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      What’s wild is that there are “crows” in other places that look like what we consider “ravens” and the terminology is all arbitrary. And the Indo-European root source for the words crow and raven seem to be the same despite seeming so different.

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    I recently hallucinated a conversation with the crows on the college campus where I work. I’m taking a non-credit course on corvids, so I asked the crows that I feed on campus if they were taking the corvids course also. They said “no,” and asked if I take human courses. And I said, “well, yeah, we take lots of courses about humans—humanities, sociology, psychology, history, anthropology, etc.” They thought it was quite silly. “Why do you need lessons to be human?” And actually, I’d rather be a crow. But the corvids course probably doesn’t cover that.