This is slightly off-topic, but I thought it would be of interest to some of us in this community, as crows feature frequently in fairy tales and mythology.

David Dietle at Cracked.com has an article called 6 Terrifying Ways Crows Are Way Smarter Than You Think, which is mostly about recent scientific research on the birds, but Aesop does get a ( Read more... )

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Because of the interest in the comments of my previous post, I emailed the artist to inquire about prints. He replied that he can't afford another print run at this time, but he appreciated the interest, and has uploaded the original full-sized image "so that you guys can go ahead and print it however you'd like ( Read more... )