Crow Wisdom

"A thirsty crow once found a pitcher with a little water in it. But when he tired to drink the water, he could not. The pitcher was tall and his beak didn't reach the water. The cleaver crow thought and hit upon a plan. He went on dropping pebbles into the pitcher. The water rose up to its neck and he quenched his thirst."

Wow .. what a clever crow he was !!!

Recently, I noticed that I have been ignoring one of the common thing about Kolkata, my current city, and that is a lot of crows. Crow are in front of my house, playing park, streets, market and almost every where. They start their day early at 5PM, many times I have been woke up very early morning by their chatter.

I started my research and found some interesting articles on the intelligence of crows. One of my favorite is talk by Joshua Klein and his elegant machine over crows. listen TED Talk.

What may be more interesting is how crow behave in a group. Today I saw crows seems like talking to each other in a group.

As summary, some of the fascinating behavior about crows are:

1. "Never Die Attitude"
2. "Ultimately find the way"
3. "Adaptability"
4. "Negotiate Everything", well you might seen them negotiating among themselves.

Happy crowing!!!