The social-media buzz that surrounded these gift-giving crows in Seattle is perhaps predictable. Part of me wants to ask why this possibility was so interesting, so surprising, to so many people. Was it the sheer fact that an animal might give a gift? Or was it perhaps the possibility for interspecies gifting? Either way, why are so many of us still so surprised by the creative, social, intelligent capacities of nonhuman others? But another part of me wants to hold onto the miraculousness of this act, to the image of a crow or perhaps a group of crows who might be paying attention
