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Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8402389/crow-filmed-using-lid-as-snowboard
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Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8402389/crow-filmed-using-lid-as-snowboard
Crow filmed using lid as snowboard
07:30 AEDT Fri Jan 13 2012
The crow uses the lid to slide down a roof.
Research has shown crows can use tools to obtain food, but footage captured by a Russian family has shown a fun-loving bird using a jar lid for something altogether different.
Research has shown crows can use tools to obtain food, but footage captured by a Russian family has shown a fun-loving bird using a jar lid for something altogether different.
The jackdaw is seen taking advantage of the chilly winter weather to snowboard repeatedly down the roof of a home using a round jar lid.
The enterprising bird successfully slides down the roof before picking up the lid and returning to the top to try again.
The second time around the jackdaw slides over a bare patch of roof and quickly realises the snow provides much less friction than roof tiles.
The family who captured the moment watched the bird in awe.
"Maybe it is teasing us," one of the children says.
Research in the past decade has revealed that crows are known to be fiercely intelligent, with powerful memories, planning skills and the ability to trick other animals.
Animal behaviour professor Gisela Kaplan of the University of New England in Armidale said birds like crows, ravens and magpies have the cognitive ability to do a lot of things.
"All of these show that birds are probably capable of problem solving and using tools in the same manner of complexity that great apes use," Professor Kaplan said.
"Birds don't really have a neocortex like (primates), and if they perform the same complex task as great apes, then we need to rethink our entire series of evolution."
Crows have been spotted in Japan rolling nuts onto roads so that passing cars will crack their shells, while in New Caledonia, crows use hooked sticks to pull ants out of trees.
Birds thinking of elaborate ways to play is another sign of substantial intellect, Professor Kaplan said.
"Magpies can wrestle and play hide and seek and all sorts of things, so that has been shown to be part of highly cognitive development," she said.
"Russian ravens roll themselves down snow slopes on their backs, like they are skiing."
A 2002 study published in the journal Science revealed crows have the ability to adapt tools for problem solving.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
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