You know those people who magically appear whenever there’s free food? Ravens do that too – but in Yellowstone, it’s not luck and not because they trail wolves. Instead, they remember where and when kills happen, navigating a mental map of the “landscape of death". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to thei...
