approached. Tha amazing thing was that the birds would wait high up on these metal beams, and to fly through the door as it opened they would have to start their swoop down well before the door opened, as someone was approaching the door. The timing was incredible.
- humanaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Aussie magpies are fairly smart. They seem to understand the road rules - when a car is hurtling towards them at 100 mph they just hop to the other side of the white line, rather than flying away. How do they know the car will stay on one side of the line?!
- NearlyHeadless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"If anyone knows of a link to this vid on YouTube, they should post it, it's a great clip :)"
That's the Bird of Paradise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85LoHftEKs
Bower birds' displays are also impressive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFG9sQNbK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygz-SiqF-YA - reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You should be happy it's not slashdot. :)
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5must of thought you had a thick head
- LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5can you imagine having to go through that ***** every morning just to eat breakfast?
Impressive, Mr. Crow. - NearlyHeadless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The scientists who were studying the crows were, at first, just trying to see if the crows would understand the difference between straight and bent wires for the task. Then one of the crows flies off with the bent wire, leaving only the straight wire for the other crow, Betty. After briefly trying to get the food with the straight wire, Betty bends it into a hook.
Just making a hook would be pretty impressive by itself since only a few instances of tool-making by non-humans are known. But it's amazing here because it's not imitation--she had never seen anything being bent into another shape as far as we know--and there's no trial and error. She seeming just comes up with the idea in a few seconds, uses leverage to bend the wire and succeeds on her first try.
More info:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/tools/tool_manufacture.shtml
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/809/3
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0808_020808_crow.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1209_041209_crows_apes.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3214/03.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4982133 - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"no, they wait for the green light on the crossing"
That's what you would like to believe. The last image clearly shows that he gets out at the last minute when cars nearly run over him. He probably has no idea there is a green light. He just goes when there's no traffic and escapes when traffic comes back. - 12340987, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4crow using the crosswalk was hilarious
- cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5some crows near where i live do this. I saw something drop from above and land in the road, i told my girlfriend to run it over. we stopped at the light and saw the crow fly back down, pick up the remains and fly away. i was surprised that even around here they have picked up this nifty trick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So long and thanks for all the tyres!
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Crows do that in California. Although I haven't seen any do the whole "crosswalk" trick.
- scosol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Read up on crows- they are much, *much* smarter than any other birds...
- achoo5000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4David Attenborough is a pimp
- matt0baba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they do that here in Vancouver BC ( canada ) .. exept on the pier ... i was walking there and a giant clam nearly hit me on the head!
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Apparently they can ruin broadband also:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Japan_s_Broadband_Under_Attack...FROM_CROWS_ -
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