Maybe it means Japanese cars are better at cracking shells than are other
cars.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Yoshimoto [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Japanese Crows & Shells
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> Well, I guess that I should jump into this conversation also.  Several
> years ago, when my wife & I were in Japan, we noticed a very
> interesting
> event:  Japanese crows would drop the shells from rather low
> heights, but
> onto roadways where the cars were few and far between.  Aim?
> To get the
> cars to crush the shells and then pick up the remains.  We
> found quite a
> few broken, empty  shells after this event.  When we returned
> home to Los
> Angeles we saw on Japanese TV a report of this very act, in
> several places
> around Japan.  Now, are Japanese crows smarter?  Sneakier?  More
> industrious?  More technological?  than other international crows>
> Dan Yoshimoto
>
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