Sentences with phrase «crow uses»

Trammell Crow uses GeoVue software including the iSite mapping and demographic application.

Rosson Crow uses the desert landscape as a point of departure for a new...

The local species of crow uses sticks and makes hooked tools from twigs or the leaves of the Pandanus plant to dig out grubs from logs.

One good trick Kills Crow uses when he goes out recruiting is to tell a player how his family got its name.

In a 2007 experiment conducted by graduate student Alex Taylor and colleagues at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the crows used a shorter stick to grab another that was long enough to get food outside their reach.

Called «feathered apes» for their simianlike smarts, crows use tools, understand physics, and recognize themselves and humans.

They also found that tool use varied with age, with 93 % of all adult crows using tools compared to 47 % of younger birds.

The Crows used it for religious ceremonies.

The developers at CROWS CROWS CROWS used this technique by releasing the totally free game Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald.

Here, crows use cars to crack nuts in cross walks, and wait for the light to change so they can safely collect the meat.

And scientists have seen how wild crows use tools in the process of food gathering.

Not exact matches

BigHair - Stump, who is an enrolled member of the Crow tribe from Montana, told INSIDER that her work represents her identity within her community, and that she only makes designs using patterns from her own tribe.

«The designs I use are original Crow designs that I made.

Dempsey, who is known for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd on «Grey's Anatomy,» used a crow bar to open the doors of the car and extract Masset from the crash.

For any religious person to crow about having the majority on their side and worse to actually use this as justification for their religious claims is grossly ignorant and WRONG.

you would learn christians used the bible to justify slavery and segregation and jim crow.

Well, Reagan's family used to house visiting African American players during Jim Crow.

They used the Bible to justify Jim Crow.

I love the use of the crow in this painting and your both / and representation of surviving adversity.

But S.C.'s coach used Arnett mostly as a decoy, let more experienced Lindon Crow do the damage.

To test for this, I use geographical coordinates of MPs» districts [11] to calculate the distance and travel time to Westminster in: 1) minutes it takes to drive by car; 2) minutes it takes by public transport; 3) kilometres covered by car; and 4) kilometres as the crow flies.

ALBANY — Labeling it «structural racism» and the «new Jim Crow,» activist Alice Green released a stinging report Tuesday that condemned recent local sweeps against suspected drug dealers and gang members using a federal racketeering statute for continuing a historical conspiracy of fearful whites to repress young black men who intimidate them.

Already today, George Osborne crow - barred Falkirk into Treasury questions, such is the Tories» eagerness to use it as a means of attacking Labour.

Adult crows teach their young to use and produce such tools.

Turner briefly covers the use of multiple tools by other animals — humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and capuchin monkeys — and notes that only the New Caledonian crows and humans are known to make hooked tools.

In particular, the crows all failed a task which violated normal causal rules, but they could pass the other tasks, which suggests they were using some level of causal understanding when they were successful.»

Both are highly lateralised, revealed in the observation that most crows are right - beaked — cutting pandanus leaves using the right side of their beaks.

Scientists used the Aesop's fable riddle — in which subjects drop stones into water to raise the water level and obtain an out - of reach - reward — to assess New Caledonian crows» causal understanding of water displacement.

Crows completed 4 of 6 water displacement tasks, including preferentially dropping stones into a water - filled tube instead of a sand - filled tube, dropping sinking objects rather than floating objects, using solid objects rather than hollow objects, and dropping objects into a tube with a high water level rather than a low one.

Some chimps use rocks to crack nuts, others fish for termites with blades of grass and a gorilla has been seen gauging the depth of water with the equivalent of a dipstick, but no animal wields tools with quite the alacrity of the New Caledonian crow.

New Caledonian crows are adept at fashioning tools with leaves or sticks to get to their food, at times even using a shorter stick to get to a longer stick which they then use to reach the food.

Using tools doesn't make humans, dolphins, and crows smart.

The study shows that «crows» natural abilities may indeed be based on sophisticated cognitive skills,» says ecologist Gavin Hunt of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, who discovered twig use in New Caledonian crows.

Some crows tend to snip tools from the left sides of leaves, using their right eye to guide their behavior, while others prefer to work from the other side, Hunt found.

Crows are also known to use sticks to «fish» for insects and even to use one tool to get hold of another to reach their food.

That in itself wouldn't be so impressive — even some insects use tools this way — but the crows also combine tools when they needed to.

When tasked with reaching a snack in a hole using a short stick on a string and a longer stick trapped in a toolbox, all of the crows pulled it off.

A native of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the New Caledonian crow makes tools from sticks or leaves and uses these to draw tasty grubs from hollows in trees.

When you see these birds, you assume they'd be as common as crows, or the grackles here in central Texas, because they seem so adaptable, especially to different kinds of food, and interested in novel objects and trying to figure out how they can make use of them.

In their home on the Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia, the crows make and use a range of tools including hooks, which they use to extract prey from cracks and crevices.

Modelling showed that coming together in this way might explain how skills like tool use spread between unrelated crows (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms8197).

Crows appeared to use magpies as Cheetos scouts, waiting for the smaller birds to explore the food, then landing and shooing the magpies off their prize.

Both the kaka in New Zealand and the Mariana crow in Rota, for example, live in similar environments and exploit niches where tool use would be useful, but don't use them, Taylor points out.

New Caledonian crows are known for their ingenious use of tools to get at hard - to - reach food.

To see how this skill might have spread, Christian Rutz at the University of St Andrews in the UK and his team used radio tags to track 42 wild crows.

Without many predators around to make it dangerous to focus attention on a tool - using task, or birds like woodpeckers hogging the hard - to - reach food, the crows had the time and space to evolve the complex behaviour.

Like their cousins the New Caledonian crows, island - welling Hawaiian crows seem naturally disposed to using tools for getting food

Brainy New Caledonian crows have figured out how to carry objects too large to move with their beaks by using a stick

Although we already knew crows could use tools, adapting this behaviour to other contexts involving novel objects and purposes shows behavioural flexibility, says Jacobs.

One even went so far as to suggest the photographers dress up one of the musicians, Sheryl Crow, in a lab coat and teach her how to use scientific instruments instead.