 John the OFM  | 12 Oct 2012 5:20 p.m. PST |
Name any fantasy or "other" book you want. You always have crows or ravens going right for the eyeballs. So, why is this? Are eyeballs tastier than the liver or the tongue? |
| Steve Johnson | 12 Oct 2012 5:27 p.m. PST |
They're easier to get to? |
| Jay Arnold | 12 Oct 2012 5:28 p.m. PST |
Soft. Easy to get at. Everything else takes a bit more effort. |
| John the OFM | 12 Oct 2012 5:29 p.m. PST |
Yeah, they are squishy and gooey. But are they tastier? |
| Streitax | 12 Oct 2012 5:32 p.m. PST |
Your talking about things that eat meat that's rotted in the sun for days, how tasty do eyeballs have to be to be tastier than the rest? |
| Saginaw | 12 Oct 2012 6:12 p.m. PST |
I believe someone once graphically contemplated that same question, gentlemen, with an interesting and humorous outcome.  |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 Oct 2012 7:33 p.m. PST |
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| Roderick Robertson | 12 Oct 2012 7:51 p.m. PST |
More gruesome fou us to think about – the crows took his EYES, man! After that, who cares? Also, yes, they are easier to get to than just about anything. The tongue may or may not be available from behind the teeth, but the eyes just have a little flap of skin between them and the RAVENING BEAKS! |
| Buff Orpington | 13 Oct 2012 1:03 a.m. PST |
Same reason all the cattle "mutilated by aliens" are chewed up around the muzzle, lips and rear end. Soft & easily accessible. |
| Patrick R | 13 Oct 2012 1:39 a.m. PST |
It's a piece of shorthand horror that sets the scene without having to say a word or put up a placard. So convenient everybody uses this. Should be perverted into a crow sitting on a gallows, suddenly snatched and eaten alive by a passing starving peasant. |
| kreoseus2 | 13 Oct 2012 3:56 a.m. PST |
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| Stronty Girl | 13 Oct 2012 4:21 a.m. PST |
They are after the retina at the back of the eyes, which is fat rich – it contains long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid. These are just what a crow needs to pack the yolk of its eggs with, so that the embyro inside can build its own nervous system. Lack of these fatty acids in an egg means the chick won't live to hatch. If they were stronger, the crows would be cracking open the skull to get at the brain, or spine to get at the spinal cord! Info from: Fats of Life, p178-9, by Prof Caroline Pond. She also mentions that storks have the same eye-eating habit as crows and their relatives. |
| Gunfreak | 13 Oct 2012 11:07 a.m. PST |
I read Crows as Cows, I thought this was some new descovery that cows were really nasty creatures, that only predtend to be nice and eat grass. |
| Space Monkey | 13 Oct 2012 11:09 a.m. PST |
I'd always thought it was 'cause eyes are shiny and crows like shiny things. |
 etotheipi  | 13 Oct 2012 1:45 p.m. PST |
Cows are nasty. They're only adorable from a distance. |
 Sue Kes | 14 Oct 2012 4:21 a.m. PST |
They've got to start somewhere. |
| stenicplus | 14 Oct 2012 8:20 a.m. PST |
Can't believe none of you posted this yet:
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| richarDISNEY | 15 Oct 2012 7:40 a.m. PST |
They taste like JuicyFruit gum…
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| Jemima Fawr | 18 Oct 2012 6:54 p.m. PST |
Crows will eat things that would make a seagull sick… they'll then eat the seagull sick. |
