While i was walking along the Kawauchi campus, i heard a loud bang. on the street. It sound like something was rolled over by a car. And when i turned around my head. i saw, that a crow is eating a peatnut in the middle of street.

To  my suprised, it is the smart crow that is being enshrined at  our Japanese textbook in Tohoku University language center. It is the first time, i saw this with my own eyes.

The story goes back to the experiment conducted in Tohoku University in 1992. It is being observed that crow are using car passing through to break open a hard peanut case.

First the crow will place the hard-shell peanut, on the street, while it awaits the oncoming car. The passing car will roll over the peanut and breaking the hardshell inside the peanut. Once the car has passed, the crow now can easily eat the inside of the peanut.

What a smart crow in my mind while i was reading the Japanese textbook. But to actually seen it with my own eyes really open my interest. I found it to be an inspiration for my day.

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