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Crowbars: Vending Machines Reward Crows for Cleaning Up Cigarette Butts
Each year, trillions of cigarette butts are thrown on the streets of cities worldwide, but what if a highly intelligent urban creature could be trained to pick them up, and even be automatically gi…
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I've always had great respect for crows and other birds that show a true capacity for intelligence. What a fantastic idea, and also quite embarrassing for the smartest of the apes!
Same here. A family of crows nest in our neighbor's pine tree every year.. And yep,it's quite humiliating for a certain segment of humanity.
Crows cleaning up after lazy humans.
Lazy humans, or are the crows smarter?
It's a shame cause humans are adept learners, able to use tools and think outside the box.If only we could get humans to stop throwing them on the ground. We should be able to teach them this.But humans are too lazy,inconsiderate,stupid and selfish to do the right thing. They seem to think the butt will just vanish once it's flicked away. That being said,I think crows are smarter than smokers.
I am going with the crows on this one! :)