Crows Take a Cigarette Break
In a novel story reported by the Telegraph, Tony and Judie Ellis were vacationing in the Maldives when two crows alighted on the roof across from their villa and calmly began extracting the cigarettes from a packet one had brought along.
‘The crow which flew past with the cigarettes seemed to be dishing them out to the others.It was taking the cigarettes out of the packet and putting them on the roof of the water villa. Then the other crows were picking them up. It was amazing that they seemed to have them in their beaks the right way round.’
The couple, who work as toy inventors, were told after the incident that crows can sometimes be a bit of a nuisance on the islands. They were told that another holidaymaker had a sandwich stolen by a cheeky crow.
Mrs Ellis said: “We have been to the Maldives four times before but never seen any sort of crow behaviour like that. I was lucky to be able to record this on my camera.”
What do we think? Crows are a lot bigger in relation to a cigarette than shown here, so it is likely this was photoshopped, but it would not be that unusual for a pair of crows to steal an innocent vacationer’s lucky strikes and proceed to tear the filters off for nest material.
via The Telegraph
