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Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's on the cutting room for today? Missus? Woots?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Do you like science?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I love science.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I used to love being in the science class, melting
stuff with buns and burners and the like, letting off
big egg gas things.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You're still good at that. Do you like science about animals?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Sure, drill down even? Do you like science about birds?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We had to cut open a bird at school once,
did you?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I had a frog and a rat.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
What kind of bird was it?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It was like I forgot what sort of bird it was?
It was a dead bird. We didn't have to kill it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The years before at my school the kids had to
kill the frog and the rat. They'd had to actually
kill it and then dissect it and spring it out
on a little board.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Does it be? On two thousand I worked with a
cameraman used to rats as pets, and we were just
talking in a lab one day and he's got his
headphones on, and this guy in a lab coat was
preparing to be interviewed by us, and he just picked
out a rat and book bank the back, whack the
back of its head on a bench to kill it.
And this sounder course is going, well, it'll be like
us watching a dog being killed. They were his pets.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, although it's not out of character for a sound
recorders to be unusual, to be unusual and keep rats
like in the TV game.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
In the Levy game, the soundercord is the one saying,
when are we having lunch?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yep, always first for lunch, always first to just when
you're on a flow of doing something and everything's working well,
batteries of golde although I better check the.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Batches and may you've been sitting there twiddling your farms
for the last half an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, when you do it, then that's them. But let's
talk about crows and not russell Crows can hold grudges
for up to seventeen years. This was what these people
have discovered. New research has shown that these birds and
crows apparently have long been considered the most intelligent of
the avian species. They're good at recognizing faces. So this
(02:04):
study imagine putting this study to the funding body. The
study began in two thousand and six Professor John Museloff,
an environmental scientist in the University of Washington. He put
on a scary mask and captured seven crows in a net.
So he captured seven crows Inday.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
He's wearing a scary mask.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yes, and he ran around with a big net by
the child snatchure in gg bang Bang, I.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Imagine Brendan Shaw. Then he released the birds unharmed, but
he put identification rings on their legs. He then had
He and his assistants would occasionally wear the mask in
subsequent years as they walked around campus, feeding the crows
and recording the reaction. On one occasion, he said he
(02:47):
was subjected to aggressive scowling cause caused caws noise from
these crows.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Not the cause was a successful family that sings from Ireland.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, Brandon, it's this way you make science so hard.
He was subjected to aggressive noises from forty seven out
of the fifty three crows that he encountered. Now, considering
that that number of crows was so much higher than
the original number he captured in his so called scary mask,
this means that the crows learned to recognize the mask.
(03:19):
They learned to recognize threatening humans from their parents and
their relatives. This information was somehow passed on.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Wow, so the crows talk to each other?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Will they either talk to each other or giving birth?
They passed that knowledge on. I don't know. That's probably
what's being discussed. But you should know very well that
a bird can hold a grudge for seventeen years. Slide
your wife once. Oh she's not going to forget. They
don't even have to wear a scary mask.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was thinking of the bird I'm looking at right
now that I've worked with for almost twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Do you want to go cool?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
And when I say cor, I'm not talking about any.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's science for today.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Okay, kids, that's it for today. Come back tomorrow for more.
Jonesy and a Man is cutting room floor