In the Company of Crows and Ravens

“Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies.To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”-from the Preface “If corvids could read-and it seems they can do damn near everything else-they would surely find this book as entertaining and instructive as this human does."-Laurence A.Marschall, Natural History From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture.Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as well.Examining the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact, John Marzluff and Tony Angell contend that those interactions reflect a process of “cultural coevolution.” They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic-a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselv