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She became one of THEM · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three strange stories that
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  Speaker 1: Sheep are known to be docile, compliant, and easily influenced.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to just mindlessly follow their herd without thinking,
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  Speaker 1: but one sheep from New Zealand, who was named Shrek,
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  Speaker 1: dared to be different. In nineteen ninety eight, a sheep
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  Speaker 1: farmer from New Zealand got up early one morning and
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  Speaker 1: headed down to his shearing shed to give his flock
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  Speaker 1: their annual haircut, and I won. The sheep would come
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  Speaker 1: in and the farmer would expertly shear off their woolcoats
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  Speaker 1: and send them back out to the pasture.
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  Speaker 2: But unbeknownst to this.
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  Speaker 1: Farmer, Shrek decided he didn't want a haircut, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want a haircut ever again, And so while
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  Speaker 1: his fellow sheep were marching down to get their wool cut,
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  Speaker 1: Shrek secretly walked to the back of the pen, snuck
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  Speaker 1: out the back gate, and ran away up over the
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  Speaker 1: hillside without anybody noticing. And when he was finally out
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  Speaker 1: of sight of the farm, he just kept on running
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  Speaker 1: until he found this cave high up on this mountain
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  Speaker 1: side that he could hide inside of. At first, the
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  Speaker 1: farmer didn't even realize Shrek was missing. He had many
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  Speaker 1: sheep to take care of, and so it was easy
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  Speaker 1: to lose track. But eventually he did catch on and
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  Speaker 1: he went out looking for Shrek, but he couldn't find him,
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  Speaker 1: and so eventually he had to just accept that Shrek
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  Speaker 1: was gone. Six years later, in two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: this farmer was out walking around the hillside a couple
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  Speaker 1: miles away from his farm when something moved in the
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  Speaker 1: corner of his eye, and so he turned and looked uphill,
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  Speaker 1: and there perched on a rock, standing proudly with the
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  Speaker 1: most absurd looking sheep he had ever seen it was Shrek,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked like an enormous.
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  Speaker 2: Brown cotton ball.
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  Speaker 1: Wild sheep will shed their wool every year, but domestic
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  Speaker 1: sheep like Shrek, just continued to grow wool every year
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  Speaker 1: until it's sheered off. But during Shrek's six years he
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  Speaker 1: spent living in this cave, he never got a haircut,
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  Speaker 1: and so its fleece just continued to grow and grow
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  Speaker 1: and grow, and by the time it was finally sheared off,
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  Speaker 1: it weighed sixty pounds. His fleece contained enough wool to
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  Speaker 1: make suits for twenty large men. Shrek shot to fame immediately.
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  Speaker 1: He was sheared live on New Zealand's national television and
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  Speaker 1: his fleece was auctioned off.
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  Speaker 2: To help raise money for a children's hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Shrek met the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and he
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  Speaker 1: became the subject of many children's books and made.
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  Speaker 2: Dozens of charity appearances.
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  Speaker 1: Two and a half years after his first live television event,
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  Speaker 1: Shrek was sheared again on live TV, this time off
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  Speaker 1: the coast of New Zealand on an iceberg, again to
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  Speaker 1: raise money for charity. Shrek would spend the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years touring the country before settling down back at
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  Speaker 1: his farm, where he eventually died of old age in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven. To this day, he is still considered a
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  Speaker 1: national treasure. In nineteen eighty two, a young boy named
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  Speaker 1: Leandro was living in southern Brazil with his family. One morning,
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  Speaker 1: he got up and went downstairs in his house, and
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  Speaker 1: he began looking for his beloved family pet, a tiny,
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  Speaker 1: young red footed.
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  Speaker 2: Tortoise named Manuela.
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  Speaker 1: The first place he looked was the back room of
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  Speaker 1: the first floor, where Manuela spent most of her time,
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  Speaker 1: but she wasn't in there, so he decided to search
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the first floor, where Manuela was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to free rome but rarely did. But after looking around,
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  Speaker 1: he still couldn't find her. He knew she was too
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  Speaker 1: little to climb up the stairs to the second floor,
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  Speaker 1: so he figured she had to be hiding somewhere on
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  Speaker 1: the first floor. So he ran into his kitchen, where
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  Speaker 1: his family was getting ready for the day, and he
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  Speaker 1: enlisted their help to go looking for her. Within an hour,
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  Speaker 1: they had turned the entire house upside down and had
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  Speaker 1: made their way out into their backyard, but there was
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  Speaker 1: still no sign of the little tortoise, and so while
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  Speaker 1: Leandro and his siblings were running around their backyard yelling
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  Speaker 1: out for Manuela. Their father called them over and told
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  Speaker 1: them that unfortunately, Manuela was gone.
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  Speaker 2: Most likely she.
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  Speaker 1: Slipped out of one of the doors that had been
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  Speaker 1: left open and had found her way into the nearby
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  Speaker 1: forest that butted up against their property. Leandro and his
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  Speaker 1: siblings begged their father to go looking for Manuela in
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  Speaker 1: the forest, but he told them that because she was
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  Speaker 1: so small, it would be nearly impossible to find her.
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  Speaker 1: Leandro was crushed, and he just prayed that some day
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  Speaker 1: that little tortoise would come back to him. Thirty years later,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, Leandro and his siblings were now grown
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  Speaker 1: adults and had moved out and had started lives of
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  Speaker 1: their own. But in January of that year, their father
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  Speaker 1: passed away, and so the kids decided to go back
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  Speaker 1: to the family home and clear out some of.
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  Speaker 2: His old possessions.
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  Speaker 1: The father was a bit of a hoarder and was
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  Speaker 1: always on the lookout for old TVs and microwaves and
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  Speaker 1: furniture that other people had thrown away, and.
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  Speaker 2: He would snatch these things up.
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  Speaker 1: He would bring them to his house and stuff them
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  Speaker 1: into his upstairs storage closet, promising his family he planned
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  Speaker 1: on fixing these things up, but he never did, and
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  Speaker 1: over time, as he collected more and more chunk, that
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  Speaker 1: closet became so packed that Leandro's father couldn't even go
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  Speaker 1: inside of it, and so it was kind of just
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  Speaker 1: sealed off and forgotten about. Now that he was gone,
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  Speaker 1: the kids knew they would have to go in there
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  Speaker 1: and get rid of all that junk. They began hauling
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  Speaker 1: all of the stuff out and.
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  Speaker 2: Onto the curb for the trash collectors to pick up.
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  Speaker 1: And at one point Leandro picked up a big heavy
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  Speaker 1: box that looked like an old record player, and.
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  Speaker 2: So he brought it outside.
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  Speaker 1: He set it on his curb, and then he turned
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  Speaker 1: around to walk back towards the house when his neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: who had been outside the whole time, jokingly yelled to him, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to throw away this tortoise too? And
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  Speaker 1: Leandro turned around, and there, poking its head out of
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  Speaker 1: the old record box was Manuela, the tortoise, happy and
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  Speaker 1: healthy as convey Thirty years earlier, Manuela had managed to
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  Speaker 1: climb inside of this old record box when their father
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  Speaker 1: had brought it home. And then the father brought that
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  Speaker 1: box upstairs and put it inside of a storage closet
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  Speaker 1: along with Manuela. Once she was inside this closet, Manuela
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  Speaker 1: just carved out a life for herself. She transformed the
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  Speaker 1: record box into her home, and she would leave it
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  Speaker 1: to eat termites and other insects and lick condensation off
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  Speaker 1: the walls. Red footed tortoises are known for being extremely resilient.
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  Speaker 1: When food is scarce, they can go two to three
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  Speaker 1: years between meals, and if after that there's still no food,
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  Speaker 1: they can lower their body temperatures and other physiological processes
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  Speaker 1: and enter into this state of suspended animation that allows
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  Speaker 1: them to go even longer without sustenance. Because of this,
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  Speaker 1: it's no wonder that tortoises like Manuela lived for at
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  Speaker 1: least fifty years on average. Leandro rushed over to Manuela.
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  Speaker 1: He scooped her up. He had missed her so much
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  Speaker 1: he could not believe he was looking at her again.
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  Speaker 1: And while Manuela had been doing just fine inside of
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  Speaker 1: her closet, she was no doubt very pleased to be
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  Speaker 1: reunited with her family. Most people don't realize just how
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  Speaker 1: smart crows are. In scientific studies, crows use logic to
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  Speaker 1: solve puzzles, and in one study, a crow was given
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  Speaker 1: a particularly challenging puzzle that required the understanding of analogies
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  Speaker 1: to solve it, and on this crow's first attempt, it
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  Speaker 1: immediately recognized the pattern and solve the puzzle within seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In the wild, crows will fashion their own tools, like
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  Speaker 1: a hook made from a bent twig that they'll use
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  Speaker 1: to help forage food more efficiently. Crows will also host
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  Speaker 1: these huge funerals for their fallen comrades. But the most
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  Speaker 1: fascinating aspect of a crow's intelligence is how they employ
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  Speaker 1: it against us. The same way we study crows, crows
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  Speaker 1: study people. They watch our behavior to look for patterns
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  Speaker 1: to help them determine if an individual is a friend
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  Speaker 1: or a foe. Once a determination is made, that crow
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  Speaker 1: doesn't forget and they pass it off to their friends
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  Speaker 1: and their family, who will immediately put this information to use,
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  Speaker 1: even if they've never had a first hand experience with
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  Speaker 1: the person in question. For the people who are determined
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  Speaker 1: to be the worst foes, like people who have tried
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  Speaker 1: to do to the crows, the crows have been known
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  Speaker 1: to stake out that person's house and every time they
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  Speaker 1: come outside, they will swoop down violently trying to hit them,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll cought them the whole time, and this behavior
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  Speaker 1: can go on for years. On the other end of
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  Speaker 1: the spectrum, the people who are determined to be the
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  Speaker 1: best friends of the crows get a very different treatment,
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  Speaker 1: one that seems like it's straight out of a fairytale.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, four year old Gabby Man was living
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle, Washington with her family. One day, when she
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  Speaker 1: was getting out of the family car, she dropped a
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  Speaker 1: chicken nugget onto the ground, and before she could pick
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  Speaker 1: it up, a neighborhood crow swooped down and took the
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  Speaker 1: free lunch. A few days later, when Gabby was on
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  Speaker 1: her back deck having some food, she dropped a piece
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  Speaker 1: of bread on the ground, and just like the last time,
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  Speaker 1: a crow came flying in and took it before Gabby
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  Speaker 1: could do anything. And because Gabby was a messy eater,
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  Speaker 1: she continued to drop food everywhere she went, and so
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  Speaker 1: she continued to inadvertently feed these crows. Eventually, every time
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  Speaker 1: Gabby went outside, a murder of crows would assemble in
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  Speaker 1: front of her house, so a big gaggle of crows,
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  Speaker 1: and they would just follow her around everywhere she went.
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  Speaker 2: As Gabby got.
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  Speaker 1: Older, she grew to really enjoy the attention from all
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  Speaker 1: these birds, and so she started feeding them huge portions
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  Speaker 1: of her lunch before she hopped on the bus to
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  Speaker 1: go to school. When she got back in the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and hopped off the bus, there would be this murder
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  Speaker 1: of crows sitting on the power line waiting for Gabby.
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  Speaker 1: When Gabby's mother discovered where most of her daughter's food
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  Speaker 1: was going, she wasn't upset. She was just worried her
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  Speaker 1: daughter wasn't getting enough to eat, and so she told
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  Speaker 1: her daughter to stop giving away her lunch and instead
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  Speaker 1: they would go out and buy some food just for
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  Speaker 1: the crows. And so, starting in twenty thirteen, when Gabby
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  Speaker 1: was seven, she and her mom began feeding the crows
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  Speaker 1: every day. Each morning, they would go out into their
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  Speaker 1: backyard and they would refill the bird bath with fresh water,
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  Speaker 1: and then they would put peanuts into the covered feeder
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  Speaker 1: and scattered dog food in the backyard, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Crows loved it.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks into this new feeding ritual, Gabby went
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  Speaker 1: outside one morning to refill the peanut tray when she
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  Speaker 1: noticed something was already on the peanut tray, there was
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  Speaker 1: a small earring. She brought it inside and she showed
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  Speaker 1: it to her mom, and her mom said she hadn't
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  Speaker 1: put it there, and so Gabby was convinced the crows
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  Speaker 1: had left her a gift.
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  Speaker 2: Her mom wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 1: But over the following few weeks, when more and more
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  Speaker 1: little trinkets like a marble and a polished stone, and
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  Speaker 1: a screw and a metal hinge, When those started showing
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  Speaker 1: up in the peanut tray and in the bird bath,
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  Speaker 1: Gabby's mom actually went out and installed a camera to
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  Speaker 1: look out into the backyard to see if it was
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  Speaker 1: really true that the crows were the ones leaving these
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  Speaker 1: things behind, And after reviewing the footage, she was amazed
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  Speaker 1: to see that, yes, the crows would come in and
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  Speaker 1: they would eat their food, they would drink their water
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  Speaker 1: and clean themselves, and then they would leave behind these
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  Speaker 1: shiny little trinkets, as if it was their way of
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  Speaker 1: saying thank you for the food. Gabby was over the
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  Speaker 1: moon for these little gifts. She began collecting all of
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  Speaker 1: them and putting them in a jewelry box and labeling
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  Speaker 1: them of when she got them and how important they
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  Speaker 1: were to her ranking them from most favorite to least favorite,
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  Speaker 1: her favorite being this little piece of metal that said
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  Speaker 1: best on it, and she jokes that the crows have
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  Speaker 1: the other half that says friends, but the crows most
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  Speaker 1: astonishing gift came the following year, in twenty fourteen. Gabby's
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  Speaker 1: mother was an avid photographer, and one day she was
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  Speaker 1: out by herself photographing a bald eagle that had come
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  Speaker 1: into town, and while she was taking these shots, she
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  Speaker 1: managed to drop a lens cover to one of her
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  Speaker 1: cameras and she heard it hit the ground, but she
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  Speaker 1: was so busy taking photos that she told herself she
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  Speaker 1: would pick it up before she left, But after getting
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  Speaker 1: totally wrapped up in this photo shoot, she forgot about
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  Speaker 1: the lens cap on the ground and wound up going
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  Speaker 1: home without it.
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  Speaker 2: That night. When she got back to her house, she
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  Speaker 2: happened to go.
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  Speaker 1: Out onto her back deck as the sun was setting,
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  Speaker 1: and she thought she noticed something in their bird bath,
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  Speaker 1: and upon closer inspection, she couldn't believe what was sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: She ran back inside and opened up her laptop and
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  Speaker 1: pulled up the footage from the bird camera she had
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  Speaker 1: set up, and there it was a crow. Coming into
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  Speaker 1: the yard. Before she had even returned from this bald
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  Speaker 1: eagle photography session. This crow was in the backyard with
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  Speaker 1: the lens cap in its mouth, and it went into
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  Speaker 1: the bird bath and it very carefully washed the cap
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  Speaker 1: in the water, and then it placed it very delicately
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the bird bath and checked it
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  Speaker 1: a couple times to make sure it was steady, and
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  Speaker 1: then it flew off. This behavior is very significant because
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  Speaker 1: it means the relationship between the crows and Gabby and
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  Speaker 1: her mom was not a transactional one. They were not
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  Speaker 1: just simply leaving behind these trinkets as a way of
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  Speaker 1: paying for the food. They were doing it because they
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  Speaker 1: had grown attached to Gabby and her mom. So when
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  Speaker 1: Gabby's mom was out in town taking photos of this
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  Speaker 1: bald eagle, at least one crow had just gone with her.
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  Speaker 1: And when this crow saw her drop the lens cap,
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  Speaker 1: it snapped into action, swooped down, picked it up, and
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  Speaker 1: returned it to the house because that's what best friends do. Today,
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  Speaker 1: Gabby and her mother still feed the crows every single day,
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  Speaker 1: and the crows still love Gabby and her.
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