# What crows teach us about death

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxSalem
- Speaker: Kaeli Swift
- Year: 2020
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kaeli_swift_what_crows_teach_us_about_death)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Rituals for the dead span much of the natural world, seen in practices from humans and elephants to bees, dolphins and beyond. With charm and playful insight, animal behaviorist Kaeli Swift delves into the life (and death) habits of crows and shares what their responses could reveal about our own relationship to mortality.

## Lectures

1. [What crows teach us about death](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kaeli_swift_what_crows_teach_us_about_death/e70bd77ad04d), 14 min (TED's player)