Yesterday I was at the Victoria
harbour waterfront with a friend and we were talking about how the Dr. Spock
approach to discipline doesn’t work and sometimes sterner methods are more
needed.
Unexpectedly we got an
object lesson that supported how position: we heard a crow freaking out. We
walked over to above the dock and saw the crow finally fly off. A woman below
pointed out a baby crab. It seems that the crab wanted to eat the crab but the
crab didn’t want to be eaten and grabbed the crow with its right pincer. Finally the crow managed to get the crab off
it at the dock.
The crow survived and
it’s possible that the crab also survived. But crows are highly intelligent birds
and now the crow has heard that it cannot go around and try to eat live crabs
with there being some kind of consequence.
Today we saw a crow hesitantly
walk towards another crab that a seagull had caught and partly eaten. While it
did eat a bit of the crab, it seemed a bit uncertain, so it’s possible that
either it was the same crow or another that had learned about what happened.
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