{"id":31501,"date":"2022-01-23T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31501"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:12:55","slug":"ravens-and-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31501","title":{"rendered":"Ravens and mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ravens have intelligence. Indeed, lab studies demonstrate that ravens will cooperate on a project that requires two of them. If yesterday&#8217;s test is a measure, they regularly cooperate on a joint exercise in the wild. Mind you, it all happened prior to any observations, but the results seem obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two ravens had set on a mouse nest, and each then grabbed a victim. They were seen first when they flew off together to utility poles on opposite sides of the road to eat them.<\/p>\n<p>On the north side of the road was seen a mouse whose head had already been eaten.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31504\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/raven22012sdmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A closer view was obtained from the raven on the south side of the road.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-31506\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/raven22012bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"642\" height=\"642\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The south-side raven was tossing fur around to get at the meat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31505\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/raven22012s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ravens have intelligence. Indeed, lab studies demonstrate that ravens will cooperate on a project that requires two of them. If yesterday&#8217;s test is a measure, they regularly cooperate on a joint exercise in the wild. Mind you, it all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-herptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31501"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31514,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31501\/revisions\/31514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}