The Thoughtful Animal
Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Ravens, Superbowl Edition
February 4th, 2013 |
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The triumph of corvids over numbers yesterday in the Super Bowl meant two things to me: first, that ornithology continues to trounce math in any contest that matters, and second, that I would have to follow up this weekend’s groundhog post with a post about the amazingness of one of the most clever of winged [...]
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The Thoughtful Animal
Snowboarding Crows: The Plot Thickens
January 16th, 2012 |
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On Friday, I quickly posted this video, which shows a crow – likely a hooded crow (thanks to a commenter at Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog for the ID) – appearing to “snowboard” down the roof of a Russian building, using a small object as a makeshift snowboard. Over at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal also [...]
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