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Video of Wild Crow Tool Use Caught With Tail Cams
willatnewscientist writes "Scientists from the University of Oxford have recorded New Caledonian crows using tools in the wild for first time. The footage was captured by attaching tiny cameras to their tail feathers. The wireless cameras weigh just 14 grammes and can be worn by the crows without disturbing their natural behavior. The trick has provided the first direct evidence of the birds' using tools in the wild and may represent an important development in animal behavior studies. 'The camera also contains a simple radio transmitter that reveals the crows' location. This lets the researchers track them at a distance of few hundred metres, so that they can catch the camera's video signal with a portable receiving dish. Up to 70 minutes of footage can be broadcast by the camera's chip, and the camera is shed once the bird moults its tail feathers.'"
@circletimesquare:
I am producing a documentary about how Free Open Source Software is going to change world culture by shifting balance of trade between the developed and developing world and by teaching the power of collaboration as opposed to hoarding. The film is called the Digital Tipping Point. What tools did you use to do your funny horror movie linked in your sig line? We are looking for collaborators who use FOSS tools.
> "Actually, whales are fish. They look like fish, smell like fish, and they live in the ocean. And if you have a large enough hook, you can catch them the same way you normally fish smaller fish"
George Bush looks fishy. His politics stink like week-old dead fish. He lives surrounded by an ocean of the clueless. And given a large enough legal hook, he can be caught just the same as smaller fish.
But Bush isn't a fish - just a lying scumbag.