Other Animals – Thom van Dooren

Crows removing ticks: helpfulness, opportunism, or something else?

Posted on October 28, 2020January 31, 2021Birds and extinction, Other Animals

If you’ve spent much time at all watching YouTube videos of corvids, you’ve likely come across some of the numerous examples of them engaging in the seemingly helpful act of removing ticks and other ectoparasites ...

Sheep on Svartsö

Posted on September 15, 2014Other Animals

Here’s a little film of some beautiful sheep on the island of Svartsö in the Stockholm archipelago in the early morning. They’re using the supporting wires of a power pole to scratch their heads and ...