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Flaxbee

(13,661 posts) Sat Feb 8, 2014, 12:07 AM Feb 2014

Are crows the ultimate problem solvers?

Neat video - damn smart bird.
Apologies if this is a duplicate.

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Are crows the ultimate problem solvers? (Original Post) Flaxbee Feb 2014 OP

Amazing. femmocrat Feb 2014 #1

I thought it was so neat that the crow first tried the shorter stick - as almost any human would do Flaxbee Feb 2014 #3

Very smart birds. 840high Feb 2014 #2

I thought some of the comments were funny - about how Flaxbee Feb 2014 #4

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. Amazing.

Reply to Flaxbee (Original post)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 02:10 PM

Feb 2014

Compare that to a dog, who would just attack the container holding the food!

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)

3. I thought it was so neat that the crow first tried the shorter stick - as almost any human would do

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 08:27 PM

Feb 2014

- why not skip a bunch of steps that aren't necessary? But then figured it out pretty quickly after that.

Neat little video. Damn smart bird.

840high

(17,196 posts)

2. Very smart birds.

Reply to Flaxbee (Original post)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 04:27 PM

Feb 2014

Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)

4. I thought some of the comments were funny - about how

Reply to 840high (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 08:28 PM

Feb 2014

it'd take some (most?) humans longer than the crow to figure it out. If I weren't familiar with those props, I'm not sure I wouldn't have taken longer myself. Lol.

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