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Rooks Are Smarter Than Many Americans

By bleimanb on August 14, 2009.

A) They're English so they have a bigger vocabulary than the average Nascar obsessed "ravens".
B) They can figure out how to do this...***

***We at Zooillogix are adamant in our belief that humans ARE in fact the only species that use tools in their environments and are not fooled by footage like this. Case closed.

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We at Zooillogix are adamant in our belief that humans ARE in fact the only species that use tools in their environments and are not fooled by footage like this. Case closed.

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It's interesting that those tattoos do a better job of realistically representing the cephalopod eye (the one that's visible in each, anyway!) than most cartoons do. There are probably cartoony versions of cephalopods on tattoos too though.