One of the things I thought after watching this is if Archimedes could have been inspired/influenced by noticing the crow's behavior or by Aesop's fable.
That's a pretty dim view of humanity-- do you really think that no one before Archimedes realized that stones displace water? Archimedes' "Eureka!" moment was a bit more profound than that.
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Had the birds seen this happen before? I can obviously teach a dog to do that too, if they just associate put-rocks-in-worm-tube with get-food.
The source (http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)0...) makes it sound like they had quite a few runs at it, but I only have the summary, and it's a bit hard to tell.
One of the things I thought after watching this is if Archimedes could have been inspired/influenced by noticing the crow's behavior or by Aesop's fable.
That's a pretty dim view of humanity-- do you really think that no one before Archimedes realized that stones displace water? Archimedes' "Eureka!" moment was a bit more profound than that.