Crows are known to behave strangely around their
dead: they gather around and squawk loudly nearby. The idea that it is part of
some sort of ritual funeral has often been proposed. But what they are actually
doing has largely remained a mystery, as scientists had little to rely on
except anecdotal evidence of such behaviour. A team has now set out to unpick
just why crows act so attentively around their fallen brethren….Results show that
crows will avoid an area or thing that is deemed dangerous to their own
species. In other words, they know what death is and know to fear it. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150930-the-birds-that-fear-death
The study
was carried out by researchers at the School of Environmental and Forest
Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. It was published on September
24, 2015 on the very day Pluto stationed to go direct. A chart for the station
at Seattle is shown here. Notice the Mercury-Pluto-Uranus T-square aligned with
the horizon axis. In mythology Pluto is linked to death while here Mercury is conjunct Delta (δ) Corvus, Algorab, a star
on the right wing of the Raven so that
it is not difficult to see the cosmic energies working behind the publication
of the study.
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