He's got cunning and perseverance. And look how proud he is at the end!
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
- Robert Charles Benchley
I greatly admire their perseverance…it seems a shame to chop them up this way.
I just can't keep up — I turn away from the blog for most of the day, and the perseverant thread just keeps dribbling on. Perhaps this little video is a metaphor.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds.
Yes, very proud. Wish I didn't have the headphones on. I keep forgetting how loud the big birds can be. Great video, though. Birds really are amazing creatures. Did you catch PZ's link to that new Inner Bird book? I might have to drive over to the UBC bookstore and get myself a copy!
I love that moment where he very clearly stops and ... thinks it through.
That was great! Its always fun watching an animal figure something like that out.
this reminds of another amazing bird I saw recently named Betty. In the trial shown in this video clip, Betty and another crow (male) were given a hooked and straight wire to get a small bit of food in a basket at the bottom of a plastic pipe. The male grabbed the hooked wire and flew off with it. So Betty tries the straight wire, realizes it won't work and so improves the tool to make it into a hook. Amazing bird!
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/weirmovie.mov
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2178920.stm