Perhaps I'm missing the deeper meaning of this topic — Outlander
The negative feedback from both sources tortured Edgar Allen Poe while inspiring him at the same time. — Paine
How is a closet like a blue tit? — Baden
Neither can sing. — Vera Mont
Both are evil. — praxis
Really? Can you point me to some footage? I know that bluejays and sometimes blackbirds imitate sounds, but I've never heard a crow sing.Ravens can mimic song like many other Corvids. — Nils Loc
What prey? By imitating what? Roadkill doesn't respond; eggs and berries can't be fooled by sound; mice probably wouldn't come out of hiding for a raven song.Could ravens lure prey out with imitation, as a tactic? — Nils Loc
Konrad Lorenz wrote that crows swarmed and intimidated him on his way down to the river every morning, until he discovered the problem: he'd had a black swimsuit carelessly dangling from his hand. If crows see anything limp and black carried by a predator, they assume it's a dead crow and he's an enemy. After that, he wore his trunks and went empty-handed and was allowed to go in peace.It's a bit of a taxonomic gap from the corvids but am sure the corvids have some interesting predator/prey dynamics on account of how intelligent people say they are. — Nils Loc
It is the lunatic raven man that turns the charming bird meeting of a "murder" and a "conspiracy" into real murder and conspiracy (sometimes at a desk). — Nils Loc
Europeans have a long-standing problem with the colour black: they associate it with death and evil — Vera Mont
But then, Europeans have a long-standing problem with the colour black: they associate it with death and evil - except, somehow, priests and nuns in their flowing black garb. — Vera Mont
Does any other belief system dress its shamans in the colour they most fear? — Vera Mont
. A few moments of google research suggests that the choice of color is based on the inclination to express austerity and the rejection of material life, favoring of spiritual. — praxis
I suspect it's no contradiction at all. Religious turn away from life, love, joy and procreation; they entomb themselves in a celebration of human sacrifice. The rituals of medieval monastic orders attest to this: renunciation of worldly pleasure, mortification of the flesh, a life-long penance for having been born into original sin. — Vera Mont
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