Raven caching a golfball

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Bill's story and theory about possible preferences of golf balls, sort of suggests (to me) the thought that what one raven might do, they all would do similarly and that they may or may not show preference for a particular colour. It ain't necessarily so. Bill's story can also be interpreted that the raven could not carry two balls together and preferred to retain the one it had already been trying to crack, before starting on a new one. I'd suggest there is a lot of randomness in this kind of behaviour. In the long term view, round white egg sized objects that are not food or stones are something new. The birds may have variable levels of ability to learn but still have a long way to go.

 

Is this why golfers use words: birdie, eagle and albatross (whatever that is)?

 

Philip