Treat a crow to candy - and he will demonstrate his remarkable intelligence (6 photos)
Englishwoman Laura Williamson took these unique shots on the playground. They show how a crow, trying to get to food, carefully unwraps a candy wrapper - and enjoys the sweetness with a feeling of deep satisfaction. By the way, scientists say that there is nothing surprising in this: city crows are not much inferior in their abilities to a seven-year-old child!
The unique footage was taken by 56-year-old Laura Williamson in the British city of Deeside. A hungry crow, having found a sweet Mars bar on the playground, began to carefully unwrap it with its beak. Pretty soon she succeeded and, clearly satisfied with herself, hid the bar for a rainy day. Williamson was not at a loss and managed to take a whole series of photographs proving the intelligence and dexterity of these well-known birds.
Having found the candy bar, the crow immediately settled down on the playground and began to free it from its wrapper. Very soon she managed to bite through the foil.
“I love nature, including birds,” says Mrs Williamson, a social worker from Deeside. “So when I saw a crow trying to free the sweets from a piece of paper, I decided to get closer. Then the crow flew to the roof of the nursery complex, and then onto a high branch. After some time, she descended back to the ground."
In the end, having descended from the tree, the crow immediately buried the sweet bar, freed from the candy wrapper, in its underground pantry. “Looking at her, I once again understood why sweets and chocolates can kill an animal, especially a bird,” says Williamson. “If a bird eats foil, it can die! Therefore, I ask both children and parents to be careful with candies in candy wrappers, Don't throw them anywhere. Don't harm the animals!"
Scientists do not see anything unusual in the fact that a crow can not only take candy out of a candy wrapper, but also unwrap it. They believe that in terms of their abilities, crows are not much different from five- to seven-year-old children.
