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Episode 302: Crowsight

The Poetry of Science

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This episode explores new research, which has found that carrion crows can spontaneously detect geometric regularity - like right angles and symmetry - just like humans.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Crows in a Strong Wind’ by Cornelius Eady here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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