Ravens and Magpies Are Excellent, Excellent Mimics

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Crows and magpies are excellent mimics. Ther their essentially parrots. Crazy? No, maybe not quite in terms of the a volume of their vocabulary, but their accuracy to the human voice outstanding. So when kale got to graduate school, she started looking into projects that involved these complex fascinating, big bird brains. John had already started to do some studies with the functional imaging work that we look at crow brans,. And he had already been inspired doing that, like, it would be really cool if we would show them a dead crocus.

Crows have funerals? CROWS HAVE FUNERALS. The inky black bird with the big brain warns and maybe mourns around their fallen friends and Dr. Kaeli Swift is here to tell us all about it. As an avid wildlife researcher and corvid specialist, she's observed death behaviors that will shock you to your bones and ruffle your hackles -- while somehow also making you cry about peanuts. Also: so much inspiration to keep being yourself and to work hard toward what you love. She is a hero.

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