I really enjoyed this TED talk on corvids. I had previously read about crows fashioning their own tools, and I've watched the entire David Attenborough Life of Birds series. But Joshua Klein's peanut vending machine is sublime. Love it!
Posted by rv at August 14, 2008 11:01 PM to science!Really interesting ideas there. Thanks for posting the link. I love Attenborough's work, especially Life of Birds. A couple of years ago the National Geographic had an article by a guy who was researching ravens (even smarter than their crow cousins). There ability to examine a problem and reason out a solution was amazing.
Posted by: Donna at August 16, 2008 01:09 AM