http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/09/13/graduate-student-discovers-a-bird-funeral Comments On: Graduate Student Discovers a Bird Funeral by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
If you pay attention when you hear a lot of crows cawing, and go to where they are, you can usually see something pretty interesting. Either it's going to be a funeral (especially if it's happening at first light, like I mentioned) or it's going to be crows harassing a bald eagle or a hawk.
Posted by bethm]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:20:35 -0700 The Stranger Posted by CbytheSea]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:08:13 -0700 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:53:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by JenV]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:34:12 -0700 The Stranger do you think that she would just randomly decide to start studying what the birds do when they see a dead conspecific? she did these studies because she already knew, from observations made by others, that these birds do something very interesting around dead conspecifics.
now, what she DID do that is totally awesome is study WHY they do this. that is what should be the focus here.
Posted by onion]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:03:59 -0700 The Stranger
That's got to be the most Mudedesque phrase yet.
Posted by sarah70]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:10:20 -0700 The Stranger Posted by onion]]> Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:52:48 -0700 The Stranger
But anthropomorphizing behaviors as "funerals" is a stretch. While labeling behaviors with human terms is dubiously useful in a very loose analogous way, I'd caution projecting too much onto animals. We just don't really know what's going on.
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