@exiliaex @KatSteelwing source link for those curious: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/march-april-2016/meet-bird-brainiacs-american-crow
(I've also since learned that Marzluff retired recently!)
"The profanation of the unprofanable is the political task of the coming generation."
Giorgio Agamben, "Profanations"
"We fix our gaze on the remains of a triumphal arch, a portico, a pyramid, a temple, a palace, and we plunge into meditation. We anticipate the ravages of time, and our imagination scatters over the very buildings in which we live. All at once, solitude and silence reign around us. We alone remain, of an entire nation that no longer exists; and this is first line of the poetics of ruins." —Denis Diderot
this is the caveman mask the researchers wore. if this guy showed up in my neighborhood i'd be scared as shit too.
in case you didn't see this yet https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
it's gotten to the point where every morning, as i'm walking my dog for the first walk of the day, i'm joined by 3-5 crows who follow me for the whole walk. flying by and landing on nearby street signs, electrical cables, houses, fences, all until we get back home and then i feed them some (usually nuts or dog food)
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.