A couple of days ago I saw a crow who had taken its prized find up onto a telephone wire slung across the road. It was balanced along the wire with one end of the mass under foot and the other being yanked upward by its beak. The frayed end of the stringy mass looked like a giant shoelace that had lost its plastic sheath and was impossible to get through any eyelet. I marveled that the crow was agile enough to perform this task while balancing so well on such a narrow surface above a busy thoroughfare but I also wondered if it wouldn
