CORVIDS HOLD THE KEY TO SAVING THE WORLD’S FORESTS

[EspressoBuzz]

Cool reading if you're even a little curious why thing are the way they are in the wild.

 

http://conservationmagazine.org/2016/02/corvids-hold-the-key-to-saving-the-worlds-forests//

 

"Imagine you’re a tree. Like every other organism on this planet, you’ve got two life goals. The first is to survive long enough to reproduce, and the second is to actually reproduce. Your aim is to cast out your seeds as far as possible so that your descendants will have room to grow. After all, if you just drop your seeds straight to the ground, your children’s nascent root systems will compete with your own mature one and will have trouble surviving. The solution? Strike a bargain with an animal. You provide the food, and the animal provides the baby carriage to transport your precious cargo a safe distance away. According to a new study, some of the best animal couriers around are corvids, the family of birds that includes crows, ravens, rooks, jays, and magpies."

 

 

[Rebel Darling]

Thanks very much for sharing...

 

I wish PBS still had the full episode available for streaming, but here's a link to some segments on Nature's episode on ravens:

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/ravens-video-full-episode/5577/

 

Smart birds, even if they forget some caches.

 

There was another episode on crows, too...