Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim
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Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim
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#2Re: Crows are capable of recursion, scientists claim
#3Well, this makes them more capable than some project managers.
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#4Linguistic recursion, rather than algorithmic recursion (?)
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#5Was it tail recursion?
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#6So, crows, cetaceans, octopuses, and elephants… let’s just be thankful that all of the other smart animals can’t manipulate their environments at scale.
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#7 def caw():
print(“Crow on the tower of Hanoi say…”)
caw()
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#8Linguistic recursion, rather than algorithmic recursion (?)
Yes, it appears that they have taught the crows to write some kind of LISP-like expressions with nested parentheses, which is what is meant here by recursion.
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#9So, crows, cetaceans, octopuses, and elephants… let’s just be thankful that all of the other smart animals can’t manipulate their environments at scale.
Elephants can rip up trees at a pretty impressive scale.
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#10"They do not seem to possess anything similar to human language"
They definitively have ways of telling each other things. Just how they do it and what the limits of it are, I guess we don't know.
What I'd like to see is trying these tasks on a flock, rather than individual birds.