Corvus’s Reviews > The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human > Status Update
Corvus
is 62% done
The characterization of chickens in this is so biased at times I am reminded of just avg smart people are. Imagine calling a factory farm "egalitarian" completely removing the hierarchy of who owns it. Sanctuaries often find differences in results. I wonder why that is ... Skipped ahead when we got to contact lenses. On a factory farm. For birds.
— Nov 28, 2025 05:14PM
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Corvus
is 52% done
Mostly good but I am glad this is almost 12 years old rather than 2. Still mad at some of it- birds not being known to have complex moods and emotions which we have known longer than 10 years. Strangely he discusses dancing parrots after, just visit a parrot who plucks out all of their feathers or a captive zoo bird with stereotypic behavior. Also, more than one bird species has wing-man cooperative courtship.
— Nov 24, 2025 07:52PM
