Orion Gift Subscriptions Are Now 20% Off. It shares (among other things) the story of a parrot named Alex. ![]() It was originally released in 2014, and I came across it in a more recent article in Psyche. I was reminded of Betty when I watched a short film, a collaboration between the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla and the writer Ted Chiang called The Great Silence. I even tried to visit a crow named Betty, who was the subject of many of the studies I read, but it turned out to be a bit too much for the researchers to trust a message out of the blue from a human who wanted to stop by to visit a crow and so we never got to meet. I once spent several months trying to learn as much as I could about what we have learned about the tool-using behavior of New Caledonian crows. ![]() Recent encounters with art and beauty on paper, screen, or in nature.
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