Re:Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.)
by pjmlp on Thursday June 29, 2017 @07:57AM
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Ravens as well.
Re:Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.)
by throwanem on Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:14AM
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They are! I recently had to make peace with a family of them, one of whose fledglings I had inadvertently upset by getting too close with a camera.
Fortunately, ravens are smart enough to recognize the combination of repeated food offerings, and a demurral to repeat the initial rudeness, as earnest of good intent - walking out the door with my camera no longer provokes alarm calls and surveillance overflights. Catbirds, not so much - I pissed off one of those back when there was snow on the ground, and I suspect he'd still quite happily rip my lungs out if he could.
Dolphins are pretty smart! Mean like us, too. If we and they didn't inhabit incompatible environments, I suspect we'd have had some complicated history with them, and probably now speak of them in the past tense - or they'd speak so of us.