<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">If you have never read a book on birds and their behaviors, you are really missing out. Like nearly everything but used tires, they are much more complex than you think, and much smarter, esp. the covids. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 8:52 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Subject: [ExI] The Magpie Whisperer<br>
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Woman Gives Toys to a Wild Magpie — and He Invites His Friends Over to<br>
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Danielle had just moved into her new home when all of a sudden, a wild magpie landed at her feet. He would follow her around and sit on her knee. Then, he brought his son over. Before long, 25 teenage magpies were playing in her yard!<br>
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Really intelligent birds! :)<br>
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Cool, thanks BillK!<br>
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We have ravens around here which do things like this: find a person they perceive as sympathetic and hang around in their yard. They somehow perceive things like that. They fight and play too, more than any mammal species I know other than humans.<br>
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spike<br>
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