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That’s an Aesop’s fable (the Crow and the Pitcher).

Yes! And it also was an intentional study in animal cognition. Christopher Bird and Nathan Emery at the University of Cambridge decided to test whether birds could actually do what Aesop described. Their study, published in Current Biology in August 2009, was titled: "Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Water Level to Reach a Floating Worm."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220...

There was a related study in 2014, "Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

What a fitting name Christopher has

You’ll get a kick out of the concept of nominative determinism, then!

What a fitting name the concept of nominative determinism has.

I once met a woman named Bar. You guessed it, we met at a bar

Another girl I went out with during the same time period was Ifat - and yes, she was heavy set. Moran was actually quite bright, despite her name. Shiran actually did jog, and Hadass did have a nice figure. Tal was shorter than I expected, but Lital was bigger than I expected. Nofit, well, she had great legs at least.

I was friends with a Moran with a BS, MS, and PhD in EE from Stanford.

RIP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

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