Japanese Crows -- wonderfully adaptive ....

Weren't some crows caught putting things on railroad tracks?
 
It wouldn't surprise me, especially after seeing this, I'll bet the could run the dang train.
 
I found a crow in a cardboard box inside an incinerator bin this morning.
I don't know who got the bigger fright, me or the crow.

They are fascinating birds. Very curious, very adaptable. They learn.
 
For those of us stuck at work without the ability to play the vid, would someone be kind enough to give me a description?
 
3point14 said:
For those of us stuck at work without the ability to play the vid, would someone be kind enough to give me a description?
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David Attenborogh (sp?) narrates...film footage of Japanese crows. They are shown trying to break nuts by dropping them from great hights on the roadway. Sometimes they break. However, some more thoughtful crows have apparently figured out that to drop the nuts in front of moving vehicles and letting the weight of the cars/trucks crush the nuts. THe problem is, how to get the nut meat in the dense traffic? So, next we've birds who drop the nuts in cross walks, let the cars crush them than wait for the light where they hop out alongside the pedestrians crossing the road and pick up the nut meat. Very clever.
 
While driving on our highways I've noticed crows, like other birds, munching on roadkill. When you approach them in a car most birds scatter with wild wing flapping and almost random escape routes. I've hit birds scattering. The crows simply take a couple of hops to the shoulder and stand there while you drive by.
 
jimlintott said:
While driving on our highways I've noticed crows, like other birds, munching on roadkill. When you approach them in a car most birds scatter with wild wing flapping and almost random escape routes. I've hit birds scattering. The crows simply take a couple of hops to the shoulder and stand there while you drive by.
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Where they take down your licence plate number, enter it into their book of death, sit back and wait...they are patient and stealthy, that is why they will ultimately win.
 
Here on Vashon Island where most roads are lower-traffic, the crows have refined it in a different way. They carefully place the nuts to maximize the chances of getting crushed. I've watched them hop back out, after a car has gone by, to adjust the nut's location.
 
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