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.
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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