We Finally Know Why Birds Are So Freakishly Smart

[Chellee]

14. Somewhere on the internet...

you can probably find this video.

I saw a tv show (don't remember what it was called, sorry) about animal intelligence. They showed video of a crow that figured out how to use city traffic to get himself easy access to his dinner. He would pick up a nut, fly over the street and drop it in the crosswalk. Then he would wait for the light to change, allowing the cars to drive over the nut and crack it open. Again, he would wait for the light to change, then he would very casually fly down to the crosswalk, eat the nut pieces and get out of the way before the light changed again. Not only did he use the cars as nutcrackers determining the best placement of the nuts in the street, he figured out where to drop the nut so that a car wouldn't be parked on it, and timed the dropping of the nut to the lights. Smart bird.