Abstract
Living with the Trickster: Crows, Ravens, and Human Culture
Highlights
People are rarely indifferent to crows, and this book explores the changes in opinion throughout our history of interactions with them
Some species of crows have followed us into our cities, and their populations have boomed because they have exploited plentiful food resources, such as refuse
A reputation as a thief can be traced to their habit of stealing and caching small objects, but how can a nonlinguistic animal be a liar? It does, seem to help to have been a thief in order to catch a
Summary
People are rarely indifferent to crows, and this book explores the changes in opinion throughout our history of interactions with them. The book covers an enormous amount of ground, documenting in an engaging way both the current research on ecology, social behaviour, and cognitive and communicative abilities of crows and their diverse representations in our legends, art, literature, and spiritual rituals. Consider the similarities between humans and crows: we are both highly social species, living mainly in small family groups but assembling in much larger numbers around rich resources.
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