Date: 2008-05-15 23:39 Subject: An ambition to be more and better and to fly around all over the place constantly. Public Music: Moools—イルミネーション依存症 Tags: crows

I'm sure you read about the thing months ago, but still: Vending machine for crows, extended remix presentation.

And for reference, this is the story I keep quoting whenever I post about our glossy black avian friends.

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Date: 2008-02-29 20:38 Subject: Vending machine for Crows Public Music: Heiruspecs—War Drums feat. Martin Devaney Tags: crows

Opening up brand new markets for goods and services! There is no possible way for this to go horribly wrong.

Stage six of the experiment teaches them how to buy music on iTunes, at which point the Billboard charts are going to start looking really weird.

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Date: 2007-03-01 14:14 Subject: Crows in Snow Tree Public Music: Lucy Loves Schroeder—Someday Tags: crows, weather

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Date: 2006-10-30 11:24 Subject: Crows Public Music: Hip Tanaka—An Ordinary Plan Tags: crows

Wild crow cashes in loaf for fish. (video) (story.)

I'm telling you, forget about your great apes, dolphins, and other large mammals; crows are humanity's true heirs.

EDIT: Oh, and Betty's on YouTube.

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Date: 2006-02-23 20:36 Subject: (no subject) Public Music: They Might Be Giants - Spiraling Shape (Live) Tags: crows, food

That's just a whole 'nother level of savvy entirely.

Lisa Padol: Avram Grumer told me once that crows have been observed using another kind of tool: cars. Well, cars and nuts, to be precise.

The crows dropped the nuts in the middle of the road. Cars would run over them, opening up the shells. So far, so good.

But the crows did not try to eat the nuts. They waited for the squirrels. The squirrels tried to eat the nuts. Several of the squirrels got hit by cars. The crows then ate the roadkill squirrels.

As Avram pointed out, this is serious long term thinking for the crows.

EDIT: FUCKING YES! Sichuan Peppercorns are BACK, motherfucker! The baggie I smuggled home back in '04 managed to vanish sometime during the course of the last year, and I've been missing the little varmints.

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Date: 2005-10-17 22:18 Subject: The Story of Betty Public Tags: crows

Let's share a story about Betty, the New Caledonian Crow. One day, Betty decided to spontaneously pull some shit that no nonhuman primate has ever been able to do without coaching. Specifically, we're talking about assessing the properties of an unnatural material she had never encountered before and taking advantage of those properties in order to craft a tool appropriate to the problem at hand, i.e. getting ahold of some pork heart.

The moral of the story: You shaved apes out there better watch your backs. And your credit cards, garage door openers, and iTunes Music Store accounts.

EDIT: Unrelated, but for $17 at Value Village yesterday, I picked up three very comfortable and very good-looking pairs of warmup pants. Yay.

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