| Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:58AM | | | | The Grammar of Ravens | Posted By: Boria Sax
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| Tags: Ravenmaster, Tower of London, Ravens, Animal Intelligence, Grammar | My wife Linda found an interview with the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London on the net, where he reports something rather remarkable. One of the ravens has picked up a good deal of human speech. When the Ravenmaster feeds the ravens, he says, "That's for you." One of the ravens sometimes replies, "That's for me." If that is correct, it suggests that the raven understands some very essential grammatical distinctions, especially between the first person and the second.
The Ravenmaster is not a scientist, but he probably has more close contact with ravens than any other person in the world. The ravens at the Tower certainly have plenty of contact with a vast range of people, which they constantly observe and interact with. It certainly seems conceivable that they could have picked up some human ways of thinking.
The link is at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/21/transcript.wed/index.html#third. | | | |
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