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Crows are intelligent birds and learn quickly – even from each other. In Sweden, they are used to collect cigarette butts and bring them to a machine that automatically rewards them with peanuts. (lemmy.ca)

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Corvid Cleaning: Deploys Crows to Clean Up Cigarette Butts in Sweden

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[-] Lodra@programming.dev 39 points 4 months ago

This is much more than mildly interesting. I find this fascinating! The crows being so capable. The cleverly constructed symbiotic relationship. The fact that such machines are funded at all. Maybe I’m just jealous of what European countries can do with with public funds 😒

[-] monounity@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The swedish spelling is amusingly incorrect, so this is probably fake, possibly ai slop.

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