Jason Torchinsky is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Jason has a book out now, Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a tinkerer and artist and writes for the Onion News Network. He lives with a common-law wife, five animals, too many old cars, and a shed full of crap.
This NPR story basically confirms what I’ve always suspected: crows are very smart, and I never should have said those terrible things to that crow a few years back.
I really like crows, and occasionally I’ll get a, well, murder of them in my backyard, where they all sit around and caw and cackle to each other, making a huge cacophony that sounds like some large family gatherings I’ve tried unsuccessfully to avoid. Maybe it’s some sort of crow senate. Regardless, they’re smart, and they know what you look like.