synching with animals

I recently watched this TED talk by Joshua Klein about crows.  I like crows.  I love how you can tell when there are baby crows because you see groups of three crows wandering around outside and one of them is almost as big as the others but is just kind of shaggy looking, with maybe some feathers sticking up on top of its head.  I have always thought it looked like the parent crows were literally taking the kid around and teaching them how to do things- here's how you catch a grasshopper!  here's where there's good water to drink!  here's  what you do when you find a shiny thing!  and after watching this talk my suspicions about the intelligence of crows are confirmed.  Joshua Klein talks about crows as synanthropes, a species that thrives despite or even benefits from living close to humans- think coyotes and cockroaches.  These species kind of co-evolve with humans- they adapt to the circumstances presented to them.  Of course, synanthropes are usually seen as major pests.  Joshua Klein suggests that we could actually find ways to cultivate inter-species relationships and develop new patterns of inter-related behavior that are beneficial to both species.  I found this to be a really interesting idea.