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'Stone the crows! Could corvids be Australia's smartest export?'

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Subject: 'Stone the crows! Could corvids be Australia's smartest export?'
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +1100

Thanks for the interesting article.  But… if corvids are so smart (plenty of examples given) how come they still can’t tell the difference between an egg and a golf ball? (as also mentioned).  Weight, shape, dimples, hieroglyphs, location … there’d seem to be plenty of clues?

 

 

 

From: David McDonald (personal) [
Sent: Friday, 27 January 2012 13:09
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Subject: [canberrabirds] 'Stone the crows! Could corvids be Australia's smartest export?'

 

A great article by Stephen Debus in today's issue of The Conversation:
"Stone the crows! Could corvids be Australia's smartest export?"
http://theconversation.edu.au/stone-the-crows-could-corvids-be-australias-smartest-export-4346
David

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