"Un*Spun" Chapter 6: The Great Crow Fallacy

To be perfectly honest, the 'great crow fallacy' seems to be a finding based of an extremely rare coincidence, which [eventually] was correctly documented at such. Though I acknowledge and believe animals to be extremely intelligent and capable in many different areas, I feel this 'fallacy' was created off of someone's whim of finding human ways of thinking in animal beings. Perhaps this is just the strange knowledge of a person who watched too much Animal Planet as a kid, but I find it common knowledge or assumption that birds would drop nuts, snail shells, etc. off high areas to try and crack open the protective husk to find their food. Granted, it shouldn't seem surprising that crows would do this over a road - most birds when using this method look for rocks or other hard surfaces - such as a road would appear.

Allow me to return to the idea of humans interpreting animal actions - this has been done for decades, centuries perhaps. When I was younger, my grandfather always told me that you knew it was going to rain when the cows laid down in the pasture. We base our length of winter off if a groundhog sees his shadow on a specified day of the year. Now, we do know that animals have innate senses which we as humans will never be able to tap into, but I feel like when we try to interpret their actions in order to provide backing evidence for a case, that we extend beyond our appropriated sense of data and information pool.