tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683359865051696135.post1888108131203275574..comments2023-05-30T09:36:56.374-04:00Comments on Tea For Today: Conventions With TeaMarlenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075020988377774265noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683359865051696135.post-174638238315156892012-03-27T17:28:32.094-04:002012-03-27T17:28:32.094-04:00I have seen film clips of jays and crows making to...I have seen film clips of jays and crows making tools to get to something they want. I have watched them figure out how to get into the feeders, which are a tight fit and teach their kids to do the same - they are amazing. I have also seen them set up an assembly line arrangement to eat, where one is watching, one is taking food, one flies up in a tree to eat, round and round, plus making a large racket when the dish was empty and doing a round about arrangement to show me the dish needed to be filled.Marlenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01075020988377774265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683359865051696135.post-55041170577351669612012-03-27T16:27:25.982-04:002012-03-27T16:27:25.982-04:00I'm glad that your ginger is doing well! That...I'm glad that your ginger is doing well! That's exciting! =)<br /><br />I find large gatherings of crows highly amusing. I wonder what they're communicating with each other. When I studied ornithology, I was fascinated by the amount of research that has been done within the past 10 years or so which has established, scientifically, that crows and other corvids (jays, ravens, etc.) are doing very sophisticated things. Those large flocks definitely discuss where to find food, but groups of birds also do things like forming friendships, seeking out recreational activities, and the like, and individual birds have been shown to make sophisticated decisions involving reasoning based on the personalities of other individaul birds. Given how hard it is to actually show any of these things scientifically, I suspect it's highly likely that they're actually discussing many of the things that you mention here...it sounds silly, but the more I observe birds, the more I realize that they actually know a lot more about what's going on than we might initially think.Alex Zorachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335878680429494039noreply@blogger.com