Australian Magpies cooperating to remove GPS trackers, playing. Off topic post

[cdev]

These crow-like birds are pretty smart. And pretty cute.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458

https://www.engadget.com/magpies-defeat-tracking-attempts-174742898.html

  This is really cute.





https://theconversation.com/altruism-in-birds-magpies-have-outwitted-scientists-by-helping-each-other-remove-tracking-devices-175246

https://theconversation.com/magpies-can-form-friendships-with-people-heres-how-83950

https://www.youtube.com/embed/E2IJQc-MGDs?rel=0 (12 videos here. they are playing like human children do. They are obviously quite intelligent.)

Playing with pinwheels

[jwet]

That's really funny.  I work with Ornithologists as an electronic consultant and have been involved with some of these tracking type devices.  We had a bald eagle that we had a fancy GPS/LEO Satellite tag that we tracked for over a year but one day he just stopped.  I've always wondered what happened.  Its fascinating to watch these birds and how they can avoid major weather events, really cool.

[Nominal Animal]

When you observe birds as intelligent as corvids, it tends to change how you think of them.

For example, here's some crows playing in snow on the top of a car in Russia: