Saturday, August 8, 2009

The Crow and the Pitcher.


My Internet Browser crashed just now due to too much information loaded.. haha

Before that happened, i was reading an interesting news article on Yahoo! news about scientists discovering a new behavior on crows. Apparently, the result of the experiment might prove that Aesop's Fables may be true.

When we were kids, we often read of a story about a crow trying desperately hard to have a drink from a pitcher. It fills in the pitcher with stones in order to make the water rise up in order to get a sip of the water.

Well, the scientists found the relatives of crows called rooks ( rooks and crows were known as crows during the old days ) did the same thing in order to get to a floating worm in a 6" tall plastic tube in order to get to their food. They even estimated how many and the size of stones to fill in the tube in order to get to the worm.

Isn't that cool? Now let us pray that the goose that layed golden eggs is proven to be true too shall we?

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