One of the researchers involved in the original experiment: "The machine was never successfully used by the wild crows. They were always too afraid to get near

One of the researchers involved in the original experiment: "The machine was never successfully used by the wild crows. They were always too afraid to get near it and when the mechanics were on, forget it, they wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. Our wild crows never dealt with it and the box itself certainly never, ever saw our captive zoo crows (as implied in later articles). We ended up parting ways with the TED speaker because we felt that he was jumping the gun on the results, and the multiple media articles with false claims really put us off." http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1wac0p/howdy_unidan_here_with_five_much_better/cf047yz http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1wac0p/howdy_unidan_he...