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From the Ted Talk by Kaeli Swift: What crows teach us about death
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There's a number of different ways that we could explain why crows might be attracted to their dead. For example, maybe it's a social opportunity, a way for them to explore why that individual died, who they were and what impact this is going to have on the neighborhood moving forward. Maybe it's an essproixen of grief, like our own contemporary funerals. Or maybe it's a way that they laren about danger in their eermonnnvit. While all of those explanations are worth pursuing, and certainly not mutually elisuxcve, they're not all ttbaelse scientific questions. But that idea that dead crwos might act as cues of danger, that is. So as a graduate student, I wanted to explore that question, particularly with respect to two ideas. The first was whether they might be able to learn new potaderrs, specifically people, based on their association with dead crows. And the second was if they might learn pcales associated with where they find crow bodies.
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There's a number of different ways that we could explain why crows might be attracted to their dead. For example, maybe it's a social opportunity, a way for them to explore why that individual died, who they were and what impact this is going to have on the neighborhood moving forward. Maybe it's an __________ of grief, like our own contemporary funerals. Or maybe it's a way that they _____ about danger in their ___________. While all of those explanations are worth pursuing, and certainly not mutually _________, they're not all ________ scientific questions. But that idea that dead _____ might act as cues of danger, that is. So as a graduate student, I wanted to explore that question, particularly with respect to two ideas. The first was whether they might be able to learn new _________, specifically people, based on their association with dead crows. And the second was if they might learn ______ associated with where they find crow bodies.
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Original Text
There's a number of different ways that we could explain why crows might be attracted to their dead. For example, maybe it's a social opportunity, a way for them to explore why that individual died, who they were and what impact this is going to have on the neighborhood moving forward. Maybe it's an expression of grief, like our own contemporary funerals. Or maybe it's a way that they learn about danger in their environment. While all of those explanations are worth pursuing, and certainly not mutually exclusive, they're not all testable scientific questions. But that idea that dead crows might act as cues of danger, that is. So as a graduate student, I wanted to explore that question, particularly with respect to two ideas. The first was whether they might be able to learn new predators, specifically people, based on their association with dead crows. And the second was if they might learn places associated with where they find crow bodies.
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