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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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+ Likes crows
I like crows. And magpies, which I think are part of the same family.
I don't really. Physics? Or is that Penguin of Death?
(, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 15:59, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Ahh, I see. There are quite a lot of hot life scientists in my lectures.
(, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)
I am indeed physics, PoD might be the same but I don't know very much about him.
(, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:01, Reply)
I take in a lot of stuff :) I think you told me they were, as I said I loved them
(, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:02, Reply)
They're family Corvidae, which is sufficient to call them 'crows,' but they're a different genus to crows, jackdaws, ravens and rooks. Still very close relatives and alarmingly intelligent: my mother reported seeing one pick up a piece of hard, stale bread off her lawn the other day and, rather than try and struggle through it, dunked it in the pond to soften it first....because A CROW WOULD KNOW!
(EDIT: sorry, I really can bang on about crows if you set me off...)
(, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:06, Reply)
It makes you think about how much of our own behaviour we don't normally think about - like recognising our own reflections - when we start seeing crows exhibiting these things that we'd normally take for granted. The corvid revolution is beginning, I tell you!
(, Fri 30 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)
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