A Smart person called Joshua Klein

The first pic was from flickr.com
The second was from www.ted.com
The crow pic www.boingboing.net
Have you heard of Joshua Klein? He is a very intelligent person and he is an amateur researcher who researches crows. He is trying to tell people that you can train crows. Some people think he is crazy but he is not.


Where did he get this idea? He got it from his friends' BBQ. A crow was near by and it was being a pest then his Friend got up and said "I have had enough I am going to EXTERMINATE IT!"   Just before he got up Joshua said stop "Don't do that we can train them." Then his Friend said "are you crazy?"  Then Joshua said "watch me".

For the next ten years he studied about crows. Next he built a vending machine. A vending machine is when you put something in and you get something out.The first step is to put the vending machine out where lots of crows are. Now you get lots of peanuts and coins so they can just come and get a peanut. That will be simple for a crow this will have been Paradise. The next step was to get coins and they will have to put the coin in the slot if they want to have a peanut. Then the crows got used to it. Now they had a sound so when they hear it they came
to get some peanuts. The final step was to just have a coin lying on the floor.  Now the crow was pretty angry and it knew that the machine was messing with them so it picked the coin up put it in the slot and flew away happily with a peanut.

Then they had another experiment to see if the crow could get the meat out of the tube. It was having a little bit of trouble it did not even look like it was going to give up. It stopped and then it bent the wire had another try again then it got it! Then it munched all the meat up.

And the Yr5 and 6 extension group at Pt England School gave him advice. It was called the bar key

 B=BIGGER A=ADD R=REPLACE and that's it. 

Also we gave him some ideas like have a school for the crows. Also we said get some flavoured peanuts for the crows and see which one they prefer.