Physics-minded crows bring Aesop’s fable to life

ScienceQ publishing Group 2014-03-27

Summary:

Eureka! Like Archimedes in his bath, crows know how to displace water, showing that Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher isn’t purely fictional. To see if New Caledonian crows could handle some of the basic principles of volume displacement, Sarah Jelbert at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and her colleagues placed scraps […]

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Authors:

Helen R

Date tagged:

03/27/2014, 13:32

Date published:

03/27/2014, 13:25