Naturalist Notebook

And now - Crows

My last post was about a bird that has adapted admirably to living with us humans - Pigeons. Sure, we domesticated them, bred them into 200 seperate breeds, and they like us so much they come home every night.

If you've been with me a good long time, you will remember that I teasingly call my hubby "Crow boy" because Crows, for some reason, like him. Follow him. Perch outside our bedroom window and act as crack of dawn alarm clocks. Turns out there might be a fairly mundane reason for this, besides the metaphysical ones I've suggested. Because crows remember people, specific individuals, for many years.

I know they remembered our black greyhound, Rhythym, for many years after she captured and killed one. For the rest of the time we lived in that house, every time she appeared in the back yard, the crows would gather in the trees around and caw at her.

Crows, along with cockroaches, norweigan gray rats, and to some extent some other animals have adapted to not just tolerate humans, but to very successfully live within a "human ecosystem".

In this "TED talk" Joshua Klein takes it one step further...



Hmmmm...

Summer

Posted: Friday 16th May 2008, 1:53 PM

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