Comments on: The amazing intelligence of crows: Joshua Klein on TED.com http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/13/joshua_klein/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:39:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sarah Gates http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/13/joshua_klein/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/05/joshua_klein/#comment-757 I’ve always loved crows and I could never really put my finger on why they seemed so much more human than other birds. Its nice to see they’re so clever. :)

]]> By: Syed Imon Rizvi http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/13/joshua_klein/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/05/joshua_klein/#comment-758 Very true. Crows are supposed to be the first ones to teach humans how to dig a grave and bury corpse. Funny! but true.

]]> By: Carrick Baugh http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/13/joshua_klein/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/05/joshua_klein/#comment-759 I can see some beggar king with a flock of crows scouring the city for lost spare change, and accosting anyone trying to feed a parking meter.

This is a cool idea though. I presume they could be taught to collect trash and sort recyclables. I guess you’d need to have someone watching the box via webcam to authorize the reward — an easy low paying (low overhead cost) job.

Now, the icing on the cake would be teaching them to poop in one spot for a peanut — cleaner city, compost the poo.

]]> By: kyle qi http://blog.ted.com/2008/05/13/joshua_klein/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/05/joshua_klein/#comment-760 ….maybe do search and rescue is an intriguing innovation. has purpose!

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