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Not only does he slide down the roof slant on something that looks like an tiny inner tube, but he carries it back up to the top to do it again! And why not? Sledding is a lot of fun, even for crows. -via Arbroath
It’s getting creepy. First, it was Arkansas, then Louisiana … now birds are dropping dead out of the skies over Sweden:
To add to the mystery, 50-100 jackdaws, a bird species in the crow family, fell dead in central Sweden late Tuesday night, English-language Swedish news website The Local reported Wednesday.
"We do not know what the cause is," Skovde police commander Tomas Ahlgren said. The birds fell in the city of Falkoping, which is southeast of Skovde.
But conspiracy theorists beware: mass deaths by birds are actually quite common (the US Geological Service’s National Wildlife Health Center website listed 90 in the last 6 months alone) and the culprit is usually something mundane: military death ray, er, I mean bacterial infection.
Link (Photo: Bjorn Larsson Rosvall)
Aesop’s fables, those famous animal parables that teach us about morality and life’s lessons, have always been assumed to be based on imagination than factual basis. But one study suggests that at least one of the fables may actually be based on fact.
The fable about the thirsty crow tells of a crow coming across a pitcher of water that is too low to reach with its beak. By dropping in one stone after another and raising the water level, the crow is able to drink from the pitcher, thus teaching us that little by little does the job.
In a study conducted by Christopher Bird of Cambridge, a relative of the crow called a rook was exposed to a six inch clear plastic tube with a worm floating in it. The birds instantly used stones to raise the level of water in the tube, bringing the worm closer to the surface. They even figured out that larger stones brought faster results.
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