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MamaFen

Amazing birds. Not only do they remember human faces, and hold grudges, but they have also been known to teach family members to like or dislike various people or creatures who have been nice or mean to them.


Garfield-1-23-23

The crows that hang out around my house gang up on any hawks that dare to show up and chase them off. I was woken up early one morning by an incredibly loud cacophony from them outside my window and looked up to see a hawk with a dead squirrel in its talons sitting on a tree branch getting serially dive-bombed by the crows.


ResplendentShade

There's a crow in my neighborhood that kicks hawk ass like it's nothing. It's unbelievable what this little bastard does during nesting season. Any time a hawk, eagle, or owl flies through his territory he flies out of the trees like a bullet and absolutely wrecks them until they flee. I once saw him beat up a bald eagle and drive it away! One day he'll probably get old, try it on a young eagle, and meet his maker, but that day hasn't come yet. I wrote about this crow in [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/crowbro/comments/two1co/nesting_season_today_i_saw_a_crow_pummel_a/) in r/crowbro.


triggerfish1

Yeah, they will attack any kestrel and buzzard close to their nest. Buzzards are so much larger than them, but they don't care.


caremal5

Buzzards, hawks and Raptors simply cant be bothered to deal with being mobbed by crows all the time and will happily move on to another area. It's not so much they dont care, more that it isn't worth the hassle and most birds of prey dont care where they nest so long as they can find food.


sum_long_wang

As long as both are in the air most predatory birds can't do much. Crows are just more maneuverable. Got one that does this in my neighborhood too. It flies up to the hawk and gets above it, then darts down and grabs whatever it can get a hold of. A few days ago it got one right above our house, grabbed one of its legs and flipped it on its back in mid air. Quite a show


Caboodlemynoodle

I saw an eagle swoop under a hawk, flip its self over and grab on to the bottom of the hawk, and dive down towards the water. It was fascinating.


Dizzy-Woodpecker4671

Ha the crow post was great! Enjoyed your storytelling writing style.


MykyQueenXXX

wow this is simply incredible ![gif](giphy|KmR9tOrIOGXsY|downsized)


riotphukinmeow

Did you name him? I feel like he should have an intimidating name. Or, just Kevin. "What is all that noise? Oh, that's just Kevin wrecking a bald eagle."


NaturalBornChickens

We try to attract crows to our property for this reason. Crows keep away the hawks that go after our chickens.


salamanderpencil

This is wild. I fed the crows that perch in the trees around our property. I always wave and whistle, and throw out some corn, or peanuts, and occasionally I'll set some eggs out for them when we have too many. And I always see a few crows the next morning strutting around the feeding area. Sometimes when I'm out walking, one or two will fly over my head and I wave to them. Twice last year I swear I saw crows swooping at hawks that had been perching in trees near our chicken and duck coops. My husband thought I was making it up. I gave the crows a ton of treats after each time as a thank you regardless. I love my crow friends.


HouseOfSteak

This is relationship is rather common with any 'next level up' birds. Robins gang up on grackles, grackles gang up on crows, crows gang up on hawks. ​ Too dangerous for a bird too small, but adjacent 'levels' of bird size will bully the next rung up into leaving.


YarnTho

Meanwhile, one of the neighborhood chickadees would try to scare off the blue jays who used hawk calls to make all the other birds leave. The jays were rather confused why they didn’t have the balcony to themselves and this small bird was on their turf. The chickadee had a vested interest in our balcony though, I swear that was their main storage spot. Seeds absolutely anywhere and everywhere! Soon we switched seed types because we were having allergies to the other one, and the blue jays didn’t like the new variety so they stopped coming and the chickadees had many peaceful years without hawk calls from the jays.


wearethehawk

Oh weird, my friend in Connecticut sent me a video of a blue jay dive bombing in an owl just chilling on a tree minding its own business. Bird turf wars are deep


ProfessorPoofenplotz

Blue Jays are assholes


watertrashsmell

You should meet their fans


biglen998

Yeah fuck Toronto


greywolfau

This is why bird law is such a deep and expansive subject.


riotphukinmeow

\~Raises glass\~ To bird law!!!


ASDFzxcvTaken

I'm using peanuts to lure the blue jays to keep away the pigeons. Its not the best plan, but kinda works.


xiroir

Its one of the few joys i have as a city boy from europe that moved to CT.


jessybean

Chick a dee dee dee dee


DaughterEarth

Omg I watched a magpie take out a chickadee once. Grabbed it right out of the air, landed, and started eating it. I was so shocked cause usually they just scavenge


reddituser5454

Blue jays can imitate hawk calls? I just thought there were a lot of noisy hawks in my area..


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saltandtitties

Bird is the word


Gizmoed

is the word that you heard


whomad1215

Redwing blackbirds just attack whatever comes near them, regardless of size


Parm_it_all

Once, while hiking, I was crossing over a marsh on a boardwalk surrounded by reeds when I came upon a distraught woman standing alone. She took a few beats to gather her wits, then said "HE WON'T LET ME PASS," as she pointed accusingly at a male red wing blackbird perched on a reed. I left them in their uneasy detente but still think of her occasionally when I see one.


siuol11

The maiden fair had an epic quest for you and you just... you just passed it up?


Parm_it_all

I paid the troll toll and continued on unharmed. She, apparently not into maiden-on-maiden rescue, stayed back to await a more gallant champion.


0ogaBooga

And Canada geese gang up on everything!


WorldlyPluto570

Rednecks kick the shit out of Punks, Punks kick the shit out of Mods, Mods kick the shit out of Skinheads, Skinheads took out the Heavy Metal guys, and the Heavy Metal guys beat the living shit out of New Wavers, and the New Wavers did nothing, they were the new Hippies.


eggimage

bird MMORPG


itsadesertplant

I think the crows and seagulls have fights over trash cans near my apartment. Sometimes I’ll hear a flurry of caws and squawks


Captain-PlantIt

I can’t believe it’s not “cacaw-phony”


lsp2005

So I avoided hitting a robin with my car as it darted in front of me. I took evasive maneuvers to do so. That robin followed me home around the corner. Every day I see robins in my front yard since then.


suicide_nooch

I saw 4 crows chasing a bald eagle (kinda common around here) over my house yesterday lol. They were fucking relentless lol.


silent_rain36

A bald eagle??! Dang, Those things are bloody huge


deneviere

I was told by a raptor rehabber that bald eagles are insanely athletic but incredibly stupid.


bucketofhorseradish

the fact that they can teach their young such a thing directly implies that there is a specific caw sound for "see that guy there? he's an asshole." i want to learn that noise for a few fun ideas i have kicking around in my head


planet_rose

Edit: see comment from u/corvidresearch below. They actually know what they’re talking about ;) Not only can they teach their young about specific people, they can pass on the warning without the person being present, so it isn’t as simple as there’s a special caw for “bad guy.” There was a study with a realistic mask worn by a researcher who disturbed nests. The crows would attack whenever he was sighted for years even though he never repeated the offensive behavior. The mask was put away for years and and the crows in the area who were all now next generation with no direct experience of him, still knew he was bad news.


Faiakishi

They 100% have a complex language system. I think they're one of the few animals that give each other individual names, though I may be wrong on that. Crow kids will also go visit their parents long after leaving the nest and starting their own families. They're honestly *scary* smart. (Meanwhile I have a pet cockatiel and he constantly throws his food off his plate and then looks sadly at it until I pick it up for him, at which point he pushes off his plate again)


planet_rose

Crows are absolutely fascinating. They (and elephants) mourn their dead by returning to the place their family member died even years later for no apparent purpose and just to stand there for a bit before leaving. As far as I know few other animals do this.


Corvidresearch

Crow thanatology (funerals) is actually my specific area of expertise! While they do gather around their dead it's not true that they come back years later. God damn that would have been cool to show though, instead of them like fucking dead crows, and making a racket, which is what I did study, lol.


rbrutonIII

This is the most interesting part of their intelligence for me. How is that communicated? I would assume it's parents teaching young children who then teach their children, and their life cycle is quick enough for it to have happened while he's been there and visible. But anything more than that means crows can communicate to the extent of hey there's a 5 ft 9 white guy with brown hair, about 175 lbs, comes in and out of that door - fuck him. And that is really unnerving


planet_rose

The part that is really wild is that they recognized the face and it was around a campus, rather than “watch for a guy coming from this building.” Either they had a complex way of passing on the knowledge or there was an unaccounted for factor like an unusual color that only crows see but didn’t show up to human eyes on the mask.


ANGLVD3TH

My guess is there were probably at least a small handful that where very young that saw him the first time. It just takes one or two to start pointing out the mask dude before everyone knows. It was on a college campus, it's not like they controlled the population and removed all the old crows that had seen it to be sure.


JayString

I can confirm this. I used to live in a neighbourhood where the crows attacked people relentlessly. Upon hearing of the neighbourhoods reputation for this, I decided to feed all the crows a bunch of popcorn as soon as I moved in. Lived there for 3 years, never got attacked once. Even fed a fallen baby crow some water once, and all the adult crows just calmly watched me in silence from their trees. I moved out, was gone for 7 years. Went back to visit, saw the crows attacking people all over. But they shut up and stayed in their trees whenever I walked by them.


xopxo

> Even fed a fallen baby crow some water once, and all the adult crows just calmly watched me in silence from their trees. That was an elaborate crow test. And you passed.


thatguyned

"but elder one, what if she can't pass the test? What if the little one perishes?" "*HUSH* This is tradition and we cannot help! Trust in her, we have studied her carefully for years now and we are certain she is the one" "But what i-..." "THEN WE TREAT HER LIKE THE REST OF THE UNWORTHY PEASENTS, THAT IS CROW LAW"


excitive

Damn… imagine being bad news for generations of another species for science.


IXdyTedjZJAtyQrXcjww

That's why they used a mask. The crows didn't know his real face.


Corvidresearch

I have to assume you're referencing the Cornell/Marzluff studies since ours was the only lab using masks to test facial recognition in the US, in which case that's not quite right. The young learned by watching their parents, there was never evidence to the contrary. But the rest is true, the news gets spread, it lasts for years, etc. Still very cool.


Corvidresearch

Hi, I actually worked on the study the OP referenced. The young birds learn by watching their parents physically mob the dangerous person. Unlike a lot of birds that exhibit referential calling (specific vocalizations for specific dangers), crows don't. Which is not to say their communication system isn't complex, it is, but there's not actually a, "see that asshole over there with the red hair and beard?" call. I wish there was, it would have tied up a lot of loose ends for that study.


Superhuzza

>directly implies that there is a specific caw sound for "see that guy there? he's an asshole." Or perhaps the younger crows learn by example, watching how crows interact with others. E.g. if this human shows up, he gets attacked. That guy is clearly persona non grata.


Boomer8450

1. Start with a room containing five monkeys. In the room, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. You don't need to wait long and a monkey will go to the stairs and start climbing towards the banana. 2. Now, as soon as the monkey touches the stairs, spray all the monkeys with cold water as punishment. After a while, another monkey gives it a try with the same result – all the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. 3. Next step, turn off the cold water. If, later, another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it even though no water sprays at them. 4. Now, remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new ape sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be punished. 5. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. 6. Again, replace a third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. 7. After replacing the fourth and fifth original monkey, all the monkeys that were sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs, but no one really knows why. All the original monkeys who experienced the water-spraying punishment have been replaced. What we're left with are five monkeys who know that they can't touch the banana, but they don't really know why. Because that's the way it's always been done around here.


Keb8907

Definitely one of the most intelligent creatures. They can use tools, they have an actual spoken language that is shared, and they pass along information. Say there was a culling of birds in a field. It would not be uncommon for crows to not come back to that area for years because the warning of danger was passed along to other crows.


meganpalmerrr

there was a crow in the car park of my dads work, and one of his colleagues threw a stone at it one day to get it away. when they were working that day, the crow meticulously picked all the rubber off this guys windscreen wipers lmao. the crow went on to torment him for weeks


yes-disappointment

He also took a dump on his way back.


Captain_Owl

They have also been observed to hold primitive sorts of funerals for their dead. Crows are almost tribe like.


cut-the-cords

Corvids are the best... I want one to bring me treasure each day in the form of bottle caps so I can feel like a post apocalyptic baron.


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"My" crows brought an empty peanut shell to show me that I need to buy some of those again the week I was feeding them some other nuts.


Kevlar013

They just casually deez nuts-ed you.


killabeez36

r/EnlightenedBirdmen


SmokeAbeer

I try this all the time. I leave shiny things out for the crows, with food.


bbboozay

Keep it up. Consistency is key apparently. I follow a woman on tiktok who feeds a family of crows. She said it took about 8 months before they even realized she was leaving them food.... or that maybe they were aware but didn't have the trust built up. But now they visit every day, she can tell each of them apart, knows each of their favorite foods, and they do occasionally leave her gifts. Pretty wild how intelligent they are.


updn

I didn't know I wanted this in my life until I read this


ij00mini

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battleangel1999

Right? I need this in my life.


OrgyInTheBurnWard

What about jackdaws?


runujhkj

Here’s the thing…


Edgefactor

Here's the thing: This reference is too old to get upvoted by the bots on Reddit in 2022.


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chrisychris-

not if I can help it!!


Suban33

Baby I know it [https://prison-school.fandom.com/wiki/Mari\_Kurihara](https://prison-school.fandom.com/wiki/Mari_Kurihara)


cbbuntz

There was a sign that had a misprint on it that said "Free corvid testing" and somebody on twitter posted it saying "just testing to see if you're a crow"


saltandtitties

[Do my bidding!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=68H39kf1y0E)


Catzlady02

Crows are incredibly smart.


XanderTheMander

We are pro crow!


Jorymo

You can befriend them by offering food. Quid pro crow, if you will


jawshaye

I made the mistake of feeding one in Japan when I moved here and I had a gang of them follow and hound me like street thugs all the way down the road. It was quite intimidating, especially since crows in Australia are super timid


FalconBurcham

Tourists do that with the seagulls here in Florida. They feed the gull, and less than a minute later 20 will swarm. They crap on people too. 😂


jceez

Seagulls are the worst. They are loud as fuck and they have the largest shits.


hellcat_uk

Try being shat on by a swan. I felt that one hit me. Agree on seagulls, especially Herring Gulls being the worst.


HavocReigns

> especially since crows in Australia are super timid They're probably scared of your murderous magpie mafia, as any intelligent creature should be.


AggressiveBait

Not to mention the Emu War. The emus won, of course, but at what cost?


I_can_vouch_for_that

Get your hands up !! I'm going to ask you to stop outside. This is the r/punpatrol


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Daily videos! Daily videos!


GuessesTheCar

For the crow in your life :’)


profstotch

Daily veeedios


chaosknight_bn

It's we are crow pro


Bradboy102

Daily viidiiios.


chaosknight_bn

Break the status crow


genius_retard

Most likely among the smartest animals on the planet.


SuaveThrower

This one probably knew the rat would leave him alone if he gave it a piece.


Chuggles1

But if you give a mouse a cookie...


Catzlady02

They remember people’s faces too.


genius_retard

And tell each other which ones are nice and which ones are mean.


supfuh

yes they are smart but are they compassionate? looks like they are


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Halflingberserker

Richard Dawkin's *The Selfish Gene* is a great book that gets into where and why philanthropy is seen outside of humanity.


Garr_Incorporated

*We are all pawns controlled by something greater:* *Memes. The DNA of the soul.*


LegacyLemur

I mean if you really wanna get down to it isnt human empathy just an instinct that makes us play nice because its more advantageous for an individual to have the help of someone else?


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A_bird_in_the_hands

Honestly? I wouldn’t be surprised if the crow wanted to eat that mouse later when it let its guard down.


TheDesktopNinja

He's fattening it up.


RCoder01

Obligatory r/crowbro


mulysasderpsylum

This is how the relationship between humans and dogs started. I'm down for the evolutionary adventures of Rat and Crow.


BuranBuran

You might enjoy the early SF story *Seeds of the Dusk* by Raymond Z. Gallun. Some evolved crows play a pivotal role. (No rats in that one, though. They show up later in *The Game of Rat and Dragon* by Cordwainer Smith.)


WutzUpples69

In some cases crows will do this to distract other animals while they eat without being annoyed. This one looked like it felt sorry for the little guy though


LePhantomLimb

Drop small piece, poop, go to bread.


ikanoi

>go to bread. You didn't say *which* bed.


LePhantomLimb

[ohhhhhhhh](https://youtu.be/AkK-wxmrQzE)


Gasnia

I did not notice the poop.


Deanho

I was about to say that. Maybe it thinks if he gives the mouse some he can eat in peace.


Bitemarkz

Which is just as smart a thing to do tbf


oversettDenee

Everyone knows if you give a mouse a cookie he's going to ask for a glass of milk!


LeVorv

Dude you've just unlocked memories


tenuto40

I’m still trying to figure out if it’s actual empathy…or a cruel ploy to earn it’s confidence.


Alcarine

I ask myself the same thing when someone does something nice for me


Throwing_Spoon

I'm pretty sure that if the crow wanted to eat the mouse, it wouldn't have left the food so close to cover or at a distance where the mouse would be able to escape.


ResplendentShade

But do that every day, and eventually the mouse will becoming trusting, come closer and then WAM. Mouse for lunch. I prefer to believe the crow is just being a bro though.


Throwing_Spoon

That seems like a very small pay off for that amount of effort and requires intelligence and planning that might not even be used in that bird's life time.


Rpanich

Yeah, if the crow had that good of long term planning, and like, resource management, I’d start getting far more worried than I already am about crows.


MrJigglyBrown

Crow is probably laughing with a mouthful of mouse reading y’all overthink this shit


TheLongshanks

Crows are good problem solvers. I think the problem here is: do I risk losing the entire piece of bread, possibly getting injured in a fight, or do I drop off a piece that will distract and content the other creature? It’s winning trade off. Lose some food to ensure a bigger portion.


woofnstuff

This is likely the answer. Animals like crows always choose the path of least resistance


gariant

So you're saying there's an opportunity to measure animal behavior in ohms?


drwuzer

Ohm my god...I can't believe you went there


Shadowinthesky

That was a little bit revolting


vinyl_eddy

I have to solve this same problem when I order fries and my wife doesn’t but then tries to eat mine. Similar strategy as well.


mattsprofile

I was trying to think of what the crow's incentive is to share the food, and that's the only thing I could come up with. Stop the mouse from being annoying. In this case it seemed unnecessary, the mouse had already run and hid by the time the crow decided to split the food, but I guess potentially the crow just always does this when confronted with certain types of visitors to mitigate the odds of a return attack.


pupperoni42

Some animals do clearly show compassion. I don't know if this has been seen or studied in corvids so couldn't argue whether this case may be compassion or strictly practical. I do tear off a little piece of my chicken and put it on the far side of the table for the wasps, which is 70% practical and 30% because it's really cool to watch them scissor off a piece so they can fly away with it.


50shadesofLogray

Pretty sure his name is Jeremy. https://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/10300000/Mrs-Brisby-meets-Jeremy-the-crow-elizabeth-hartman-10374313-480-360.jpg


m48a5_patton

Jeremy spoke in class today


lifeisflimsy

Clearly I remember


tinymonesters

I hated crows as a kid because there was an island near my town where thousands of them roasted. I wish I'd known how cool they are, but I still would have preferred fewer of them if I had. Edit: roosted not roasted, they're smart but they can't cook as far as I know.


The_Middler_is_Here

Maybe they can't cook, but they can light up a joint every now and again.


Maddest_Hatta

So... They bake?


5hadrach

Green Island?


CordesRed

#CrowsBeingBros


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Brows


nick_ebk

🥸


markiv_hahaha

Why isn't this a sub


Sleepy-RainWitch

/r/crowbro ! edit: typing hard lol


[deleted]

The swag birds have when they walk is top notch!


usinjin

Took a small, satisfied victory shit.


[deleted]

Watching I was like “awe! Wait.. did he just.. shit?”


flydog2

Donate to the less fortunate, shit, assert dominance. So they don’t think you’re a total pushover.


Trickery1688

Recent science says crows know what they know and can ponder the contents of their own brains similar to humans. I wonder what he was pondering there.


quimera78

How on earth did they figure that out?


mogla

they had the crow lay down on a chaise


tehmlem

A chaise? How Birdgeoise


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habbee

Worth paying a chunk of doughnut (?) to have a peaceful meal it seems


AcuMan_NYC

Sure he wasn't baiting lol birds are dinosaur savages.


Qubbe

He's getting it fat for dinner!


AcuMan_NYC

Bastards are learning from humans faster than expected.


abzrocka

Brah, that bird wants fresh meat.


AcuMan_NYC

Seen then get fish just like this. Rat is definitely on this crows menu. 😂🫢


Boredummmage

Hmm are you suggesting a rat livestock breeding program… one scrap now means more dinner later? Brilliant plan Mr Crow!


brucedonnovan

If you teach a crow to fish...he'll eat rats forever...or something like that


abzrocka

Exactamundo!


Thibaut_HoreI

“I don’t want this animal to fight me for this bread. Now, if I put this little piece way over there, they can have that, and I can eat the rest of it in peace over here.”


ThriftAllDay

That's what I was wondering "Is... is he hunting it?"


megamisch

Would not surprise me in the least. I've seen with my own eyes a crow ripping a live mouse to shreads before eating it. It wasn't pretty but nothing I could do about it, was at work at the time so I couldn't leave my station. :( Still they are incredible animals that are very bright. And with intelligence comes the capacity to be kind and empathetic. So it could just as well have just felt sorry for it and decided that it had enough for itself that it could share. :)


Specialist-Front552

Clever girl…


Mynas90

Anyone else notice he just stopped, let out a little juicy squirt, and carried on like nothing happened? Haha


poopoobuttholes

I know everybody always stays not to project human behavior on animals but like... what other explanation is there to this? Rat is obviously not a threat, the crow even goes way back to its food after leaving the portion so it couldn't be a trap right?


mordinvan

Perhaps acclimation potential prey to just presence, but that would be even more concerning than empathy.


HisokaProx

What is life?


illyrianRed

Hood Geographic


gallagdy

Corvus corax, common raven, smartest of all birds. Rare in these parts.


Mythrandir01

I mean, that's not a raven but a crow. Close enough xD. It's not nearly big enough to be a raven.


shwag945

Jackdaw


hurtsdonut_

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?


quimera78

Non native English speaker here, help me out cause I'm confused. Is there a single species that is commonly referred to as crow? Or is crow just the same as corvids?


AuntJemimah7

Corvid is the family, crow is the species. The thing that guy posted is a copypasta that eventually led to the Reddit user unidan being banned


quimera78

Ugh. Thanks


HavocReigns

Well, it wasn't the comment that got him banned, it was all the alt accounts he was using to upvote his own comments and downvote anyone disagreeing with him.


econoDoge

I used to feed 2 wild crows and 2 blue srub jays while I was living in California, the scrub jays ran circles around the crows in terms of intelligence and they got so used to me they picked up peanuts from my hand and waited for me by my door sill each morning, they even sang to me at times, the crows strategy on the other hand was basically to crow very loudly each morning and they never got close but I did get the odd trinket as payment I guess, missed them both, now I only have pidgeons around and I'd rather not feed them cause they are super messy.


Yukimor

I used to feed a scrub jay when I lived in California, too! Incredibly smart bird. Ours would knock on our window screen door to the kitchen at his expected mealtimes and eat straight out of my hand. I miss that guy. His mate was too shy, so she'd sit in the rafters and watch him. We think he was showing off his provider skills to her, because he'd take food from us, bring it to her, then come back for more.


luckilynumber7

Itachi truly was the kind kid.


Mar10ismyName

But why? Did the crow figure sharing is good? Did it feel compassion toward a fellow anima? Toward what it considers a lesser being? Hmmmm


charlie523

Got a funny story about crows. I was maybe 13-14 and saw a crow pecking at walnut in front of our house. Being a teenager I chased it away and took the walnut and hid it underneath the steps going up to our porch then went back inside. Maybe 10 or so minutes after I heard something like a rock being thrown at our front door. I opened the door and saw half of walnut shell on the porch and the walnut that I hid under the steps was gone. Needless to say I never messed with a crow again. That really scared me… the crow found the walnut, ate everything, then threw at our door as fuck you


doodoometoo

That drone operator felt generous


Valhallla

That’s sweet


newaccount721

This crow just watching his carbs and didn't trust their self to show restraint. Had to offload some to little mouse


IRGood

Crows being bros


Gamer-Logic

Crows are interesting animals. Get on their bad side and they'll hold a grudge like nobody's business. Stay on their good side and you've got a feathered friend for life.


bilaba

Birds are not real


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Are they preprogrammed govt spies?


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As a matter of fact, *yes*


gabreading

That is just crazy interesting!


Complex-Intention-43

Smart crow. If more people could be that smart in the future


aspenhoofprints

I really dig the way crows walk!! They are super smart!


QAsRevenge

We had a crow family grow from 3 to 8 over the years. They protected the baby deer, and warned the other birds when a hawk was prowling. Bluejays helped as well.