by Anonymous Crows are supposed to fall asleep after sundown. By tradition, they gather to squawk the daily news before roosting when daylight dips. Humans, pre-historically, have been similar. Of course, we have fingers, which let us hold a needle for se wing, hold flint and pyrite for lighting fire, or hold gauze and set a splint. Crows have two feet and with good balance they can use one a little like a hand, and a beak that's tantamount to chopsticks permanently attached to a digestive system. They cannot form suction or gulp; that's why they throw back their heads to drink water. So when I walk through downtown, and Nimhian corvids bark at each other from the Pioneer treetops near midnight, something unusual is happening. This isn't how their bodies work. It's how they choose to work. Humans aren't the only ones the Anthropocene is transforming. ...read more read less