I once saw a crow look both ways before walking across the street and I thought "Wow. What a dumbass, he could just fly over it and not have to worry about cars."
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I once saw a human look both ways before walking across the street and I thought "Wow. What a dumbass, he could just walk a mile to the unterpass and not have to worry about cars."
Cool. I have seen wild turkeys do this and in a crosswalk. It is really cool.
I have not seen them using the button to request the "walking man" yet.
Do you think they might use the button sooner if the symbol was a walking turkey?
Only one way to know.
Birds are too powerful to need to use a beg button
is savings energy
😂😂😂😂
I bet a crow would know what to do with that information.
But would a jackdaw?
Here's the thing...
You’re supposed to reevaluate brain size as a measure of intelligence. The expression “bird brain” is so outdated we need to stop using it. Bird neurons are significantly smaller than ours, so they can fit a lot more brain in a smaller volume.
While you’re at it, you should probably reevaluate everything about intelligence and memory because apparently jellyfish have memories despite having no brain or ganglia of any kind.
I'm not an older sibling in a 90s-era kids sitcom, so I haven't used the phrase "bird-brain" in decades...
Well, no one in a 90s-era sitcom has used the phrase in decades either ;P
Also some insects dissolve in their cocoons to a handful of cells and yet still maintain memories from their larva stage
Bird neurons are significantly smaller than ours
The neurons themselves? Because human axons are already as small as can be; they sometimes missfire because of this (brain is built around that, no worries).
It's only the beginning. Then they will get negative numbers, integers, reals, you name it
Not only that, corvids understand the concept of zero fucks given.
They also understand social order and merc crows that are excessively rude thieves and whatnot. It's a bit brutal but it's indicative of individual identity and longer term memory.
if they start understanding complex numbers I will get scared
It means DONT GIVE THEM A CALCULATOR.
Crows WILL divide by zero, DO NOT GIVE THAN A CALCULATOR
If I've learned anything from Stargate, such knowledge leads directly to the ability to build self-propelled autonomous space mines.
I'm really glad I wasn't the only person who thought about that episode.
Indeed. raises eyebrow
TIL Euler invented crows, but Poe got to name them because he was 2nd.
Then they are already smarter than the average Mangalore.
i really enjoyed the mangalorian though. it had weak moments but otherwise was a solid show.
Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, he would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.
They are not the smartest guys out there, but at least they managed to kill the main bad guy of the movie:
oh sorry
Oh no! They understand my bank statement!
There’s a crow and seagull war around where I work. Pretty wild sky fights, but otherwise typical bird business. One time I heard what sounded like a tornado of crows outside, so I went out to see if some kind of crow Voltron was assembling. Outside was every crow I’ve ever seen screaming and swooping around one unlucky seagull that was tangled in fishing line and hanging from a tree. I cut it down untangled it and it flew off but what really freaked me out was how quiet all of the crows got when I got involved. I can’t prove it and I don’t know how they did it but I know the crows did this.
Crows laying traps for other birds would be wild. Survival books sometimes talk about laying snares for birds in trees using wire.
That’s what I thought at first too but there were no knots, bait, or hooks. Just a tangled messy of fishing line. When it all went silent and I could see that seagull swaying upside down it felt like something out of True Detective.
Apparently even crows know how useful this is to me.
Yeah but imaginary numbers are a very real problem, and the solution of which affects you every day.
🤨 Is this an elaborate joke, or is this query itself demonstrative of the reality of the statement?
Yes.
But seriously yeah, imaginary numbers (square root of -1) just so happens to be a key part of the definition of a sinusoidal waveform, which is what all electromagnetic radiation flows by. Especially power delivered by alternating current, but also digital stuff and general quantum particles and things. So it really affects everything.
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The latter, I believe.
Everytime I hear this I can't help but imagine some researcher out in the wild taking a twig or something off of a magpie, the swoopy boi retaliates and the researcher is like "corvids understand the concept of zero?!"
Here's the thing...
They also have the capabilities to divide! 😱
Post a tweet asking wtf you’re supposed to do w that information obviously
That's a gonna make the history books
Don't take anything away from them.