Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by meowface on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:11PM
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They probably have rich social lives. I wonder how fine-grained their communication signals are.
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by azemetre on Friday August 30, 2024 @11:02PM
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Probably very good. They've been known to communicate highly specific dangers to other crows and supposedly understand recursion:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet...
I haven't read it yet but there's also a sci-fi book about intelligent society of crows (Children of Time series):
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by fuzzfactor on Saturday August 31, 2024 @12:02AM
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"It's the same story the crow told me, it's the only one he knows . . . "
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by shafouzzz on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:03AM
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the first book in the series is amazing. Unfortunately it goes down from there. Could not finish the third one ( Crow one )
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by stanac on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:28AM
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Third one was interesting but out of place. It didn't move the story forward. Maybe a little bit (I don't want to spoil the ending).
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by azemetre on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:27PM
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That's disappointing to hear, I do own all three and plan to hopefully finish them before the years end.
Re:Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
by BeFlatXIII on Saturday August 31, 2024 @02:24PM
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> supposedly understood recursion
TIL the average corvid is notably smarter than the average compsci undergrad
I guess more social fun than this crow using a plastic lid as a sled! https://youtu.be/L9mrTdYhOHg
One of them flew down and tumbled, his friends started laughing something fierce. His friends then all took turns mimicking his tumble in the grass, you can just tell they were laughing. One would dive bomb into the grass and flop around like an athlete faking an injury while the others were squawking up something fierce.
Probably the funniest thing they saw in weeks.