Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
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Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
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Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#22008, still very interesting.
Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#32008, still very interesting.
I always wonder why aren’t there “ten years gone” follow up articles. Like what has happened with crows in Japan since 2008? Media should do more of that as a matter of routine.
Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#4Crows are very underrated in terms of intelligence.
Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#5Isn't it called a murder? A murder of crows.
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#7Isn't it called a murder? A murder of crows.
I'm guessing the title would have sounded like the crows are being murdered:
> Japan Fights Murders of Crows
Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#82008, still very interesting.
I always wonder why aren’t there “ten years gone” follow up articles. Like what has happened with crows in Japan since 2008? Media should do more of that as a matter of routine.
Agreed so much. Can't even count the number of times I thought 'what would have happened to ... after all these years?'. From time to time I do see for example documentaries going back to places years after a disaster (Fukushima, BP Gulf, ...) but that's from actively looking for them. Hardly ever this pops up in the news. Well, it's maybe not literally 'news' but if I see the amount of rather trivial events which do make it to the news I really think some money in media/journalism could be better spent. They spend weeks and weeks of reporting the same thing again and again when some major event is fresh but then it all dies out.
Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#9I was in Hokkaido, for a while. They have huge crows (I believe significantly larger than the ones that are found in Honshu) who are very clever and can be quite aggressive. I remember experiencing them taking a snack I had not even opened out of a bicycle basket to open and eat it. Another time, I went with my wife (my girlfriend at the time) to the zoo and she bought a meat bun and walked outside. The employees began screaming at her to go inside right away and no sooner had they said it than crows descended on her like something out of a horror movie. At the entrance to the zoo I saw them pecking the head of a crying boy trying to eat something. They get more aggressive around the zoo for whatever reason.
Anyway it's really something else.
Re: Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
#10Crows are very underrated in terms of intelligence.
Well naturalists rate them very highly at least [0]. In my own experience as a driver crows are some of the few animals that understand cars. Horses, deer and dogs will happily run in front of an approaching car while crows on roadkill fly away as a car approaches and return as soon as it has passed.