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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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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago

Now we are making crows work too 😞

Their intelligence will be their downfall.

[-] percent@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Unless I missed something, it seems like the crows are doing it voluntarily. Is that not the case?

[-] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Aren't we all working voluntarily? Or are some of us enslaved property?

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Some people won't be happy until the tyranny of extrinsic motivation is entirely banished. I wish them well, so I try to keep them motivated with little treats at semi-random intervals.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 0 points 1 week ago

Ah they like to pick up toxic shit that smokers are too lazy to.

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