The Complexity of Crow Brains

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Crows, ravens, and magpies are excellent mimics. John had already started to do some studies with the functional imaging work that we do where we look at crow brains. He thought it would be really cool if we would show them a dead crow because humans for a long time have known that crows respond really strongly to their dead. This is that idea is not something that I contributed to humankind.

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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