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The Crow and the Pitcher is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 390 in the Perry Index. It relates ancient observation of corvid behaviour that recent scientific studies have confirmed is goal-directed and indicative of causal knowledge rather than simply being due to instrumental conditioning.
The Crow & the Pitcher. In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water.
“The Crow and the Pitcher” Additional Information. Year Published: 1867. Language: English. Country of Origin: Greece. Source: Aesop (1867) Aesop's Fables. Readability: Flesch–Kincaid Level: 5.6. Word Count: 176. Genre: Fable. Keywords: traditional stories. Cite This. Share |. Downloads. Audio. Passage PDF. Student Activity. Back. Next.
The Crow and the Pitcher. by Aesop. 620-560 BCE. 5th Grade Lexile: 910. Font Size. The Crow and the Pitcher by Milo Winter is in the public domain. [1] In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher. 1. with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, 2.
Mar 8, 2017 · Aesop, if he existed, was an enslaved person in the seventh century Greece. According to Aristotle, he was born in Thrace. His fable of the Crow and the Pitcher was well known in Greece and in Rome, where mosaics have been found illustrating the crafty crow and the stoic pitcher.
May 10, 2015 · Greek. Intermediate. 1 min read. Add to FAVs. A A A. A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it.
Greece. The Crow and the Pitcher. A thirsty crow cleverly drops pebbles into a pitcher, raising the water level to drink and quench its thirst. Problem-Solving. Perseverance. Resourcefulness. Intermediate (B1) Fun. Rhyme. In a very dry area, a crow was searching for water because it was extremely thirsty.
