True Story: At Camp Woodstock, on Crystal Lake in Wascott in northern Wisconsin, we had very old fishing line (20 years old?) and we still caught a few walleye. Puck says: That was a miracle! (When we cleaned the fish, we thru the fish guts on the side-hill where a grey fox was waiting to eat.)
What crows can teach us about death | Dr. Kaeli Swift | TEDxSalem
Humans have paid attention to the behaviors of animals around their dead for centuries, but science has only recently given it more serious study. This talk explores what animals, particularly crows, do around their dead and what this might teach us about the evolution of our own behaviors.
To learn more about Dr. Swifts research you can check out her blog https://corvidresearch.blog/ Kaeli received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2018, where she studied American crow thanatology. She is currently a lecturer in the UW's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences where she teaches ornithology, conservation, and wildlife ecology.
Like the crooked man who lived in a crooked house, it was the characterful, not to say skew-whiff, nature of the house that first drew him there: ‘It works quite well with the higgledy-piggledy of my collecting.’
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