My friend Veslot proposed me the Raven ! http://www.teteamodeler.com/allopass/images/corbeau.jpg As a matter of fact the intelligence of this bird is comparable to one of a monkey, although its brain is close to a reptile brain. R is quite the same : small, compact, but so clever. This is a canadian website explaining (in french) the R-aven intelligence http://radio-canada.ca/actualite/decouverte/reportages/2000/corvides.html What do you think about it ?
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, internautem wrote:> My friend Veslot proposed me the Raven ! > http://www.teteamodeler.com/allopass/images/corbeau.jpg > > As a matter of fact the intelligence of this bird is > comparable to one of a monkey, although its brain is close to > a reptile brain. R is quite the same : small, compact, but so > clever.I like it. It makes me think of Poe's "The Raven": http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html Although the poem is a bit dark, I like the shared features of R and the Raven: terse, (keyboard-) tapping, answering questions, and making predictions. Dave -- Dave Forrest drf at vims.edu (804)684-7900w drf5n at maplepark.com (804)642-0662h http://maplepark.com/~drf5n/
internautem wrote:> My friend Veslot proposed me the Raven ! > http://www.teteamodeler.com/allopass/images/corbeau.jpg > > As a matter of fact the intelligence of this bird is > comparable to one of a monkey, although its brain is close to > a reptile brain. R is quite the same : small, compact, but so > clever. >This is a rather interesting suggestion, as tool making behavior was recently observed in a corvid. Also, the social interaction of many corvids is neither solitary nor pack, just interacting when they have a common goal. Somewhat like the cooperative behavior of virtual teams on the Internet. Last but not least, the raven is a natural for a cartoon character. Jim