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Not exactly rocket science: Male bowerbirds create forced perspective illusions that only females see

you go boy

I love bird cognition. I have a tattoo in honor of New Caledonian crows.

Hljothlegur said:

Is this in fact your shoulder?

back of my shoulder. nice flat area for a tattoo. I've had it for a while now, and one day want another but haven't figured out what I want yet.

I settled on the birds as a theme for that one, and burned a cd with media of birds from the website of a lab in Oxford–Betty and Abel. asked a tattoo artist to compose a picture for me.

Flanders said:

In the Company of Crows and Ravens is moderately mind-blowing. Turns out that one of the top corvid researchers is in my home town (Seattle, which hosts an abundance of crows). A lot of the crows you see around here have been banded, and some have two or three research tags on their legs–in fact, many of the local crows now recognize this guy and his graduate students by sight and will approach them to demand Cheetos (which the researchers use to lure the birds).

"Cheetos, bitch!"

A murder of crows demanding something sounds a little scary!