#tailpulling

[paleochick]

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#Repost! If you aren't following my corvid researcher friend, Kaeli Swift @corvidresearch, you need to! • • • Mondays can be hard. So here’s a raven trying to fulfill its mission to #PullAllTheTails to make your Monday a little brighter. Why do ravens pull tails you ask? Generally it has to do with stealing food from other animals, particularly birds of prey, wolves, and by extension, dogs. Although you might think this would always be a team effort that’s not the case. In fact most instances of tail pulling I saw in Denali were solo missions attempting to annoy dogs into retreating from their food. With two of the dogs it was pretty effective tactic. This behavior helps illustrate a common misconception about wolves and ravens. Rather than being friends or hunting partners, the relationship is both one sided and unwelcome by wolves. Ravens harass, steal from, and are occasionally killed by wolves. Cache here poses little threat to this raven though and it seems he or she knows it. You can even see it watch for Cache’s reaction before fully committing to its escape, which is maybe my favorite thing ever and surely a good cure of a case of the Monday’s. #denalinationalpark #commonraven #raven #raventailpull #raventail #denali #alaskalife #alaska #birds #corvid #ilovecorvids #tailpulling #corvidmischief #denalik9rangers #k9rangers #doggo #funny

[bat-analyst-blog]

corvid-interactions on curation

figuring out how one feels about the concept and practice of curation, in 8 animals dealing with corvids.

this falcon first heard about curation, as a concept, from the library science majors in its undergrad.

this eagle wonders if curation of information and experiences, when exposed to human eccentricity, is a form of pastiche, rather than collage.

this eagle has been thinking about whether its ability to aggregate and contextualize information is really better than Google’s.

this fox considers Foucault’s discussion of juxtaposition and reasoning by association as depicted in “The Order of Things”.

this owl is considering a guided narration of its favorite route through the city; it wonders how much of its perspective has been influenced by playlist 000.A.

this cat thinks that there may be an underlying, though unknowable, truth to the nature of things, and wonders where the balance between personal experience and deeper insight lies.

this heron weaponized discourse analysis to sunder linkages between aggregations of stimuli meant to contextualize experience in a narrative way, and found that it only produced further layers of meaning.

this fox decided, following Nietzsche, that it should not fear artifice--but pursue the act of creation. it thinks there might be beauty and a kind of truth in the factorization and fractalization of perspective, despite (or because of) the limitations of this instrument.