Hey short waivers, happy Halloween!

We know that this year's Halloween won't be quite the same, so we've got some creepy,

cool content coming for you.

And to start us off, here's an episode from Last Year's Halloween about crows and their

incredible brains.

You're listening to Shortwave.

From NPR.

Hey everybody, Maddie Sifaya here.

Crows are one of those animals that have been long associated with creepiness.

I mean, come on, a group of crows is called a murder.

I find them a little unsettling, but not in the Alfred Hitchcock, they're coming to

pick your eyes out way.

Do not make a sound until I tell you to run.

What gets me is just how smart they are.

You know, we have this expression bird brained and that comes from a long history of us believing

that birds weren't very intelligent.

And it's only been in the last couple of decades that we've come to appreciate just how

incredibly smart crows are.

That's Kayleigh Swift from the University of Washington.

She did her PhD on Crow Behavior in today.

She's dropping some Crow knowledge on us.

We are going to talk about how crows can learn and remember human faces, how they pay

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