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• ☐ ☐ ☐ verdant [adj] - green with grass or other rich vegetation
• ☐ ☐ ☐ idyllic [adj] - very happy, peaceful, or beautiful
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a passerby [n] - someone who comes nearby
• ☐ ☐ ☐ in earshot [exp] - close enough to hear
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mayhem [n] - chaos, craziness
• ☐ ☐ ☐ chatty [adj] - likes to talk
• ☐ ☐ ☐ watch out [phv] - be careful, look for danger
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a tight-knit group [exp] - a close group of friends
• ☐ ☐ ☐ show up [phv] - appear
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a wig [n] - fake hair
• ☐ ☐ ☐ taxidermied [adj] - an animal that is stuffed and preserved after death
• ☐ ☐ ☐ wail [v] - cry loudly
• ☐ ☐ ☐ scold [v] - call loudly and continuously
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a funeral [n] - an event to honor someone who has died
• ☐ ☐ ☐ solemn [adj] - sad, serious
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a memorial [n] - an event to remember something from the past
• ☐ ☐ ☐ unmasked [adj] - without a mask
• ☐ ☐ ☐ wary [adj] - cautious, nervous
• ☐ ☐ ☐ hazardous [adj] - dangerous
• ☐ ☐ ☐ approach [v] - move toward
• ☐ ☐ ☐ erupt in protest [exp] - suddenly and loudly show anger
• ☐ ☐ ☐ suspicious [adj] - showing caution or distrust of someone or something
• ☐ ☐ ☐ lose it [exp] - go crazy, get angry
• ☐ ☐ ☐ register [v] - notice, understand
• ☐ ☐ ☐ deceased [adj] - dead
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a comrade [n] - a friend
• ☐ ☐ ☐ one of their own [exp] - someone from their group (a member of their species)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a ruckus [n] - a loud noise
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an untimely end [exp] - dying too soon or too young

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

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1. When a crow sees another dead crow, it ______.
   eats it
   calls out
   flies away
   ignores it
   
   
2. The crow's call makes the other crows ______.
   fly away
   come to the area
   attack the people
   
   
3. Crows are ______ and ______.
   smart
   strong
   violent
   solitary
   communicative
   
   
4. Crows generally try to ______ each other.
   kill
   avoid
   protect
   steal from
   
   
5. Kaeli Swift leaves piles of _____ for the crows.
   seeds
   sugar
   peanuts
   crow feathers
   
   
6. One day, she comes to the park wearing a mask and carrying ______.
   a wig
   peanuts
   an alarm
   a dead crow
   
   
7. Crow funerals are ______ gathering of crows around a dead crow.
   dangerous
   solemn
   quiet
   loud
   
   
8. When Swift returns with peanuts but not wearing a mask, the crows ______.
   mostly ignore her
   don't seem to remember her
   cautiously take the peanuts
   go crazy and call out loudly
   
   
9. When Swift returns wearing the mask, the crows ______.
   mostly ignore her
   don't seem to remember her
   cautiously approach her
   go crazy and call out loudly
   
   
10. Pigeons _____ when they see her carrying a dead pigeon.
    mostly ignore her
    don't seem to like her
    cautiously approach her
    go crazy and call out loudly
    
    
11. ______ react strongly when they see one of their own species dead.
    Only crows
    Few animals
    Most animals
    
    
12. After a few weeks, the crows ______ when she returns wearing a mask.
    mostly ignore her
    don't seem to remember her
    cautiously approach
    go crazy and call out loudly
    
    

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passing / crow / let / piercing / call / when / it / notice / dead / crow

A passing crow lets out a piercing call when it notices a dead crow.

crow / call / cause / other / crow / rush / scene

The crow's call causes other crows to rush to the scene.

crow / intelligent / chatty / animal / live / tight-knit / group

Crows are intelligent (and) chatty animals that live in tight-knit groups.

Kaeli Swift / Ph.D. / candidate / University / Washington

Kaeli Swift is a Ph.D. candidate [at/from] the University of Washington

she / set / experiment / find / why / crow / react / so / strong / see / dead / crow

She set up an experiment to find out why crows react so strongly to seeing a dead crow.

for / few / day / she / leave / pile / peanut / for / crow / park

For a few days, she leaves piles of peanuts for (the) crows in the park.

one / day / she / show / wear / mask / wig / and / carry / dead / crow

One day, she shows up wearing a mask and (a) wig and carrying a dead crow.

when / crow / see / her / carry / dead / crow / they / erupt / protest

When the crows see her carrying the dead crow, they erupt in protest.

when / Swift / return / park / without / mask / crow / seem / suspicious / but / still / take / peanut

When Swift returns to the park without the mask, the crows seem suspicious but (they) still take [the/her] peanuts.

crow / lose / it / when / Swift / return / park / wear / mask / even / though / she / not / have / dead / crow

The crows lose it when Swift returns to the park wearing the mask even though she doesn't have [the/a] dead crow.

when / Swift / return / wear / mask / several / week / later / crow / still / lose / it

When Swift returns wearing the mask several weeks later, the crows still lose it.

1. What are the three most interesting things that you learned from this video?
2. What was the purpose of Swift's experiment? What is she trying to find out or prove?
3. Do you think this kind of research is valuable? How?
4. According to the video, which animals "react strongly to seeing one of their own who’s died"? Why do you think so few animals have a strong reaction?
5. What are the genetic advantages of caring about seeing a dead member of your own species? What are the genetic advantages of not caring?
6. Which animals do you think are the most intelligent? What evidence suggests that these animals are intelligent? (i.e. How do you scientists test animal intelligence?) [ Safaris Africana ]
7. Which of these activities do you think crows can do? If not crows, what other animals can do them? [ Thought Co. ]
   • Use tools to solve problems. [ crows ]
   • Hide food from other animals. [ crows ]
   • Recognize a person's face. [ crows ]
   • Recognize different human languages. [ elephants ]
   • Recognize themselves in a mirror. [ dolphins, chimps, pigeons, elephants ]
   • Use cars driving on the highway to crack nuts. [ crows ]
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8. What abilities do animals have that humans don't have?
9. What abilities do humans have that no other animals have?