Subject: Re: Crows and Tools
Date: Jan 30 15:04:49 1996
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>Have the authors considered weaver birds, beavers, termites, bees, wasps,
>spiders, etc.? As an anthropologist I have long thought the focus on tool
>use/manufacture misplaced as a defining behavioral propensity of _Homo
>sapiens_. However, find me a crow (or a chimp or parrot for that matter)
>that can generate an uncountably large number of meaningful sentences and
>I'll step down from my pedestal.

You mean as in our discourse on tweeters? Oh wait, you said "meaningful." :-)

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