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Photograph by Tim Walker for Vogue December 2011 In northern Mongolia, reindeer territory, 13-year-old Puje fearlessly explores the wild landscape.
Called “feathered apes” for their simianlike smarts, crows use tools, understand physics, and recognize themselves and humans. But new research suggests that the brainy birds may be even smarter than was previously thought. Given a complex problem and an assortment of tools, New Caledonian crows came up with a creative solution that hints at higher-order thinking. (See link.)
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A Murmuration of Starlings by Richard Barnes: Each fall and winter vast flocks of starlings gather in Rome, foraging in the countryside during the day and returning to the city to roost. Their flight patterns, surrendering the will of the individual to the flock may be as a defensive tactic to evade falcons, but may also be seen as inscribing, like Pins on the sky, a mysterious pointillistic message in the canvas of the sky. tinyurl.com/3kefx8b #Starlings #Richard_Barnes
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