Evelyn Smough: Testing corvid intelligence by giving them notebook paper and a pencil and seeing how long it takes them to draw the Cool S.

Look, I think it's time that we as a society finally admit that we have moved beyond the need for toddlers.

That crow looks so happy that I refuse to believe it has ever witnessed the horror of a Texas Instruments graphing calculator

Crows are pretty smart. I bet if it did, it quickly learned how to make those crude little flipbook "animation" programs in the calculator, where like 8 walks across the screen and fires decimal bullets out of the equals sign or something.

brb starting a charity that gives graphing calculators to crows, because I want to see them flourish like that

Testing corvid intelligence by giving them notebook paper and a pencil and seeing how long it takes them to draw the Cool S.

I might just be a very stupid crow but even though it was once explained to me, I forgor.

It's a quick hop from there to opening their own tattoo parlors, where they'd use their beaks as needles.

They're already tool users, so they could probably learn to do shitty stick-and-poke tattoos with broken BICs pretty easily. There's something that delights me about imagining crows as middle/high school "bad kids."

I can't shake the feeling that we're flirting with our own downfall as a species, here, and yet it's hard to be too angry. They're just feathery cats with beaks.

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