Necrophiliac crows that have sex with corpses are terrifyingly common

At least one crowmeo in this flock is likely to have a very a dark kink (Photo: Getty)Kaeli Swift, who's studying for her PhD at the University of Washington, is interested in 'thanatology', which is the science of death.

But one fine day in April 2015 she saw a live crow approach a corpse before 'thrashing in that unmistakable manner'. Now she's finally published the results of a three year study which followed.

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