Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows

25 Responses for "Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows"

1. 031doolittle September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   i like the guy and his affection to crows)

2. powergirl07 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   More evidence to prove than animals are not stupid.
   Did you know that they can understand human tones? There was a pigon in the bank and everyone was yelling at it and I spoke to it calmly and though it was still terrified, it definatly calmed down a bit and let my carry it outside.

   Okay, I think I may have decided to write a Watership Down style story about crows.

3. zzheavensdoor September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   Forget collecting trash. We can try to train those dumb bankers to do that.
   Put the crows on Wall Street

4. disarraydesire September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   Since I was a kid in the south I have had a fascination with crows. I knew someone that rescued nest with babies and handfed them till they were grown. I do know that they made the best guard “dogs”/early warning systems I’ve ever seen. When you pulled up in their driveway these three crows would stand beside your door and basically scare you into staying in your car until their humans told them it was cool.

5. kraaberts September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   I’m loving this guy’s ideas. Wow. Well done. I have a new respect for Corvids

6. MariZZ10 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   wow crows are really smart!

7. CSK225 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   Cuz’ every creature deserves a warm meal.

8. RandomishhOne September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   maybe if garbage containers in the city were set up to dispense a peanut everytime a piece of garbage was put it, the crows would fly around, picking up garbage n cleaning our streets, n they get a good meal out of it. every1 wins!!

9. thevoiceofreason02 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

   I have many bird friends that drop past my house throughout the day, their job is to remind me to take a break from writing. Very smart, very friendly, they will tap on the window to let me know they are there or if the door is open fly right in and sit on my shoulder. I hand feed all of them, 14 in total of 7 different species from cockatoo’s to crows. It’s all well and good till they bring their friends.

10. Viconiuz September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Those pitch black crows are so beautiful

11. thecrazyturtle September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    ROFL nice one!

12. gamesbok September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    My father’s neighbours keep poultry, and they went on holiday. They asked him to lock the birds up 8pm. My father, never a patient man, went around at 7:20, and they wouldn’t have it. He had to go back at 8, and they were waiting outside the coop for him.

13. TonyDeLiso September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Very interesting.

    I’m going to have to favorite this one

14. jjadvii September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    with frickin laser beams attached to their heads.

15. mybutterpecanbutt September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Wow! I will stop shooing them away.

16. Vodd9 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Hell no, they’ll figure out that they must bring the stuff they steal at the pawn shop so they can get a purse full of coins and enjoy a limitless supply of peanuts.

17. fdmipgo September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    What if crows start robbing banks?

18. Flatlegs September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    I’m never gonna look at a crow in the same way again!

19. cursingyorick September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    I will trrain an arrmy of crrows with laserrbeams and rrule the worrrrld,
    WHA, HA, HA, HA.

    The pest-partner reversall is beautifull “out of the box” thinking. Small thougt, big progress.

20. stockon September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    but only the jobs illegal aliens wont do

21. justforwatchingcraps September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    so thats wut happened to the velociraptors…

22. sisyphusorianus9787 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Easily one of the best talks thus far! Amazing how curiosity and persistence can pay off in a big way. Optimizing domestic species is one hell of a bold concept.

23. nannking September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    To my opinion, crows will get so fucking smart, that they will bring gold, cell phones and even credit cards to that fucking machines as the sacrifice.

24. Adebisi2008 September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    I was waiting for the David Attenborough clip!!! I’m writing this at that point (paused of course as it always amuses me!) Apparently a similar experiment with crows creating the hook, was done with chimps. the chimps failed to create the hook.

25. eightdollarwater September 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    i always thought crows were incredibly dumb. guess i was wrong!