In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a compelling discussion of how crows build resilient telecommunications networks using termite mounds. Cro

In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a compelling discussion of how crows build resilient telecommunications networks using termite mounds. Crows are smart as hell -- as a gardener, I've seen their devious intelligence all too often -- example : I had a pretty successful [commercially-produced] scarecrow in place for several weeks, which I'd move every night to prevent the birds getting inured to its presence and / or aware that it was a fake. I forgot to move it one night and then went out just before dawn next morning to move it; I seen an early crow peering at me from the mulberry tree. When I came home that afternoon, every single corn seedling in the place had been snapped!