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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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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago

So what's the take away from rhis ? humans can't be trained not to throw cig butts out ?

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

And take away jobs from crows? Are you trying to start a war we can not win?

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