Photo Gallery Those Cunning Ravens
Ravens can toboggan, ride other animals and spy on their enemies. Their life as cadgers stealing prey from wolves, eagles and bears has made them highly intelligent. But do ravens know what they're doing and why? Austrian biologists want to find out.
Ravenologists are researching why nature made ravens so cunning.
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The common raven (Corvus Corax) has a wing span of up to 1.40 meters.
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Ravens in the movies: Alfred Hitchcock emplyed black ravens in his 1963 shocker "The Birds."
The Tower of London's Yeoman raven master Derrick Coyle with one of the tower's ravens. Legend has it the Tower of London will collapse and the kingdom will fall if all its ravens leave.
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