Crows,

are considered to be fairy high up,

when it  comes to birdbrains, in fact Corvids are among the most intelligent animals in the world, routinely shocking scientists with their reasoning skills, but the concept of training crows to clean up our messes has many people shaking their heads, though it’s arguably a symbiotic transaction, and it has happened,

when an Amsterdam-based startup announced last year that it was training crows to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for food, the concept seemed a little ridiculous, but the French theme park called Puy du Fou began its own crow cleanup crew project, employing six birds to pick up butts and other bits of rubbish and insert them into a small box, “The goal is not just to clear up, because the visitors are generally careful to keep things clean,” says Nicolas de Villiers, head of the park. It’s also about proving “that nature itself can teach us to take care of the environment.” the crows received their training from the park’s “Academy of Falconry,” and the pickup project is inspired by the park’s falconry show, in which crows retrieve roses and deliver them to a “princess” in a castle, the falconer keeps an eye on the situation to make sure tourists don’t drop trash just for the crows to retrieve, and keeps the birds from cheating by dropping objects other than trash into the box, all we have to do now is to stop the tourists deliberately dropping rubbish to watch the crows perform!