Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans
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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.
Works for peanuts?
Don’t quit your night job
This is such an underrated comment.
ahahahaha I love you
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@kol2han Cool. Did you check on him?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe this. There’s a great one hour PBS/Nature documentary show about crows: “A Murder of Crows”.
@@AWa-ik2ez Unrelated but a great song from the counting crows: "A murder of one"
So the crows are not only attentive"wing man",but also can be sentimental? Imagine if they incorporated fish into their diets!
The ability to hold a grudge and shit on the same person's car for years is actually hilarious
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.
I heard similar stories about birds (not sure which kind) in India, signaling the dholes (wild dogs) when an appropriate prey appears.
Honey birds help humans find honey because the bees are too dangerous for them, and the people leave honey for them as thanks
like military drones
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
Does it imply planning for the future that the wolves allow the ravens to scavenge?
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.
The crow broke the system hahahah
ToddHoward, look at bird bath
Remove him from the experiment 🤣🤣🤣
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.
Some animals can follow human feelings and the feelings of other animals. Scientific explanations doesn't work here.
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.
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?
@@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
Then just passed it around
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.
That is absolutely wild, so cool!
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.
Wow. Great story. Innate sense of good judgement or tuning into the thoughts/emotions of the family???
Either way...so impressive.
Thank you for sharing it.
Ah yes, *criminal duo*
Poor Friend
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.
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.
@@rskye11 exactly
@@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
He was teaching humans how properly cross the street
Never mind. The Crow knows.
"Even human children can't do this, and neither can many of the adults I know," Best line ever.
th-cam.com/video/mlW3wAQCq9g/w-d-xo.html
I cracked up when I heard this because it's so relatable!
Lol she ain’t lying
3 degree burn
she just got too real
"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
Can you imagine if the universe was a giant brain of just of of many enormous beings?
@@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.
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.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
@@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.
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...
Of my "Rucksack" hahahha bester mann
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.
Are you saying that a murder of crows could be investigating a crow's murder?
☝️
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.
We must be careful. The crows may evolve into Skeksis and take over the world!
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
"SCRAW" - an intellectual
A crow* 🤦♂️
@@SUPERNOVA0360 r/whoosh
@@guytheincognito4186 😂😂😂
@@SUPERNOVA0360 truly one of THE comments ever
@Sleepy Joe Hates America
Thx 😁👌
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.
Oh thank you so much for sharing a great experience.
This is why I take time to read comment sections.❤
@@joannaedwards6325 that ks for writing this, I really appreciate it! 😊
@@EarlofSedgewick
Glad 👌
This is incredible, it really let you wonder how our ability to communicate began. Crows are such amazing creatures
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing, enjoyed it a lot 🧡
I have 4 generations of crow's living at the back of my property. And have two dogs. One of which will chase them & the other just sits there watching them. The crow's know which dog they can trust. And there's a magpie family in the tree next to the crow's & they help each other baby sitting when the partners are off getting food. I've seen the Crow defend the magpie & chick's & the magpie defend the crow's chick's.
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.
WHAT A GREAT STORY!
@@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.
@@williamwhitten7820 aww sir, thats cute and sad. I hope you keep loving our beautiful nature.
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?
@@saaarrj *It would be delightful if you drew some pictures based on the story of Jamima the Crow! I would love to see them!*
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!
What are you Akatsuki?
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.
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.
Crows are some of the only animals who know how to point at things.
@@SebHaarfagre Magpies do make this awful annoying "yacking" sound though... 😏
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
Crows also pass the test for self aware consciousness. They are aware of their awareness and know what they are.
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!
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.
@TXTREX A group of crows is called a murder. I kid you not. Do TH-cam search and maybe a dictionary search. I learned about it via TH-cam.
@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.
or if they lived as long as other big birds...
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
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!
Very cool story thank you for sharing those crows 😆 🤣 😂 little jokers
Amazing! I love that Little, black, winged monkeys! My favourite Animals with orcas, Cats and snakes!
Tricksters
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.
They try to lure my dogs off a cliff near my house
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.
Fascinating and beautiful. I "raised" a baby Stellars Jay. He visited me every day, for about a year and a half, and I fed him peanuts from my hand. This winter, I didn't see him for months and was really sad. I was worried about him. But, he came back and I only see him every so often now. I'm glad he's independent and wild, but I miss him. His name is Woody, named after Woody Allen, because when I met him, he seemed so neurotic and he scratched at his head and was molting. He's now a beautiful, strong, independent, male Jay and I wish him the best and lots of love. Love my local crows and birds. Brings me joy, everyday.
Nice share. Thank you
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.
a dogs do the same some time))) by hiding only the eyes LOL
The old "If I close my eyes I'm invisible" trick 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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.
Hahahaha
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. 😊
May your next wife be less defective.
Thats a good reason there why she's your ex
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.
@@LucasFromTexas I thought the same
Your ex-wife don't know what has value or not.
I wish I could have seen those crows too, they are so cute.
I adore crows because of their intelligence. I'd love to be on a bit of land again to try and connect with them. It's fascinating seeing them being pushed to the limits of their problem solving intelligence, kind of like me trying to understand the depths of particle physics haha.
I said "I Love You" to a crow and the crow said I Love You back. I need to say that more often to my wife...
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!
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.
@@dstreetz91 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.
@@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.
@@Kevin_Street I never thought of it from that angle; you might be right!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@TechDeath28 Thank you! Buuut, I don't do twitter.
@@bastonor it's a joke...
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.
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
Same with me, I am feeding a pack of magpies daily. Every morning they sit on the railing of my porch waiting.
"Neither can many adults I know"
I was waiting for but absolutely not expecting this savagery.
That line made me laugh aloud when she said it.
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
same lol
@@psims7342 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.
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.
Death has no advantages.
@@electricspeedkiller8950 I mean it literally does. All you have to do is look at the fact people push for euthanasia to be legalised
@@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.
@@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
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
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.
Thanks for making this video, we love all our bird friends especially Magpies and Butcher Birds here in Australia. They have become friends for life as they come to the house and sing for their supper. We have a bird hierarchy at feeding time, firstly the Magpie couple will eat, followed by the Butcher birds, then the Shrikes and lastly the Parrots (mostly Lorikeets). The Magpies will even act as the security if a fight breaks out and restore the pecking order. Also worth checking out the Australian Magpie song if you have never heard it, our birds have a special song they sing to let us know they have arrived and are waiting for a feed.
Thank you for sharing❤.
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.
That makes them smarter than many adult humans.
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.
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.
True, they always dodge your car easily, remembering where cars drive
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
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.
The most fun of youtube comments in those channels is: the people share their uncomon histories
Also impressive crow
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
@David Mitnick Same here. But now I know how to stop that: mark it with moss! ;-)
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)
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.. 😂
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.
I saw a crow standing in the middle of the street with a squirrel once and I would have bet my life they looked like they were having a conversation. It really was abnormal looking and after seeing this I wonder if the crow was "pals" with the squirrel to take advantage of the squirrels foraging now
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.
r u satire?
@@mr.schnitzel4654 wut
“Chocolate flavored cereal flakes”? Isn’t that poison?
@@nersharific813 for dogs yes, dunno about crows.
@@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)
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.
Wow
That's one of the cutest stories I read on you tube.
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Thank you. It was very nice to experience. Surprising to know they are that social and have personality.
That's a lovely story! "50 yrs ago" just make it more nostalgic
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Thank you. It was very special to me then and now.
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Thank you for beautifully put the information out there with easy to understand informative video.
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.
Great observation!
Makes total sense! Thanks and greetings to you in Seattle!
That must be so great to observe. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed reading that 🦆
Gulls are cruel animals. They will eat their own babies and kill the babies of other birds.
@sammynatal6471 cruel is our concept, and a word loaded with some big implications. They are very good at doing what they do, living.
Amazing! Moved to rural nova scotia and been feeding a crow regularly. He now comes out when I call his name!
Wonderful for you.
@@pambrown6260 Um, don't him attention.
@@SUPERNOVA0360 you good?
Nova scotia gang
Yo, I about to move to Nova Scotia
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.
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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.
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I wonder if the crows would let you farm their eggs occasionally for some sweet sweet birdfeed
@@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)
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.
yea this is quite a well-known story, infact i thought about this as soon as i saw this video
A version is also found in Aesop’s fables
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
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
I thought this was just a myth, but it may have been based on a literal historical event. Amazing!
Ravens are beloved animals of our nation, Iceland. I have always been fascinated by them.
Great video! Thank you❤ I'm glad there's people like you who admire nature, it's fascinating
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
A murder of crows . . .
Hahahaha damn
CSI Crowami
Isn’t a group of ravens called a murder? ☠️
@@Ryan-cb1ei Sure is, which is why they said that. Play on words. I was thinking the same thing xD
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.
Holy s** that’s some gansta way of getting your food wow that is crazy
Wow... the same basic cunning hunting strategy as our prehistoric ancestors driving bison & mammoths off clifftops 😮
based crows
Strange!!!
oof lmao
As a high speed train driver I can confirm through experience, crows are so smart.
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... 🐱
probably they were casually chatting about world domination :D
Wait.. It was only on Saturdays??
@@Ministry_0f_Truth 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...😄😄
@@claudiahbabic5102 So how did the crow know when's Saturday? 🙂
@@Ministry_0f_Truth I don't know... that's a good question for the crow... but he showed up every frigging Saturday no kidding😀😀
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.
Blake Walsh, look at bird bath
its like they knew you will throw more food when they "ignore" other one
this sounds like a proverb haha
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
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.
I seen where they bring people gifts for doing a favor for a crow. They'll bring you a gift and they'll do stuff for you forever. They're very loyal.
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!
Found to be true a few years ago in this video: th-cam.com/video/ZerUbHmuY04/w-d-xo.html
I also remember that story, it's also popular in China. They even teach it in class.
Haha 😄 this story
Yeah that's what I thought
Not unique to India tho
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.
I’m interested, could you provide some details so I can find it?
@@Tobias-et1xt University of Washington crow experiment
Saw that. Truly fascinating.
Epigenetics baby
Morphic resonance? 🙂 (Please do investigate the books and TH-cam videos of the British scientist Rupert Sheldrake.)
A study was done with crows and scaring them with a masked person , they came back a year later and found the chicks of the scared crows knew and recognized the masked person . It was found that crows pass information genetically, and that is why they are so smart.
My parents live in Israel and they know this guy that pissed off a bird, not sure which species or exactly what he did, but what resulted was that every single one of these birds would harrass him no matter where he was in the entire city
Yah I saw that study also. Absolutely amazing.
It wasn’t that they passed information genetically, it was communicated.
or maybe they can just talk to each other
Thank you for this channel, free education at levels people don't even realize how good. thank you
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 😄
You could say they work smarter not harder
You’re smart that exactly what it is…
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Trickster animals, by Loki! (And Odin.) 🙂👍
that’s my favorite bird and the black jag in amazonia my favorite cat
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.
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.
@@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
No, they should be stopped. They should be fully controlled lest they become threat for humans
@@riplikatlnloki5091 nah let the catch up some. They are already more emotionally mature than most humans are
@@JustLex25 in very specific areas maybe. The more intelligent they are, the more dangerous and unpredictable they become
They are so adorable. I love them.
This was a really great video. Well done
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.
best name for a crow yet
Imagine if the crow bought your a very valuable ring.
@@tekky1202 there are some people who teach crows what exactly shiny stuff to steal. like recognizing shiny and thin objects around necks
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.
@@falxnecis Cute perspective 😂
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.
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 :)
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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. 🥲
Great content, thanks for sharing these amazing facts.
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.
That's so funny, humor is one of the best displays of intelligence in my opinion.
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 !
@@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.
@@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.
The other birds of my neighborhood assault them in air in an attempt to force them off
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.
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.
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. 👧
@@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.
@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.
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Why would anyone think that there is something wrong with hiring crows to pick up garbage? We hire people to pick up garbage and nobody complains as long as they are paid fairly.
A very well done and insightful post.
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.
That's the most wholesome thing I ever read on TH-cam comment section
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.
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!
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.
Everytime I like to bring up Koalas that evolved to be dumber in order to save energy in a resource poor environment.
@@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.
Any chance that essay is online? Would love to read it 👍
@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?
Probably the most surprising is octopus. It is amazing how intelligent invertebrate can be.
I used to live nextdoor to a bar. One morning, I came outside to find that someone had vomited up a burger and fries (they were barely chewed) next to my back porch. Three crows were very excitedly scarfing down that chunky vomit. I decided on that day that crows are destined to rule the Earth. They're clever, social, can fly, and they will literally eat anything. 👍
In prison we had giant tubs of grease outside the chow hall for pickup. The crows would eat that shit all the time. Just excess grease
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."
Jerry Clark, look at bird bath
@burteriksson Most people have two? That’s the norm?
Sorry, there was two Grandfathers.
One almost a generation older. The Crow Friend was old enough for a full family during The Depression.
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.
I think they did try to teach crows words as part of an experiment (not with buttons iirc) and they can understand them.
those cats and dogs buttons are just fake. cats arent even that intelligent and its just random and edited
The buttons with the pets are fake unfortunately. It's the clever Hans effect.
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.
I dont know about crows but ravens can talk like humans
'The crows didn't fully grasp these setups' EXCUSE ME?! In the U-pipe test, it only took 2 rocks in the wrong tube before the crow noticed it wasnt doing anything! That's about as well as you can expect!
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
Probably crows use more tools than parrots because their bills are more generalistic and less of a tool themselves than those of parrots
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.
@@efrainoctavio3506 it is crazy that parrots body is more capable of using tools yet crows use tools more !
@@donkorte80 true. I guess if crows live as long as parrots they will show more signs of intelligence
@@AhmedSaeed-vw5yh thats the opposite. Crows beaks are more capable of using tools
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
Beavers also have the ability to plan ahead. They create dams to store vegetation in the deeper water to eat over winter
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!
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 🤣🤣🤣
Nice
They can say words. Probably it's gonna happen.
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.
The crows are smarter than half of the human population.
Wow this is so Amazing thank you for this video ❤
These birds remembering to bring the correct tool in the next room, meanwhile I forget why I walk into the next room almost daily
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.
I both desire and fear this kind of experience
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.
Audrée & Jamie, look at bird bath
Humans: let’s make a “human figure” out of straw to scare the crows
Crows: 🤣🤣😂👏🏻
Only works if it's realistic and holding a shotgun.
They are so beautiful and smart! Thank you for this video!
Informative, thank you 🙂🙋♂️
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.... 🤣🤣🤣
Me 2! I am always saying I would love that . If I could somehow just find one to be a friend to me now... 🤔
@@Sharki_Gtaggive it food. You’ll know you’re besties if it stays and/or brings back presents
He was waiting to take your soul into the afterlife.......... Spooky spooky
@@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...
Peanuts mate. i have them building nests by my house now, less then 6 months
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.
be careful touching the wild bird feathers now though, avian flu and stuff is spreading (at least in my country Canada)
Be careful around the monkeys too. You just can't be sure what you'll pick up from them. :/
There is this elderly crow that hangs around my neighbourhood. He's my most frequent visitor. I haveen been feeding it since a few months. Nowadays he even got used to me and started coming close to me instead of running away when I came. I know him because he has a distinct look from all the others. He has a slightly hunched back, rough feathers and has some skin hanging from his throat. He also doesn't caw really loudly. I really love seeing crows like this interact with us. There was another crow with only 1 leg that used to come. But sadly, the huge tree in front of our house got cut down due to the risk of it falling down. Ever since, most of the crows left the neighbourhood. The elderly crow still sticks around though. My aunt onc etold me that once a crow realises that you're helping it, it never leaves you.
are you not afraid of bird flue
smelling wild bird ass feathers
Also never hump a bat
Stephanie is such a good narrator. ♥️👍💯
YES - crows make friends with other animals. In my own back yard I have witnessed a crow hanging out with a groundhog. It was pretty bizarre, but they were clearly acting like they were friends.
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
Be careful, they know where you live now.
@@_sneer_ it’s okay we in good terms, now my boss …who shoot a BB gun near em, got attacked by the crows lmaoo
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
I live in the West End in Vancouver and am fascinated by the crow and overall bird behaviour here
Was she a swallow queen?
@@seanb9698 Oh neat, same here! Yeah the birds here are honestly hella fascinating haha
@@seanb9698 How do they coordinate and plan things when they can't talk I don't get it
Zeleon Science, look at bird bath
Would like to see more like this on this subject.