Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans

[@frankmazzur5674]

The wolf/raven relationship goes even deeper than described here. Ravens have been witnessed finding suitable prey and signaling to wolf packs by cawing loudly. In other words, the ravens act as spotters for the wolves who then allow the ravens to scavenge part of the resulting kill.

[@ScarlettM]

I heard similar stories about birds (not sure which kind) in India, signaling the dholes (wild dogs) when an appropriate prey appears.

[@thewalkingjoke3843]

Honey birds help humans find honey because the bees are too dangerous for them, and the people leave honey for them as thanks

[@niqolas]

like military drones

[@HurricaneJD]

Wow I had never heard about this before... incredible. I mean there are countless examples of symbiotic relationships in nature but not quite like this

[@mr22guy]

Does it imply planning for the future that the wolves allow the ravens to scavenge?

[@ToddHowardWithAGun]

In one set of experiments I believe conducted in Sweden, one of the test subject crows actually hacked the puzzle box. There was some black box mechanism where inserting trash into one end would cause the machine to dispense food out the other. Well this clever guy managed to jam a stick inside the feeding mechanism, breaking the machine and releasing all the food. They had to remove him from the experiment.

[@Yeovelyn]

The crow broke the system hahahah

[@BirdBath1]

ToddHoward, look at bird bath

[@RahLeone]

Remove him from the experiment 🤣🤣🤣

[@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63]

The french birds have been observed stockpiling trash for later use as well as stealing from visitors. Doesn't matter if you're done with your garbage, the crows want it anyway.

[@dilasgrau6433]

Some animals can follow human feelings and the feelings of other animals. Scientific explanations doesn't work here.

[@donyab.e4767]

We once found a dying crow fledgling and brought it in and started giving it medicine. It was something we had done for many other animals including birds before. This little fellow was the first one who didn't resist drinking the medicine and actually cooperated with us in every step of the treatment. To our surprise, it worked and the little fellow got better. Only within a few days we realized that it was capable of a human-like relationship. Sitting with us watching TV for hours while demanding strokes and kisses on his head, getting angry when we turned our back to him (or her), throwing tantrums by picking up stuff and throwing them all around when left unattended and letting us know where he was hiding when he realized we were looking for him (even when we weren't calling him). He eventually got so good at ransoming us by throwing tantrums that we left him in the balcony to stop him from getting bored and one day (nearly 40 days after bringing him in) we only came out to see him gone and tens of crows surrounding our house! It was as if they were asking what was our baby doing in your house? We never saw him again and I still regret leaving him in the balcony although maybe that was the best for him. I've had many many pets and I loved them all. But, this crow was the only one who seemed like a human trapped in the body of a bird. I miss him so much.

[@kol2han]

Today i saved a baby crow. And surprisingly it didn't run away. And sat next to him and began to wait. When other crows cut the shouting i threw it into a tree. Tomorrow i'll check on him.

[@baishalideb5565]

i am from india ...ur story reminds me of a tradition amongst hindus here ..we feed crows after a relative passes away believing their soul passes to one of the crows ..guess people knew long ago that crows interacted with humans on a human level .suprising.

[@donyab.e4767]

@@baishalideb5565 Zoroastrians used to leave the bodies of the deceased on a high hill to become food to vultures and crows. As far as I know it was mostly out of respect for these animals and specially vultures as they were seen as gentle birds who would not kill to feed. According to their tradition, if the crows ate somebody's right eye first, it was a sign that he was in heaven. If they ate his left eye first, it meant that he has ended up in hell. It was as if they somehow saw a connection between these intelligent birds and themselves in a way we fail to see these days.

[@donyab.e4767]

@@kol2han Cool. Did you check on him?

[@batfurs3001]

As sweet as this story is, please please please don't do that again. Crows that are imprinted onto humans are usually bullied to death by wild crows when released, and if they survive they won't ever find a mate. In wildlife rehab extra care is taken to ensure corvids don't imprint. Minimal contact, humans not in sight most of the time, absolutely no touching unless absolutely necessary. Next time please bring it to a wildlife shelter. It is not only counter productive to do it yourself, but also highly illegal in most countries.

[@SeauxNOLALady]

I heard a story about a woman and her young daughter who had a flock of crows in the trees outside their house. Her toddler had dropped her chicken nuggets and the crows came and took them to eat. The little girl loved them and loved to feed them and they set up a feeder and bird bath for them. The mother was a photographer, and she was working a few miles away from home. She was photographing something outside and she had taken the lens cover off and it fell to the ground. Since she was busy getting her pictures she decided to pick it up later after she was done. She forgot about the lens cover completely. When she arrived at her house, the lens cover was sitting on her front porch. The crows had followed her to her work site and had picked up the lens cover when she forgot to. They frequently leave little gifts for them in the bird bath. Little trinkets and shiny pieces of refuse. That story always stuck with me for some reason.

[@stefanielorincz7610]

I think that happened in Seattle! I lived in Tacoma for almost 10 years, and we made friends with our local murder. We fed them, and they recognized our cars. When we'd get home from work, the whole murder would come land on our trees and roof and start yelling! They were so cool; about once a week we'd find something shiny or a pretty rock left for us in the same spot. I hope the people that bought our house are kind to the crows.

[@rukus9585]

They've also been known to leave other "gifts" for the humans they've connected with. Such as the leftovers of dead mice, frogs, etc on front porches and such. They actually attempt to share very important calories with them.

[@AWa-ik2ez]

I believe this. There’s a great one hour PBS/Nature documentary show about crows: “A Murder of Crows”.

[@wooddogg8]

@@AWa-ik2ez Unrelated but a great song from the counting crows: "A murder of one"

[@erikbihari3625]

So the crows are not only attentive"wing man",but also can be sentimental? Imagine if they incorporated fish into their diets!

[@williamwhitten7820]

Amazing presentation. I had a crow who was knocked out of her nest by larger siblings. She had just begun to grow feathers when I found her in my driveway. This was in Van Nuys, California in the early 1990s. I fed her baby bird food, a dry cereal product you mix with hot water to prepare. I used an eyedropper to squirt it into her mouth. She grew up to be a healthy female crow. She would stay with me perched on my shoulder just like parrots do. She was my constant companion for many years. She even learned to say "hello" when I would see her after being out. I named her Jamima. We had many adventures together. We ended up moving to San Diego, to El Cajon, a rather wild desert sort of environ with sage and brush. In the winter Jamima would stay in the garage, sitting up in the rafters. In summer she stayed on an outside tall table with a perch across the top. I had a large cardboard shipping box that I would put over her at night to keep predators away. It was at this location that Jamima finally left me. I came home from a movie late one evening around dusk. She wasn't sitting atop the garage eve where she would usually wait for me to get home. I was baffled, I called her name out for hours that night. I was devastated at her loss. The next morning just after dawn I heard Jamima cawing out in the front of the house. I ran outside and there she was bobbing her head up and down 0n top of a street lamp, obviously excited about something. I put out my arm and called to her to come on down. She just kept chattering and dancing around. After about 5 minutes of this a big black male crow swooped in low over Jamima circled and Jamima lifted up and flew off over the chaparral across the street. My best friend had eloped! About 3 months later I heard Jamima cawing excitedly out front one morning. I ran out and there she was sitting on a low branch of a tree across the street. Again she was literally doing the bop and chattering excitedly. I stood there amazed, calling out "what's up Jamima? You came home!" Finally she lifted up off the branch and flew up about 12 feet above the road. At that point three young crows flew up to meet her from the chaparral. She had brought her babies to show me! I was then so happy for her. I understood my Jamima as she understood me. About four months later my wife brought home a small parrot, a Green-cheeked Conure. I named her Deeter. Deeter passed away, but I still have an African Gray named Peeper, that has lived with me for 29 years now.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

WHAT A GREAT STORY!

[@williamwhitten7820]

@@GeraldM_inNC Every time I see the crows over the woods across the street in my new place in Indiana I think of Jamima. Me and Peeper call out her name as they fly over. I feel like there might be a species memory, and the crows might know of who I mean.

[@mother.95]

@@williamwhitten7820 aww sir, thats cute and sad. I hope you keep loving our beautiful nature.

[@saaarrj]

Omg, this little anecdote about Jamima was so sweet, I teared up 😅. Would it be alright with you if I drew some fan art about it?

[@williamwhitten7820]

@@saaarrj *It would be delightful if you drew some pictures based on the story of Jamima the Crow! I would love to see them!*

[@ThunderPants13]

I actually had a New Caledonian crow do my taxes for me this year. His beak was a little hard on the keyboard of my computer, but his rates were very reasonable.

[@TheVampireFreddo]

Works for peanuts?

[@marshalchisholm5151]

Don’t quit your night job

[@OGSarah]

This is such an underrated comment.

[@matildao9243]

ahahahaha I love you

[@toyz1784]

You dork, lol. That comment made me very happy. If I were soaking wet, it would have dehydrated my soul, it was so dry. Hehe

[@ObservableObserver]

I've once seen a crow landing on a sidewalk. The crow then checked the street for incoming cars by looking left and right. The street was clear, so the crow walked on foot to the opposite sidewalk. I remember how impressed I was by that intelligent behavior and at the same time I was asking myself why the crow did not just fly over the street.

[@rskye11]

Your crow friend was walking because flight takes an immense amount of energy. Kind of like how humans will drive rather than walk and walk rather than run unless they have to.

[@lowlowseesee]

@@rskye11 exactly

[@mehere8038]

@@rskye11 upward flight after landing on the ground takes far more energy than just flying to the end destination directly, with an extra 2-3 metres of flight included

[@dipanjanghosal1662]

He was teaching humans how properly cross the street

[@EyesFoward]

Never mind. The Crow knows.

[@freyherrvonhessen1245]

A young crow once started interacting with us in our garden. It started by fetching things and playing tug of war with sticks. Once we got out a pack of nuts, it did everything to get its beak into it. We started hiding the nuts but that thing would always find the hiding spots. Once I was watching over the nuts and the crow started stealing gloves out of my Rucksack and would drop them at the other end of the Garden. As soon as I retrieved the glove, the crow had free access to the nuts. I just didn't anticipate getting fooled by a crow...

[@Der_Gewagte]

Of my "Rucksack" hahahha bester mann

[@lorohasquarepants7386]

😂😂

[@BodyMusicification]

For a couple years there was an active construction zone next to my house. And every day after construction ceased around 200 crows would descend onto the site, walk around on the unfinished condos and hang out together in the interjoining space. It was fascinating watching them "mingle" in a large group and seeing individuals break off to play or chase one another. My ex-wife didn't care much for the constant cawing-but I loved it! It felt much like people watching. Those crows gave me hours of entertainment just staring out my window. 😊

[@domecrack]

May your next wife be less defective.

[@Cameroonian]

Thats a good reason there why she's your ex

[@thedude2847]

I love crows and other corvids. I can understand her frustration. Here, I have a cardinal that (in early spring) wakes up around 0300 and screams it's heart out. I won't lie... sometimes I wish it would have a heart attack. It's like having a neighbors dog barking. Cool birds. Super smart. Very annoying sometimes.

[@vanhuvanhuvese2738]

@@Cameroonian I thought the same

[@yahnservices1978]

Your ex-wife don't know what has value or not. I wish I could have seen those crows too, they are so cute.

[@TheVampireFreddo]

I’ve been feeding the same group of ten or so crows for the last few years. We are daily walking companions, and will comfortably hang out together. Just the other day a crow was perched outside of my bedroom window and was frantically cawing at my wife and I. It would caw twice, and then rapidly stare downward. It would then look back at us, caw twice again and then stare down below. (We are on the second floor) it was trying to get our attention! My wife walked to the window and the crow looked at her, and looked down again (like a hunting dog that points, if that makes sense) and there was this giant fat raccoon meandering about. Once we saw it, the crow almost chirped, and the flew off. We were warned of the danger! So cool!

[@jonnyuzumaki777]

What are you Akatsuki?

[@SebHaarfagre]

I too have heard chirping and even cooing, from magpies. It was so weird but really endearing. The chirping sounds very "guttural" in parts, not sure how else to describe it. The cooing... "Krrrooou eee" idk lol Where the "eee" sounds like air escaping a bottle or thermos? The "normal" warning sounds are like machine gun fire from a 90's child's toy, if that makes sense.

[@ronm2313]

Lol he wanted you to kill it so he could chomp on the carcass. They do this with wolves I just read, on another comment lol. Amazing honestly.

[@clicheguevara5282]

Crows are some of the only animals who know how to point at things.

[@oneoflokis]

@@SebHaarfagre Magpies do make this awful annoying "yacking" sound though... 😏

[@caryd67]

I’ve been feeding the same 20 crows for the past 5 years. An interesting and complex relationship has formed between us. Not to the point where I can handle them, but we’re in a comfortable space together, and I can approach them up to about 2 feet before they hop, or fly. (Honestly, I don’t want to handle them anyway, as they’re wild birds that shouldn’t be too habituated to humans for their own safety.) Every morning they arrive at 6:00 for breakfast (I haven’t slept-in in 5 years, but it’s alright), which can be dog kibble, ‘Armstrong’ brand unsalted peanuts in the shell, or occasionally diced chicken hearts. Their numbers climb up to over 150 during the coldest months, as best as I can count, and down to around 20 in the spring and summer. They are incredibly communicative with me, and even follow me in the trees when I walk to the store down the road. Edit: two of them even helped me find my missing cat once!

[@dark_rit]

Helping to find your kitten that is beautiful. Honestly they would be better at finding someone than most people since they can fly around and identify someone easily as well as networking with the other crows.

[@caryd67]

@@dark_rit Bitsy was literally the world’s most harmless cat. I guess the crows could sense this, and they knew her favourite places. They took me right to her.

[@Kevin_Street]

@@caryd67 It's probably not that the crows thought the cat was harmless (a cat is a cat to them), but they knew it was _your_ cat. They understood the relationship between the cat and you, and knew that you wanted it back.

[@caryd67]

@@Kevin_Street I never thought of it from that angle; you might be right!!

[@cravinbob]

Crows being smart would not develop a dependence on you. To approach them closely do not walk towards them since you would be towering over them and don't make eye contact. Sit down sideways to them and let investigate you and then handle you. I do this with strange dogs I meet. Letting them sniff me first and not facing them or reaching for them. They become friends much quicker that way. I had a magpie appear once in 1961 and I gave it some grapes I was eating. It took them right from my fingers. The next day that magpie was talking English clear as a bell. What I thought was my dad hollering for me to get up out of bed. I rose and went up the basement stairs to find it was the magpie. It had my dad's voice down too. It also followed me to the store or wherever I went.

[@Griimnak]

The ability to hold a grudge and shit on the same person's car for years is actually hilarious

[@canadiannuclearman]

I would like to do the same but im human.

[@BrianBurleigh-q3u]

Never stopped me-phantom pooper

[@THE_flushingtoilet]

IKR

[@diegochavez6203]

I identify as a bird

[@Vagabond_Etranger]

Had that happened to me. I was washing my car. A crow landed overhead in the tree. I started teasing it by cawing. The week after, I started finding bird crap on my car. This went on for nearly 1 yr. Finally it stopped. So I guess they forgive me.

[@nevertrumpfromthejump]

Only about halfway through but it's making me think of another thing I've heard over the years about these wonderful birbs. They apparently will investigate fellow crows' deaths. I guess they'll try to understand why there's a dead crow and deliberate the cause as to avoid it themselves. I know cows and elephants apparently mourn but these dudes out there analytically spectating their deceased. Brilliant. I love it.

[@jonathanzuckerberg8850]

Are you saying that a murder of crows could be investigating a crow's murder?

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

☝️

[@peterfuchs8260]

Farmers will sometimes shoot a crow and place it in their field, because of this. After bringing out the seeds sometimes the crows show up in the hundreds. Another interressting thing I heard, if an owl hunts and fails to kill a crow, the crow will return with its buddies and take revenge.

[@JackSparrow-re4ql]

We must be careful. The crows may evolve into Skeksis and take over the world!

[@charadreemurr1083]

most corvids also form spontaneous groups to be rid of predatory birds they want out of the area, ive personally seen a gang of 20+ magpies join a lone adult crow (north american) in harassing a little owl that showed up in the tree outside my apartment balcony. it was quite funny to watch as the single crow was clearly the only one bold enough to actually get within striking range of the owl, despite the owl only being half the size of a magpie. eventually it had enough and flew off, followed by the entire corvid gang in hot pursuit

[@TheVatonaught]

I saved a huge baby crow from a stalking feral cat one day before it learned to fly...the mother hovered nearby. Two days later the pair of them flew up to me and 'showed me' he could now take-off and fly successfully although still clumsy...I have always watched and listened to crows after this. In fact I think I occasionally still see this crow around making his presence known to me. I've had many pets but birds are a very penetrating kind of bonding with humans.

[@bastonor]

Three times I rescued young jackdaws - from being stuck in tar, from drowning etc. and took them home with me to the other side of the city. I 'displayed' them either in the garden or balcony in an old big birdcage. Without fail the parents would show up within two hours, making an awful racket. They would swoop over me and the youngling on my arm, enticing it to follow them. How do other jackdaws communicate to each other this precisely and this fast? Amazing stuff.

[@sly-fi6502]

That's so sweet. So many injured wildlife is brought in mostly from cats, I wish people would start normalizing keeping them contained like we do with dogs.

[@TechDeath28]

@@sly-fi6502 it's dog eat dog, there's predators to cats out there, they have their place, let them be, they're cats lol

[@bastonor]

@@TechDeath28 Thank you! Buuut, I don't do twitter.

[@TechDeath28]

@@bastonor it's a joke...

[@jimi3138]

so here's a little story of how I was outsmarted by a gang of juvenile crows when I was about 5-7 years old maybe.. I was a little kid playing at the park and minding my own business when a crow approached me and kept teasing me and then jumping a little backwards.. kept doing that and I tried to get it to leave me alone but it kept coming back.. till I got frustrated with it so I sprinted at it to make it fly away once and for all, but little did I know that it was luring me into a muddied field, and as you can imagine I skid and landed in the mud and was covered in it almost from head to toe. I stood up between the laughs of all the crow gang. YES! they were definitely all laughing at me!! I had a hard time explaining all of this to my mom.. I can only imagine now that she probably was not so impressed with her little kid! lol !! Since then I've always known how smart those beautiful cheeky buggers are!

[@sayittomyfaceortapglassfar4392]

Very cool story thank you for sharing those crows 😆 🤣 😂 little jokers

[@riccardobon6300]

Amazing! I love that Little, black, winged monkeys! My favourite Animals with orcas, Cats and snakes!

[@studio107bgallery4]

Tricksters

[@brunrodrigues]

Don’t feel bad bro, I probably wouldn’t solve those puzzles as these birds do as a kid even now I would be like, wait a moment! 😂 good thing they don’t have opposing fingers or we would be screwed.

[@GrahamWhatmough]

They try to lure my dogs off a cliff near my house

[@dakotarock6422]

Crows are beyond special.. they mourn each other, never forget enemies and once it is earned will always love their friends who help them.

[@Crow_Friend]

💯💯 respect!

[@dakotarock6422]

@@Crow_Friend Crows seem to act friendlier than most people today!

[@caffeineaddict213]

Similar to the raven/wolf interaction, it's not uncommon in Greenland to see ravens during caribou season. They will usually circle above you and when you spot them, fly off into the direction of the caribou where they will circle above them. After you shoot the deer, you toss the guts to the ravens as a form of gratitude (and reward). As someone else mentioned, this is functionally a military drone.

[@sokisati2618]

how the hell can they think about this tactic? how do they know that we need the information of deer location to hunt and they will be rewarded?

[@Rinz-Aide]

​@@sokisati2618 I guess a raven may have followed a human hunting, recognized what it was doing, then figured out how to reward itself by helping other creatures

[@Rinz-Aide]

Then just passed it around

[@krypticsz4154]

If this is true, this is the coolest thing I've ever read. I knew they were smart but for a bird, that's EXTREMELY smart. Genius actually.

[@RavenSWE]

That is absolutely wild, so cool!

[@revengefrommars]

I once had an office with a view onto a roof covered with small-sized rock/pebbles. One day I saw a crow land on the roof with a piece of bread. It looked around to make sure no other bird was watching, picked up a few pebbles to make a hole, put the bread in, covered it with pebbles, then added a piece of moss, maybe to mark the exact location? The next morning, I was back at work and watched the crow land on the roof, move the moss and the pebbles and recover the piece of bread. The crow had found food, made a plan to hide the food for the future, hid it, and remembered to come back the next day and recover it. I thought that was pretty impressive.

[@Kallastar.]

The most fun of youtube comments in those channels is: the people share their uncomon histories Also impressive crow

[@drakekoefoed1642]

i have a plastic dish brush i used for putting grease on a bake pan. my pitbull found it and took it. i got it back and ran it through the dishwasher to get rid of the smell, and used it with pottery, keeping it in the wash bucket so he would not get it. but he did, and buried it in the yard. he would dig it up every few days and run around with it then bury it again. if i put it out, he will take it again. he knows which brush that is

[@fumbleknit719]

@David Mitnick Same here. But now I know how to stop that: mark it with moss! ;-)

[@Furaxxxxx]

Saw something similiar on the roof of a shed in my garden, a magpie during winter, just started pecking through a 15cm thick cover of snow up there, and after a few pecks it suddenly had a full sized cracker in its beak, which it had obviously placed there some time ago(the snow layer had been there undisturbed for atleast a week)

[@nicksmalldick]

Yeah they always hide the food that i give them in the grass in the same manner, and then they come back to me for more.. 😂

[@monikakrupicka8207]

Something to note: corvids (like crows and ravens) have a short lifespan, imagine how much wisdom they would accrue over their lifetimes if they lived as long as humans or elephants!

[@eugenetswong]

Somebody should pair up a murder of crows to a herd of elephants. Maybe some collective crow knowledge could be passed down through the elephants.

[@eugenetswong]

@TXTREX A group of crows is called a murder. I kid you not. Do KZbin search and maybe a dictionary search. I learned about it via KZbin.

[@eugenetswong]

@TXTREX I'll try to look it up, when I get the chance. I'm eager to find out if the guy was just bitter about the way that the crows treated him.

[@carenmontgomery2384]

or if they lived as long as other big birds...

[@theotheseaeagle]

Their lives are relatively short in the wild, though in captivity they can live for up to 30 or in some cases even 40 years. People always go on about how smart parrots are, but I think corvids take the seedcake when it comes to avian intelligence

[@neinotter]

We were camping at the grand canyon years ago and one morning I was the first to wake up. I looked up through the mesh part at the center of the tent and there was a raven on a branch seemingly looking at me. I didn't think much about it and after a few minutes started to get up. The raven above started making noise and it sounded like hell had broken loose all around the tent. When I got outside, I found our trash strewn all over the campsite. Only then did I realize that the raven on the branch was the lookout while the rest of his buddies quietly ate our garbage. It's an impressive level of understanding and cooperation, since the lookout was forgoing at least part of a meal to maximize the group's yield. I cleaned up the campsite and we secured our trash better after that.

[@CZ350tuner]

We had a wild born blinded adult crow live with us, as a pet, from 2005 to 2015. She adapted to living with us within 10 minutes and developed a system of complex mimes, along with crow noises, to communicate. She discovered that leaving meat marinating in her water bowl, into which she had placed a few dozen chocolate flavoured cereal flakes, would make the meat taste nicer, if left for a few hours. She'd spend some time preparing meat like this. She never talked, but understood a lot of English and could respond to questions (usually menu choices). Her favourite activities were being petted, sunbathing, communicating with other crows, playing & eating.

[@wajiapply1]

@Mr.Schnitzel wut

[@nersharific813]

“Chocolate flavored cereal flakes”? Isn’t that poison?

[@ritammukherjee8623]

@@nersharific813 for dogs yes, dunno about crows.

[@jordinagel1184]

@@nersharific813 considering that the crow liked flavoring the meat that way, and seems to have lived for a decade, I’d say crows are good in that department (at least as far as eating things flavored by choco-water goes)

[@kasibiwy]

@Koroku Miuri I think he was saying " look. pay attention. " then demonstrated, "if you put the stick into the log, ants will climb onto it, then you can pull it out and eat them."

[@claudiahbabic5102]

One very early morning (around 5:45 am), a few years ago in Los Angeles, we were awoken by a loud noise on our balcony. At that time we had a cat named Zuki. I went to the living room to check on all the commotion and I saw my cat, sitting on top of the balcony rail, casually "chatting" with a huge raven. It was so amazing to see the raven cawing, the cat listening, and then the cat "responding". I dismissed the whole encounter as a one-time occurrence. Boy was I wrong! Every Saturday (😩) for the next 2 years, the raven came to chat with Zuki at that same time. I didn't even want to check anymore. We knew it was the raven on our balcony for the weekly chat with our cat. I thought, maybe the fact that our cat was almost all-black attracted the raven trying to figure out what kind of raven he was... or maybe they were really communicating and became friends. I always wondered what the heck they were talking about... 🐱

[@jooheonshoneybal]

probably they were casually chatting about world domination :D

[@Grievance_Studies_Affair_2018]

Wait.. It was only on Saturdays??

[@claudiahbabic5102]

@@Grievance_Studies_Affair_2018 Yep! Only on Saturdays which was unfortunate for us because the crow always arrived early in the morning and woke us up... I even was tempted to go out one morning and ask him to come back during business hours...😄😄

[@Grievance_Studies_Affair_2018]

@@claudiahbabic5102 So how did the crow know when's Saturday? 🙂

[@claudiahbabic5102]

@@Grievance_Studies_Affair_2018 I don't know... that's a good question for the crow... but he showed up every frigging Saturday no kidding😀😀

[@wilsonrawlin8547]

When I was 8-9yrs old I had a blackbird that flew into my window. he took my chewing gum stuck to the headboard of my bed. It brought back a tab for a soda can and left it on my bed. I started leaving bits of food out for him/her. It would bring me all kinds of small things. Our apartment had a balcony and we would leave the door open when the weather was nice. The blackbird would fly in and walk around on the coffee table. He would stay and watch TV with us. We would leave food and water out for him while he visited with us. Sometimes he would walk/hop onto my leg as I sat on the couch, but I never touched him. He did that until we moved away a year later. That was 50yrs ago and I will never forget it.

[@neortik7]

Wow

[@sonyvalencia]

That's one of the cutest stories I read on you tube.

[@wilsonrawlin8547]

@@sonyvalencia Thank you. It was very nice to experience. Surprising to know they are that social and have personality.

[@cacheyuvu9866]

That's a lovely story! "50 yrs ago" just make it more nostalgic

[@wilsonrawlin8547]

@@cacheyuvu9866 Thank you. It was very special to me then and now.

[@MB-up3mh]

When I first saw them throwing nuts on the street and then waiting for cars to crack them, I was utterly shocked of how smart they are. Love these guys

[@johngeyer2971]

I literally watched a crow commit suicide. It was likley ill and had wanted relief. I was driving on a back road in Washington state and saw a crow that was perched on a wire fly down directly in front of a front tire of an oncoming car going toward me. I was stunned at that because crows are well aware of cars and what the wheels can do. They are smart and to just drop right in front of a car's tire is insane. I believe it takes some cognizance to understand death and it's occasional advantages.

[@electricspeedkiller8950]

Death has no advantages.

[@callanc3925]

@@electricspeedkiller8950 I mean it literally does. All you have to do is look at the fact people push for euthanasia to be legalised

[@electricspeedkiller8950]

​@@callanc3925 In the context of suicide, no advantages for you. For the people who don't want to waste resources on soon-to-be corpses - euthanasia would of course help. Certainly, death has no advantages to the person who eperiences it.

[@SoulThrashingBlackSorcery]

@@electricspeedkiller8950 being in constant pain and suffering has no advantage either. At the very least, actions like that can make us understand what it means to be intelligent and gives us insight and a new depth to our understanding of these animals

[@maddieman5921]

A deer was about to walk in front of my truck, and a crow flew down and hit it in the face making it buck and spin out of the road, saving the deers life. I can't believe it happened even though, I saw it. It was amazing

[@andrewsorry1752]

Amazing! Moved to rural nova scotia and been feeding a crow regularly. He now comes out when I call his name!

[@pambrown6260]

Wonderful for you.

[@Wurthier]

@M Y T H I C A L N O V A you good?

[@donotoliver]

Nova scotia gang

[@fezii9043]

Yo, I about to move to Nova Scotia

[@punkybrewstar83]

🥰🥰🥰🥰 birbs are the best

[@QuesoCookies]

In Seattle, it's interesting to watch the rival gangs of seagulls and crows fight. The crows are more crafty, but the gulls are much bigger, so you'll see crows often engage in creating distractions for other crows to steal food, while the gulls will swarm in groups and bully the crows out of the way. One gull can take on two or three crows, so it's a classic brains vs. brawn conflict. I suspect that's part of the reason why their intelligence developed: they're often in conflict with much larger scavengers like racoons, gulls, possums, and coyotes, so they need smarts to compete.

[@joudkahwaji6369]

Great observation!

[@SviraSvi]

Makes total sense! Thanks and greetings to you in Seattle!

[@jesterday2222]

That must be so great to observe. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed reading that 🦆

[@sammynatal6471]

Gulls are cruel animals. They will eat their own babies and kill the babies of other birds.

[@celem1000]

​@sammynatal6471 cruel is our concept, and a word loaded with some big implications. They are very good at doing what they do, living.

[@NoteToSelf888]

the question everyone should be asking is “why are 7 year olds as smart as crows”

[@5Gazto]

"Even human children can't do this, and neither can many of the adults I know," Best line ever.

[@seensithara2772]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o526ZKp3hqikb8k

[@sifi9748]

I cracked up when I heard this because it's so relatable!

[@jordonrenaud1178]

Lol she ain’t lying

[@nazmulahsan4057]

3 degree burn

[@psikoexe]

she just got too real

[@carriesee8547]

I have an African grey, and he’s almost scary smart. When presented with a new toy he asked” what that is?” He made up a sentence. He also tried to sneak up on my daughter by walking with his back to her. I guess he thought if he couldn’t see her, she couldn’t see him lol.

[@ромаЕ-р5ч]

a dogs do the same some time))) by hiding only the eyes LOL

[@kalipw0210]

The old "If I close my eyes I'm invisible" trick 🤣🤣🤣

[@GeoffroiRidel]

Birds that do so (crows do the same, backward or side steps) because they can flee much faster facing the right direction if they need to escape fast. Especially while pranking a big mammal. They are very likely to be doing that somewhat instinctively, although that is not to say they aren’t incredibly intelligent.

[@astral.realm_]

interesting. 2-7 year olds also have this, its called egocentrism. basically it means that they’re incapable of seeing things from a different perspective than their own.

[@sirdjorgostarcopper8735]

Hahahaha

[@gormauslander]

"Neither can many adults I know" I was waiting for but absolutely not expecting this savagery.

[@larswillems9886]

That line made me laugh aloud when she said it.

[@MrMoralHighground]

if many of the people i knew were that stupid, id make effort to make new friends.........i think a person who is happy to continue in those circumstances, albeit making petty comments, says more about themself than others when they make comments like that

[@lowlowseesee]

same lol

[@Eagle3302PL]

@@MrMoralHighground Relax, it's just a joke. Also knowing people does not mean they're your friends, they can be collogues, neighbors, service providers or just strangers you've got to know a bit more due to some circumstances.

[@workingclassperson2124]

I’ve always loved crows and the more I learn about them I’m never very surprised. I like seeing them fly upside down just for fun. Beyond cool birds.

[@JustLex25]

I once had a raven as a friend. It seemed sad when I had to move away, so I gave a lot of love before moving away. 7 years later I was visiting my old home when Nightcrawler, the same raven friend that I hadn’t seen in years, comes up to me and lands on my arm. I know it was him, because he had a scar on his left eye and was blind there. But he somehow recognized me, and I was overjoyed. He unfortunately passed a year ago, but I still remember him very fondly. This was hard to write, I’m crying again oh no… I think nightcrawler had a really special way of communicating with other species. He’d sit with my dog and taught her how to catch rabbits, would seemingly converse with crows, and was a very proficient tool user. I was able to teach him a little bit as I was 6 at the time so we were around the same brain level. I might’ve taught him about strength of different tools by demonstration. Corvinas are really good with memory, and will remember things for close to a decade. Crows have already entered a Neolithic-like era, and are using canines much like we did thousands of years ago. If humans go to other planets I think we should also bring these wonderful, curious and intelligent little buggers with us. I think they will one day be on the level of human intelligence.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

It's nice you had a pet raven, but animals can't be as intelligent as humans. It's also not fair to put such standards on animals either.

[@JustLex25]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c to a certain extent, you are correct. But you can’t deny that animals can’t have a conscious or feelings. Look at dolphins and whales. Or wolves. Or your house cat or dog. Animals simply haven’t evolved to our level of brain capacity, but at the same time that doesn’t mean that their brains aren’t advanced enough to show emotion or make choices based on wants instead of solely needs. Corvids are my favorite group of birds simply because I was “friends” with one or had it as my “pet” as you put it. I may be letting some internal bias show, but I believe that while an animal may only have the intellectual capacity of a 3-5 year old, their emotional maturity grows at a faster rate than humans. Basically put the emotional maturity of a standard human, plus and minus some random psychological behaviors, and the intellectual capacity of a three year old together and you have, as I would consider it, sentience. We can’t show them up to the same standards, this is true, but don’t ever underestimate something based on potentially flawed evidence. Thank you if you read to here for your patience :D

[@riplikatlnloki5091]

No, they should be stopped. They should be fully controlled lest they become threat for humans

[@JustLex25]

@@riplikatlnloki5091 nah let the catch up some. They are already more emotionally mature than most humans are

[@riplikatlnloki5091]

@@JustLex25 in very specific areas maybe. The more intelligent they are, the more dangerous and unpredictable they become

[@kunalsarkar1984]

One interesting fact on the experiment they did ,The " thirsty crow story " was an Indian folk story about a crow using stones to reach water from a vase and this was discovered by archeologists depicted on a vase painting at the ancient Harrapan city in India about 4000 BC.

[@user-pl9yq3fc8u]

yea this is quite a well-known story, infact i thought about this as soon as i saw this video

[@avcrawford]

A version is also found in Aesop’s fables

[@adw6894]

This story also exist in East Asia since ancient time, all children in my country have heard the crow's story since they were in kindergarten

[@artiomgera6686]

Wow, that is the best comment reply streak ever on a nice comment. Thx to all of 4 of you. Here is no toxicity for once

[@hayvenforpeace]

I thought this was just a myth, but it may have been based on a literal historical event. Amazing!

[@tmak3702]

One summer evening while stopped at a traffic light I noticed some crows chasing rabbits in the adjacent park. At first I wasn't sure what they were up to, rabbits are too large to be usual prey for a crow. I watched them for quite a while before I realized the crows were trying to chase the rabbits into traffic.

[@Drahko12]

Holy s** that’s some gansta way of getting your food wow that is crazy

[@darania1]

Wow... the same basic cunning hunting strategy as our prehistoric ancestors driving bison & mammoths off clifftops 😮

[@KukHuve]

based crows

[@deborahtoupin6800]

Strange!!!

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

oof lmao

[@maryblaufuss7533]

To be a worthy recipient of a "shiny," that is to say, a gift bestowed by a crow, is an experience that is high on my bucket list.

[@sonicosox]

I believe this wolf crow interaction. I rescued a hatchling blue jay. Taught it to fly, hunt, sing, and survive in the wild. He was free to come and go as he wished, but formed a bond with not only my human family but our dog. This was a dog who would eat most anything small or furry, but he and pidgy used to hang out all the time. One day we had a BBQ and we had a guest who no one in my house liked, a friend of my father's. When he walked onto the property my dog walked up to him, lifted his leg, and urinated on him. At the exact same time Pidgy flew over and pooped on his head. Neither animal had ever done anything like that before and both exited in opposite directions. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen.

[@joannaedwards6325]

Wow. Great story. Innate sense of good judgement or tuning into the thoughts/emotions of the family??? Either way...so impressive.

[@joannaedwards6325]

Thank you for sharing it.

[@matheusexpedito4577]

Ah yes, *criminal duo*

[@Der_Gewagte]

Poor Friend

[@frankmueller2781]

You should check out the experiment were they showed that crows can pass knowledge from generation to generation using a masked man who threatened the parent's nests. Even in cases where the chicks never experienced the masked man, yet even when the parents had died over winter, the next year the once chicks squacked and screamed at the masked man, but the grown chicks of other crows did not. It was really a pretty freaky experiment.

[@claydenlinger2043]

@Tobias University of Washington crow experiment

[@vespadavidson2315]

Saw that. Truly fascinating.

[@khalila.5370]

Epigenetics baby

[@oneoflokis]

Morphic resonance? 🙂 (Please do investigate the books and KZbin videos of the British scientist Rupert Sheldrake.)

[@lucyk.5163]

Ooh I know about this one!! It was very interesting!!

[@angryowlet153]

One of my term essays in college was hypothesizing about intelligence as a convergent evolutionary trait, basically, intelligence is one of the few traits that is almost universally beneficiary so it's shown up in several distant clades. I used elephants, cetaceans, and octopuses as my examples. No matter the environment, being clever makes it easier to get food and dodge predators. Two connections I found with intelligence were with dexterity and advanced capabilities for cooperative problem-solving, to the extent that they can form functional relationships with other species to accomplish a goal. Was one of my favorite essays!

[@eudyptes5046]

Yes, but it's also a balance between the benefits and the costs of a highly evolved brain. Human intelligence is based on living in social groups but the most important thing, i believe, are the hands. We have hands that evolved for climbing trees and when our ancestor lived in a savanna the hands became free and could be used to build complicated things like hand axes, spears, bow and arrow and finally modern technology. Our brain needs a lot of food and causes problems when giving birth, but the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Wales, e.g., will probably never reach that level of intelligence because they couldn't make use of it. It would be no selective advantage to be even smarter, on the contrary, it would cost more for no benefit.

[@Appletank8]

Everytime I like to bring up Koalas that evolved to be dumber in order to save energy in a resource poor environment.

[@DrMackSplackem]

@@eudyptes5046 If by evolved you meant a highly complex and very energy hungry brain, I 100% agree. Of course that's just one of many strategies.

[@Rctdcttecededtef]

Any chance that essay is online? Would love to read it 👍

[@OslerWannabe]

@pyropulse There's only one response to what you say - HUH!? I've tried to parse it every which way, and there's no content. It seems to me that you make the same error that creationists make. They latch onto any inconsistency in a developing theory and point to it as proof that Santa did it by magic. Well, OK. How did Santa do it, by what mechanisms? What. Is. Your. Theory?

[@picklerism]

Mum and Dad call a crow (actually a magpie) that visit their home "Smarty Pants" after they rescued him after he bounced off one of their windows. Never really understood why they chose that name until my dad later told me he planted corn and the bird knew exactly every location of the seed and they were all gone before they had a chance to sprout. To this day "Smarty Pants" seems to like visiting them... and they appreciate him for it too.

[@eugimon]

our backyard hens would run off any other bird that tried to look for food in our yard. The local crows would sit on the fence and watch them. One day the crows were eating with the chickens. They *acted* like the chickens. Scratching and pecking, bobbing their heads, and the chickens just accepted them. It was wild.

[@Fasteroid]

among us

[@talknight2]

I wonder if the crows would let you farm their eggs occasionally for some sweet sweet birdfeed

[@terralexj9468]

​@@talknight2 probably not, they don't produce them often enough for them to consider them anything other than babies (and more often than not that's what they will turn into)

[@mollytheyorkie-poo7514]

When I was 7 and walking home with grandma, we heard these loud crow sounds. We looked up and saw two crows fighting with a group of them watching and screeching at them. Crow#1 came up to a tree on top of us and the avenue and yelled at crow#2, so it followed to continue the fight. Little to no cars were passing by at the time. Suddenly, almost out of a scene in the lion king, crow#1 lunged, grabbed crow#2 by the neck and wings, then threw him downwards to the ground, exactly before a huge truck passed. Crow #1 flew to safety and simply looked as crow #2 fell and got struck by the truck, immediately getting killed. My grandma and another person looking exclaimed, "did that crow just murder the other one?". It could have been accidental but the whole thing almost looked like crow#1 planned it. Another curious thing was how a group of the crows came down from the tree, unafraid of us humans and just looked at their dead friend for a while. I was worried they would walk closer to him, yet they wouldn't come near it, fully knowing more cars could come by. After this video, I'm 95% sure it was a planned murder

[@theamaranthineman574]

A murder of crows . . .

[@randomshittutorials]

Hahahaha damn

[@qbasic16]

CSI Crowami

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

Isn’t a group of ravens called a murder? ☠️

[@AmyAndThePup]

@@Ryan-cb1ei Sure is, which is why they said that. Play on words. I was thinking the same thing xD

[@Max_m]

Just FYI, not sure why you cut away from the u-tube trail before the crow figured it out. The researchers deemed it successfully completed as, after observing both tubes having a rock dropped in it, they correctly selected the tube that pushed the food up. Trial and error isn’t a failure, it’s learning

[@RayVitoles]

I fed a crow once,and now it caws to me every morning.It actually waits on a pole outside my house every morning and will fly down for me to feed it.I also have the suspicion that it drives away most of the stray cats that come near my house..It is indeed a very smart bird

[@rpersen]

Same with me, I am feeding a pack of magpies daily. Every morning they sit on the railing of my porch waiting.

[@PRITZ060191]

Hello! If anyone here is from India, they will surely remember the childhood story of how a fictional crow dropped several stones into a pit to raise the water level so as to make it drinkable for the crow. Now I realise where that story came from. We always knew crows are smart!

[@williamcll]

Found to be true a few years ago in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJbVhpV-otqMZpY

[@WeldonWen]

I also remember that story, it's also popular in China. They even teach it in class.

[@Yashyadav-gy2jx]

Haha 😄 this story

[@sarathchaitanya2024]

Yeah that's what I thought

[@rohankishibe8259]

Not unique to India tho

[@blakewalsh9489]

I remember once a Raven landed in a tree nearby. I was excited and threw a morsel of food. It didn't see the food, so I threw a second bit. It didn't see that, so I threw a third bit of food. Then the bugger flew down and accurately picked up all three pieces of food.

[@BirdBath1]

Blake Walsh, look at bird bath

[@helldronez]

its like they knew you will throw more food when they "ignore" other one

[@mitzqua4695]

this sounds like a proverb haha

[@michaelpotter3126]

Hi Blake.. Very funny, the Raven tale I mean. So they have the intelligence of a Hotel Waiter it seems?! They wait till the tip is big enough before going away. Lol

[@zeropoint546]

Here in Australia crows are one of the few birds that don't do humans. By that I mean that magpies and butcher birds will come to your door and beg for food (and usually get it lol), and eventually become friends for years. Crows don't. Any large car park here will have a large gang of crows that occupy it, but they don't beg for food. They live off our waste, but begging is beneath them. I've always respected them for that. Much as I'd like to befriend some haha.

[@Verdiumm]

Unless you're in the north half of australia, as far as i know they're all "Australian Ravens" we don't have crows in the south. And you're right, they don't typically come near people much for some reason, they seem to be naturally cautious. I tried befriending a pair of them once, it went pretty well, i gradually built trust with them, and got them to land in front of me closer and closer each time. (the first two times i had to wait patiently for like 20 mins, before they gave up, and cautiously grabbed the food i left on the ground) I noticed that they recognised my car... whenever i pulled up, they'd immediately land in the tree above me, ready or only 30 seconds behind. They have rather large territories, so they clearly noticed me driving in and checked. If i kept at it, i've no doubt you'd be able to build up trust with them. But i got lazy lol. Magpies and the butcher birds just have no fear, and are really easy to gain trust with.

[@SatpalVerma000]

Magpies are racist too. I came Australia in 2014. In my university, the magpies would attack only non white students especially the Asian girls. They would move quietly around white students, would try to attack me sometimes but were aggressive at Asian girl students. 👧

[@zeropoint546]

@@SatpalVerma000 I wonder if that's because white Australians are more likely to feed and/or talk to magpies? I was taught as a kid to say hello politely to magpies, as they'll remember you as a friendly human. Never been swooped once.

[@SatpalVerma000]

@Zero Point I got no idea. I don't think white Australians feed animals anything they got in their hands but special food. While in Asian most of ppl feed animals whatever they eat themselves (not special food for birds or animals) and always throw food at them. Even in Australia Indian or Asian always throw same human food to cats, dogs and birds whenever they are eating. The one reason could be white Australians know who magpies are, why they are aggressive during a particular season and avoid them, while newly arrived foreigners retaliate when they see a sudden aggressive bird. Or some Asian girl attacked their nest or something and they see them a threat now.

[@CindyCrowford]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnnFkpWmp72iZ6s

[@3DJapan]

I've heard about people befriending crows by giving them food often. The crows would then bring gifts to the human such as coins or other objects. One even constructed gifts with a soda can pull tab combined with a twig repeatedly.

[@DenverBlazer]

I remember when my daughter was very young, this one particular crow would come by and hop on the edge of the roof when she would play outside. This went on for three or four years, and she called him Crow Friend. It definitely felt like they were spending time together. It was pretty interesting.

[@jo-ri-oh8950]

That's the most wholesome thing I ever read on KZbin comment section

[@saragreenfire4515]

I used to say good morning to a crow that lived in the tree next to our house. They would caw back at me. I moved since then tho.

[@aether388]

It's worth mentioning that parrots are comparably intelligent to corvids and capable of a lot of the same feats. They each have their own interesting (and amazing) specializations though; Both use tools, although crows seem to do it more often and be a bit better at it. Their social intelligence is similar, although parrots tend to be a bit more socially developed (and dependent). Both are great at mimicry, parrots can even learn associated meanings with words (there's been some amazing research on these capabilities specifically with African grey parrots, which are the most intelligent parrot species). Bird intelligence is mind blowing to me

[@efrainoctavio3506]

Probably crows use more tools than parrots because their bills are more generalistic and less of a tool themselves than those of parrots

[@donkorte80]

Parrots have the advantage of log life. Crows a year or two old manage to figure out some amazing puzzles. They both have the advantage of extended rearing which seems to account for their intelligence.

[@Eng_Ahmed_b50]

@@efrainoctavio3506 it is crazy that parrots body is more capable of using tools yet crows use tools more !

[@Eng_Ahmed_b50]

@@donkorte80 true. I guess if crows live as long as parrots they will show more signs of intelligence

[@ForageGardener]

@@Eng_Ahmed_b50 thats the opposite. Crows beaks are more capable of using tools

[@janishudsonwise5604]

Always have been fascinated by crows and ravens. I was a Wildlife Rehabilitator for years in Oregon. I knew those birds were smarter that previously thought. My late husband used to regale me with stories of a raven his mother fostered when he was a boy. It came and went as it wanted. He’d have a field day torturing the neighborhood dogs and cats by dive bombing them, grabbing their tails and letting them pull him along like a water skier. Bouncing along with feet hitting the ground now and again as the host ran like he had the hounds of hell attached to their tail. A neighbor lady was scared of him. He came to visit one day while she was hanging out clothes to dry, she started throwing things at him to make him leave. He thought this was rather rude of her and devised many different methods to pay her back. One of his favs was to go along and unclip the clothes pins and watch her laundry hit the dirt one by one and just cackle and cackle after each piece dropped. Sometimes he’d start unclipping them while she was hanging them up, forced her to get a broom to run him off, him cackling the whole time. Great stories. But from all the stories I’ve heard, and my interactions with them, I knew they pretty damn intelligent.

[@the_bottomfragger]

That's so funny, humor is one of the best displays of intelligence in my opinion.

[@reuireuiop0]

Shame. Had she been friendly with the bird, she might never ever have to hang up the laundry again by herself. Couple cookies and it be done !

[@janishudsonwise5604]

@@the_bottomfragger That’s absolutely true. With a few exceptions most of the more intelligent species have a sense of humor. It may not necessary be all that funny to you, like a monkey throwing it’s feces at you. You’re not amused but the monkey is smart enough to have seen that’s how he can make you react, and he’s having a real good time watched you scream, jump and dodge his turds. Ravens and Crows actually play tricks on each other and people. Also, they have a long memory and if someone does them wrong, they can remember that person for several years and will take revenge. By the same token, if a person is kind to, and makes friends with a bird, feeds them treats, et cetera, then they will sometimes start bringing gifts to that person. I knew one lady who had been getting friendly & taming a raven off her deck in the country. She came out one morning and there was a pile of stuff, pretty pebbles, sticks, yarn and string and the raven sitting on the railing watching to see her reaction. She made a big deal about it, “Oh wow, did you bring me these beautiful things?” As she picked up each one and made over it she said he just puffed and preened in pride. Every few days he’d leave her a trinket. Fascinating creatures.

[@janishudsonwise5604]

@@reuireuiop0 Oh yeah, if your nice to them they remember. One of the reasons why some species just don’t do well when humans encroach on their habitats is that they can’t adapt to the change. It interrupts breeding & nesting among other problems. But certain species, take crows, ravens, trash pandas (raccoons) & possums for example, have learned not only to adapt around humans but take advantage of the situation. They eat better, they learn things from humans. I’ve seen video of a raven watching closely while a couple people use a drinking fountain in a park. They leave, he flys down & in seconds he’s learned to turn that fountain on & drink. One convenience store owner taught a crow to pick up garbage & cigarette butts up outside his store front & put it in the garbage can for treats. That crow taught some buddies & everyone had win-win situation! I love all animals but my favorites are the ones who are demonstrating that animals are more social, much much more intelligent than we ever thought, have the capacity for grief, empathy & by asking for help from humans when they are hurt or stuck, or helping humans when they’re in a bad way, showing interspecies concern & friendships with other animals, will prove that their gray matter is way deeper that we thought possible. Maybe if people start to see this, they won’t want to harm them. We can hope.

[@user-dc1dr9kr8x]

The other birds of my neighborhood assault them in air in an attempt to force them off

[@gu1lty99]

I once kept hearing quacking from a duck in my backyard. Which is weird because here's no water nearby. I got confused as i could not find the duck but the quacking continued... Turned out it was a crow trolling me.

[@wildancrazy159]

As a child, around 5 or 6 yrs, I made friends with a crow at my apartment building in Burbank California. It just appeared one day, and just watched me play in the dirt with my hot wheels. I barely paid attention to it, and when I went inside I left my toys in the dirt under my window. The next few days it would show up late afternoon, and hopp around and turn it's head side to side and mutter. Anyways, I found one day my favorite cars was gone, lost. Days later it was back and another was missing, I caught it returning a missing truck in the evening and I just accepted the situation, as only a child can do.We would play from afar, but never to 'close'. I don't remember what happened to it, my memory fades as to that tidbit, but it's a fond Memory.

[@chefgiovanni]

The crows are smarter than half of the human population.

[@David-lr2vi]

You can tell how smart crows are as they never really get hit by cars. They know they can just hop past the white line on the side of the road and they are safe from the passing car.

[@295Phoenix]

That makes them smarter than many adult humans.

[@aios1671]

When the bad son of Adam killed his brother, he did not know how to get rid of the dead body and that was when god sent 2 crows showing him how the bad crow killed the other one and buried it. That's the first proof of intelligence of crows.

[@ostrowulf]

Years ago I worked at a hatchery for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada). We would have troughs with smolts in them. These troughs would be covered with cam netting, to provide more natural seeming shade for the fish, and help keep birds out from fishing. Crows figured out that if they jumped on it in unison they could push the netting down low enough to grab smolts. Another under rated brain is that of bears. A large river we worked on, we would go down one side catching chinook (also known as king or spring salmon, deppending where you live), and harvesting the sperm and eggs for the hatchery. In this process we left behind a number of dead fish. Once we finshed one side, and crossed tge river, Y back (a grizzly we named for the white blaze on her back and shoulders, making a Y when she stood up) would come out where we started, and walk down the river eating the left behind fish. Then we would cross back to the syarting side, where our trucks were, and she would likewise cross away from us, and work her way back along the other side. One year she had cubs, and she followed a similar pattern, except that she ignored the large fish we left, and would go down the river teaching her cubs how to catch humpies (aka pink salmon or hump back salmon). A much smaller fish, but showing an understanding that her cubs needed to know how to fish for themselves, and not learn to deppend on human handouts.

[@LeSkateWA]

True, they always dodge your car easily, remembering where cars drive

[@noahbernstein5536]

The crows her are dicks XD They know you want drive over them so if they are eating something on a street with not a lot of cars. They want go out of the way when you come until they finished eating or you came out of your car XD

[@Infinite_Curiosity00]

I read somewhere the crows trained to pickup cigarettes started to pick up other items of similar size and weight to game the automated system. Amazing how smart they are.

[@AB-wf8ek]

I remember reading an article about that. In the end the trainers concluded, we can teach crows to pick-up butts, but we can't teach humans not to throw them on the ground :)

[@sushi99999]

Greed is natural. It's fascinating to see how intelligence affect that. As long as the researchers pay them a decent wage, they're not being taken advantage of. Gaming the system turns the tables, but that's why we have laws and other preventive measures, LOL. We just need some fancy AI setup that can distinguish trash from other objects.

[@MouseGoat]

@@sushi99999 Dose sound like a lot of work just to avoid improving social norms. The laziness of humans gets pretty funny sometimes, as we seem wiling to do 10 times the work to avoid a simple but more disciplined needed sulution

[@allanshpeley4284]

@@sushi99999 Totally agree. There are some crows being studied that get paid nearly twice as much food (and better quality!) as the French cigarette butt crows. The inequality is completely unfair! At a minimum we need to pay these crows a living wage...something they can build a proper nest with and feed their offspring.

[@heyasasha]

@@MouseGoat this reminds me how some humans pin hopes on terraforming the solar system as opposed to taking the relatively easier step of being more disciplined re our own planet's resources. 🥲

[@sarar4510]

We have a trio of crows living in our neighborhood. We sometimes give them peanuts. We also groom our dogs ourselves and leave the fur out for them and they always take it. We love watching them. We’ve seen them chase away a bunch of hawks from the neighborhood too.

[@3self]

I work at a garden shop and I've Developed a relationship with a few crows, i'm getting pretty close with them. it's fascinating how intelligent they are, being able to recognize me in particular rather than the other workers, even followed me home once

[@_sneer_]

Be careful, they know where you live now.

[@3self]

@@_sneer_ it’s okay we in good terms, now my boss …who shoot a BB gun near em, got attacked by the crows lmaoo

[@beautifuldreamer0811]

I found an injured crow one morning, some years ago. I took it into my home and contacted a wildlife rescue. They were unable to come pick up the crow until like 11pm that night. This crow spent only one day with me, but by the time I went to hand it over to the rescuer, it was nuzzling me like a cat and giving me kisses. It was leaned against my body and didn't want to go with the other person. Also, I say "hello friend" to every single crow I meet, and I am convinced that ONE DAY, one of them is gonna say it back 🤣🤣🤣

[@WILD__THINGS]

Nice

[@LegendaryFrogWithEpicHairStyle]

They can say words. Probably it's gonna happen.

[@audreejamie4873]

I lived in the high Arctic and there were an insane amount of ravens. When I first moved in I threw out a 40 foot piece of brown packing wrap into a big box just outside my house. The ravens kept coming and pulling the long piece of paper out and wrapped it around the front and side of my place over and over and over again. I found it so funny and so cute. Another raven pulled a whole loaf of bread out of the tiniest opening on top of a box that was in the back of a truck. It took off with the entire loaf. Anyone who moves gets the raven initiation where about 12-15 ravens hang out on your metal roof making you think someone in breaking in. After the first time it just wakes you up but that first time is scary asf.

[@gabrielantos4144]

I both desire and fear this kind of experience

[@Avoidiac]

I lived at a place in the Arizona high desert where Italian cypress trees, the tall, thin, pointy ones, were planted at the edge of a cliff. Sometimes a strong wind would continuously rush up from the gorge below and over the cliff. Once I watched a group of ravens there angling their wings so as to basically hover in the wind current. When they got tired of that they would perch at the tops of the cypresses, which, with their weight, would swing around like crazy. They weren't feeding on anything; they were clearly just playing in the wind, and it looked like a lot of fun.

[@BirdBath1]

Audrée & Jamie, look at bird bath

[@AquaXplorer_Official]

Truly impressed by the incredible intelligence of crows! Their ability to analyze, solve problems, and even use tools is absolutely fascinating. Crows not only learn from experience, but they can also grasp complex concepts like cause and effect. This just goes to show that their intellect is on par with many advanced species. What an awe-inspiring bird! Watch how this crow analyzes before making a decision at 2:25. Truly surprising!

[@gglasser8375]

I appreciate that you included some examples of tests where the crows were unsuccessful (like the u-bend displacement test). It adds to your credibility by showing that your goal is to educate, not to prove a point. It serves to expand understanding of crow behavior, rather than simply highlight all the cool things they can do. I appreciate your vids!

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Scientific Integrity probably demands to inform yourself about the current wave of anti-science and lgbt-hate, I'd argue. Arent the many Issues covered by the Telltale Atheist specifically pretty bad to ignore?

[@SebHaarfagre]

@@loturzelrestaurant What? I don't know what country you're from, but these issues varies wildly, and the response to it can be manic at worst. There are two chromosomes. I don't want anyone to lie to me. But ushering a wish of what to be called is completely fine, and it's a matter of politeness. I have nothing against how people want to live their lives in terms of sexuality, nor do I find any reasonable or rational reason whatsoever that skin colour should matter in terms of interpersonal relationships of any kind or most other matters. But black is still black and white is still white, man is man and woman is woman and nothing is ever going to change that as those are empirical facts and only words can change but then it would have to be replaced. Sorry not sure how relevant this is but I have OCPD. I don't know if it makes sense to now say the world is not "black and white" but grey, and that polarization is bad, because I believe it's truly "grey" and that's also objective, but a different context - I was talking rationality here... about literal colors and genealogies, when saying black is black etc.; all politeness or necessity of word usage aside. Also, I'd not uncritically use any "Atheist" site as any source of empirical scientific information, as atheist can be as "bad" - or worse - than theists in terms of cognitive dissonance and/or belief without proof. I am nothing myself. What is this wave of "anti-science"? Anyways, yes, scientific integrity is important. Mind you, not everyone who posts stuff like this is educated or/nor upholds themselves to any academical sort of standard. It is up to the _consumer_ to be cognizant about these things, as information in public fora can not be feasibly controlled - nor may that necessarily be healthy for sociological development despite the negatives.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

"There are two chromosomes. I don't want anyone to lie to me." Well, yeah, and the Misconception that this means 2 Sexes AND 2 Genders is just... scientifically wrong. But widespread You dont seem to be very aware of the Agenda-Pushing around all this though, mate? May i recommend just as little as 2 Videos so you get why people are so worked-up about this sometimes? The 2 GOP-Videos of KZbinr "Some More News" and maybe the Biologist "Forrest Valkai" will give you great Insight.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

@@SebHaarfagre The Wave of Anti-Science? Well, it maybe includes the RETURN AND GROWTH of Flat-Earthers, but just as 1 Component? Have you not heard of Any of that? The blatantly-racist-President who despises Science also did not help, so Vaccine-Denial literally grwew thx to him.

[@solopalfacebook7331]

In 2017 a family of crows (I assume father, mother and a juvenile) began hanging out on the trees outside my door. I was able to whistle a call they would do amongst themselves, very specific, no cawing, high pitch. One day, while they were flying above my house and I mimicked a seagull call. One of the adults left and about a minute later, he came back followed by a real seagull! My son witnessed this. In 2019, I started to mimic a cawing that big crows did around the small town where I work (80 miles from home). After a few days, I was at a gas station and I heard the cawing, I mimicked it and all of the sudden, a single huge feather came flying down from a tree. I rushed to pick it up. I smelled and it had a really light scent. There was a young couple getting gas that witnessed the whole ordeal. I admire crows.

[@jk-gb4et]

be careful touching the wild bird feathers now though, avian flu and stuff is spreading (at least in my country Canada)

[@JonathanGillies]

Be careful around the monkeys too. You just can't be sure what you'll pick up from them. :/

[@saynotowar8418]

are you not afraid of bird flue smelling wild bird ass feathers

[@1bluetoe]

Also never hump a bat

[@EarlofSedgewick]

In Australia I worked on a grain storage site during the outloading season, and a group of magpies started to try to train me 😄. The grain was stored in huge piles on top of plastic groundsheets. As the grain emptied out, I would remove the groundsheet in sections using a telehandler. The best way to do this was to lift a chunk of the sheet as high as possible by extending the hydraulic arm completely. As full extension was reached, the hydraulics would let a sort of whistle/squeak, and I would then swing the vehicle to the side and begin folding the sheet into a manageable section. Of course, this is when the mice would be increasingly uncovered, and then would sprint back to the next section of groundsheet, and the magpies would swoop in from their perches. After about two months of doing repeated groundsheet trims every week or so, I noticed that the magpies were making strange sounds as I walked to the telehandler in the morning. They were mimicking the sound of the hydraulic arm as it came to full extension. It was a social communication in which they were inquiring and perhaps encouraging me to go out a cut a groundsheet. Or perhaps they were just saying hello in the language they thought I used 😂 Notably there also a kite (hawk) that hung around the place and hunted for mice. It too would watch for my telehandler to lift up a groundsheet and would sit on the grain pile's peak, waiting for the "buffet" to start. However, he never attempted any communication and only arrived when the process began, whereas the magpies began "talking" to me first thing in the morning when work started, long before I would cut any sheets.

[@joannaedwards6325]

Oh thank you so much for sharing a great experience. This is why I take time to read comment sections.❤

[@EarlofSedgewick]

@@joannaedwards6325 that ks for writing this, I really appreciate it! 😊

[@joannaedwards6325]

@@EarlofSedgewick Glad 👌

[@handreieiacasa]

This is incredible, it really let you wonder how our ability to communicate began. Crows are such amazing creatures

[@jesterday2222]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing, enjoyed it a lot 🧡

[@jmromero6381]

I watched a raven work at getting a bag of Doritos opened, but couldn't do it. He looked around, saw me, picked up the bag and walked right up. I opened his Doritos, dumped them out on the ground while he watched carefully, then began to eat. Remarkable bird.

[@smylyface]

I would love to see someone teach a crow to use those buttons that pets can learn to talk with. I've been blown away by the things cats and dogs have said and asked their humans about. It would be cool to see just how much they comprehend.

[@lucyk.5163]

I think they did try to teach crows words as part of an experiment (not with buttons iirc) and they can understand them.

[@Birbzz]

those cats and dogs buttons are just fake. cats arent even that intelligent and its just random and edited

[@Furby-luv3r]

The buttons with the pets are fake unfortunately. It's the clever Hans effect.

[@patrickdurham8393]

Crows can speak so don't need buttons. My uncle had a crow that would call my aunt a noisy b*#ch every time she'd walk in the room. Not only did I agree with that bird but I loved him dearly. He would go to the kitchen counter and holler for me to come get him some cereal. Some of my favorite summers were spent there with that doggone bird.

[@timfrank7461]

I dont know about crows but ravens can talk like humans

[@opieg7333]

Trippy birds. I was on a vacation once and there was this crow hopping around on one foot in a plaza where ferries dock eith a snack shack and a few food carts. The crow had the other foot dangling, clearly looking injured. It would hop over to people eating and stare at them on one foot and usually get sympathy food. Eventually made its way to me as the place was clearing out. Got his sympathy food.... mind you the whole time hopping on one foot with the other dangling, and I found it intriguing because it was systematic, never doubled back to a person, and seemed pretty set on how long it would wait for any one person before it moved on. After me, it flew up to a railing and low and behold landed on both feet, no issues. From there to a lamp post, again two feet. Stayed there watching the harbor, I am guessing waiting the for the next boat. (solo con). Another time I was in the mountains and saw this raven perched at a look out point. Huge one, perched on informational sign explaining the view. As i walk to the sign is stays put and I am within few feet of it. It starts making noises and I am taking pictures. After a minute I turn around and a similar crow is rifling my car, grabs a bag of snacks as I run back to my car. It flew right toward the other distraction crow and off the two went with my food. (team con). They are not just intelligent, they are savy when they want to be. The ones around my house that know the car nut cracking trick are simpletons. And the ones around my house are part of a "network" of around 1,000 crows that occasionally will all gather on the wires together just before sundown. Loud as hell and I would swear they are sharing notes on where the food was best before calling it a day.

[@pauldeddens5349]

Ive seen animals fake injuries before. Usually its for attention, maybe treats. But they are always pets, and usually mammals. I am surprised a wild animal like a crow would attempt it though. Birds are notorious for hiding sickness, since a sick animal tends to be an easy meal. It recognized that being injured receives sympathy, but I wonder how? Did it watch another injured bird get attention. Maybe another animal? Potentially it saw an injured human and tried copying it? Theres some interesting social dynamics going on there that it is learning and applying to trick us. And im sure certain communities of birds are smarter than others. But it makes me wonder what breeds a smarter community. Is it a cityscape with trash and discarded items at the ready to turn into tools, and humans everywhere to steal from? Or is it the wild that provides a reserved lifestyle that incentivizes careful planning to avoid predation. Or maybe its a combination of the two. It also makes we wonder how many other intelligent companions we have on the planet, that are just a few decades away from being truly interconnected with us, with some effort. Translating dolphin, orca, and whale calls. Making genuine bonds with elephants (Which should be easy once their tusks stop being poached), and now connecting with crows.

[@claudiahbabic5102]

Great stories!!! I believe you, they are amazing birds!

[@RRanun]

There may be a truth to that. They likely have simple sounds combined with body language as a language, with variation depending on area.

[@tylerdurden3722]

Me and a friend saw one on in a park laying on it's side with one wing up in the air, that seemed sick or injured (kinda dazed and confused). Then another crow came to it and kinda poked him to get up, but injured one just kept laying there with one wing up in the air (seeming sick and demoralized). Then all of a sudden the injured one got up, and hopped in one spot full of energy and crowed. It was like he was laughing lol, while hopping around. That's always been a "wtf just happened?" moment for me.

[@jacqui181]

I have two long-time (4+ yrs) crow friends who have this year brought their youngster to my home to join in the treats I have for them. I wear a white cap when outdoors training city pooches with lots of treats. They first started to follow me when they noted the treats missed by the dogs were good eating. After that, every time I exited my garage onto the city sidewalk they would appear. I would toss them a few bits then they would leave. One day I was in a hurry and backed my car out w/o giving treats. The largest crow flew alongside my drivers window to the stop sign. I stopped. He stopped. And looked up at me like, “Well??!? Where’s the treat?” Another block he flew with me. Stopped at the stop sign. Again looked at me - snd if he had had hands to put in his hips, he would have! After the third stop sign he gave ip and flew off. It was crazy! Another time a month after the car scenario, the same crow (he has identifiable markings on his face) buzzed the back of my cap to get my attention. Boy he got my attention for sure! 😮 They follow me all over the neighborhood. My feathered friends

[@MiNi-nn7zi]

When I worked several years as a cemetary gardener (in southern Finland) I had a lot of time to follow local crow (Corvus cornix) population's behavior over many years. There are several amazing things about these amazingly intelligent animals capable of cultural transfer... 1. Grave candles as a food resource. In Finland there are somewhat standardized model for a grave candle, stearin backed to a plastic can with aluminum alloy lid. Mother crows actively searched lit candles with their hatchlings, and when such candle was available, the caring mom used his beak to remove the lid of candle, after which it ate the stearin to be puked to a hungry mouths of little ones. In cases were lid was too tight to be opened with beak, then mother crow just turned it over to a ground to get access, either by pouring melt stearin to the ground (there are holes on a lid to allow oxyten to enter the can for flame to burn), or simply making a hole to it's bottom. A next generation then taught these tricks to their offspring. 2. Cut flower goblets as a water resource. During hot and try summer periods mother crows searched for a goblets with fresh looking flowers (and thus fresh water), after which they simply throw bouquets or flowers aside to get drink. Of course, of course little crows following learned to trick too by watching. Funny thing was that there was a lot of complaining from visiting people why a new cut flowers were scattered around a lawn at their loved ones graves, but almost everyone changed their mood when hearing the reason for that happening. Of course, we, cemetary employees always tried to put flowers back to their goblets when encountering them, but often for vain. Crows of course knew already the grave, and they also often saw when goblet was filled again with fresh water. They often sat on a tombstones waiting their turn when we gave water to grave flowers. Partial solution to scattered flowers was just fill otherwise empty goblets for crows to drink. 3. Group behavior and "calling by names". So many times I witnessed the situation where a crow called others from one side of cemetary, and others replied. Then they all gathered to one particular tree, before flying together to do their crow things to somewhere else. It was apparent, they "discussed" with each others. I also witnessed one summer how a group of crows used wolf pack tactics to separate and prey a little leveret from its mom. Two biggest crows harassed the hare, making feint attacks toward it, while three others approached from other direction toward the leveret using pretty 'stealthy' tactics by flying near the ground behind a line of grave stones. Hoverer, that day both bunnies managed to escape to nearby bushes, but next day we found half eaten carcass of that leveret... It is very clear to me that they can communicate, coordinate and act highly intelligently, and they are 'individuals' to each other. They are capable to a cultural transfer within their populations.

[@RobynRosey]

About 15 years ago I heard increasingly louder calling of many crows and went outside to see what was going on. The sky was filling with crows flying in from all directions, insistent and noisier than I’d ever heard them. My Rottweiler out in the yard had a crow by the very tip of the wing. Each time Mathayus moved closer, the crow hopped in the opposite direction. The arriving crows formed a complex, many-layered flying spiral that began about 20 feet in the air and ended at Mathayus. I yelled his name and he let go, and much to my relief the crow took off, unimpaired and all the hundreds of crows lifted, gradually dispersing, still chattering away. I was stunned at the crows’ ability to call up hundreds and hundreds of buddies at a moment’s notice ( no tech involved), the incredibly complex flying spiral they formed (a maneuver impossible for human aviators as far as I know) and the fact that they left Mathayus completely untouched although they could have killed or maimed him if they’d wanted, given their numbers. I’d admired their their sociability before many times several miles away during walks at dusk with my husband and dogs behind a local strip mall here in San Diego County, California. Hundreds of crows gathered close together on wires and adjacent rooftop edges, visiting together each evening before sifting away into the woods for the night. Maybe that’s why they didn’t harm Mathayus - they knew him. And me. And maybe the flying contests observed by some other crow watchers here are prep for emergency situations like that one that happened in my back yard. I believe that crow behavior is kind of like dogs’ sense of smell - unfathomable due to our limited human equipment. I’m probably misquoting writer Louise Erdrich and cannot find the source, but swear she said something like, “If I had a religion it would be watching crows.”

[@herneyse11]

Thanks!

[@TheAsdffaaa]

erittäin mielenkiintoista, Kotkan Poika kuittaa :D

[@joannaedwards6325]

Thank you for sharing all of that interesting experience.

[@jesterday2222]

Thank you so much, it was great reading your observations! These animals are amazing. Personally I would have bought a little waterfountain for them at the graveyard 😋

[@gandalf8216]

This is an all too often overlooked aspect to crow intelligence, but their lingual capacity is in one aspect superior to human lingual capacity. What I mean by that is that our languages tend and leans toward communication of the conceptual. Crow language tend and leans toward communication of the visual, something human languages are terrible at. We can loosely describe a picture, or something we saw, by transcribing the visual information we have into something conceptual, before we communicate it using our linear and sequential languages. That in turn makes it very difficult for us to recognize a face with our eyes, based on information told to us about that face. We can make somewhat educated guesses and presumptions based on said descriptions, but one can easily say, you really need other variables to accurately identify the precise visual that has been verbally described. Crows, on the other hand, can communicate visual information almost, if not entirely, verbatim - and there have been a few studies where crows that never before have seen a particular human face, but have been told about that face, able to recognize said human face. It is accurate to say, a crow can speak in pictures.

[@jerryclark5725]

One of my Grandfathers called the crows his friends. We gardened all those years with no thought of crow damage. When my Granpa passed, the crows took a great toll on the garden produce. While Granpa was alive, I never understood what he meant by, "The crows are my friends."

[@BirdBath1]

Jerry Clark, look at bird bath

[@tfan2222]

@burteriksson Most people have two? That’s the norm?

[@jerryclark5725]

Sorry, there was two Grandfathers. One almost a generation older. The Crow Friend was old enough for a full family during The Depression.

[@whitesquirrel4131]

I have a family of crows that visit me daily. One of them I have been feeding regularly for 3 years or so. I thought at first a large male, as it is the largest crow in my area of the city. The next year it had 3 chicks, but this was during the heat wave, and 2 died, the third was badly damaged. I fed who I now thought was momma bird and her damaged chick into the winter, when one day the chick no longer came. This year, she has 3 more chicks and a smaller adult crow with her, they stay together, her chicks have warmed up to me quickly which i found surprising, they trust no one else. One chick is already eating by itself, the others are fed by the very big "momma" crow but I wonder if maybe this is the male after all? This big crow does all the work, I had thought was the mother bird, she is at least 3 or 4 years old, probably older. How to tell from a distance? I can get about a foot away from her (or him) the others wont let me within about 5 feet, but sometimes they come up to me. They know where i live, which apartment is mine,, they caw at my windows if i have not gone out with food by noon XD The larger crow sits at the apartment building door waiting for me to come out, crosses the crosswalk with me - on foot - and flies along with me to the store each morning.

[@whitesquirrel4131]

All chicks now eating on their own, all very noisy. They investigate a construction site next door, a house being rebuilt. they play with everything laying around, nails, cigarette packs, they fight over sticks and the bits of material from construction. They love the metal tie-down grommets in the tarps and anything else shiny. Thee workers there are surprised how tame the birds seem to be and have been feeding them as well.

[@chelseaandhobbes]

What do you feed them and how did it star

[@arody4579]

Thanks for sharing ur story!

[@Nolbert24]

Ya not very surprising

[@natesaracino1746]

I remember learning about their intelligence back in my freshman year of HS and was so fascinated. I’m definitely gonna start building a relationship with my local crows:)

[@onkelbo7897]

6:37 "Why does a bird need to be this smart?" The real question is: why do humans think smartness is a privilege to them? Imagine humans will somewhen understand that all animals are smart and humans in comparison aren't.

[@jessicacox2005]

I raised a raven. I can tell you why they need to be smarter. It's because it's how they get food. They aren't hunters, they are more of a scavenger, and they use their brains to figure out how to get food. They don't like to work very hard for it, they'd rather play all day 😄

[@stueyphone]

You could say they work smarter not harder

[@jimmygrbk2b137]

You’re smart that exactly what it is…

[@seensithara2772]

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[@oneoflokis]

Trickster animals, by Loki! (And Odin.) 🙂👍

[@gracie99999]

that’s my favorite bird and the black jag in amazonia my favorite cat

[@majinvegeta9280]

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't" I've always found it amazing that when you look at galaxies strung across the universe in long filaments they resemble a brains intricacies

[@danellboy5757]

Can you imagine if the universe was a giant brain of just of of many enormous beings?

[@iaimboti]

@@danellboy5757 It would probably think very slowly compared to us, if it can think, time would also be super fast to them, so our lives would probably flash by in a instant, unless their "brains" have some way of transferring information faster than light.

[@horeckilarion3310]

Because the most complex thing in the universe is life in general and more especially the brain. I always like to play with the tought that universe created life to experience itself.

[@dthomas9230]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

[@Fairbranksthecat]

​@@horeckilarion3310 I think along those lines too, the universe is in expansion and so is life, I think life's goal is to cover the universe so the universe can feel complete.

[@islandbirdw]

I have lived with parrots for more than 34 years. Having such a close living situation and decades of building relationship with birds gives real insight into not only how smart but how they naturally behave and how they adapt to life with humans in a house. My first bird a cherry head conure just passed away a week ago. I’m still reeling. We had our own language, he said some words a lot like hi but he didn’t need to use words much because I knew what his sounds and mannerisms meant. As lost as I feel without him, he has taught me over 3 decades almost what it’s like to be a bird. RIP Flapper 1986-2022

[@ufosrus]

Very sorry about your loss. It's tough losing a beloved companion.

[@bobbygabriel9574]

My parrot used to play with my dogs - it was amazing.

[@islandbirdw]

@@ufosrus thank you 😊

[@Kyo-uz1zi]

RIP flapper, what a real one

[@nersharific813]

I’m sorry for your loss. As a fellow bird owner, I do not look for forward to those fateful days… I’m glad you were able to develop such an amazing bond. RIP Flapper.

[@HammadNajam]

Thank you for beautifully put the information out there with easy to understand informative video.

[@ZeleonScience]

Crows are honestly so cool. 9:58 reminded me of this story: my ex once worked for a summer camp, which took place on a beach (in Vancouver, BC). During their lunch picnics, she always saw a crow family caw'ing at each other, probably plotting something. Occasionally, the father crow would swoop in and steal some of the campers' food, followed by the mama crow, and then the kid crow, which just feels completely coordinated. It must have been so frustrating for her and the campers, but I find that so cute lol

[@seanb9698]

I live in the West End in Vancouver and am fascinated by the crow and overall bird behaviour here

[@recipoldinasty]

Was she a swallow queen?

[@ZeleonScience]

@@seanb9698 Oh neat, same here! Yeah the birds here are honestly hella fascinating haha

[@eyeofhorus1301]

@@seanb9698 How do they coordinate and plan things when they can't talk I don't get it

[@BirdBath1]

Zeleon Science, look at bird bath

[@TBJ1118]

I'm a neuroscientist working on songbirds. This video is extremely informative for the general public, and really well done. Kudos!

[@bangkokdangerous2507]

i wanna see a video on that!

[@woundedsanity]

i think id love to hear you explain many things. neuroscience is MIND BLOWING ^^

[@jaysea5939]

I saw a...NOVA? anyway, science show on stuttering and people studying both human and songbird brains; it was pretty neat, I'd no idea birds could stutter as well

[@yashaswikulshreshtha1588]

Good to hear that Neuroscientist, Well I was wondering what if we could hack mind for ourselves? Instead of being dependent on things we love to make choice, what if we could ask "I can want it whenever I choose". What if we could choose our wants? What if we decided to be passionate about Programming and boom it happens?

[@tootaashraf1]

cringy word

[@kalipw0210]

I would absolutely love to be friends with a corvid. When I was a kid my aunt's dad had a wild raven. He was free to come and go as he pleased. He was a very cool and awesome creature. Still gave me the creeps seeing him in the dark on his perch, just.... staring.... 🤣🤣🤣

[@TSGSpace]

Me 2! I am always saying I would love that . If I could somehow just find one to be a friend to me now... 🤔

[@ComradeLuka]

@@TSGSpacegive it food. You’ll know you’re besties if it stays and/or brings back presents

[@selfproclaimednobody4614]

He was waiting to take your soul into the afterlife.......... Spooky spooky

[@kalipw0210]

@@ComradeLuka I tried lol! I throw food out for whatever birds are on the power line, and last week a lone raven showed up. I pushed our cat out of the door way with my foot to give it some berries. The raven took off before I even put it on the ground. I'm wondering if it thought I kicked the cat, and he wanted to part of it lol. I can't win 🤣 and I haven't seen it since...

[@legendno1]

Peanuts mate. i have them building nests by my house now, less then 6 months

[@therealzilch]

I've seen crows drop walnuts on the street for cars to run over, here in Vienna. We've only had crows in the city in any numbers for about forty years. I admire them, but I must admit that they are helping to drive the songbirds out. Well done, thanks. Merry Christmas from Austria, Scott

[@TheJacyn313]

Crows are pretty good wild pets. Give them grapes, unsalted nuts, and/or raw meat consistently and they'll bring your gifts in return. As long as you accept the gifts they keep bringing them. Idk if you can train them to bring specific items by increasing the treat quantity or quality like upgrading them from nuts to eggs when they bring a specific item but I do know they'll give you coins, rocks, and other cool knickknacks.

[@rickyfoos4185]

I had an interesting interaction with birds from a different family - grackles. I was out gardening and saw one hung up in a tree and tangled in fishing line. My cat thought "oh boy" and went after it. I reached it first and cut enough of the line to disengage it from the tree. It was extremely tangled up and I took it into my kitchen and cut off the line bit by bit, getting bitten several times for my trouble. I finally was able to take it outside and launch it into the air. I went back to my gardening. Pretty soon a large flock of grackles returned. They perched on the fence, the tree, the clothes line and proceeded to simply observe me. They did so for about 15 minutes before taking off. So the one grackle that I rescued apparently was able to communicate with the others.

[@BirdBath1]

Ricky Foos, look at bird bath

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@BirdBath1 I LOVE SCIENCE, so i wanna ask if you want Recommendations, but asking that repeatedly (to reach more people) is of course automatically risking that i seem like a robot, which makes people decline. A Risk, a Risk.

[@viridiantheforest1037]

Grackles are pretty smart too!

[@BirdBath1]

@@viridiantheforest1037 look at bird bath

[@seensithara2772]

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[@milliedragon4418]

I remember watching crows play a "game" it looked like some sort of a sport , with rules it was very coordinated they were all up in the trees watching each other play the game. Take turns nose driving a flight but make the same flight pattern a bit like Blue Angels pilots. But it was about perfection. I was so fascinated I wish I had filmed it. And wish I had watched it more. Like thought maybe there was a goal, reminds me of a card game or puzzle, it seems both equally intellectual and physical at the same time. But I definitely think it was the Crow Olympics. But also gave me board game vibes like chess or go. It was very strategic. Bronze and brains.

[@PatstarDeluxe]

I've genuinely seen the exact same thing! This was years ago, it may not have even been crows, but I distinctly remember them swooping down and then swooping back up, the same flight path, over and over, all of them watching and then having their turn. It was absolutely fascinating!

[@npc6817]

Similar, I watched crows taking turns nosediving trough a hole in a fence and I swear to god mfs were chanting

[@BirdBath1]

Millie Dragon, look at bird bath

[@npc6817]

@burteriksson honestly returning to monke is overrated, join crow instead

[@tsm688]

@burteriksson answer - it doesn't. that's a parody intended to look ridiculous, but wrong in almost every detail. For starters we're **apes**... Look up what evolutionary theory actually looks like.

[@sueandpauldickson9985]

In this video, there was a point that talked about crows helping picking up trash. I agree with why it's a good thing with one additional point. It is much better for any bird to you have to work for their food, for example just leaving food out for birds can make them reliant on that simple source of food and forage less for food. So there is actually more harm just leaving food out than having them work for it. Thank you for a great video on Corvids!

[@michaelpotter3126]

I have seen some incredible sights involving Crows, Ravens et etc. Years ago I worked for a local water authority here in Southern England and cutting a long story short.. Much of my work involved waste water treatment sites.. There was one just outside Calne in North Wiltshire.. As you might imagine Sewerage treatment sites tend to be far away from urban areas and the Calne site was surrounded by woodland and the Rooks, Ravens Jackdaws Crows.. All filled the branches of the surrounding trees and the noise,.. That scene in Hitchcock's "The Birds" is nothing!! You could not hear yourself speak when mating season was upon them!! Occasionally and poignantly.. one of the birds would fly down to one of the water tanks and get a drink.. Sometimes they fell in.. Crows don't swim.. If I was on my own and no health n safety rep was around I would try and get to the bird and often they had the sense to "Swim" to my arm which I held in the water.. With the other arm I was clinging to a ladder!! More often than not the bird would perch on my arm and carefully I lifted him or her out.. They would then flop down onto the grass and often gave me a look of curiosity with those black eyes and a beak as big as a bread knife!, then squawk as though to say "Anyone can make a mistake"!! Sadly the younger birds would not come to me.. They were more frightened of me I guess than the water.. In short they would sink.. Now the punchline of this tale is this. The noise of all these birds was deafening.. When one drowned in seconds there was utter silence. It was the spookiest thing you could see. For ten minutes it was obvious a thousand crows all went into mourning.. God's truth.. They are the most intelligent of Birds. If only they would learn to swim.. Sadly.

[@BirdBath1]

Michael Potter, look at bird bath

[@ExcessMundi]

Thank you for sharing that story

[@bobwoww8384]

Amazing info! Thank you!

[@michaelpotter3126]

@@ExcessMundi Hi Dennis.. Thankyou.. It was quite an experience. Only experience creepier was doing security rounds on HMS Victory in Portsmouth many years ago. Those gundecks in blackness with only a torch for company.. Very creepy!! Lol

[@lamoinette23]

A net on a long stick may have been helpful. Just sayin'.

[@JM-tn8xx]

I have crow bros at my house. I feed them scraps, and they'll bring me twigs and shiny objects. It's pretty great. I even got to hold one in my hands after it flew into the house and couldn't get out, but it let me pick it up and carry it out. I called him Edgar Allan Crow.

[@MOGE_]

best name for a crow yet

[@tekky1202]

Imagine if the crow bought your a very valuable ring.

[@clarckkim]

@@tekky1202 there are some people who teach crows what exactly shiny stuff to steal. like recognizing shiny and thin objects around necks

[@falxnecis]

So, they trained you to give food in exchange of twigs. You don't want to know how you are called in the crows' world.

[@JM-tn8xx]

@@falxnecis Cute perspective 😂

[@neeniesims9980]

I once baby sat my friend’s pet crow for a week and he was trained to free roam the house. He would respond to commands and gestures, and cooperated with the other cats and dogs in the house. At night we’d sit and watch tv together! He was so intelligent!!

[@louis-i5f]

I didn't know first hand just how smart crows are , i mean I've seen videos here of crows displaying their intelligence. But its mostly human raised crows. I had an interesting experience with wild crows just the other day. On my lunch break I usually grab a tuna fish sandwich from 7/11 in small town called Kentlands. When I eat there I always see crows hanging around. So what I don't eat i give to them. Well I ran out of food to give them one day after feeding them. They started verbally trying to communicate with me. Making the sounds they were staring at me sitting in my car. Next thing i knew one landed on top of my car and I could hear it tapping on my car over my head. As to say keep feeding me. I was intrigued on just how aggressive they were One in particular. So I didn't pay it much attention . I drove off about 300 yards to another part of parking lot. As I sat there the same crow starting crowing .. I looked up it was the same crow that was on top of my car. It was maybe 6 feet from my car on a branch look ing at me and it was branch vocalizing . Making that distinctive crowing sound. Looking at me sitting in my car. The Bird followed my car to other side of Plaza. It wa s looking at me . I couldn't believe the bird actually followed me. It wanted more food and it was trying to communicate that to me . Most bizarre experience I've ever had with a crow. So intelligent. I'm quite certain they can distinguish cars and people. T hey definitely remember me and my car. Crazy but it's true. The Bird actually followed my car as I drove.

[@laurajackson6860]

Fascinating. I never realized the length of time crows stay with their parents.

[@Brambrew]

"Delayed gratification and planning are high-order skills. Human children can't do this, and neither can many of the adults I know." Lol, Stephanie is throwing shade!

[@SpressoX3]

I want it all and I want it now

[@xxNephlimxx]

Do you think she volunteers at an "inner city" adult education center?

[@beezusHrist]

@@xxNephlimxx found the racist in the comment section. Oh dear, must not be using your brain.

[@Beemerguy929]

I once lived on an acreage and there was a large owl that lived in the forest behind my house. I noticed it sitting in one tree on a regular basis so I began to put food out or the squirrels after I'd cleaned the lead out of them. After a few weeks the owl realized I'd offer it food and just sit to talk with it. My roommates had to be aware of it because it swooped at them to attack their faces anytime they were within its attack range while I could sit out there with my eyes closed in no danger. After a few months it seemed to have an understanding of my schedule so i could see it fly along the tree line to its favorite branch so when I pulled into the driveway I could get out and we'd have our little exchange. It would coo/hoot and fluff itself up while I talked. It was a pretty cool experience that I doubt I'll ever forget If an owl can have the intelligence to be like a little friend than I'd love to see what sort of relationship you could develop with a corvid.

[@Video2Webb]

Such a great story. Showing us how to be human by being more than a little human itself. Communing with wild animals is a peak experience. But pets can take us there too.

[@frankG335]

Owls are much, much more intelligent than people realize.

[@stevencampbell365]

You are way underestimating these birds!!!

[@DrewWithington]

I used to live in a leafy square in London. One day a Scots Terrier was stalking and chasing pigeons on the lawn. One of the resident crows flew down, sneaked up behind the terrier, then pulled it's tail as it focused on the pigeons. The terrier barked angrily at the crow but it had flown up to it's tree. The dog went back to stalking the pigeons and the crow flew down and pulled it's tail again. This cycle was repeated multiple times. The only motivation that the crow had for doing this was that it enjoyed annoying the dog, and had enough insight into the dog's mind to realize that the dog wouldn't learn and adapt it's behaviour, which made the game a lot more fun. That was one amazingly smart bird. Carrion crow (corvus corone).

[@Falconlibrary]

Corvids love teasing other animals.

[@DrewWithington]

@jcorbThe crow didn't get any other reward for this behaviour e.g. food e.g. protection for nestlings. Normal animal motivations. I watched the crow for 20 minutes and it was very persistent and stayed motivated, so as with a human winding another human up it's more fun when the subject being wound up doesn't get that they need to behave differently.

[@DrewWithington]

@jcorb E.g. ?

[@DrewWithington]

@jcorb Please apply Occam's Razor.

[@trevorsebastian1341]

@@DrewWithington maybe it was trying to get the doggie to stop harassing the pigeons? XD

[@zegreatpumpkinani9161]

"SCRAW" - an intellectual

[@Wurthier]

@M Y T H I C A L N O V A r/whoosh

[@xlivalexander2111]

@@guytheincognito4186 😂😂😂

[@Goregreet]

@M Y T H I C A L N O V A truly one of THE comments ever

[@guytheincognito4186]

@Sleepy Joe Hates America Thx 😁👌

[@ashtonndlovu4449]

@M Y T H I C A L N O V A even a crow got that punchline b4 u 😂

[@johnsonmolla]

One day back in 2017 I was on my weekly cleaning routine when I noticed a crow stuck inside a big water container we kept in our backyard. Efforts to rescue it didn't go well as the crow died a few hours afterwards. During that time, I tried to feed it with some left-over food, I noticed a lot of other crows circling the area as I was trying to feed it. Later on, when it died the others saw me as the culprit. They will go on to make my life a living hell for the next 4 years. Sometimes I would go upcountry for a few months for work but the minute I came back they would recognize me. Intelligent birds.

[@TayWoode]

I’ve got a few crows that visit so I throw old bread on the garage roof, I rustle the bag so they can hear and know I’m gonna throw some bread and now they’ve started bringing me stuff like shuttlecocks or bottle caps and push them over the garage roof into the garden

[@stusux]

All the amazing crow stories in the comments are really heart warming. I hope one day I can make a crow buddy. 😁

[@adicted52427]

pro tip: give them food and keep your distance. they will approach YOU

[@gracie99999]

unfortunately I don’t have any but so have squirrels 🐿 as friends 😁

[@adw6894]

@@gracie99999 Thats lovely

[@kleets1996]

Good luck, I almost got attacked at a bus stop in slc by about 5 of their young. And the adult wasn’t amused with me at all 😂 I learned a lot that day

[@ViirinSoftworks]

When I moved into my current apartment, I put bird seed on my window sill (4th floor). It took 8 months or so for a bird to notice what I was doing, but then I got a Mourning Dove. Winter came, and she left. A few months later, she was in my window again, singing to me to get me to put seed out for her again. I have 4 doves now.

[@ufosrus]

Many doves came to my backyard feeder and were so comfortable that some even rested (or napped) on my seating deck areas. But unfortunately, a neighbor got a nasty calico that began to kill them (and fight other neighbors' cats). Eventually the remaining flock never came back. I miss them a lot. The neighbors with the calico moved and I bet you that nasty cat is terrorizing the birds around their new property!

[@ViirinSoftworks]

@@ufosrus :( that's horrible! Maybe now that the monster's gone, you can summon some new friends?

[@paul9156c]

While sitting in my backyard, a scrub jay flew down and started talking to me.. Not in English of course, but it was trying to communicate. I brought it a peanut, and it remained my friend after that for several years, until I moved. It would land on my shoulder. It would land on my finger. It felt to me like a gift, yes even a blessing. I miss that bird.

[@Drysso]

I was doing some construction work and kept hearing a weird noise when traffic was stopped at a stoplight. I eventually seen a crow dropping nuts for the cars to crush. I will forever be impressed by these birds and other animals.