Seattle Times

Crow funerals unlock secrets about bird brains

For nearly every step of his almost-12-mile walk in Seattle, Darryl Dyer has company. Flocks of crows follow him, signaling one another, because they all know that he’s the guy with the peanuts. “They ...
NBC New York

‘Big Brain': Crows Remember, Mourn Fallen Friends

For nearly every step of his almost 12-mile walk, Darryl Dyer has company. Flocks of crows follow him, signaling each other, because they all know that he's the guy with the peanuts. "They know your ...
The Stranger

Study of Seattle Crows Finds Some Have Sex With the Dead

If you've seen a strange woman wandering around your neighborhood with a pair of binoculars and a stuffed crow, it might have been Kaeli Swift. Swift, a PhD candidate and bird researcher at UW, is the ...
KGW8

Study shows what happens when crows see death

SEATTLE (AP) - Scientists for years have known that crows have great memories, that they can recognize a human face and behavior, and can pass that information onto their offspring. Nowadays, ...
The Jackson Sun

Crows are smarter than we think

SEATTLE — For nearly every step of his almost 12-mile walk, Darryl Dyer has company. Flocks of crows follow him, signaling each other, because they all know that he’s the guy with the peanuts. “They ...
The Fayetteville Observer

Do crows mourn for the dead?

SEATTLE - For nearly every step of his almost 12-mile walk, Darryl Dyer has company. Flocks of crows follow him, signaling each other, because they all know that he's the guy with the peanuts. "They ...
WRAL

Why are some crows committing acts of necrophilia?

The setting was romantic enough. Sunny spring day. A cherry tree blossoming a vivid pink. One party, the suitor, was dark, fetching and amorous. But the other party lay there like a corpse. It was, in ...