The Benefits of Observing Burbs in Their Natural Home Externally From Afar

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The research involves observing the burbs in their natural home externally from afar. Instead of tracking and tagging or killing and dissecting the animals, you're like, we can look at their brain activity using functional MRIs. We use a process called FDG pet. The reason that we don't use an MRI is that you could not train a crow to go into an MRI and not have a meltdown.

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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