Australians spend a large part of their spring trying to avoid being mercilessly swooped by magpies, and now crows are getting in on the act.
Crows are notoriously intelligent and largely avoid humans out of fear, but if behavioural changes over the last 10 years are anything to go by, the super-brained devils of the sky are abandoning their fear. And they never forget a face.
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It was when ecologist Darryl Jones of Australia’s Griffith University saw a crow make a nest outside his office — the first known instance of one made on a human structure — that realised he might be witnessing symptoms of a mini-evolution. …
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Crows are now acting like magpies and attacking people in Australia
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