Crows may soon be Sweden’s newest litter pickers

Re:Crows may soon be Sweden’s newest litter pickers by henvic on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:59AM (#30099984)

Any chance we can jump to the second part? I'm worried about poor crows smoking.

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Re:Crows may soon be Sweden’s newest litter pickers by perihelions on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:42AM (#30100425)

There's actually health benefits (I'm not paid by Big Tobacco I swear):

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11952 ("City birds use cigarette butts to smoke out parasites")

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Re:Crows may soon be Sweden’s newest litter pickers by colechristensen on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:04PM (#30103015)

Basically every plant chemical (flavor, drug) that humans are interested in is a defense against pests or infections.

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Re:Crows may soon be Sweden’s newest litter pickers by aurizon on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:24AM (#30100227)

What about rowdy crowdies(murders) of drunken crows in bars, buying booze with cash from selling the dry butts to street people....coming to Swedish town near you soon...

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