![]() ![]() Biology, the study of life, is all about finding generalities behind often seemingly idiosyncratic differences: when I saw those otherwise highly aggressive and territorial birds all sharing the same food bonanza, I could not help but think they held some profound and interesting secret, maybe even one that could apply to humans. I was then officially an insect biologist with fourteen years of studying the physiology and behavior of bumblebees just recently behind me. It went against the grain of everything I had learned in my pursuit of classical biology. But such sharing made absolutely no sense to me. ![]() I had observed the puzzling behavior of a large group of ravens that I thought might have been sharing a prized food bonanza-a moose carcass. It is a scientific detective story derived from a commonplace sighting I made on October 18, 1984, in the Maine woods. ![]() Ravens in Winter is now celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. To Catch and Mark a Raven, or Two, or More Territorial Adults and Wandering Juveniles ![]()
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