Dutch company Crowded Cities is developing a device that will train crows to collect discarded cigarette butts in exchange for peanuts, creating a low-cost solution to a problem that's just too inconvenient for people to solve effectively on their own.
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Nukedog wrote:Neat. I know birds tend to use them in their nests too. I think the tobacco actually has a pest repellent property.
Deer love to eat it though. They get addicted
Tobacco is given to horses to kill worms, could be the deer have worked it out.
When I was searching for the crow story there was a headline about birds using butts to self medicate. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ts/265923/
Talks about the pest repellant qualities.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.