This makes me wonder if ravens aren't the source of some ghost stories. Imagine, especially a few hundred years ago, a raven perched outside some poor soul's window muttering strange things
Amy: it's really hard to film her and I have been trying to make her say "wow" for two months now. Fable alone: "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow". Birds are assholes too sometimes. 😂
Lol, so true!! Maybe change "sometimes" to "frequently" though, lol. It's because they're so damn smart they love to play cause and effect games to see how WE react. All the while we are thinking it's US testing and observing THEM, but it's actually 100% a two way street.
@@catfeatherss That's fascinating. I knew they're very responsive to people's tone of voice and body language, proper little scholars when studying us. I never knew that they test us too!
There is a Raven in my yard that does a perfect phone ringing. I can't imagine how many times she got me to run into the house to grab the phone. When I return outside she laughs histarically!
I remember being a little girl, and going into a pet shop. The parrot at the door immediately said. "Hi, pretty girl! How are you?" As a kid who didn't get noticed or talked to a lot....I was hooked. LOL Yes, parrots are special. I plan on timing my retirement to adopt an older rescue parrot. (Yes I know they live longer than people, hence the timing) They take a LOT of care, patience and constant interaction. They are worth it. Taught a chicken to play scales on a piano and do card tricks. I'm READY!
@@LOVEEEVEEY 🐦 I also was thinking of adopting an older parrot. I'm 65 yrs old. - I lost my lovebird a while back. He was my best friend! I miss him SO much. - Now, I go for walks, just to see the pigeons and crows etc. I love them all. I buy bags of good bird seeds for them. They see me coming. :)) They love chopped veggies too. ☺ I better stop yack'n and get off the phone. Hee hee Bye bye.
I used to talk to the magpies and ravens in alaska as a little kid and they talked back to me. No one ever believed me though. Good to know 20 years later I'm not actually insane.. But had some very clever birb friends.
I know! Those 'b' and 'p' sounds when she went right up to the microphone to 'boop boop' at it, were just amazing. From the sound of it, you'd swear she had big ole soft rubbery mammal lips. It's amazing she could make those sounds without them.
DeShaun Wilson Fun fact, while humans have their voice box, the larynx, at the top of their throats, birds have their voice box, the syrinx, at the junction where their trachea splits into the two bronchi that each lead to a lung.
There's a not an insignificant number of humans who can quite accurately imitate lots of different birdsong despite not having a syrinx too. BOTH things never cease to amaze me. Birds and humans both have very impressive vocal tracts.
If you listen to Mongolian throat singing for example it's amazing the sound and range they are able to achieve. It almost sounds like they are imitating certain musical instruments. Just popped in my head while watching this.
This bird is showing two very impressive capabilities, memory and vocalisation. She obviously remembers the sound of the human noises very well, and is trying to reproduce them. Wow!
@@OnlineWithMikko bro chill, not everyone wants or likes kids. That doesn't mean they would hurt them or tell them hurtful things it just means: kids aren't for everyone.
There’s a crow in my neighborhood that can perfectly imitate a cat. I was outside in the hammock one day reading. Heard a cat, looked around and saw nothing. After another time or two, spotted the crow in one of the trees making the sounds. I have indoor cats that are always at the windows or sliding doors. Felt like the crow was messing with me. 😂
I was about to comment this same thing. I heard a cat meowing up high one day while walking down the street just to realize it was a crow sitting on a rooftop.
I never knew Ravens talked until I went to the Ohio Bird Sanctuary...heard someone keep yelling "Henry! Henry where are you!" One of the workers pointed out it was a Raven and Henry was the name of a volunteer there :)
My daughter lives on the west coast of Canada and one day while she was sitting alone on a beach a raven came down to talk to her and brought her shiny rocks and shells.
I can't help but imagine how ancient people would have reacted to hearing ravens mimicking human voices. No doubt it contributed to many a superstition.
I mean, you are trying to say, it it not making an impression on you? xD I have full knowledge of that bird being domesticated and trained to make some human sounds, but her own songs are still quite awe inspiring and it doesn't take away from it !
@@tatzja8074 Wow! Your guys experience sounds like the beginning of a magic tale! ❤️ ..Did it feel like the crow had consciousnesses? Did you say greetings back to it?^^ Or was it just super spooky?
The thing that blows my mind is that Fable doesn’t simply talk, she IMITATES your voice. She is playing trying to get the right tone and vocal pitch to sound like you.
Obviously she gets the meaning of some of the sound she is producing, similar to a dog understanding sit. It’s repeated enough so that they get what it “means” or what they are required to do when the phrase is said.
I once volunteered in a bird sanctuary where they kept a Jackdaw, simply named Jack. Jack had previously lived in a pub, often hanging around indoors interacting with the patrons, up until he was taken away for a mix of health&safety/animal welfare reasons. Either way, he learned exactly two phrases during his days in the pub, the two things he was addressed with most often whilst there. "Hello", and "Fuck off". He'd repeat these two greetings to anyone that he met, with no particular pattern to it. Always made for hilarious (if slightly less "family friendly") moments with guests to the sanctuary. Eg, saying hello to the first three people, and telling the last to fuck off. Never failed to amuse. I was told how he once briefly escaped his enclosure, and flew to sit in a bush beside the road. Gave an elderly woman on her bicycle quite a surprise when a strange voice repeatedly told her to "Fuck off fuck off fuck off" from just beside her as she passed. She came into the sanctuary to inform/ask the staff about a particularly rude bird.
@Friendly Polar Bear There are videos on TH-cam of cockatiels dancing. They have excellent rhythm. People who have studied this think it's tied to the birds' ability to talk.
I think that it’s pretty insane that so many animals are starting to vocalise stuff more (cats, dogs, ravens, etc.) Like that’s some cool shit right there
My favorite thing about crow's mimicry isn't necessarily just the fact that they can learn to repeat words from humans, but on top of it they also do their best to imitate the voice of the person they learnt it from, and also when they learn like... artificial/mechanical sounds instead of words/voices. It's just so impressive the depth of detail they can reach
But the fact that she is speaking out of context shows that what we perceive as answers may just be situational noises that we interpret as sensible. Communication of birds is very different from that of humans.
This is amazing - some of your subtitles say “nonsense” but I am actually hearing her say colloquialisms like “Wots that there” and “wot you got there” and even “your a lil’bit sill-eh” in an almost cockneyed tone lol She does the “muah” air kiss sound and says “Kith!Kith?” I imagine the letter S is a challenge for her.
My intuition tells me she is repeating a one sided phone conversation. It reminded me of someone responding to the other party, "Oh. Oh. Oooooh...." and it went on for awhile exactly like a phonecall might play out.
Had you told me last year I'd spend near 20 mins listening to a bird I would have told you where to go. Yet here I am, listening to a wonderful Raven talk to herself. Best 18 mins of my day. Thanks for the smiles.
When we listen to Fable talking 'nonsense' I think it's worth remembering that a lot of the sounds humans make in conversation are not actually words. They have tonal meaning - for instance, we make particular sounds to query something, to comfort somebody or to express interest. There are times here when Fable seems to be practising tone.
About a year before I was born, my mom rescued a Blue-Fronted Amazon, who at the time was terrified of humans and just about everything else. This may be why his vocabularly is lower than some Amazons' can be, but still he is very sensitive to our tones of voice. When we are sarcastic, he laughs or "groans" sympathetically; when we talk logistics or in a more serious tone to each other, he imitates our voices with these low, gibberish mumbles. And, like many mimicking birds, whenever he says "I love you", it's always with a real softness in his voice, so he does seem to understand the intent of that one perfectly well. While one shouldn't always rely on their instincts when interpreting animal sounds, it's not at all uncommon that their tone of voice will compare to that of a human's when frightened, annoyed, or excited.
Kind of reminds me of when a toddler pretends to have a conversation before knowing how to pronounce words. They seem to babble and imitate the different variety of tones used in human conversation.
Her imitating her keeper’s accent reminds me of a golden macaw that our local pet store had. Being quite pricy it stayed there many years and had acquired the owners german accent ( enough so that it was hard to tell them appart ). It could be heard calling the owner’s afghan ( dog), Sheila, by her name. " come Sheila , come here". The dog would respond accordingly every time. Amazing birds!
A crow that I helped when it was hurt a few years ago leaves presents for us on our porch, usually blue things like a baby sock or some random party balloon things. He also follows me sometimes when I walk my dog. He flies ahead and waits for me on a fence. Then I walk ahead for a bit and he flies ahead again :) They have crow kids now and it's amazing that the crow kids are not afraid of me and my dog. I love Corvids. I will educate people that it's not Covid-19.
There's a small park at the end of my street where a good number of crows hang around. Knowing that crows are very smart and have great memories, I always tell them how pretty they are as I bike through the park in the morning. I hope that has put me in their good graces.
They are quite inteligent. Seems like you have made a friend, they remember our faces and will 'spread the word' if you're good or bad. If bad they will always avoid you and teach that to the rest of the flock. If good - you get interesting visits. It's awsome.
She is showing an amazing range of inflection in each series of words she practices. She is saying something slightly different with each repetition of the word, and it seems deliberate. This is fascinating to watch and hear.
this reminds me of those movie scenes where the character practices greetings/a conversation in front of a mirror to work up the courage to talk to someone else
@@kittylady6946 It imitates without understanding the meaning so it doesn't interpret words according to how humans tend to hear a word and spell it out in their head with all their preconceptions, who then completely end up butchering the word even though they just heard someone say it. ^_^
God, I can't stop thinking how the story of The Raven would go with this one. "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven “Hiii Boop boop woooow”
That's what I came in here to write too. When it says "nonsense conversation" I heard What's that? Ohhhhh. Ohhhh." quite a few times. It was pretty clear that I don't understand why it says "nonsense".
I remember hearing once that speaking when no one is around to hear is actually a significant marker of intellectual develipment in children. It shows a deliberate atempt to understand and explore language without anykind of immediate reward or feedback.
Thats cuz she exactly mimics voices. If here owner was a dude she would sound like a dude. Even in raven populations the sounds differs from group to group
George M don’t be silly , the Art i is all around us , in the life on earth, stolen technologies from life are inadequate spirituality , life has access , not non life , however , if art fiction finds the codes , it will imitate life , when it’s actually fake , and we are gaslit , like in a matrix .
My favorite are all the "Hi Fable"s and the laughing. However, if I was walking through the woods and suddenly heard a Raven laughing it would be some Edgar Allen Poe stuff right there and I would wet myself.
Funny how you mention Poe’s Raven, there’s actually a Raven named Zotz on here that learned to say “Nevermore”! Just look up “Waka Nevermore”, which are two of his favorite words “Waka Waka Waka” and “Nevermore”
I can also hear her ask "oh What's that then?" " whats this?" "Fine" "Fable" "Mwah, Kiss?" and more....but how she pronounces some of the letters like W, T, F and P for instances is definitely a mystery. Beautiful creature.
Ooh, I actually know this one! So human speech is formed from complex "compound-sounds" when your larynx (vocal chords) gets the sound started, your mouth and nasal cavities then amplify it, and finally your tongue and lips finish shaping the sound. Birds have what is called a syrinx, which structurally resembles a larynx but is located far deeper in the windpipe about where it branches into the two lungs, which effectively gives them two sets of vocal chords. Some bird families like Corvidae (crows, ravens, jays, ect) and Psittaciformes (parrots, parakeets, cockatiels, ect) have enough control over their syrinx that they can create a separate sound with each set of chords and make an imitation compound-sound which then gets amplified by their nasal cavity. I'm kind of oversimplifing here, but I hope you understand it a little better now.
Those improvised songs also show she has a clear sense of rhythm. She's keeping a consistent tempo on songs that haven't been taught to her but she's made up herself. That's quite amazing.
Something I've noticed is that a LOT of birds have a distinct sense of rhythm, and I know a lot of parrots like almost any kind of music with a good beat, whether that be bassline or drums played to keep the beat. Cockatoos in particular seem to be natural metalheads, and I've seen many a headbanging cockatoo with crest flopping all over the place. I'd really like to see scientists skip the "intelligence testing" phase and skip straight to formal communications.
A neighbour I had a few years ago (around 2009 or so), lived in an old decrepit house just a few clicks from where I lived. When he passed away, his daughter came to pick up his belongings, and she could have sworn that she heard his voice from outside, saying things that she remembered from previous phone conversations with him. So she reported the house as haunted. Turns out however, that a raven couple had set up a nest nearby, during the time he had lived there and so they had heard him out in the yard when he had spoken on his cell with her. They had just learned to mimic him.
Most excellent. A couple years ago, my wife and I were at a hiking trailhead and heard what we thought was a car alarm going off, only to discover it was a raven in a tree mimicking
I feel for ya, Fable.. my wife likes to record me talking to myself while cooking, or trying to fix something complicated. Granted, those clips have way more foul language, but.. still. Embarrassing when they end up online.
I was once in the car park at Durdle Door in Dorset and heard some kids playing with a toy machine-gun and saying "bang!" "bang!" - except when I looked there were no kids, just a rook next to the car making the sounds. It was looking at me and so I said "hello" and it started saying hello back, over and over, just like Fable does here.
A few months ago I heard a cat meowing but the sound was weird, almost as if it was coming from a speaker or a tiny container. I looked around because it sounded like the cat was in distress, maybe stuck on a tree, from which the sounds were coming. So I looked around to see where it is but I found a rook instead, sitting on a tree right above me, *meowing*. Oh boy was I confused!
I will always love seeing birds do their happy little skipping and playing around, You see some very magical interactions between birds when you watch them play around enough.
I've heard plenty of birds mimic sounds exactly, but that's the first time I've ever heard a bird take a sound and play with it like that. It actually gave me goosebumps, so eerie and fascinating
One time I was taking a walk in my local park and a lady was trying to train her puppy. She kept repeating "come on! come on!" and a raven in a nearby tree started messing with the sound and it's closest attempt was like "commAwn" and I was just so shocked a bird in the wild, simply observing this woman for a while, started mimicking her. Amazing birds.
@@Lady-Lilith it can actually get scary when they mimic something like a baby's cry or laughter,or cat sounds.Imagine a dark evening in a park,when all of the sudden,a baby starts crying out of nowhere!True story.
This is amazing ! We had a raven called "Jakob" (although it was a female, which the previous owner apparently didn't know) in our zoo in Munich who absolutely loved to talk to the visitors. She would put on a huge show as soon as enough people had gathered and would (most likely deliberate) attract said audience by repeating the word "scheiße" ("shit") until people starting paying attention to her and coming closer.
Same here Emil! Although oddly have some ducks and crows that come by to say hello as well. But I love birbs so maybe even a bit happier in "isolation."
The "nonsense conversation" is what we sound like to her. Kind of like when we mimic another language we probably aren't saying anything but we're mimicking the sounds that we often associate with that other language. We'll make up words or nonsense conversation in our mimicking of other languages, too.
I bet that's exactly what's going on. Parakeets also "practice" their words and phrases. They don't produce speech like we do, so to them achieving mimicry of human speech with their very different vocal apparatus, is probably a lot like playing an instrument to make it produce the desired sound. It takes practice to perfect.
@@KanalFrump I have a car that's fitted with an alarm system and a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor "chirps" electronically and beeps when someone is too close. After about 2 - 3 months, the birds in the surrounding area started making the same electronic "chirp" sound. But I had to disable it; it was getting to be an annoyance. Sadly, the birds don't make that noise anymore. :(
I feed a pair of ravens and about 30 crows daily in my backyard in San Francisco. They are definitely talkers. One used to mimic ‘good morning’ quite often. The pair of ravens that come let me approach within inches. Majestic.
@@EarthlyEmpath they can and they do. Next time you’re in any city also take a look at crosswalks, crows and ravens tend to use them while people don’t. It’s a trip!
I just love when she sings to herself. Like someone pottering about the house feeling happy. And it is just amazing how she tries out all these different intonations to the words she says. It doesn’t sound like she is purely copying a human sound but as if she is trying to give it different emphases and emotions.
Imagine the man of the house playing this back for the first time in front of his mates. Not only does he hear his partner answering the door or phone VERY suggestively to someone (unless of course it's him!), he then has to go find his partner and say, "Uh, honey?,,,,someone was listening in on us last week...and just gave the boys an audio play by play!"🤣🤣
Ravens in horrors stories: harbingers of death and dark magic. Ravens in real life: wow, wow, wow Edit: The number of likes gives me hope. Thanks guys. I never thought I'd ever get this many.
the fact that you've been teaching her to say "wow" and she says it so much on her own makes me wonder if she practices alone so she can say it better around you, just a theory but she might want to impress you
This is sort of similar to babies, in that they're constantly trying to mimic sounds on their own. Which just goes to show that mimicry and practice is important for any animal with complex vocal communications.
They practice bird calls they learn from their "family" or "friends" in the wild, so this is basically Fable practicing what she views as "bird calls" that she has learned from her "family" (aka the human being taking care of her.) In the wild they learn around 6-7 different calls with different meanings, and birds being trained in captivity have been documented to be able to learn many more ;)
It's amazing how she has your intonation!! Which I suppose is logical as she is mimicking you.... I'll keep my obvious thoughts to myself.... Haha She's so lovely!
In her nonsense conversations, I hear things like”what’s out there?”, “what is that.” “Look over here.”, etc. it sounds exactly like she is talking with you as you ask her questions about her world. Lovely to hear her on her own. Thank you!
I could have sworn early in the video she said “nice weather” . She is amazing! It’s interesting that she seems to be far more interested in mimicking humans instead of the other birds heard in the background. To me, that seems to show the degree of relationship between the 2 of you.
Their vocal chords are completely different from ours so birds like fable are able to do a multitude of noises so that seam weird to us because we always see them with the association of our lips smacking together
It is interesting to hear Fable practice her vocabulary. The mixture of her native utterances with human ones is remarkable. Her brain is a melting pot of inter species language. I wonder how well she communicates with other birds.
It's interesting when she just makes up words, but they have the same cadence and inflections as English does. It's probably much like what English sounds like to people who don't speak the language.
There's a short film here on TH-cam entitled "Skwerl" in an approximation of how English sounds to a non-English speaker. Really awesome video, you should check it out!
This is kind what it sounded like when i talked to myself in "english" when I was little. Very interesting how ravens have a similar learning structure as a 7 year old
It really works,even for ravens! I have got A levels in English, I studied grammar of course and had to build my vocabulary, but accent I practice by myself. I have quite a good accent now, I guess it is more east London accent where I live. This video needs to be shown to students who study foreign languages 🤓
I was thinking that exact thing; you see those videos like what does English sound like to non-English speakers; this is basically what does human language sound like to birds.
15:35 "Ohhhh Fable" with the "What have you done?" tone. From what I've heard about ravens being mischievous cheeky jokers, she must have heard that a few times :) And the laughing and singing. So charming!
I used to have a blackbird in my area who heard me whistling to my music over and gradually we would whistle at eachother with me making my call similar to his. For 3 ish years this happened. Hed come and jump about on the grass or trees and get whistling with me. He brought his chicks and mrs when he could and theyd all whistle with their dad whistling with me. So cute. I adore birds. This ones a trip!
This makes me wonder if ravens aren't the source of some ghost stories. Imagine, especially a few hundred years ago, a raven perched outside some poor soul's window muttering strange things
Interesting thought and very possible.
Probably one of the many reasons.
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
I was once told that if there is ever a sound you hear in the woods that you don't recognize it is probably a raven
You're so right
Amy: it's really hard to film her and I have been trying to make her say "wow" for two months now.
Fable alone: "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow" "wow".
Birds are assholes too sometimes. 😂
Lol, so true!! Maybe change "sometimes" to "frequently" though, lol. It's because they're so damn smart they love to play cause and effect games to see how WE react. All the while we are thinking it's US testing and observing THEM, but it's actually 100% a two way street.
@@catfeatherss That's fascinating. I knew they're very responsive to people's tone of voice and body language, proper little scholars when studying us. I never knew that they test us too!
She's just been practicing so when she whips it out it'll be perfect.
@@graciep.6984 You think it's an accident when a bird shits on you?
Major issues with the fact we were supposed to take over but some crazy monkeys found fire and went a bit bonkers with it.
There is a Raven in my yard that does a perfect phone ringing. I can't imagine how many times she got me to run into the house to grab the phone. When I return outside she laughs histarically!
She knows exactly what she's doing
That when you realize your keys are missing hahahaha 😜
Big Mama Fitzgerald omg 😂😂 What amazing animals ravens are
Omg that’s hilarious...animals are amazing
Change your ring tone? I guess if it’sa land line, you can’t.
I remember being a little girl, and going into a pet shop. The parrot at the door immediately said. "Hi, pretty girl! How are you?" As a kid who didn't get noticed or talked to a lot....I was hooked. LOL Yes, parrots are special. I plan on timing my retirement to adopt an older rescue parrot. (Yes I know they live longer than people, hence the timing) They take a LOT of care, patience and constant interaction. They are worth it. Taught a chicken to play scales on a piano and do card tricks. I'm READY!
I hope you do so many need good homes especially the older ones ❤❤❤
Good luck to you and your plan. Hope you get a good one that really needs the help. 🙂
Whoever trained that parrot was a creeper who knew damn well what he was doing lol
@@LOVEEEVEEY
🐦 I also was thinking of adopting an older parrot.
I'm 65 yrs old.
- I lost my lovebird a while back.
He was my best friend!
I miss him SO much.
- Now, I go for walks, just to see the pigeons and crows etc.
I love them all. I buy bags of good bird seeds for them.
They see me coming. :))
They love chopped veggies too.
☺ I better stop yack'n and get off the phone. Hee hee
Bye bye.
You'll be great. I think that's a sweet plan. ❤
I used to talk to the magpies and ravens in alaska as a little kid and they talked back to me. No one ever believed me though.
Good to know 20 years later I'm not actually insane.. But had some very clever birb friends.
Awesome to know you've been acknowledged.
Best saddest story with a happy ending ever!!
I believe‼
Nah, you're still insane. 🤪
Hi. I’m a medical professional. You are insane.
The stick is actually a wand and she's been trying to turn herself back into a human.
Hahahahaha...The world has missed this comment, love.
😂!!!
Use the Stick Willow!!
🤣👍 Excellent comment!
Omfg lol
It amazes me how clear and accurate birds can imitate human language and sounds despite not having teeth or lips.
I know! Those 'b' and 'p' sounds when she went right up to the microphone to 'boop boop' at it, were just amazing. From the sound of it, you'd swear she had big ole soft rubbery mammal lips. It's amazing she could make those sounds without them.
DeShaun Wilson Fun fact, while humans have their voice box, the larynx, at the top of their throats, birds have their voice box, the syrinx, at the junction where their trachea splits into the two bronchi that each lead to a lung.
There's a not an insignificant number of humans who can quite accurately imitate lots of different birdsong despite not having a syrinx too. BOTH things never cease to amaze me. Birds and humans both have very impressive vocal tracts.
Definitely. Yet I’m glad they don’t have lips or teeth, because that would be extremely freaky.
If you listen to Mongolian throat singing for example it's amazing the sound and range they are able to achieve. It almost sounds like they are imitating certain musical instruments. Just popped in my head while watching this.
This bird is showing two very impressive capabilities, memory and vocalisation. She obviously remembers the sound of the human noises very well, and is trying to reproduce them. Wow!
Oden's ravens Hugin and Munin. 😇🩵
Yes definitely imitating humans
I think that she's also repeating the sound of a lawnmower.
@@dianescardace3687or some outside sounds
Oh Oh Oh OH OH oh OH.... hmmm, how very strange, wonder where it heard that..... :)
She's clearly making fun of your accent behind your back, you'll need to address this before she starts talking to your friends about you.
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Johnny TopGun 🤣😂😂🤣😜
Totally agree.
What an epic bird.
😂😂😂
@@wingsandwildlands a lot of the 'nonsense' sounds like 'what's that say'...
Me: gets annoyed when the kids repeat mom mom mom three or four times.
Also me: watches a raven say wow wow wow dozens of times for several minutes
@@Venom-uw4nv please. Don't get kids. Human hater.
Lol!
@@OnlineWithMikko bro chill, not everyone wants or likes kids. That doesn't mean they would hurt them or tell them hurtful things it just means: kids aren't for everyone.
@@peachyevren5789 exactly, some people
thats cause the bird is more fascinating and so much cuter
I really just watched 18 minutes of a talking raven. Time well spent.
Lol I figured ok I'll click and watch a couple of minutes ... its almost over! Fable needs her own channel ❤
@@skeeterburke Lol!
Me too, best 20 minutes of this month 😉😊
There’s a crow in my neighborhood that can perfectly imitate a cat. I was outside in the hammock one day reading. Heard a cat, looked around and saw nothing. After another time or two, spotted the crow in one of the trees making the sounds. I have indoor cats that are always at the windows or sliding doors. Felt like the crow was messing with me. 😂
There was a magpie in my neighborhood when I was a kid that would make meowing sounds
Lol 😂 that's hilarious! 😍
I was about to comment this same thing. I heard a cat meowing up high one day while walking down the street just to realize it was a crow sitting on a rooftop.
Maybe they learn to impersonate cats so they can frighten away other birds when they find something to eat that they don’t want to share…
This is why scandinavians believed that ravens are the informants who tells odin about everything they saw.😂😂
Well they're probably telling him some really weird shit.
"So I heard you say a bus today. Anything neat about that?"
"Boop boop"
@@valkaerie8715 😂😂😂
A.C. Valhalla
Raven: Hey I saw loki Cross dressing do you think your son going to prank thor again?
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Still do man 🤣
I wish I was this dedicated to learning another language.
Hahahah same
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I was literally thinking this the whole timeeee
When an introvert is trying to practice how to say hi to people and then would react wow and oh.
This ! 👍😂
Hahahhahahhahahahahaha
this is me before i go out
ME
*gasp*
you can talk to people?
7:58 that "boop boop" and the lil singing is SO ADORABLEEE
I never knew Ravens talked until I went to the Ohio Bird Sanctuary...heard someone keep yelling "Henry! Henry where are you!" One of the workers pointed out it was a Raven and Henry was the name of a volunteer there :)
HENRY! IM HUNGRY HENRY!! WHERE IS MY FOOD HENRY!!! I DEMAND ATTENTION HENRY!!!!
#entitledcrows
My daughter lives on the west coast of Canada and one day while she was sitting alone on a beach a raven came down to talk to her and brought her shiny rocks and shells.
Crows and ravens will bring gifts, similar to cats with dead animals.
Wow. Wow. Wow
What did the raven say to your daughter?
Sounds like the beginning of a traditional folk song 🎶
Your daughter got some special gifts for sure!
I can't help but imagine how ancient people would have reacted to hearing ravens mimicking human voices. No doubt it contributed to many a superstition.
You are correct. They are prominent in norse mythology.
They are also known as tricksters and catalysts of change in some Indigenous cultures (e.g. Haida).
I mean, you are trying to say, it it not making an impression on you? xD I have full knowledge of that bird being domesticated and trained to make some human sounds, but her own songs are still quite awe inspiring and it doesn't take away from it !
@@orzechov
Ravens don't domesticate. Most animals don't.
@@afqwa423 Let's settle for "being tamed" if we want to be precise. That wasn't the most important part of my point, but thanks for the correction
Imagine you do a cartwheel in the middle of a forest and nobody's there to see it, but you hear "Wow!!"
Imagine you hear some raven say "hi ya" while alone in the forest 😂🤯💯
@@C.C.369 "Oh, thank God, I thought I was alone!"
Once, when my daughter and I were gathering Douglas Fir tips, a crow landed on a branch overhead and very clearly said, “Hello.”
@@horuslupercalaurelian1569 😂👍
@@tatzja8074 Wow! Your guys experience sounds like the beginning of a magic tale! ❤️
..Did it feel like the crow had consciousnesses? Did you say greetings back to it?^^ Or was it just super spooky?
It is so precious how she starts practicing a word, then adjusts her tone to sound more like you!
How do they do this n what are they thinking about the mimmic of her owners voice lol....hmmm
@@charlotterosetta3063 what?...
@@roger_isaksson exactly similar? That makes no sense whatsoever lol Is your light on?
Roger Isaksson you’re definitely not wrong. You really cant say that the light is on and someone’s home about some people.
Heather K. Precious isn’t the right word to use, it’s out of context lol.
I had to laugh I played fable talking to my umbrella cockatoo and he said “ who’s that ?” “ What a good boy ! “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️
I was thinking she was actually talking to the birds about her, and responding to them but in our language instead of just her own. lol
He loves dark girls 😂
@@Crystal-rv5ys Don't we all...
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MAN...is she ever a constant chatter and natter box! Next time my partner tells me I'm always humming or talking I'll pull out this video!
The thing that blows my mind is that Fable doesn’t simply talk, she IMITATES your voice. She is playing trying to get the right tone and vocal pitch to sound like you.
That's what you think so you make yourself feel better. Kind of selfish don't you think?
It's funny to hear them copying their 'people' in different accents, too.
@@gsesquire3441 Darn, I thought ravens could speak fluent English
Obviously she gets the meaning of some of the sound she is producing, similar to a dog understanding sit. It’s repeated enough so that they get what it “means” or what they are required to do when the phrase is said.
@@gsesquire3441 they will infer meaning from sounds too, given repeated context. My parrot has his own word for "water" he will often use, for example
Literally practicing how sarcastically she can say “wow” lmao I adore herrrr!!! Birds are so cool, man!
Sure, when a raven is talking to itself it's cute & interesting but when I do it, it's creepy & weird.
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Gods creature
Which oddly enough ravens are supposed to be XD
You don't fly john, that's why
Lol, I can relate
I once volunteered in a bird sanctuary where they kept a Jackdaw, simply named Jack. Jack had previously lived in a pub, often hanging around indoors interacting with the patrons, up until he was taken away for a mix of health&safety/animal welfare reasons. Either way, he learned exactly two phrases during his days in the pub, the two things he was addressed with most often whilst there. "Hello", and "Fuck off". He'd repeat these two greetings to anyone that he met, with no particular pattern to it. Always made for hilarious (if slightly less "family friendly") moments with guests to the sanctuary. Eg, saying hello to the first three people, and telling the last to fuck off. Never failed to amuse.
I was told how he once briefly escaped his enclosure, and flew to sit in a bush beside the road. Gave an elderly woman on her bicycle quite a surprise when a strange voice repeatedly told her to "Fuck off fuck off fuck off" from just beside her as she passed. She came into the sanctuary to inform/ask the staff about a particularly rude bird.
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@@mickeywhite2563 I can't claim to own the words. Please, feel free. ^ ^
Dude this fucking hilarious
LOL
Now that made me laugh! Thank u!
She's so impressive! They even mimic all the way down to the accent to the femininity in your voice! These birds never fail to amaze me.
Ye but I think they freaky imagine a raven at ur window and it’s saying hi hi hi hi hi
Parrots have an even larger vocabulary. And I have found they love rap music. Some dance.
@Friendly Polar Bear There are videos on TH-cam of cockatiels dancing. They have excellent rhythm. People who have studied this think it's tied to the birds' ability to talk.
I think that it’s pretty insane that so many animals are starting to vocalise stuff more (cats, dogs, ravens, etc.)
Like that’s some cool shit right there
@@iainturpie4269 Imagine them taking over the world.
My favorite thing about crow's mimicry isn't necessarily just the fact that they can learn to repeat words from humans, but on top of it they also do their best to imitate the voice of the person they learnt it from, and also when they learn like... artificial/mechanical sounds instead of words/voices. It's just so impressive the depth of detail they can reach
Talking to herself? More like informing Odin of what you've been up to.
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Thought?
or
Memory?
@@stvbrsn The twilight of the gods draws near.
Wow!
ThaLoneWanderer there can be little doubt about that. Surtr is readying to set forth from the mists of Muspell as we speak.
Even speaking”nonsense “you can hear the cadences of human speech without getting the words.
I seem to understand her saying "What is it?" or "What is this?".
After 5:10 she's definitely saying 'fantastic' and 'that's it', probably what the owner says during word training when she gets the words correctly ;)
@@SurfinScientist "What's that" "What's up" and "I'm Fable" are also in there several times after the 10 min. mark I believe.
She speaks more sense than most people !!
But the fact that she is speaking out of context shows that what we perceive as answers may just be situational noises that we interpret as sensible. Communication of birds is very different from that of humans.
Fable: wow.
me: wow.
we are kindred spirits you see.
wow
wow
Wow
wow
Wow, wow, wow, wow..
This is amazing - some of your subtitles say “nonsense” but I am actually hearing her say colloquialisms like “Wots that there” and “wot you got there” and even “your a lil’bit sill-eh” in an almost cockneyed tone lol She does the “muah” air kiss sound and says “Kith!Kith?” I imagine the letter S is a challenge for her.
That's what I heard her say too lol
Yes! 😍🙆🏻♀️🌿
Me too.
And "what's out there?"
My intuition tells me she is repeating a one sided phone conversation. It reminded me of someone responding to the other party, "Oh. Oh. Oooooh...." and it went on for awhile exactly like a phonecall might play out.
Had you told me last year I'd spend near 20 mins listening to a bird I would have told you where to go. Yet here I am, listening to a wonderful Raven talk to herself. Best 18 mins of my day. Thanks for the smiles.
Yep!!!
Yep...same here! 😄
Wow
I said the same thing
Boop Boop
When we listen to Fable talking 'nonsense' I think it's worth remembering that a lot of the sounds humans make in conversation are not actually words. They have tonal meaning - for instance, we make particular sounds to query something, to comfort somebody or to express interest. There are times here when Fable seems to be practising tone.
About a year before I was born, my mom rescued a Blue-Fronted Amazon, who at the time was terrified of humans and just about everything else. This may be why his vocabularly is lower than some Amazons' can be, but still he is very sensitive to our tones of voice. When we are sarcastic, he laughs or "groans" sympathetically; when we talk logistics or in a more serious tone to each other, he imitates our voices with these low, gibberish mumbles. And, like many mimicking birds, whenever he says "I love you", it's always with a real softness in his voice, so he does seem to understand the intent of that one perfectly well. While one shouldn't always rely on their instincts when interpreting animal sounds, it's not at all uncommon that their tone of voice will compare to that of a human's when frightened, annoyed, or excited.
Kind of reminds me of when a toddler pretends to have a conversation before knowing how to pronounce words. They seem to babble and imitate the different variety of tones used in human conversation.
Her imitating her keeper’s accent reminds me of a golden macaw that our local pet store had. Being quite pricy it stayed there many years and had acquired the owners german accent ( enough so that it was hard to tell them appart ). It could be heard calling the owner’s afghan ( dog), Sheila, by her name. " come Sheila , come here". The dog would respond accordingly every time. Amazing birds!
@susanivy3619iterally my thoughts exactly, I was watching it next to my sister in law and she’s like what the f is happening ? 😂 ptsd
so true
A crow that I helped when it was hurt a few years ago leaves presents for us on our porch, usually blue things like a baby sock or some random party balloon things. He also follows me sometimes when I walk my dog. He flies ahead and waits for me on a fence. Then I walk ahead for a bit and he flies ahead again :) They have crow kids now and it's amazing that the crow kids are not afraid of me and my dog. I love Corvids. I will educate people that it's not Covid-19.
Crows are amazing smart creatures. Your story is incredibly easy to believe 👍🏻
What country was that in!?
@Tarquin Fintimlimbin HaHa! So very true :)
There's a small park at the end of my street where a good number of crows hang around. Knowing that crows are very smart and have great memories, I always tell them how pretty they are as I bike through the park in the morning. I hope that has put me in their good graces.
They are quite inteligent. Seems like you have made a friend, they remember our faces and will 'spread the word' if you're good or bad. If bad they will always avoid you and teach that to the rest of the flock. If good - you get interesting visits. It's awsome.
She is showing an amazing range of inflection in each series of words she practices. She is saying something slightly different with each repetition of the word, and it seems deliberate. This is fascinating to watch and hear.
Imagine your bird secretly practicing words when you're not around and then one day out of nowhere he comes up and starts a conversation with you
this reminds me of those movie scenes where the character practices greetings/a conversation in front of a mirror to work up the courage to talk to someone else
The bird: yo.
I totally pictured it
And loved the idea
Thanks 🤣
6min02 and 9min51 1are the quintessence of it
My mom said that’s what my brother did. He started speaking in complete sentences a little later than a kid would say their first word
Imagine your bird secretly recording you practicing gibberish by yourself and then posting the results to TouTube. I'd die of embarrassment!
It's impressive how she can make clear "B" and "P" sounds as in "boop boop" - without lips!
Wish we could stick her in an MRI machine and see what her vocal organs look like when she speaks!
@@kranichkrone Birds actually have a double-sided voicebox called a syrinx- that's how they sing melodies and harmonies at the same time!
Work with one called Dave. If he gets annoyed he says "fuck sake". Sometimes Im just walking around doing chores and I hear a very loud "fuck sake"
And a fully aspirated plosive on the P as well. You can clearly hear the lip pop and the extended exhalation.
I imagine it's similar to how ventriloquists form those sounds without lips.
I can literally hear the British accent in the Raven's voice, this is so good.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine that. I mean, you wouldn’t expect an American accent when the bird is handled by Brits now would you?
@@kittylady6946 It imitates without understanding the meaning so it doesn't interpret words according to how humans tend to hear a word and spell it out in their head with all their preconceptions, who then completely end up butchering the word even though they just heard someone say it. ^_^
I'm English & "hiya" is a typical way Brits greet each other. 🙂
@@kittylady6946 no need to be snarky. Americans delight in the British accent and hearing a raven with a British accent is delightful.
Honestly, she's so good at doing speech, I'm actually conflicted about watching her on a hidden camera without her consent.
Omg me too! I'm sitting here thinking ... Wait, would Raven be ok with me seeing this??! What if she feels self conscious?? 😆
Maybe we can let her C the Lense
Thanks for posting. She is so amazing.
This video will keep Fable in our hearts and minds forever.
Me,too! 😂
God, I can't stop thinking how the story of The Raven would go with this one. "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Hiii Boop boop woooow”
I snort laughed at this. 😂
😂🤣🤣😅
Someone stole your comment, btw
*w a h*
I needed to see this. Wooow.
My African grey parrot is absolutely riveted listening to Fable! Even said wow back a time or two 😆
that’s adorable!!
No bird can do better at mimicry than an African Grey, I think.
@@paddlefar9175 Some say crow birds some say parrots lol
Do you have just one parrot?
you should let the two do a zoom call :'D
It sounds like she says "what's that?" When she hears the trucks driving by. What a smart girl!
Yep i also heard it owo
Paused the fullscreen video to comment this, but you already did it! :)
That's what I came in here to write too. When it says "nonsense conversation" I heard What's that? Ohhhhh. Ohhhh." quite a few times. It was pretty clear that I don't understand why it says "nonsense".
@@nahaniyes Maybe she learned when you see something new and interesting you say "what's that?", like when she gets a new toy.
I hear “what’s that say” or “what’s that there” but definitely “what’s that?”
I remember hearing once that speaking when no one is around to hear is actually a significant marker of intellectual develipment in children. It shows a deliberate atempt to understand and explore language without anykind of immediate reward or feedback.
when she said 'hi' at the beginning; if you didn't know you'd be looking for the girl saying. Honestly she sounded just like a human woman.
Thats cuz she exactly mimics voices. If here owner was a dude she would sound like a dude. Even in raven populations the sounds differs from group to group
Aspiring Marauder what the hell happened to those birds?
And when she was singing.
She imitates unintentional sounds too, interestingly - breath and lip sounds. Artificial intelligence voices could stand to learn from that.
George M don’t be silly , the Art i is all around us , in the life on earth, stolen technologies from life are inadequate spirituality , life has access , not non life , however , if art fiction finds the codes , it will imitate life , when it’s actually fake , and we are gaslit , like in a matrix .
She was probably someone's pet Raven
@@theelvenpath9490 no one cares about your stupid preaching
@@Hhhh22222-w wow thats crazy
Vocaloid researchers have been looking into these things about a decade ago
My favorite are all the "Hi Fable"s and the laughing. However, if I was walking through the woods and suddenly heard a Raven laughing it would be some Edgar Allen Poe stuff right there and I would wet myself.
And then asking for a kiss !
LOL!
Funny how you mention Poe’s Raven, there’s actually a Raven named Zotz on here that learned to say “Nevermore”! Just look up “Waka Nevermore”, which are two of his favorite words “Waka Waka Waka” and “Nevermore”
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I can also hear her ask "oh What's that then?" " whats this?" "Fine" "Fable" "Mwah, Kiss?" and more....but how she pronounces some of the letters like W, T, F and P for instances is definitely a mystery. Beautiful creature.
Ooh, I actually know this one! So human speech is formed from complex "compound-sounds" when your larynx (vocal chords) gets the sound started, your mouth and nasal cavities then amplify it, and finally your tongue and lips finish shaping the sound.
Birds have what is called a syrinx, which structurally resembles a larynx but is located far deeper in the windpipe about where it branches into the two lungs, which effectively gives them two sets of vocal chords. Some bird families like Corvidae (crows, ravens, jays, ect) and Psittaciformes (parrots, parakeets, cockatiels, ect) have enough control over their syrinx that they can create a separate sound with each set of chords and make an imitation compound-sound which then gets amplified by their nasal cavity.
I'm kind of oversimplifing here, but I hope you understand it a little better now.
@@pyronuke4768thank you for this information
Those improvised songs also show she has a clear sense of rhythm. She's keeping a consistent tempo on songs that haven't been taught to her but she's made up herself. That's quite amazing.
I know right? There are dozens of other videos where you can clearly see that birds (especially parrots) have a good sense for rythm
@@krankerspast769 yes we do! ;)
She’s also singing a pentatonic scale. I don’t know what that means...
Something I've noticed is that a LOT of birds have a distinct sense of rhythm, and I know a lot of parrots like almost any kind of music with a good beat, whether that be bassline or drums played to keep the beat. Cockatoos in particular seem to be natural metalheads, and I've seen many a headbanging cockatoo with crest flopping all over the place. I'd really like to see scientists skip the "intelligence testing" phase and skip straight to formal communications.
A neighbour I had a few years ago (around 2009 or so), lived in an old decrepit house just a few clicks from where I lived.
When he passed away, his daughter came to pick up his belongings, and she could have sworn that she heard his voice from
outside, saying things that she remembered from previous phone conversations with him. So she reported the house as haunted.
Turns out however, that a raven couple had set up a nest nearby, during the time he had lived there and so they had heard him out in the
yard when he had spoken on his cell with her.
They had just learned to mimic him.
Reported the house as haunted to who?
@@dorishawilliams9518 Ghostbusters
I mean.. Who are You going to call?
Fascinating!
"reported the house as haunted" hahaha, thats great.
Me doing research for a book I’m writing: “what do ravens sound like?”
*DISCOVERS FABLE*
Fable: “boop! Boop! Hi!”
Me: “perfect”
That's great!
You forgot "Wow"
Ikr as i thought of a great storyline while having a raven sidekick..
I heard Poop boop and Boop Poop 💩 All this talent and a sense of humor too 😆 WOW!!
12:52 Hey where's this thing go?
By mimicking your voice it's like she draws comfort from it too - like you're there with her. The likeness is so remarkable.
I had to turn down the volume when she started saying “oh” cuz I didn’t want my mom to think I was watching...stuff
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Watching this with my husband and had to turn it down bc we didn't want our kids thinking we were...well ya know😊
A BlahDay lolol
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I live alone, and didnt want my neighbors thinking .....stuff....either!!! Heh heh heh heh
Most excellent. A couple years ago, my wife and I were at a hiking trailhead and heard what we thought was a car alarm going off, only to discover it was a raven in a tree mimicking
This is so funny because in the evening when I'm alone in my room I practice my raven noises...
Me too! Only it's northern cardinal noises! I'm not alone. Thank you for posting that.😊
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Omfg 🤣*dead*
I’m practicing the sounds the ravens next store are making during this video. Glad to find kindred spirits
me2525 - you made me snarf my drink outta my nose I laughed so hard!! Funniest comment EVER!!
Fable has an very interesting stream of consciousness, I really love hearing her inner dialogue. She seems very funny, smart, and high energy
I just listened to a bird practice his vowels for 18 minutes.
Nice. Whaa!
Her vowels! She is a girl.
Wahh!
woww
Oh
Wow
I feel for ya, Fable.. my wife likes to record me talking to myself while cooking, or trying to fix something complicated. Granted, those clips have way more foul language, but.. still. Embarrassing when they end up online.
It's your fault, as well as Fable's, for being good entertainers while alone.
This was a fun video idea by the way !
New Message You didn’t even say fowl language. You are a better man than most.
b. ho 🤣🤣
Amy, Amazing and awesome she sounds just like you! I’m totally impressed!!🥰😡♥️💞😌💕💕😘😘😘😘😘😘💋♥️💋💋💋💋💋💋👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌🤗🤗🤗
@@bho-lj1jk Only because I edited the post about 7 times, and not adding it finally won out! 😜
When she says "Hello" she has such a lovely posh accent! It's like being chatted up by a duchess.
The ‘boop boop’ is so adorable.
my wife walked in when she was saying "oh oh oh" gave me a dirty look, I said "it's a talking bird, get your mind out of the gutter."
Better to keep it in there tho
I turned my phone down 😂
Leonardo Fiorentina that flag 🤢
@@KM-op6gj what's so disgusting about the European flag?
Hahahahah my teenager is in next room playing his game... i turned my phone down kmsllll
New vocabulary for Fable: "u wot m8"
I was once in the car park at Durdle Door in Dorset and heard some kids playing with a toy machine-gun and saying "bang!" "bang!" - except when I looked there were no kids, just a rook next to the car making the sounds. It was looking at me and so I said "hello" and it started saying hello back, over and over, just like Fable does here.
You had me at Durdle Door in Dorset 😅
Yes! I live near the Jurassic Coast! Unfortunately I have yet to find any talking Rooks!
differous01 Thats cool
A few months ago I heard a cat meowing but the sound was weird, almost as if it was coming from a speaker or a tiny container. I looked around because it sounded like the cat was in distress, maybe stuck on a tree, from which the sounds were coming. So I looked around to see where it is but I found a rook instead, sitting on a tree right above me, *meowing*. Oh boy was I confused!
CoffeeCup Thats cute
I will always love seeing birds do their happy little skipping and playing around, You see some very magical interactions between birds when you watch them play around enough.
Sounds like she's practising a lot of other phrases you say around her but hasn't yet finessed them.
Incredible bird!
I've heard plenty of birds mimic sounds exactly, but that's the first time I've ever heard a bird take a sound and play with it like that. It actually gave me goosebumps, so eerie and fascinating
One time I was taking a walk in my local park and a lady was trying to train her puppy. She kept repeating "come on! come on!" and a raven in a nearby tree started messing with the sound and it's closest attempt was like "commAwn" and I was just so shocked a bird in the wild, simply observing this woman for a while, started mimicking her. Amazing birds.
Ravens are so intelligent.
@@Lady-Lilith it can actually get scary when they mimic something like a baby's cry or laughter,or cat sounds.Imagine a dark evening in a park,when all of the sudden,a baby starts crying out of nowhere!True story.
What type of ASMR are you into?
Me: 7:57 *It's complicated*
Yeah. I have a strong dislike for most kinds of ASMR, but I think I might just get into a bit of Raven ASMR.
That's gonna be my new ringtone 😆😆😆
I LOVED THAT BOOP BOOP
bahahahaha. YES
@@needfortweed8734 Unintentional ASMR can be really nice.
This is amazing ! We had a raven called "Jakob" (although it was a female, which the previous owner apparently didn't know) in our zoo in Munich who absolutely loved to talk to the visitors. She would put on a huge show as soon as enough people had gathered and would (most likely deliberate) attract said audience by repeating the word "scheiße" ("shit") until people starting paying attention to her and coming closer.
after more than one month of isolation I'm talking to the pigeons on my balcony, so who am I to judge her
Lol
Teach them something from a Beatles song! "Coo-coo...Ka-choo!" 😉
Same here Emil! Although oddly have some ducks and crows that come by to say hello as well. But I love birbs so maybe even a bit happier in "isolation."
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We've got some Catbird fledglings around my yard who love to follow us around and sing and mew at us. They are quite curious and cute.
The "nonsense conversation" is what we sound like to her. Kind of like when we mimic another language we probably aren't saying anything but we're mimicking the sounds that we often associate with that other language. We'll make up words or nonsense conversation in our mimicking of other languages, too.
If you focus, it seems like she’s saying “what’s that” and she says one time what i think should be “fantastic”
@@Havelthegravel And I think I heard her say, "What's out there?" "What do I know?" "Oh, dear".
She sounds like an actress practicing her voice before going on stage.
I bet that's exactly what's going on. Parakeets also "practice" their words and phrases. They don't produce speech like we do, so to them achieving mimicry of human speech with their very different vocal apparatus, is probably a lot like playing an instrument to make it produce the desired sound. It takes practice to perfect.
@@KanalFrump I have a car that's fitted with an alarm system and a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor "chirps" electronically and beeps when someone is too close. After about 2 - 3 months, the birds in the surrounding area started making the same electronic "chirp" sound.
But I had to disable it; it was getting to be an annoyance. Sadly, the birds don't make that noise anymore. :(
@@frankflapper445 I actually thought you were going to say "sadly the birds can't be turned off".
I feed a pair of ravens and about 30 crows daily in my backyard in San Francisco. They are definitely talkers. One used to mimic ‘good morning’ quite often. The pair of ravens that come let me approach within inches. Majestic.
What a beautiful fascinating creature❤
Just started feeding crows on my balcony...
I use dry cat food and nuts (currently), any tips what makes Crows go wow?
@@irgendwieanders2121 That’s perfect - and they love plain scrambled eggs and any type of (unprocessed) meat scraps.
Can crows do this? I am making friends with some. Getting nowhere with pigeons lol
@@EarthlyEmpath they can and they do. Next time you’re in any city also take a look at crosswalks, crows and ravens tend to use them while people don’t. It’s a trip!
I just love when she sings to herself. Like someone pottering about the house feeling happy.
And it is just amazing how she tries out all these different intonations to the words she says. It doesn’t sound like she is purely copying a human sound but as if she is trying to give it different emphases and emotions.
Much like human children when learning language.
This is not the Duolingo lesson I was looking for
you could learn Ravenese.
her: "what are you doing?"
me: well i'm-
her: wOW
WOW
Has she witnessed humans “at it” sure sounds like it….. 😂😂 love her. Love from Scotland 🏴 ❤❤
That's what I was thinking 😂 sure did sound like it to me
‘WOW WOW’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@batacumba I think more the "oh, oh, oh..."
Imagine the man of the house playing this back for the first time in front of his mates.
Not only does he hear his partner answering the door or phone VERY suggestively to someone (unless of course it's him!), he then has to go find his partner and say, "Uh, honey?,,,,someone was listening in on us last week...and just gave the boys an audio play by play!"🤣🤣
Yeah I just turned off the volume because it’s a little disturbing
Ravens in horrors stories: harbingers of death and dark magic.
Ravens in real life: wow, wow, wow
Edit: The number of likes gives me hope. Thanks guys. I never thought I'd ever get this many.
It do be like that
Like Kate Bush
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Boop boop
Wah!
the fact that you've been teaching her to say "wow" and she says it so much on her own makes me wonder if she practices alone so she can say it better around you, just a theory but she might want to impress you
❤ Birds are so awesome that you are probably absolutely correct!
Would not put it past her! They do seem to love the attention.
This is sort of similar to babies, in that they're constantly trying to mimic sounds on their own. Which just goes to show that mimicry and practice is important for any animal with complex vocal communications.
They practice bird calls they learn from their "family" or "friends" in the wild, so this is basically Fable practicing what she views as "bird calls" that she has learned from her "family" (aka the human being taking care of her.) In the wild they learn around 6-7 different calls with different meanings, and birds being trained in captivity have been documented to be able to learn many more ;)
I bet the 1st time someone heard a bird talk, they were not alright for a few days. 🤣
lol
It’s even funnier when you say it as opposed to the thousands of ppl on face book great job👍
@@Glocktopus129 Wow. Wow.
@@Glocktopus129 who still uses facebook? Lol
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Amazing. It’s like She’s practising a foreign language, the way we have to do repeat pronunciations to get it right. Fantastic & cute & funny.
You can hear her tweaking her pronunciation each time, obvious when it's words we know, but I assume their own native noises have just as much nuance
That's a good observation
It's amazing how she has your intonation!! Which I suppose is logical as she is mimicking you.... I'll keep my obvious thoughts to myself.... Haha
She's so lovely!
In her nonsense conversations, I hear things like”what’s out there?”, “what is that.”
“Look over here.”, etc. it sounds exactly like she is talking with you as you ask her questions about her world. Lovely to hear her on her own. Thank you!
I definitely heard her say “what is that?” In the beginning when there was a loud noise in the distance.
I'm sure I hear "Were's the stick" twice and "Go get it".
I could have sworn early in the video she said “nice weather” . She is amazing! It’s interesting that she seems to be far more interested in mimicking humans instead of the other birds heard in the background. To me, that seems to show the degree of relationship between the 2 of you.
the way she says "wow" sounds so sarcastic lmao
This bird has overseen so much smalltalk. Im awe struck
Her different wows sound like she’s been watching owen wilson movies lol
18 minutes of Fable talking to herself is the quality content I need
The fact that she was able to even make the “p” sound of the “boop” is amazing. How would you do that with a beak??
and the kissing noises!
that must be done with her throat.
Their vocal chords are completely different from ours so birds like fable are able to do a multitude of noises so that seam weird to us because we always see them with the association of our lips smacking together
Well, how do ventriloquists manage to create the sound of certain consonants -- specifically "M" and "P" and "W" -- without moving their lips?
If you look from 8;10 onwards, you wouldnt know its a raven. HOLY fk
major skills
I lost it at 8:00 when she starts singing into the microphone. She's so sweet!!!
Me wants to go to bed.
TH-cam: wanna watch a bird practise talking?
Haha same!😄
Happening right now!
Me too 😂
Doin that rnn
OHMYGOSH, THAT WAS FUNNY ‼️‼️
It is interesting to hear Fable practice her vocabulary. The mixture of her native utterances with human ones is remarkable. Her brain is a melting pot of inter species language. I wonder how well she communicates with other birds.
I was wondering that too. Does she try English with other birds or go back to standard bird calls?
So adorable; she's talking to herself the way a human child might.
Fun fact ravens have an average intelligence similar to that of a seven year old human. I just thought that was interesting.
The boop boop had me rollin shes incredible! 😂
It's interesting when she just makes up words, but they have the same cadence and inflections as English does. It's probably much like what English sounds like to people who don't speak the language.
There's a short film here on TH-cam entitled "Skwerl" in an approximation of how English sounds to a non-English speaker. Really awesome video, you should check it out!
@@mellowmortal I've seen it! I especially like how you can still understand all the swear-words.
This is kind what it sounded like when i talked to myself in "english" when I was little.
Very interesting how ravens have a similar learning structure as a 7 year old
It really works,even for ravens! I have got A levels in English, I studied grammar of course and had to build my vocabulary, but accent I practice by myself. I have quite a good accent now, I guess it is more east London accent where I live. This video needs to be shown to students who study foreign languages 🤓
I was thinking that exact thing; you see those videos like what does English sound like to non-English speakers; this is basically what does human language sound like to birds.
I love the fact that she sings to herself. She hums her own little tune.
Amaze me that she is remembering dialogs that had with you.... even the tone of your voice... what a great and intelligent creature!!!
She’s amazing! Talking, putting her stick away….so beautiful and smart!
Look like she was trying to hide it under the mat.
The strange conversation sounds sort of like "what's this" "what's that", or "what's that over there?" She's practicing so hard! It's truly remarkable
Yeah, I also heard "What I say" or at least "what" and "say" I imagine she is trying to say, "what did I say" or "What did you say".
Imagine hiking somewhere and suddenly you hear from above: "Oh Hey, Hi, What you Doing? Wanna Kiss? *smouch smouch* wow! :D
Sorry but i will not be walking..lol
🤣🤣🤣
She's a forward little one.
tuberbum -- XD XD XD
One of the greatest comments I have ever read. Thank you!
15:35 "Ohhhh Fable" with the "What have you done?" tone. From what I've heard about ravens being mischievous cheeky jokers, she must have heard that a few times :)
And the laughing and singing. So charming!
I used to have a blackbird in my area who heard me whistling to my music over and gradually we would whistle at eachother with me making my call similar to his.
For 3 ish years this happened. Hed come and jump about on the grass or trees and get whistling with me.
He brought his chicks and mrs when he could and theyd all whistle with their dad whistling with me.
So cute.
I adore birds. This ones a trip!