Subject: [Tweeters] re crow playing
Date: Oct 31 17:55:00 2017
From: kristinstewart01 at comcast.net - kristinstewart01 at comcast.net


And Ravens also, along with many other species of critters! I agree with Lonnie and Margaret!

Kristin Stewart
Olympia

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> On Oct 31, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Lonnie Somer <mombiwheeler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, shouting down from the great heights of egotism, I have to say that I actually agree with you. I've been around non-human animals all of my life, and I've never doubted that many animals play for the shear enjoyment of it, including crows.
>
> Lonnie Somer
> Seattle
> mombiwheeler at gmail.com
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>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Margaret Sandelin <msand47 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Re Lonnie Somer's posting about the crow "playing", it is the height of egotism to think only humans play and to say we are anthropomorphizing if an animal or bird does something we think only we do. Over the last many decades there has been many studies to indicate that animals and birds (especially crows and raven) do thing we think only we do and seem to have some of the same "emotions". And if you get right down to it, humans "play" for many useful and practical reason.
>> Margaret Sandelin
>> Seattle
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