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On Friday, I quickly posted this video, which shows a crow -- likely a hooded crow (thanks to a commenter at Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog for the ID) -- appearing to "snowboard" down the roof of a Russian building, using a small object as a makeshift snowboard.
Kamil (and Madrigal) are right, of course. This video is just an anecdote, a single instance of an animal engaging in a particular behavior. However, digging into the scientific literature has revealed a bit more about corvids, the group of birds including the snowboarding hooded crow in the video, and their propensity for play.
In 1998, comparative psychologist Marc Bekoff together with John Byers, put together a book called Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives. It contains a chapter titled Play in common ravens, written by University of Vermont biologists Bernd Heinrich and Rachel Smolker.
