Ah I see.
I was aware they were clever, I remember reading about the litter collecting experiment.
(TheColonel, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 10:42, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Have you seen the one with the vending machine?
They built a machine that dispensed treats if you dropped coins into a hopper. First they left coins on the edge of the hopper, then they scattered them on the ground nearby. The crows figured it out, then they stopped leaving coins and the crows brought dropped coins from miles away... I dunno if they turned a profit, though.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 10:49, Reply)

Plenty of animals use tools, that in itself isn't surprising.
But when they observed crows using tools to make further tools, that's when people got boners.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 10:53, Reply)

The crows round my way have been
dive bombing Barclays patrons who were taking their change into the bank.

Then, 30 or 40 of them fly away with the big bag of change to a secret location where they divvy up their ill gotten gains.

They then fly over to that vending hopper and drop their coins in for a slap up feed.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:05, Reply)

Crow pirates.
Never has something been so brilliant and terrifying in equal measure.
( Kroney, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:06, Reply)

Just the black ones.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 11:07, Reply)