Saw An Interesting Nature Show This Weekend

Source?

Did you find that out while eating crow?

It's amazing what people think of while they watch grass grow - for a living.

Certainly looks a lot like SPL.

I love nature shows too. The crows reminded me of that part in March of the Penguins when the penguins all made the baby-penguin-stealer get away from the little one that didn't belong to her. It's interesting how certain things have nothing to do with how evolved a brain is, but pure instinct.

Big deal. Yogi Bear used to outwit that park ranger on a pretty regular basis, if memory serves. A certified park ranger. I think Boo Boo even put some stuff past him from time to time.

Crows are very intelligent birds, you can see them doing all sorts of learned behaviour. They'll drop nuts they can't open onto main roads, wait for a car to run it over and then come down and pick up the bits they actually want. I mean, that's a concept that some regular posters here would struggle with.

I do the same thing with jars when I can't unscrew the lid. I don't mind scraping the chutney or jam off the road, but picking out the bits of glass gets a bit tedious.

Glass shards would be improvement to most English meals.

There's been huge changes over the past twenty years or so in how biologists view animal intelligence and emotions, close to a paradigm shift. The more advances are made in biology, the less special we seem to be. It's all been done before. Unfortunately, some people can't or won't stand that thought.

There was a tame crow on my gandfathers farm when I was a kid, named Rasmus. Very nice and smart bird. He just loved to sip a cold beer and enjoy a cigarette. He never inhaled, of course. Came when you called him too. Until the neighbour kid shot him one day, the evil little bastard.

Yo, Turfie, when yous Aggies come down here soon, just make yourselves at home. Take a bunch of TD's, grab the W, cook up Bevo, and have a time. The Horns won't be around much, so just do what pleases ya. Give Oklahoma that Big XII extra game to play, we sure couldn't give a rats ass about having to play a December game in Kansas City.