Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC. His death at age 32 followed a 2-week febrile illness. Speculated causes of death have included poisoning; assassination, and a number of infectious diseases. One incident, mentioned by Plutarch but not considered by previous investigators, may shed light on the cause of Alexander's death. The incident, which occurred as he entered Babylon, involve...

Generics are sentences such as "ravens are black" and "tigers are striped", which express generalizations concerning kinds. Quantified statements such as "all tigers are striped" or "most ravens are black" also express generalizations, but unlike generics, they specify how many members of the kind have the property in question. Recently, some theorists have proposed that generics express cognit...

We have long known that corvids are adaptively flexible in behavior, but have rarely tested their flexibility and creativity in solving problems outside the laboratory. Through a carefully controlled experiment conducted in the wild, I have found that Common Ravens (Corvus corax) fly toward gunshot sounds, presumably in order to locate animal gut piles left by hunters. This is the first conclus...

University of Kentucky Department of Forestry 215 T.P. Cooper Bldg. Lexington, KY 40546-0073 (859) 257-9507 (office) (859) 323-1031 (fax) [email protected] Abstract In the eastern U.S., direct killing by humans and the loss of forest habitat and large mammals during the late 19 and early 20 centuries caused the extirpation of ravens in all but the most inaccessible and rugged portions of the...

Many generics have quite strong interpretations. Ravens are black is naturally paraphrased as all normal ravens are black.. However, there is a sundry collection of weak generics, ones that can be true even though most members of the kind at issue do not conform to them, including Dutchmen are good sailors and lions have manes. This paper presents a new semantic theory for generics on which the...