How Smart Are Corvids

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Being a “bird brain” isn’t such a bad thing after all! Dr. Kaeli Swift talks about the misunderstandings of the brains and intelligence of Corvids. EG shop homepage: https://growepic.co/3NTyn9I EG books: https://growepic.co/3rwDXaw EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/44nsmJH Connect With Kaeli Swift: Dr. Swift earned her PhD in avian behavioral ecology from the University of Washington. While there, she studied American crows, with a special emphasis on behaviors around death. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, where she is studying the breeding ecology of the Tinian monarch. Video, audio, and print reports of her research have been featured by: National Geographic, PBS, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Ologies podcast, Science Friday and many others. Blog Twitter Instagram TikTok Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Crow Week here on the podcast, my friends.
0:16.2	Actually, I guess we should call it Corvid Week because we have Dr. Swift on the podcast
0:21.0	with a PhD in avian behavioral ecology, also known as Corvid Research all across the internet.
0:27.7	I know we talked yesterday about a bit about how we know how intelligent the Corvid family
0:35.6	or genus, I don't know the right Latin name there, but either way, how we know how smart
0:39.2	they are.
0:40.2	But I'd love to dive in a bit deeper maybe just starting with with crows themselves.
0:44.7	Sure.
0:45.7	Yeah.
0:46.7	So we, just to remind listeners or maybe folks that didn't catch yesterday's episode,
0:53.1	when we say crows, we're describing a bunch of different birds.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:58.2	So we could be talking about American crows, fish crows, New Caledonian crows, Hooded
1:00.7	Crows, Carian Crows.
1:02.4	And so our understanding of their intelligence comes from, you know, human observations
1:08.8	of these birds, right, that span across the globe and across time.
1:12.6	I think people, certain communities of people have appreciated how intelligent these
1:17.0	crows, these animals are for a very long time.
1:20.7	And then in complement and kind of alongside to that traditional knowledge is then the
1:25.5	Western scientific work that has come to sort of systemat, you know, in that scientific
1:32.9	method approach attempted to then tease that out in that specific way.
1:39.0	And so through that effort, we have been able to figure out that these, these birds are
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