I agree ! When it first popped up on as a little blurb on another site, I wanted to Google it to look into it a little more. One of the videos said it takes trash, but I didn’t verify that yet and the official pages I saw were focused on the cigarette butts.
I liked how he said something along the lines of, “we can’t teach people to throw them away, but we can teach crows to pick them up”
And for one more “TIL” , Corvids have the reasoning skills of approx a 7 year old
There was a Ted Talk by Joshua Klein who was teaching crows to do this. I think he wanted to get enough working that they could clean up after something like a parade.
Maybe they can develop a corvid safe treat that cleans their mouths, similar to those “greenies” dental chews for dogs 🤔 swap the butt for some dental care and nutrition 😋
“Dental” but beaks
Gross as it is, its pretty much going to be tar in those cigarette butts, and if you wanted to get anything out of them into you through saliva, youd need to chew em
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It'll be genius when they start snapping twigs to make counterfeit butts.
I agree ! When it first popped up on as a little blurb on another site, I wanted to Google it to look into it a little more. One of the videos said it takes trash, but I didn’t verify that yet and the official pages I saw were focused on the cigarette butts.
I liked how he said something along the lines of, “we can’t teach people to throw them away, but we can teach crows to pick them up”
And for one more “TIL” , Corvids have the reasoning skills of approx a 7 year old
I love corvids they're such smart little darlings
https://preview.redd.it/tf01wij01y6g1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8174dfdb1d6141e1126b98a09ea50dc23b036ba4
They are 😊
There was a Ted Talk by Joshua Klein who was teaching crows to do this. I think he wanted to get enough working that they could clean up after something like a parade.
Next problem…. Overweight birds
Or birds chain-smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes
video source
cool blog about topic
guardian article from 2022 but I just heard of this today
This would maybe be a good use of AI… make drones that pick up litter.
Wildlife shouldn’t have to clean up our litter so they can eat and survive, though the idea of enlisting smart crows to help is interesting.
Crows are plenty smart enough to survive without our help, but also smart enough to take an easier route to get food if we provide it for them.
I do agree, though, that it’s a shame we can’t just pick up our own trash.
Ooo good idea.
Poor birds, Grabbing those disgusting Butts with their beaks :/
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Maybe they can develop a corvid safe treat that cleans their mouths, similar to those “greenies” dental chews for dogs 🤔 swap the butt for some dental care and nutrition 😋 “Dental” but beaks
Enh... nicotine is highly poisonous to birds.
No so smart, but to be fair, humans fall for tobacco propaganda even worse, or no one would think they need to do this.
Al la B. F. Skinner
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Crows are so intelligent. Such beautiful and amazing birds. I’m a bird watcher and can identify a lot of our local birds. :)
Ohh thats great
Brilliant idea. This inventor has a breakthrough idea
I can't stop thinking they'll get addicted to the nicotine, poor lovelies; I hope I'm wrong!
😭 oh no, I didn’t even think of that. My hope for them, is no long or short term health effects, and delicious rewards.
Yes!
Gross as it is, its pretty much going to be tar in those cigarette butts, and if you wanted to get anything out of them into you through saliva, youd need to chew em
I hope so!
picking up butt's isn't ingesting nicotine. i think they'll be fine.
Someone must have a serious hankering for nicotine.