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But to be fairer (to crows), I've witnessed crows just cross the yellow painted lines in a road to get to safety. They've adapted to our traffic rules.
by djtriptych 7y ago
But to be fairer (to crows), I've witnessed crows just cross the yellow painted lines in a road to get to safety. They've adapted to our traffic rules.
- ajuc 7y agoThey 'bomb' the street with walnuts where i live to open them. That's smart but not that impressive. What's impressive is - they don't do it on the parking lots where cars rarely drive, nor on the main road where cars drive constantly. They target pedestrian crossing near the main road, wait for cars to crack the walnut, then eat it. They understand where the perfect number of cars is gonna be.
- andromeduck 7y agoCould also just be trial and error.
- aerique 7y agoWhich also sums up most of human history.
- ubertakter 7y agoNormally I try not to contribute useless comments, but I found this to be a particularly hilarious, laughing-out-loud at my desk observation.
- zentiggr 7y ago"... and has widely been considered a bad idea." Thanks, Douglas Adams :)
- gh43weah43ew 7y agoExploration vs exploitation in action.
- CPLX 7y agoIs there any other form of learning?
- stjohnswarts 7y agohumans are able to take concepts and and predict with 100% accuracy what will happen next without trial and error. We also have arithmetic which also is not trial and error.
- CPLX 7y ago> We also have arithmetic which also is not trial and error. How did you learn arithmetic?
- barberousse 7y agoWe're getting into Hume/Kant territory
- Tyr42 7y agoAnd crosswalks are great, as when the light changes, they have the chance to eat it without getting run over.
- ajuc 7y agoThese particular ones have no lights. But people are still more careful around them so still good idea I guess.
- stjohnswarts 7y agoIn my experience "without getting run over" is very context oriented with the context being "what city are you in".
- jyounker 7y agoIn Davis, CA they would perch on power lines holding a walnut in one claw, positioned over on of the wheel paths, and wait until a car was approaching in the appropriate position, and then drop the walnut just before the car arrived. They had a pretty good success rate. Others just dropped them from high altitudes. I suspect the ones on the power lines were just showing off; as much fun as need.