In one of the birding newsgroups there is a thread currently weaving its way along. Crows, first in Japan and now in California, have learned a new way to break open nuts. They put them on the road where a car will run over them. If the car tires miss, the crows will reposition the nuts. Haven't seen this in the East yet, and I wonder how it got from Japan to the US... Joe P. >Mike's story reminded me of the crows in the Broken Group in Barkley Sound, >Vancouver Island. They have figured out that yak cockpits are a good source of >easy food, and within seconds of vacation, they are inside, scoping out the >larder. They are so aggressive and so skilled I wonder which is smarter: us >or them. >In any event, a cockpit cover is mandatory in the Brokens -- the crow behavior >there has been that aggressive since the summer of '96, and I suspect extends >further back in time. Anybody know how far? >What's interesting to me is that five miles of open water away (the Deer >Group), the crows do not know cockpits are food sources. I would think five >miles is an easy shot for a crow, and that the Deer Group crows would have >learned this behavior. Guess not. Maybe the two populations do not >intermingle? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Mar 29 2000 - 21:21:41 PST
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