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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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[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Make it so that if humans throw away their own garbage, as a treat no one is gonna spit in their face

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