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Although wild rooks have not shown tool-use, captive rooks have shown the ability to use and understand puzzles. One of the most commonly tested puzzles is the Trap-Tube Problem. Rooks learned how to pull their reward out of the tube while avoiding a trap on one side. [20] [21]
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. [1] [2] [3] In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids. Currently, 139 species are included in this family.
Rooks are usually similar in appearance to small castles; thus, a rook is sometimes called a "castle", [18] though modern chess literature rarely, if ever, uses this term. [19] In some languages, the rook is called a ship: Thai เรือ (reūa), Armenian Նավակ (navak), Russian ладья (ladya), Javanese ꦥꦿꦲꦸ (prahu). This may ...
Rooks have been blamed for eating grain in the UK and brown-necked ravens for raiding date crops in desert countries. [61] Crows have been shown to have the ability to visually recognize individual humans and to transmit information about "bad" humans by squawking. [62] Crows appear to show appreciation to humans by presenting them with gifts ...
Musk has had 12 children with three different women. His most-recognised son, X Æ A-12?, goes by "Lil X", the same letter Musk used to re-name Twitter when he purchased the social media company.
Rook or rooks may refer to: Animals. Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a bird of the corvid family; Games. Rook (chess), a piece in chess that moves horizontally ...
A rookery is a colony breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious [1] birds. [2] Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds [3] of colony-forming seabirds, marine mammals (true seals or sea lions), and even some turtles.
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