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Crazy Smart Crows and Migrating Animals

By gregladen on February 1, 2013.

Skeptically Speaking #198 is now available for your listening pleasure. The main part of the show has Desiree Schell interviewing James Gould, co-author of Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation.

Nature's Compass book

Great book on animal migration

The 15 minute side bar has Desiree interviewing me about recent research on the New Caledonian crows (this research).

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This week, we’re looking at some of the amazing abilities exhibited by our animal cousins. We’ll speak to James Gould, co-author of Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation, about the varying strategies animals use to find their way across all kinds of distances. And biological anthropologist Greg Laden discusses new research on the surprising reasoning abilities of some extremely intelligent crows.

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Aves (birds)
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New Caledonian Crow

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