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Helen Fehr
November 23, 2020 at 8:39 pm
When feeding birds they leave gifts in return- buttons, colorful stones and small items
T Tc
November 23, 2020 at 8:40 pm
It’s true they’re mentioned in the Quran, when Caän killed Able he didn’t know what to do so Allah sent a crow to berry another crow so he could watch and learn what to do … . Very interesting look it up you never know what may become of you after you learn more about this subject …
Ven. LAMA NAMGYAL
November 23, 2020 at 10:55 pm
VERY! Shortly AFTER watching this ‘viddy’ CROWS
[or Ravens mebbe…?]
Dunno! did they croak ‘NEVERMORE…?
Can’t say its’a boot eh…? 3-4 AM inna morning but NO’cheet Mon: They thar 4 REEL!? – i think – ask’d a Jo’burg film-maker pal’o’mine Rich Stanley [good to see he’s KEPT AT IT TURNING OUT ‘THE WORK! — Allus’ wuz one for PERSEVERANCE & Perdurabo Rich!]’ – we agreed they Were REAL Live CROWS [or ravens] ….that was some 13 years ago…
BUT! just this morning 3:23 AM onna DOT! they were still thar’….
Life IS! BIZARRE: Yes’tiddy I WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE, standing by a Closed Cineemaa, ‘taser’d’ by a little ‘cookie’selling’ scout pushing her biscuits I’d Imagine summerz’ near The Entrance. ‘Twas shaped curiously like a Vesica Piscis, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius – more uv’a Meniscus, ack’chew’ally; quite like Little-Greata Wham’a’Bama, my childhood stolen DISABUSED of ALL NO’tionalism tied down to A Funky-Film: a ‘Movie’, a ‘talkie’ in DOLBY w/a ‘REEL-as-LIFE’ Wrap-Around SMELL-O-VISION SCREEN….More of a 4-D VIDEO-AUDIO HAPPENING Rilly! [Drensh’d in IODINE & ROT-10 FIG Peelings stinking of damp-diapers]
Quite The EVENT: OH-Oh-OH:
Orgasmic? rather!…..i’d say….but! nobody asked me…?
HOW DARE THEY!!!!
GARISH-LIVID-PROTOPLASMIC COLOURS Outa’ Espazio….like a Louche Left-Bank Bistro from an Outre Arondissiment 50-60 yrs ago in Paree’ [‘Pranavizhun’ I think they call’d it!?]
Or? Summun put’sum AYA”HUAS’CAR in my babee-boddle…i guess?
ENLIGHTENMENT HITS!
Like a Baseball bat w/a Nail in it!!
Since Then: I’ve learn’d BY ROTE to be MORE THAN Flexible…One UP-side will be askin’ uh Wander in’ Rebbe ‘How to Read a Title’ in Hebrew, Had ‘quote marks’ between a lot of the letters [“HAVA”NAGILA”VEY”ISH”MUHAH!]
WAY! harder then Thibetan! …just so you know! — I KNOW! I’ll be told:
“…They’re a convention meaning, ‘THIS is NOT a Word!’…”
THIS ‘Infinity Film’, I did not ASK to SEE ”’IT”’ – ‘THEY’ [The PROPRIETORS…I suppose…?] Bought me in LATE: onna’ cheep! i.e. some no-brainer snowfake ‘timewaster’ ’bout a ‘ticket’…?
OUTA’ SHEER Courtesy – Sleek as My Gal-Palz silk-stockings ‘THEY’ Found me a SEAT – I was Blind, Hobbled, Deaf & Spoke ONLY a crazy UN_intelligible ‘gemisch’ of BRAILLE & AMERSLAN…
….ga’head ‘write-back’ all the foul flames of Nastiness you want – I’ve disabled all rep*LIES – I’ll Never KNOW you sent a thing – I’ll never visit the page again!!
Aside from the CROWS this is the ONLY TRUE thing that is writ on it – MY Words!
And Having Writ, the Hand of Destiny Across The Sands, The Silent Sands of Time…Moves ON!
Mek’Toub! – Kes’Mat…an’ ALL THAT! …and that is THAT!
BUT! from my Earlierr Incarnation [tulku] as a Monk on a high & lofty Greek & Eerie Island Eyre I’ll say A Hundred ‘KYRIES’, [Kyrie! Elai’son! CHRISTE Elai’son CHRISTE! Kyr’ion!]
JUST! – For the one-two KIND! Hearts that’ll write somethin’ lovely, from the Lisa’an-al’-Gha’aib:
I Hear We’ll Be N’EDEN ‘EM!
You BETCHA! Now I’M Stuck Here in the Middle W/You!
-> SO? …..from the Heart that Beats!
…The Tari’qat-al-Qalb…..’Path-with-Heart’ (for those underprivs NO Arabic speeky)
– ‘…OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM….! OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM….TREMENDUM et FASCINANS! – LIFE’S A WIN-WIN THING!
oh well…erm?
eye-reee! an’ALL!
‘MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO’, I alllus SAY…!
C U LAMA NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
M K
November 24, 2020 at 1:21 am
Allah u Akbar
Cyberdyne Systems: Skynet
November 23, 2020 at 8:40 pm
All that and she didn’t mention Ted Hughes once, not sure if I’m impressed or sad.
Aines82
November 23, 2020 at 9:15 pm
Most depressing TED talk ever.
bj0rn
November 23, 2020 at 9:21 pm
8:29 That mask looks like Michael Myers, not Hannibal Lector. Silly girl!
Quinton Smith
November 23, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Those are some tight pants!!
bj0rn
November 23, 2020 at 9:30 pm
_”You’re basically seeing a confluence of three behaviors…”_
Desecration, cannibalism and necrophilia?
James Kulevich
November 23, 2020 at 9:40 pm
What do you say to the judge when you’ve been charged with animal necrophilia?
I didn’t know the crow was dead?!
64bit ninja
November 23, 2020 at 10:02 pm
When the goth kids grow uo
MountJoyPa
November 23, 2020 at 10:04 pm
Has anyone tried to shot a Crow out the sky? its Very Hard.
Alkis D.
November 23, 2020 at 10:06 pm
1) Comparative thanatology is possibly the most metal scientific field.
2) The crowd in this talk seems dead.
Terry Amstutz
November 23, 2020 at 10:26 pm
yay more anthropomorphizing of the animal world (sarcastic). pure BS. I love crows and ravens so I was extremely disappointed in this video. Lost interest after 4 minutes.
**it happens
November 23, 2020 at 11:50 pm
You seem very angry about the possibility that animals may think and feel more than you realize.
Maybe you work in a research lab performing vivisections on animals and it is easier for you to cut on unanesthetized animals if you deny the possibility that they are sentient beings?
Dzikrina Saira
November 23, 2020 at 10:31 pm
I feel like I’ve watched this Ted Talk before.. I remember when ppl in the comment section commented that maybe she’s Taylor Swift’s relative n also the story of the crow. Do Ted re-upload this?
Ven. LAMA NAMGYAL
November 23, 2020 at 10:56 pm
MEE-TOO Rockin’ deja-vu! LAMA NAMGYAL
Richard Cranium
November 23, 2020 at 10:48 pm
She failed me with her description of crows “sent by god” to teach Cain. How does she expect us to take her seriously when her examples are fantasy and lies? What does this reference to a made up story that she seems to be citing as fact say about the quality of her research? We need to keep religion out of serious scientific discussions.
Vineet
November 23, 2020 at 10:57 pm
I love people taking about things that they don’t even Don’t know Fully about , people point of view.
Nature Owns
November 23, 2020 at 11:07 pm
Freedom of speech
Let people talk you ballz
seng cheenh
November 23, 2020 at 11:25 pm
To be continue…next ted talk animal whisperer will tell you more about crow
Insomnia
November 23, 2020 at 11:42 pm
In the last 2-3 months I can see big groups of crows flying and shouting anytimes in the week, always at the same time.
I’m questioning about this …
Because in the last 11 years living at the same place I never saw this, since many years I observe the sky and birds.
Somebody else that see this happen?
ted kaczynski
November 23, 2020 at 11:59 pm
i want to put a feeler gauge to those jeans.
Chris C
November 24, 2020 at 12:04 am
Given it’s a “murder” of crows, I don’t think we should be learning anything about death from these buggers!
ciscoponch67
November 24, 2020 at 12:10 am
The crows copulating, might be an instinctual response to fill the gap of the local crow population due to the deceased crow.
DeLaSoul246
November 24, 2020 at 12:10 am
A crow once dive-bombed my head. I had sparkly sunglasses on and I thought it liked them. Now I can’t decide if I’d rather that it tried to steal my shinies or it thought I was a threat… I guess I’d rather it was a happy thief than an anxious fighter.
**it happens
November 24, 2020 at 12:14 am
Amazing things happened during the shutdown. I now have crows that come to my bird bath and eat birdseed, corn kernels and peanuts in my yard.
I live in the city and this summer is the first time I have seen crows nest in a tree near me.
I am very careful not to scare them off. They’d remember and never come back, plus tell other crows not to come around. They are smart.
I sit outside and play crow calls and they come in and sit in the tree and look at me, cocking their heads sideways. It is a good sign.
Dennis Clanton
November 24, 2020 at 1:13 am
Neanderthal also buried their dead.
Septima Serpent
November 24, 2020 at 1:13 am
Necrophilic Crow Gang Bang
M K
November 24, 2020 at 1:23 am
Allah taught all animals what to do and what not
Ganja God
November 24, 2020 at 4:03 am
using a fake dead crow makes the study invalid
noi000
November 24, 2020 at 4:11 am
I have heard crows are the reincarnation of damned souls.
aji widhia
November 24, 2020 at 5:08 am
nice
Jaibee27
November 24, 2020 at 5:13 am
Gonna start funeral crashing
Jesse Simon
November 24, 2020 at 5:16 am
I think they should have used a real dead crow. what about the crows sense of smell to the rotting corpse? blood for the crows sense of sight? Using a fake crow might give varied results in the crows behaviour.
Eric Hrahsel
November 24, 2020 at 5:18 am
Emotional
Palatine of facts
November 24, 2020 at 6:03 am
what a worthless video
Kongolox
November 24, 2020 at 7:12 am
she took 6min out of 13min video just for introduction…
the whole thing could have been less than 5min.. ffs
SKJ
November 24, 2020 at 12:40 pm
Yea but no one does a Ted talk for 5 mins
Garik Tate
November 24, 2020 at 7:29 am
I’m more confused when I started.
But I think that’s the point.
Jay JJ
November 24, 2020 at 7:51 am
Animals are interacting with humans ..
Steven Ruben
November 24, 2020 at 8:29 am
I lile how they use the bible to preach science lol pretty sure crow lied to Noah why he sent the dove. The one telling me to unsubscribe.
Fenland Wildlife Clips
November 24, 2020 at 8:55 am
What if they miss their dead and feel sad about it…just a thought…and they might have realised something funny was going on with the stuffed dead crow.
James Erikson
November 24, 2020 at 9:08 am
It’s obvious humans think so much about death since coronavirus was able to scare everyone so badly
hani Ghamkhar
November 24, 2020 at 12:04 pm
When you can read what’s written there 1:27….
JM Cooper
November 24, 2020 at 12:04 pm
Taylor Swift’s Sister?
jackie varquez
November 24, 2020 at 12:25 pm
I always see crows
Jorge Rodriguez
November 24, 2020 at 12:36 pm
And after 13 minutes, back to square one.
Sunil Kumar
November 24, 2020 at 1:03 pm
There’s a whole tradition of after death rituals in India related to crow.
Thousands of years old tradition.
Abhishek Mukherjee
November 24, 2020 at 2:16 pm
Believe it or not, in Hindu scriptures, crows are called as messengers of our dead ancestors. Crows are given food and water here to pay respect to our deceased family members.
Abhishek Mukherjee
November 24, 2020 at 2:23 pm
This lady has a cool 80s vibe in her, even though she is talking about something sad, the overall vibe feels positive ✨
K K
November 24, 2020 at 5:55 pm
Wow, nice tradition! I guess the crows are fans of Cargo 200 🙂
MD.Yeasin Sheikh
November 24, 2020 at 6:54 pm
did you notice her necklace?🐤
daddyleon
November 24, 2020 at 9:30 pm
7:40 wow, I can imagine that could look terrifying, not because of the mask, but because the human is acting so weird: holding one of your own in their hands, standing still for half an hour, then going away…then coming back without one of your own, what could this mean? You’ve never seen this before.
daddyleon
November 24, 2020 at 9:33 pm
10:22 next time when someone dies and says: “everyone mourns in their own way, there is no right or wrong” – just keep this video clip in might and call them out on what their actual intent might be,
Virgin_Mary _In_Islam
November 24, 2020 at 11:02 pm
Prophet Muhammad said : “Keep much in your remembrance the cutter off of delights, i.e., death.”
でどんがん
November 25, 2020 at 1:35 am
Not covid but corvid
BuddyCBuddy
November 25, 2020 at 3:13 am
no payoff or point per usual
xBLUMONKEY
November 25, 2020 at 6:41 am
“So we played with a bunch of dead crows and found that somethingggg is going on, we think…”
tredjesongen
November 25, 2020 at 7:08 am
So..she got crows killed just to get a name somewhere. God is mad. This is much more spiritual living beings than most people. Living near nature with ability to empathy,shows that this are not simple “organisms”. I really thought scientist were developed way far from looking at animals other than mechanical “oh,lets look what parts they contain”. One way of advanced sadism; get an education one can abuse and torture animals,AND serve endless abuse to people with empathy and ..wait for it; a heart!😡👎
Crow Kraehenfrau
November 25, 2020 at 7:34 am
Wondering, why, they don’t act the same with every dead crow? Let’s transfer that to humans: Somebody meets a stranger carrying a dead body, somebody finds a dead body in their backyard or somebody finds a dead familymember…how strange! Completely different reactions…lol!
cheater185
November 25, 2020 at 8:38 am
Crows be like its Flipping linda!!!
apolyed apolyed
November 25, 2020 at 2:07 pm
Comparative thanatology
mr oppa
November 25, 2020 at 2:36 pm
crows are worshipped by hindus in diwali as messenger of death
now i know that ancient hindus rituals are all scientific
Ellis D
November 25, 2020 at 8:47 pm
Do they wear face masks tho? I mean we need to just stay home to live forever, right? 2020!
Ramon Figueiredo
November 26, 2020 at 1:16 am
It teaches us 2019 was a good year to learn more about death
LIGHT IN THEART
November 26, 2020 at 10:51 pm
If the crows had known the actual dead crow rather than the fake one you provided, is it possible that the crows could have reacted differently?
I was at my friend’s house recording music. During a break, I went outside into the back yard and noticed crows flying up above making crow noises. I, then, proceeded to find a dead crow on the ground. I immediately assumed that it was the connection between the crows up above. I requested my friend to come outside and to burry it into the ground. He said it had been there for a few days and was meaning to take care of it and I urged him to while offering my help. I’ve always been fascinated with birds and I give them my love and respect by taking time to listen to them. I find their feathers in my path. One was so amazing because of the timing and placement. I just arrived to one of the places I work. I open the car door, put my foot left foot on the ground and as I look down at the ground I find a large crow feather right there at my feet. I appreciate this TedTalk and your humor (dead crow hors d’oeuvres, yum! and definitely, Hannibal Lecter much.) I honestly feel that if one day no birds were ever to exist, it would be a very lonely world.
Mahesh Gordhan
November 27, 2020 at 12:18 am
I feel you should get in touch with me in terms of understanding animal and bird behaviour. I love the work you have done and feel I can provide further insights!
Carrie Parsons
November 27, 2020 at 3:34 am
I am glad she clarified that the crows they were using were stuffed crows.
Matt Marchand-Anxiety Expert
November 28, 2020 at 9:01 am
Crows love other crows. Fucking simple