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[roadrunnertwice]

That's just a whole 'nother level of savvy entirely.

Lisa Padol: Avram Grumer told me once that crows have been observed using another kind of tool: cars. Well, cars and nuts, to be precise.

The crows dropped the nuts in the middle of the road. Cars would run over them, opening up the shells. So far, so good.

But the crows did not try to eat the nuts. They waited for the squirrels. The squirrels tried to eat the nuts. Several of the squirrels got hit by cars. The crows then ate the roadkill squirrels.

As Avram pointed out, this is serious long term thinking for the crows.

EDIT: FUCKING YES! Sichuan Peppercorns are BACK, motherfucker! The baggie I smuggled home back in '04 managed to vanish sometime during the course of the last year, and I've been missing the little varmints.