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Of Rooks and Rocks: Birds Live Up to Their Fabled Reputation
Science & Tech  (tags: biology, interesting, birds, rooks, crows, Aesop’s, fable, pitcher, stones, drink, eat, worm, discovery, study, research, investigation, science )

Tom
- 110 days ago - latimes.com
In Aesop's fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird adds stones to raise the water level in a pitcher in order to drink from it. Rooks, a relative of the crow, use stones to raise the level of water in a container to reach a floating worm.
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Koo J. (92)
Saturday August 8, 2009, 5:53 pm
I love reading about these brainy birds - thanks, Tom.
 

KRISTEN B. (107)
Saturday August 8, 2009, 9:42 pm
Roks , , crows, magpies are extremely smart last month there was an article on them in "Science Illustrared" good read. they are smarter then pigs(WOW) and some small children,plus they keep eveolving w/ us....
great too bring it to more peoples attention Tom..
 

Cynthia Davis (226)
Sunday August 9, 2009, 8:26 am
We used to have a crow that live on our back porch that talked (true story) we would have BBQs on our back porch and he would help us eat and he started saying words he would hear allot. Each year he would pick up more words. His favorit words were (no kidding) Love ya. He hung around for about 7 years and then one day he was gone.
 

bernadettemp P. (74)
Sunday August 9, 2009, 4:04 pm
hoe thdy save the birds
 

Rosemary AWAY NO FWDS PLS (294)
Monday August 10, 2009, 11:15 pm
and 'we' are said to be the 'Crown of Creation' ... i think not! Thank you Tom for this enlightening Truth about Rooks :-)
 
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