Kakasuran !! - the fearsome crow
In our literature, Crows are social birds with tight-knight family
structures that roost in huge numbers, so what do you call a group
of crows? While most people call a group of birds a flock, crows, in
particular, have been known by a number of terms. The most popular of these is
known as a murder, but a group of crows can also be called a horde, mob, muster, or
parcel.
Remember that in elementary school level, we had a lesson
highlighting the intelligence of crows – that water at the jug would be too
low. Crow would collect pebbles and keep putting them inside. The
water level would raise and crow would quench its thirst. Miles
away, in an experiment published in PLOS One,
Scientists determined that crows can not only tell the difference between water
and sand - they also understand water displacement. The test
involved tubes containing water and a treat floating on top out of reach. The
crows filled the tubes with enough rocks or other heavy items to bring the food
within reach. They were observed snapping twigs from trees, then stripping it
of bark and leaves, and fashioned the node into a hook. They then used these
tools to probe into small spaces for food.
One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret - Never to be told, Eight for a wish, Nine for a kiss, Ten for a bird, Eleven is worse; Twelve for a dastardly curse. In Britain, this has been old belief and in 1780, a note in John Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities on Lincolnshire has this lyric. A version of the rhyme became familiar to many UK children when it became the theme tune of an ITV children's TV show called Magpie, which ran from 1968 to 1980. The popularity of this version is thought to have displaced the many regional versions that had previously existed.
30.1.2023
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