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Destaca-se a espécie de corvos da Nova Caledonia, especialmente adepta de uso de ferramentas.
Leituras Artur 2007
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BBC | Clever crows are caught on camera Já se sabia, através da observação em cativeiro, que os corvos são capazes de criar e utilizar ferramentas.
Leituras Artur 2007
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Browns, even Gordon, can hardly wring much comfort from the bleak Deus pacit corvos/God feeds the ravens.
A motto to live by 2007
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Pela primeira vez, graças a câmaras miniaturizadas, foi possível filmar o comportamento destes corvos no seu habitat natural, observando as suas grandes capacidades de criação e manipulação de ferramentas.
Leituras Artur 2007
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Browns, even Gordon, can hardly wring much comfort from the bleak Deus pacit corvos/God feeds the ravens.
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Non temere est quod corvos cantat mihi nunc ab laeva manu; semul radebat pedibus terram et voce croccibat sua: continuo meum cor coepit artem facere ludicram atque in pectus emicare. sed ego cesso currere?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Fide censebam maxumam multo fidem esse, ea sublevit os mihi paenissume: ni subvenisset corvos, periissem miser. nimis hercle ego illum corvom ad me veniat velim.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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As Socrates told Crito, it concerns me not what is done with me when I am dead; Facilis jactura sepulchri: I care not so long as I feel it not; let them set mine head on the pike of Tenerife, and my quarters in the four parts of the world, — pascam licet in cruce corvos, let wolves or bears devour me; — [3883] Caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam, the canopy of heaven covers him that hath no tomb.
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"ille corvos deludit hiantes: nam ubi censuram suam exercet, manifestum hominis phrenesin facile deprehendas!"
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Save your master: mind you don’t do the same as other servants that use their wily wits to gull him. unde sumam? quem intervortam? quo hanc celocem conferam? impetritum, inauguratumst quovis admittunt aves, picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos parra ab dextera 260 consuadent; certum herclest vostram consequi sententiam.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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