BIRDS TRAINED TO PICK UP TRASH AT THEME PARK

Six crows specially trained to pick up cigarette butts and trash will be put to work this week at Puy du Fou park, a French historical theme park in the western Vendee region. The crows – actually rooks – are particularly intelligent and in the right circumstances like to communicate with humans and establish a relationship through play. The birds are trained to spruce up the park through the use of a small box that delivers a nugget of bird food each time the rook deposits a small piece of trash.
* Nothing’s meaner than a crow with a cigarette habit.
* Wait’ll the birds run out of trash, and learn that the guests’ eyeballs can also be exchanged for food.