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The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder is the earliest to attest that the story reflects the behaviour of real-life corvids. [13] In August 2009, a study published in Current Biology revealed that rooks, a relative of crows, do just the same as the crow in the fable when presented with a similar situation. [14]
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The sentiment is common in the early fables; the alternative story of the Crow and the Snake comes to the same conclusion. However, the basic situation is transposed by the 2nd century BCE poet, Antipater of Sidon , in a poem collected in the Greek Anthology .
Nepenthes lowii (/ n ə ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˈ l oʊ. i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /), commonly called Low's pitcher plant, [4] is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo. It is named after Hugh Low , who discovered it on Mount Kinabalu .
A carrion crow scavenging on a beach in Dorset, England. A crow (pronounced / ˈ k r oʊ /) is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.The word "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species.
The fox and the crane dining together in Pieter Bruegel's 1559 Netherlandish Proverbs. The Fox and the Stork, also known as The Fox and the Crane, is one of Aesop's fables and is first recorded in the collection of Phaedrus.