The dogs and badger had all they needed within their sight and the dogs had the advantage of watching humans use the tools they needed. They, possibly, had some human training/instruction. I suppose the bird could have observed a human dropping crumbs that attracted fish. I just never considered birds as smart...though some are clever. So much for the term "bird brained" but, many wild animals have learned to adapt and even thrive around people. Many live longer too. Interesting video. 
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Animals are smart
Diana
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I remember reading about the time when the milkman left glass bottles with the little cardboard lids in them. The birds in England learned they could poke the lid in and drink the milk down as far as their beaks went. It even spread to the continent. Finally had to cover the tops.
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that blue jays are smart and doves are stupid. Others lie in between. Pigeons are also stupid. What I can't figure is why there seem to be so many doves and pigeons and so few jays. I guess brains and survival don't correlate well when discussing avians.
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Some birds have a lot more brain power and understanding than most humans give them credit for...
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Humans have been able to establish some form of communication and rapport with a few animals. We give these credit for intelligence. Those we cannot connect with, we think as stupid. Maybe we are just giving ourselves too much credit.
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We don't even bother trying to find out animal languages; we just teach them ours. No Doctor Dolittle.
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that I'll teach it to read, write and speak if it can teach me to flap my arms and fly.
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After mowing the lawn and maybe 2-3 passes, the birds arrive to find the bugs exposed by mowing. This is also common when farm plowing and bugs and grubs get exposed, if you like to notice. After mowing and I return to make another pass they(birds) begrudging yield to the noisy mower.
As for my feud with the raccoons, they *must* know my scent as they do a bump on the tractor or any seat I may have been on, you figure that one out. Couldn't be the ones I've dispatched. It's a running feud for sure and these pass 2-3yrs. have seen an invasion(IMHO) and that's no joke. ahhh poop... -----Willy
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One day I was sitting in my car in a parking lot having lunch.
The sparrows were going from car to car picking the dead bugs from the radiator grills of the cars.
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We used to throw bird seed on the garage roof .Cardinals especially took full advantage. They quickly learned to come when called. If we were sitting in the yard and had not supplied seed, they would fly at us.
But the most amazing day was when we heard "peeps" outside our back door, which was mostly glass.
On the stoop stood a cardinal family. Mom, Pop, and Junior.
So they knew from where the seed providers came.
Pretty smart, we thought.
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