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syadasti

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*set the record for fastest production car around the 'Ring with a non-production car.
Road legal cars that beat the non-road legal Ferrari too:

6:48 -- 182.69 km/h - Radical SR8LM, 455 PS/650 kg, Michael Vergers http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/240451/radical_ring_record.html http://www.evo.co.uk/videos/planetevovideos/241504/nurburgring_lap_record.html
6:55* - 178.69 km/h - Radical SR8, 360 PS/650 kg, Michael Vergers (UK)sep,28 05, (*street-legal only in the UK and the EU) http://www.radicalextremesportscars.com/radical-tv
 

IH8Rice

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Im over here now
Road legal cars that beat the non-road legal Ferrari too:
two more cars that stretch that "street-legal" moniker.
their new car should be even faster than the current crop of cars.

the "XX" cars from Ferrari are owned by private owners but are stored and maintained by Ferrari and are only used at race events.
the only "street-legal" 599XX is owned by Schumacher.











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Toshi

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This crow wasn't trained to do this! Using a stick on a string to get a bigger stick to get food out of a small space.
 

syadasti

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Freaking crows.
These researchers did an earlier study in which this same species of crow, completely untrained, fabricated a hook to obtain food out of mini well w/food bucket:


First time I've seen this one - sequential tool use:


Corvids have the ability to learn from experimentation and example. A great example in the wild - the exotic cane toad from Costa Rica has become a pest in Australia. Unfortunately it has large poison glands on its head so most native animals die when they try to attack or eat them. Wild crows figured out they could flip them over and eat them from the bottom without getting sick/dying and the knowledge/technique has been spreading from crow to crow:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/15/2033759.htm

Avian brains do not work the same as mammal brains do but on the high-end avian species are proven to be comparable to primates, dolphins, and humans.

Research has shown that Corvids pass on behaviors, traditions, and even a form of culture from generation to generation in some species.
 
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