Birds are really awesome...
May. 28th, 2009 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackel...and corvids are really damn smart. I'm sure that many of you would be interested in this awesome newsclip about tool use by captive rooks under experimental conditions. I would really love to read a more scholarly or at least more detailed description of this work, and maybe when I'm not incredibly tired I will scour the internets for more. Still, way to go, lovely, smart little rooks!
On that subject, I obtained Mr. Conureface and Miz Kaya a new foraging toy, sort of a rubber mesh oval cage that I plan to fill with treats, which they have to pull out of the holes in the toy. Petco was selling this thing for birds for ~$6, but I noticed the exact thing, only slightly larger and sans chain, marketed for dogs, in the discount bin for ~$3. Score! I wish the local pet stores carried more foraging type toys; I don't buy much on line anymore. When I do the big toy rearrange tomorrow, I will see what Osbick does with some of the ones Gavin and Kaya have figured out.
That's about all. Other than
We, 
the 
obnoxious 
little 
dragons 
.
On that subject, I obtained Mr. Conureface and Miz Kaya a new foraging toy, sort of a rubber mesh oval cage that I plan to fill with treats, which they have to pull out of the holes in the toy. Petco was selling this thing for birds for ~$6, but I noticed the exact thing, only slightly larger and sans chain, marketed for dogs, in the discount bin for ~$3. Score! I wish the local pet stores carried more foraging type toys; I don't buy much on line anymore. When I do the big toy rearrange tomorrow, I will see what Osbick does with some of the ones Gavin and Kaya have figured out.
That's about all. Other than
We, the obnoxious little dragons .
