Can you get gifts from crows? Well, I have so far in my garden. I think I've gotten

a lipstick bottle from like the 50s, which apparently on Etsy is worth like 50 dollars

if I clean it up. It's like a vintage lipstick case. So profitable. And then I've gotten

a pine cone, a key, a railroad steak, and a couple other things. But we have Dr. Caleys

with back in the show, PhD in avian behavioral ecology, and also known as Corvid research

all over the internet. I don't know if you've seen these little funny little pieces I've

made Caley about getting the gifts, but I've gotten some crazy stuff. And it's not been

because I knew how to do it. So I'd love to kind of refine my understanding of, I guess

maybe starting with, why does this even happen? Why do they do this? Yeah. So I should

have told you at the top of the episode to introduce me as Dr. Webb Blanket, because

that's what it's going to be. So this is the deal. Your experience of crows leaving things

in your yard, totally valid. That is the thing. Many people have experience. We get emails

about this, all kinds of like cool, interesting, sometimes seemingly valuable stuff. Sometimes

things they really don't want. But like, that's a real thing. The, the Webb Blanket though

comes into it when we use that word gift. So that, you know, for us, that implies a gesture

of gratitude. And I'm not saying that that's not what they're doing, but I can tell you

that we have no, no one's done any work to actually show if that's what's happening.

I get it. And there are other ways that we could describe that. Look, these, these birds,

like we've talked about before, they live in these complex environments. They're constantly

seeking out and trying new foods. They're really interesting. We won't get into this,

but they're, they're a really interesting paradoxical animal because they're incredibly

neophobic, which means they're scared of new things. And yet they live in a constantly

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