• Question: What happened to the crows?

    Asked by Jack Nowell to Kirsty, Ben on 14 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Kirsty Miller

      Kirsty Miller answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      Which crows?! 😉

    • Photo: Ben Kenward

      Ben Kenward answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      I raised some baby crows of the New Caledonian sort, to find out how they learned to use tools. What happened to them was rather strange. When I left Oxford University, my Professor arranged to have them sent to Germany, where they lived in a castle looked after by a Bavarian princess, who was also a bird researcher, and already had tame jackdaws and rooks. I went to see them once, and she was talking to them like she was a bird herself. Sadly I think they are all dead now – this was a while back.

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