Okay, but why are we obsessed with crows and ravens?
E46. Crows and ravens fill our oldest stories, and plenty of us want one as a friend. Dr. Claudia Wascher, professor of behavioral biology at Anglia Ruskin University, explains what makes corvids seem so clever, when clever turns out to be something simpler, and why befriending them is a bad idea.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
The crow named Hugo, and what his flock started saying once he was gone
Why a walnut dropped at a red light may be less clever than it looks
What a goose's heartbeat reveals about how birds feel
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