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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

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Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts.

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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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Corvid Cleaning: Deploys Crows to Clean Up Cigarette Butts in Sweden

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    Are they in line to use the machine? I don’t understand why they’re not fighting over the dispensed peanuts. Hierarchy maybe?

    Edit: answers and video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TklOxbWfRDM

    https://geeksaroundglobe.com/swedish-startup-trains-wild-crows-to-pick-up-cigarette-butts-in-exchange-for-food/

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      8 days ago

      Crows are socialists

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        8 days ago

        What does a crow gulag looks like?

        • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.world
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          Never been one, you’d have to ask the communist and fascist birds

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          Very similar to current day capitalist ones

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