A Murder of Crows

Did you know that a group of crows is called a murder?

Did you know that crows are ranked among chimps and elephants as the smartest animals in the world?

Yeah, neither did I!

Here's a great PBS special on the intelligence of crows. I learned all kinds of fun facts about these creepy corvids! But I was most excited to learn that the US Department of Defense is funding the U of WA research with crows' facial recognition abilities!!! Isn't that crazy?! It gives me hope that one day, my avian behavior research might be important enough to receive funding from the government...

Ha ha ha! Yeah right!

Anyway, enjoy the show!

Watch the full episode. See more Nature.

No Time for Blogging!

But I still have time for SCIENCE!

In this week's news, National Geographic has announced that it officially stole my Watson Fellowship proposal and turned it into a television special.

It was my idea first!!!! Curse you Nat Geo!!!!

No, I take it back. I love Nat Geo. But they better make it up to me some day. Perhaps with my own TV show? Yes please.

Ok, back to the point. Great Migrations! I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am for this television series!!! I mean, I had proposed to spend an entire year of my life dedicated to studying massive migratory phenomena!!!

And massive animal migrations raise so much awareness for conservation issues! Animals that migrate don't adhere to our strict political boundaries. If we want to effectively prevent their extinction, we must work together and fight to conserve critical points along their 10,000 mile migration routes! Oh, it's so beautiful!

Alright, now that I've gushed about that, you should check out some of the beautiful photos from the series!

Oooooh!!!! So beautiful!
Also, I must apologize for my excessive use of exclamation marks in this post. I just get really excited about this topic...