March 18, 2008: Pest

SPUCK · 03-18-2008, 05:55 AM

Yep Magpie.

They are extremely smart birds. Damn gutsy too.
I would guess that magpie has 5x the brains that Eagle does.

Their intelligence is on par with higher primates. This is due to their abstraction, memory, and creativity. They were even proven to be able to count and remember up to 4.

There was a case of one landing on a horse's butt and saying giddyap.

Crows in Japan wait with the pedestrians at lights. When the lights turn green they walk out and put nuts under the car tires. They then return to the sidewalks. The light changes the cars drive off cracking the nuts. The light changes again they go out and eat.

There is a video of a crow, another Corvid member, fashioning a tool to hook a grub out of a tube.

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03-18-2008, 05:55 AM	#6
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Yep Magpie. They are extremely smart birds. Damn gutsy too. I would guess that magpie has 5x the brains that Eagle does. Their intelligence is on par with higher primates. This is due to their abstraction, memory, and creativity. They were even proven to be able to count and remember up to 4. There was a case of one landing on a horse's butt and saying giddyap. Crows in Japan wait with the pedestrians at lights. When the lights turn green they walk out and put nuts under the car tires. They then return to the sidewalks. The light changes the cars drive off cracking the nuts. The light changes again they go out and eat. There is a video of a crow, another Corvid member, fashioning a tool to hook a grub out of a tube.

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