Ravens can imagine being watched

[Xarog]

Paris - Ravens can imagine being spied upon by a hidden competitor, showing a capacity for abstraction once thought to be exclusively human, according to a study released on Tuesday.

In a clever set of experiments, scientists showed that the famously intelligent birds take extra care to hide food if they suspect their movements are being monitored by another raven, even when the second bird is not really there.

http://www.news24.com/Green/News/ravens-can-imagine-being-watched-20160202

 

[SoulTax]

http://www.news24.com/Green/News/ravens-can-imagine-being-watched-20160202

Damn clever little things.

 

[maumau]

Wouldn't mind owning one of those - or a crow.

 

[porchrat]

It isn't just Ravens. All these Corvidae birds are so intelligent it can at times be scary.

 

[Ninja'd]

Ravens can imagine being spied upon by a hidden competitor

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door
Perched, and sat, and nothing more

 

[dabean]

 

[Seriously]

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Nature is wonderful

 

[pinball wizard]

Wouldn't mind owning one of those - or a crow.

Ever since I read this in Std Five, me too.

God tried to teach Crow how to talk.

"Love," said God. "Say, Love."

Crow gaped, and the white shark crashed into the sea

And went rolling downwards, discovering its own depth.



"No, no," said God. "Say Love. Now try it. Love."

Crow gaped, and a bluefly, a tsetse, a mosquito

Zoomed out and down

To their sundry flesh-pots.



"A final try," said God. "Now, Love."

Crow convulsed, gaped, retched and

Man's bodiless prodigious head

Bulbed out onto the earth, with swivelling eyes,

Jabbering protest --



And Crow retched again, before God could stop him.

And woman's vulva dropped over man's neck and tightened.

The two struggled together on the grass.

God struggled to part them, cursed, wept --



Crow flew guiltily off.

 

[pinball wizard]

Oh, and not to forget this one:

Crow realized God loved him --

Otherwise, he would have dropped dead.

So that was proved.

Crow reclined, marvelling, on his heart-beat.



And he realized that God spoke Crow --

Just existing was His revelation.



But what

Loved the stones and spoke stone?

They seemed to exist too.

And what spoke that strange silence

After his clamour of caws faded?



And what loved the shot-pellets

That dribbled from those strung up mummifying crows?

What spoke the silence of lead?



Crow realized there were two Gods --



One of them much bigger than the other

Loving his enemies

And having all the weapons.

 

[Grant]

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