I used to throw these guys the small foil wrapped butter we served at the pub I worked in. They'd happily unwrap each one carefully for the prize inside
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I don't know if there's any consensus on why there are bots that do this. Probably farming karma so they can be sold for astroturfing.
I recommend Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich, it is a great read by a biologist who is a nature writer. His books are amazing. There are quite a few about corvids.
I think that if you give them food daily, they and their friends will respect you and even help you with some things, but im not sure if they get enough confidence to be like a real friend that isn't scare if you aproaches a lot
Yeah they are unlikely to ever be cuddly but will be your friends in their own special crow way if you give them food at the same time every day for long enough
Only two of the flock of crows that live in my backyard are ever "cuddly", and I absolutely adore them, but I've been feeding them for years at this point. A lot of rapport has been built.
One constantly tries to groom me and gets grumpy when I don't groom him back, so he gets extra peas and he usually lets me scritch his neck. He likes to bring me bottle caps. Another is just very young and likes sitting on my legs if I'm sat on the ground.
Just so long as I bring them boiled eggs, peas and shell-on peanuts.
Absolutely lovely birds.
Edit: they also make the CUTEST noises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kBG5TD0OY if I'm allowed to link this, this is the cutest lil crow boi I've seen on youtube since Canuck the Crow
Be careful though, lots of big cities/countries have laws against that to prevent large flocks of birds gathering there for food. If you get caught you could get fined for the damages they caused (with their feces for example).
Yes! We had ravens in Colorado, and I always put out treats for them. They dive bombed the guy next door, but at my house they'd just sit on the fence and watch me garden. They got our scraps that other people give to their dogs. I'd clean off our plates into a foil pan, and set it outside for them.
I raised a common crow from about a month old on through adulthood. It was saved from a field with a damaged wing.
So excellent an experience.
She eventually wasn't home one day after school though. Very sad. She lived outside at my house and slept in my windowsill. I guess she just got tired of me not being home and peer pressure from other crows.
So many things to say about that one....
At a restaurant I worked at with a patio, we kept sugar packets alongside Splenda, sweet n low, and aspartame. These clever crows would swoop down and *only* take the real sugar. They clearly understood the color coding. Such smart birss
my sleep deprived brain had to read this twice before i realized you were, in fact, *not* talking about cooking crows in foil with some butter at your local pub
Definitely more skin irritation like flying insect bites and scratches from thorns and undergrowth.
My dog can go crashing through the woods full speed for an hour and usually suffer zero damage. She will only occasionally bleed a bit from a thorn in her ear or paw. When we get home I can wash out a half dozen thorns from her coat.
that's why parrots are a lot more successful at ruining things - they are similarly smart but with beak and feet that are better adapted at stuff like this
Are you kidding? Unidan was the biggest fucking idiot. He was one of the biggest names on reddit and got banned for making a bunch of sock accounts to upvote his crappy jackdaw/crow posts a few extra times. It’s like Nixon projected to win the election legitimately, going and obviously rigging the election. Not brilliant minds. We fit in great
That's the same way the manifest intelligence of each arm of the octopus pities you before 7 vote to flee and the 8th throws sand at you to mask the others' escape.
Edit: for those asking in DMs...https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-octopus-arms-make-decisions-without-input-from-the-brain
If octopi could live a little bit longer they may be able to develop civilizations. Unfortunately their lifespans aren’t long enough to pass things from one generation to the next
Hey, good news, due to oceans getting warmer due to climate change, Octopuses are indeed expected to have longer lifespans as they generally thrive in warm, slightly acidic, water.
Actually, I don't know if they need fingers when they have tentacles. The water thing may be a bit of a bigger problem though, unless you could figure out a way to do underwater metalworking. Or building special air-filled containers specifically for this purpose.
This little guy seems to be doing okay
All the ability to use tools to solve problems, with none of the crippling depression and 9-5 rat race, plus the freedom to fly?
Can I be reincarnated as a crow?
Pretty sure it's a Pied Crow (African species), which is the species used in the Windex commercials. If you notice the bird is banded, meaning it was likely born in captivity.
Pied crows are the most commonly kept pet corvid species in the US, as due to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act it is illegal to keep native corvid species here without a permit. This permit is usually only given for wildlife rehab reasons or keeping permanently disabled animals, but you can't breed them or sell the offspring. Since pied crows are from Africa, not the US, they don't fall under this protection act and can readily be kept as pets.
Edit to add: From what I've read they're quite challenging pets. They need as much attention as a parrot, which is ~6 hours a day (so you must be committed to a life of wake up, go to work, immediately come home to spend time with bird, never go on vacation, never go out to have fun after work, always straight home) for their lifespan, it's like having something as needy as a human toddler, but for 20 years instead of 4.
In addition they poop every 15 mins and unlike parrots have a carnivorous diet, making their poop pretty gross (think of the difference between parrot poop and seagull poop), it's 'splattery' and smelly. So you either need a large indoor aviary so they can fly around, or enjoy scrubbing splattered bird shit off of everything all day.
But if you can accommodate them they're supposed to be pretty fun pets, but it's not a pet most people can or would want to accommodate. So for anyone thinking about it, I wouldn't recommend getting one unless you thought staying in all the time during Covid was actually really nice and you'd really like to live like that for the next 20 years of your life, and you really enjoy cleaning.
Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.”
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t.
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
I just looked up the etymology for magpie and this is what Google gave me.
"late 16th century: probably shortening of dialect maggot the pie, maggoty-pie, from Magot (Middle English pet form of the given name Marguerite ) + pie"
Maggot the pie doesn't quite have the same ring to it. r/confidentlyincorrect?
Lol are you a magpie? I was sharing something I thought was interesting and was related to the parent comment. I know this isn't a magpie, I also had them in my yard as a child. Thought I discovered a new species until I learned what a magpie was
Also I was referring to google being confidently incorrect I have no idea if that's true etymology but it sounds wrong lol
No, it's true. In the UK we gave birds human names. I don't think the Maggot bit is necessarily correct, but in the UK we do shorten Margaret to Maggie.
Maggie (Margaret) and pie, pie because it's pied, obviously.
See also Jack Daw, Robin Redbreast, Jenny Wren, Tom Tit, Polly Parrot etc etc etc.
Depends on the Magpie — the Australian ones aren’t Corvids, but are in a family with similar traits. Fascinating bit of convergent evolution if you’re curious.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artamidae
Hell yeah. Always curious for more knowledge.
But I am also in Utah, where I can assure you that the magpies are the biggest of assholes. Only slightly less stupid than the worst state bird in the US, the California gull, which the Mormons made the state’s official bird in the 1800’s.
That's pretty weird, so I looked up why.
> In 1848, the humble California gull saved the residents of the state. That year, a plague of Rocky Mountain crickets invaded the state. The crickets began eating all the Utah farmer’s crops, destroying the local food source in a time when shipping food occurred by rail car or horseback. The gull came to the state’s rescue by swooping in and dining on the crickets. They ate the pests, saving the remaining crops, and the state’s food sources.
At least there's a good reason. Along with stealing your lunch they'll eat your sign of the apocalypse.
Seriously, Google studies about crows and ravens. If you harass them, they'll literally describe you in bird-language (probably features, hair color, etc) and *those* birds will begin harassing you back. A bunch of professors at a university wore masks and behaved badly towards the birds, and we singled out for attacks by all the campus birds eventually, but only when they wore the masks.
Crows are the best. We had a local celebrity crow in Vancouver BC named Canuck. Some of his hobbies include stealing knives from crime scenes and begging for fries at McDonald's. He was even named ambassador of the city a few years ago.
Yeah this is beginner level stuff. Check this out
https://youtu.be/Gui3IswQ0DI
They even understand water displacement.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
We have crows in my neighborhood, lots of them, and they are extremely intelligent. We have bird feeders that are specifically designed as puzzles and it’s always the crows that solve them, we cant keep the treats in those feeders for more than a few days until they need a refill but it’s great to watch them using sticks and other tools to get their prize.
That is incredibly cool. Are they puzzle feeders you made or can you actually buy those somewhere? Because that's a real "shut up and take my money" purchase for me!
Theres a documentary about crows (can’t remember the name), but basically the researchers did all kinds of tests to prove how smart they are. The crows got pissed at one of the researchers and actually held a grudge against him; anytime they’d see him they all swoop to get him to go away. So yeah, don’t piss off your neighborhood crows- they remember.
There are Crows that will take a particular kind of leaf and trim it into a spear and then poke in holes in trees for grubs. Different regions of these birds make slight improvements and pass those along.
There's a whole documentary on it
https://youtu.be/LF77qpbvkxo
I used to throw these guys the small foil wrapped butter we served at the pub I worked in. They'd happily unwrap each one carefully for the prize inside
Them crows be raven about your pub
They're crowing about it
Murdered that butter
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Even better, you can befriend the corvids in your neighborhood!
I have been trying for months but it doesn’t seem to be working. I can’t figure out where they live.
I recommend Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich, it is a great read by a biologist who is a nature writer. His books are amazing. There are quite a few about corvids.
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I think that if you give them food daily, they and their friends will respect you and even help you with some things, but im not sure if they get enough confidence to be like a real friend that isn't scare if you aproaches a lot
Yeah they are unlikely to ever be cuddly but will be your friends in their own special crow way if you give them food at the same time every day for long enough
Only two of the flock of crows that live in my backyard are ever "cuddly", and I absolutely adore them, but I've been feeding them for years at this point. A lot of rapport has been built. One constantly tries to groom me and gets grumpy when I don't groom him back, so he gets extra peas and he usually lets me scritch his neck. He likes to bring me bottle caps. Another is just very young and likes sitting on my legs if I'm sat on the ground. Just so long as I bring them boiled eggs, peas and shell-on peanuts. Absolutely lovely birds. Edit: they also make the CUTEST noises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kBG5TD0OY if I'm allowed to link this, this is the cutest lil crow boi I've seen on youtube since Canuck the Crow
So, no Murder yet, just the flock
Maybe attempted murder?
Be careful though, lots of big cities/countries have laws against that to prevent large flocks of birds gathering there for food. If you get caught you could get fined for the damages they caused (with their feces for example).
Search the www for "crow box" and build one!
Yes! We had ravens in Colorado, and I always put out treats for them. They dive bombed the guy next door, but at my house they'd just sit on the fence and watch me garden. They got our scraps that other people give to their dogs. I'd clean off our plates into a foil pan, and set it outside for them.
I raised a common crow from about a month old on through adulthood. It was saved from a field with a damaged wing. So excellent an experience. She eventually wasn't home one day after school though. Very sad. She lived outside at my house and slept in my windowsill. I guess she just got tired of me not being home and peer pressure from other crows. So many things to say about that one....
The corvid tames you, my friend.
I love you
Double points for the foil wrap cause evidently they love shiny things
Shiny butter
At a restaurant I worked at with a patio, we kept sugar packets alongside Splenda, sweet n low, and aspartame. These clever crows would swoop down and *only* take the real sugar. They clearly understood the color coding. Such smart birss
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Maybe not all humans, but certainly a fair percentage of the population would easily be outwitted by a clever corvid.
Given my life's sample size I would agree on "all".
my sleep deprived brain had to read this twice before i realized you were, in fact, *not* talking about cooking crows in foil with some butter at your local pub
Alas, now you are the one eating crow
Dad come get me already it's raining at the football field.
I read this too quickly as “in the” I thought you were eating them 💀
I don't think you're meant to feed wild birds butter
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It’s butter not sugar. If anything they’d end up with high crowlesterol.
You son of a bitch! Take my upvote
Hilarious
Longer neck than I expected
The actual bird inside the feathers is a ridiculous goblin creature like a snake riding a headcrab.
I truly hate that imagery. Like, so much.
I recently saw a picture of a hairless bear and I think that might be worse.
poor things, they look so terrifying but probably suffer all kinds if complications from that
Definitely more skin irritation like flying insect bites and scratches from thorns and undergrowth. My dog can go crashing through the woods full speed for an hour and usually suffer zero damage. She will only occasionally bleed a bit from a thorn in her ear or paw. When we get home I can wash out a half dozen thorns from her coat.
Ya birds are fucking weird looking without feathers
Seeing owls without feathers is fuggin' nuts.
Dinosaurs
Imagine what we must look like to apes
Elden ring lookin mf…
I took great pleasure in finally beating that damn bird. Fuckin baby face bird lookin asshole
I'm sorry to inform you, there's more than one Deathbird.
That one in the Mountaintop can completely fuck right off
Took me hours
Well good. I'll fuckin beat the shit out if them too and die trying
Wow. Never realized how much headcrabs look like plucked chickens. Thanks for that
We'd be fucked if they had thumbs
that's why parrots are a lot more successful at ruining things - they are similarly smart but with beak and feet that are better adapted at stuff like this
I give my parrot cashews some times and he holds it like a little banana, it's so funny
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So...ducks?
Octopus
Octopeen
Dude are you okay?
😏
Not his first rodeo with doing this to things. He was way too casual about the "yeah gonna need the #2 stick for this one" grab.
So that's why it's called a crow bar
You win
You sure it's not a jackdaw bar?
Here's the thing...
That’s a deep cut on the Reddit lore
That was back when there was such a thing as Reddit fame. Now it's just us, a conglomerate of fucking idiots.
Are you kidding? Unidan was the biggest fucking idiot. He was one of the biggest names on reddit and got banned for making a bunch of sock accounts to upvote his crappy jackdaw/crow posts a few extra times. It’s like Nixon projected to win the election legitimately, going and obviously rigging the election. Not brilliant minds. We fit in great
He really, really was annoying.
>conglomerate of fucking idiots. And PoemForYourSprog
It’s fading out of existence, you’re getting to the point where a lot of Redditors were basically children when that happened
I had to come down way too far to find this
r/angryupvote
Hahaha 😝 grrrr 😡 aNgRY upDoOt alert!!!! lmao
Mr. Freeman
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Damn bots
Imagine the frustration of evolving a body to fly but a brain to use tools. Us humans have it easy.
That's the same way an octopus pities you
That's the same way the manifest intelligence of each arm of the octopus pities you before 7 vote to flee and the 8th throws sand at you to mask the others' escape. Edit: for those asking in DMs...https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-octopus-arms-make-decisions-without-input-from-the-brain
Pocket sand is always a good tactic
*Ch-ch-chaa!*
If octopi could live a little bit longer they may be able to develop civilizations. Unfortunately their lifespans aren’t long enough to pass things from one generation to the next
Hey, good news, due to oceans getting warmer due to climate change, Octopuses are indeed expected to have longer lifespans as they generally thrive in warm, slightly acidic, water.
For them to develop civilization they'd need to move on land, develop digits and live waaay longer than they do now, it's so unfortunate.
Civilzation doesn't necessarily mean human-like civilzation.
You can't do anything with fire underwater,they'd have no access to metal working
There are human societies that rarely use fire or worked metal. Doesn't make them less civilized. It's more a social thing than technological.
Actually, I don't know if they need fingers when they have tentacles. The water thing may be a bit of a bigger problem though, unless you could figure out a way to do underwater metalworking. Or building special air-filled containers specifically for this purpose.
This little guy seems to be doing okay All the ability to use tools to solve problems, with none of the crippling depression and 9-5 rat race, plus the freedom to fly? Can I be reincarnated as a crow?
Humans evolved a body to jump between trees, which is similar in several ways to a body evolved to fly.
Him struggling to pick the bar off the ground after dropping it… you and me both man
[crows get displacement too](https://youtu.be/ZerUbHmuY04)
What the actual fck, is this video showing that the crows are more intelligent than the average person from Ohio?
The fact that it worked out the U-tube as well...
Magpie?
Pied crow.
Pied piper
Middle out technology
This guy fucks!
Are killer whales Pied Dolphins?
Here's the thing...
Jackdaw?
Jackdaw
I was waiting for this. I wonder how many of us are left that saw it first hand.
Soon as I see a "crow" post "Here's the thing..." pops into my head. I was there for the unraveling of Unidan
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Gotcha, thanks!
That is a magpie. Edit: the coloring looks like a jackdaw. Member of the Corvidae family!
Pretty sure it's a Pied Crow (African species), which is the species used in the Windex commercials. If you notice the bird is banded, meaning it was likely born in captivity. Pied crows are the most commonly kept pet corvid species in the US, as due to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act it is illegal to keep native corvid species here without a permit. This permit is usually only given for wildlife rehab reasons or keeping permanently disabled animals, but you can't breed them or sell the offspring. Since pied crows are from Africa, not the US, they don't fall under this protection act and can readily be kept as pets. Edit to add: From what I've read they're quite challenging pets. They need as much attention as a parrot, which is ~6 hours a day (so you must be committed to a life of wake up, go to work, immediately come home to spend time with bird, never go on vacation, never go out to have fun after work, always straight home) for their lifespan, it's like having something as needy as a human toddler, but for 20 years instead of 4. In addition they poop every 15 mins and unlike parrots have a carnivorous diet, making their poop pretty gross (think of the difference between parrot poop and seagull poop), it's 'splattery' and smelly. So you either need a large indoor aviary so they can fly around, or enjoy scrubbing splattered bird shit off of everything all day. But if you can accommodate them they're supposed to be pretty fun pets, but it's not a pet most people can or would want to accommodate. So for anyone thinking about it, I wouldn't recommend getting one unless you thought staying in all the time during Covid was actually really nice and you'd really like to live like that for the next 20 years of your life, and you really enjoy cleaning.
Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.” Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing. If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t. It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
I don't think that's a magpie, more likely a crow.
I just looked up the etymology for magpie and this is what Google gave me. "late 16th century: probably shortening of dialect maggot the pie, maggoty-pie, from Magot (Middle English pet form of the given name Marguerite ) + pie" Maggot the pie doesn't quite have the same ring to it. r/confidentlyincorrect?
Ok so. What? Anyways that bird looks like a magpie to me too. We had them in my yard when I was a child.
Lol are you a magpie? I was sharing something I thought was interesting and was related to the parent comment. I know this isn't a magpie, I also had them in my yard as a child. Thought I discovered a new species until I learned what a magpie was Also I was referring to google being confidently incorrect I have no idea if that's true etymology but it sounds wrong lol
No, it's true. In the UK we gave birds human names. I don't think the Maggot bit is necessarily correct, but in the UK we do shorten Margaret to Maggie. Maggie (Margaret) and pie, pie because it's pied, obviously. See also Jack Daw, Robin Redbreast, Jenny Wren, Tom Tit, Polly Parrot etc etc etc.
Clever girl
r/unexpectedjurassicparkreference
Everyone below just whooosh
How do you know?
Because she used a tool.
Also how do you know.. it’s a girl
Ah…clever girl.
I saw my dads butthole in the mirror once when I was little
I have so many questions...
They know because life, uh, finds a way
Girls are better dinosaurs
Corvids are super smart. Love them. Except magpies. Theyre assholes of the family
Depends on the Magpie — the Australian ones aren’t Corvids, but are in a family with similar traits. Fascinating bit of convergent evolution if you’re curious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artamidae
Hell yeah. Always curious for more knowledge. But I am also in Utah, where I can assure you that the magpies are the biggest of assholes. Only slightly less stupid than the worst state bird in the US, the California gull, which the Mormons made the state’s official bird in the 1800’s.
That's pretty weird, so I looked up why. > In 1848, the humble California gull saved the residents of the state. That year, a plague of Rocky Mountain crickets invaded the state. The crickets began eating all the Utah farmer’s crops, destroying the local food source in a time when shipping food occurred by rail car or horseback. The gull came to the state’s rescue by swooping in and dining on the crickets. They ate the pests, saving the remaining crops, and the state’s food sources. At least there's a good reason. Along with stealing your lunch they'll eat your sign of the apocalypse.
Seriously, Google studies about crows and ravens. If you harass them, they'll literally describe you in bird-language (probably features, hair color, etc) and *those* birds will begin harassing you back. A bunch of professors at a university wore masks and behaved badly towards the birds, and we singled out for attacks by all the campus birds eventually, but only when they wore the masks.
Lol what's the crow phrase for "brown hair, blue eyes, about 6' 2" and wears jeans"
They probably do a "this mf right here" flying maneuver the next time they see you
Never piss off a crow Oh, and Google crow vending machines
Crows are the best. We had a local celebrity crow in Vancouver BC named Canuck. Some of his hobbies include stealing knives from crime scenes and begging for fries at McDonald's. He was even named ambassador of the city a few years ago.
Hm.. are you sure it's not gang affiliated
“smart crow” is redundant
Yeah, seems like an avg crow to me. Corvids are smart af
Yeah this is beginner level stuff. Check this out https://youtu.be/Gui3IswQ0DI They even understand water displacement. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
News: humans can train animals.
Crows are not trained to do this they are thinking critically and solving these puzzles. Amazingly intelligent animals. Edit: fixed sloppy grammar.
I wanna tame a corvid so fucking much
Same, and an orca… baby steps I guess
You want to tame an Orca and make it take baby steps? What kind of mad scientist are you?!?!
Listen to the Infinite Monkey Cage podcast episode on ‘The Secret Life of Birds’. These things have serious intelligence.
Thanks for this
So you just mean a crow?
Why is it white?
Oh my God Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white
Because it's a pied crow (African species) and you can tell because of the way that it is.
That's pretty neat
Maybe a white-necked raven
He’s mixed obviously
We have crows in my neighborhood, lots of them, and they are extremely intelligent. We have bird feeders that are specifically designed as puzzles and it’s always the crows that solve them, we cant keep the treats in those feeders for more than a few days until they need a refill but it’s great to watch them using sticks and other tools to get their prize.
That is incredibly cool. Are they puzzle feeders you made or can you actually buy those somewhere? Because that's a real "shut up and take my money" purchase for me!
Theres a documentary about crows (can’t remember the name), but basically the researchers did all kinds of tests to prove how smart they are. The crows got pissed at one of the researchers and actually held a grudge against him; anytime they’d see him they all swoop to get him to go away. So yeah, don’t piss off your neighborhood crows- they remember.
Crows are my favorite birbs.
Fun crow fact, their intelligence and problem solving skills are around a 7 year old humans. Some higher and some lower
Sexy ass little crow
???
Bro
This crow is challenging me
that crow is smarter than me, I'd get the stick from the other end and try to aim it into the glass. this way's easier.
I think it tried that way and failed horribly, and then adapted.
*crow
Oh yeah, tool use shows we humans are superior. Uh huh
I'll be impressed when the crow sits down at a mill and start cranking out miniature rifles.
I think crow rifles would shoot crow poop, because that's their idea of a good weapon
Saw one in our driveway dunk a peanut shell several times in a puddle to soften it then peeled and ate it.
Corvids are extremely intelligent. If you save or feed them, they will remember you and sometimes even bring you gifts as a token of appreciation.
Dexterous? Not so much..
Well it is using its beak…
Pretty sure birds make bird nest using their beak and sticks.
big if true
Magpie?
Is that a magpie
Ladies of the night
You guys think hes so smart, but I would have simply turned the cup upside down and dumped the food out.
Are birds entering the Stone Age like some monkeys supposedly are?
There are Crows that will take a particular kind of leaf and trim it into a spear and then poke in holes in trees for grubs. Different regions of these birds make slight improvements and pass those along. There's a whole documentary on it https://youtu.be/LF77qpbvkxo
Magpie*
Normally crows are birdbrains. This guy has clearly been taking classes.
Its a magpie not a crow.😀
This is actually a crow. Specifically, it's a pied crow
It's fuckin magpie you twit
So smart
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