Crazy Crows and Their Tweets

When replying to Yuange Zhou I found that his article summaries were very neat and organized but I would have preferred larger subtitles to separate the articles.With Abby Germaine, she had some small titles as well and one article which I think was a literature review and not a research article but I did like the way the rest of both of their websites were presented. I did find some style choices in both of their websites, most specifically the colors. They each used their colors to portray what I see as professional and official. I may have to revisit my color scheme and pictures as well.

Now for twitter, it has been so good to me these past couple days. I’ve spent some time re-curating my twitter feed and now I’ve found so many articles and interesting tid-bits about corvids (crows, jays, etc) and even some videos of their shenanigans that are not too unlike the shenanigans of 5 year old children. I’ve quite enjoyed much of it and seeing researchers create puzzles for the crows remind me of one of my favorite hobbies, escape rooms. I find a lot of joy completing the puzzles in these rooms and while watching one of these videos, I wondered if these crows also feel the same joy that I do. Well it turns out that Dakota McCoy, a graduate student at Harvard and a few of her colleagues also wondered the same thing and observed that crows were in a seemingly better mood after they had used tools to solve a problem. This is very interesting and I am starting to have more confidence in the platform as a way to introduce the public to this information.