/sci/ - Science & Math

We need to breed then to be even smarter!

>>11436272
>he doesn't train an army of crows to collect change, steal wallets and take people hostage in exchange of peanuts

>>11436277
thhis

yeah lets train these animals to be completely dependent on humans, I'm sure this will not be detrimental to them in the long term

lol based

>>11436354
if their dependence on humans ceases, they will probably still be able to find food. the evolution doesn't work that quick. and even if it did, probably many animals that won't depend on humans will just die because they will have nowhere to go

I've had a crow throw a walnut in front of me, looking at what I would do. I opened it for her, waved, and nodded. Then I went away and looked at her happily munching on the insides of the walnut.
Truly marvelous beings.

Birds have been used as first line visual inspectors to reject components and reduce the amount of failures at test. They are better at it.
>>11436354
Why are you like this? What is wrong with working together?
>>11436786
When I cut my hair outside. Birds take it away. It is a little embarrassing.

>>11436354
Have you not lived in a city? Large birds are already completely dependent on people, you think there's enough fish to sustain millions of seagulls along the few miles of shore a city occupies? No, they just eat our trash.

Train them to pick shit up and put it in vending machines to get food. Coins, trash, whatever.
Pretty much free cleaning because they can fly around and gather tons of trash so we don't have to provide many nuts per piece.

>>11436272
>How can we exploit the intelligence of crows for ourselves?

Please don't do this. Crows are pure beings. Let them remain so.

Crows are fucking awesome.

>>11436354
being dependent on another animal existing is fine, it's getting domesticated that's the death of true intelligence

>>11436354
That's fine, they'll interbreed with wild crows and create a perfect hybrid. All we have to do is boost their iq's a bit

>>11436978
You need a machine that can see the difference between trash and sticks and pebbles...

>>11436272
>Train them to pickup plastic bottles or something
>Receive a few tree nuts for each plastic bottle
>Completely automated
>Birds clean all the parks and everyone lives happier

>>11436299
>crows form a union

>>11436987
They are the devil's.

>>11436272
make a crow vending machine that uses trash instead of money for free trash collection.

>>11436272
Last fall I heard some crows have a meeting or some strange ritual. One crow would caw for a bit, then a few moments later they would all caw, then repeat. This ordeal went on for at least a good 15 minutes until they all flew off.

>>11439585
I once saw a group of crows hanging out on a roof and one flew into a chimney and lost its balance and I swear all the other ones started laughing at it.

It's called a murder of crows for a reason.

>>11436354
NIGGER

>>11436272
Crows, ravens, and corvids overall have 2.56x denser brains than humans. They can outperform some ape species in intelligence tests that have much larger brains.

>>11440852
I hope we can one day replicate this phenomena in genetic engineering for humans.

Crows are cool and funny so I say film them without express written permission.

Also research needs to be done into the intelligence of ravens. I saw 3 of these fuckers rifling through a cooler in the back of a pickup at Lake Louise. I looked around the parking lot and the majority of pickups without tonneau covers had ravens near them.

>>11440951
If their brains were as large as ours their intelligence would be incomprehensible.

>>11436272
Around here in Germany they developed a kind of crow vending machine that works with thrown away cigarette stubs

>>11441034
Ikr?
One day that'll be us. The dumbest being smarter than einstein just by sheer neural density. Or maybe we should look at other mammals for inspiration, like dolphins...
I bet we're closer related to dolphins than birds

>>11436978
That actually doesn't seem like a bad idea if possible. They could help with cleaning up litter and stuff.

>>11440951
They don't have a neocortex, at least not one anything like mammals have. The way crows, parrots and such achieve their high intelligence is truly novel. You could make XXXL ravens with brains close to human size. They wouldn't be able to fly anymore, but they'd be fucking brilliant in a weird alien way, and their biology wouldn't be adaptable to humans in any way.

>>11441646
>bet we're closer related to dolphins than birds
Yeah, dolphins and us are mammals, and birds arent.

>>11436354
Our destiny is to become Gods. This planet is ours and we may do with it whatever the Hell we please.
The species we love can therefore be multiplied and even uplifted under our watch.