Study of Seattle Crows Finds Some Have Sex With the Dead

by Katie HerzogThe face of an angelpschoenfelder/Getty ImagesIf you've seen a strange woman wandering around your neighborhood with a pair of binoculars and a stuffed crow, it might have Kaeli Swift. Swift, a PhD candidate and bird researcher at UW, is the author of a new study on the bizarre sex lives of crows... and I do mean bizarre.Crows, Swift documented, have sex with their dead.In 2015, Swift, along with UW professor John Marzluff, was working with a film crew to document crow funerals as