You got me laughing so hard just now, thank you for making this comment Its so perfect because a few times the crow seems to gesture along with the dialogue
Seagulls are actually pretty intelligent. They can learn on their past mistakes and share their knowledge with others. Basically, they present social learning which is a sign of greater intelligence in animals. They were also found to be able to solve puzzles on the same level as parrots and corvids. They are not as smart as crows or ravens though.
@@enfieldlammergeier yeah, like one thing seagulls will often learn to do is drop clams, mussels, or other similar animals from the sky onto rocks, because then they can access the actual meat. Their prevalence in coastal cities also shows that they adapt well to the relatively new condition of human dominance. They can’t hold a candle to a crow, though.
Not surprised, I watched this in parking lots constantly. Crows will pretend to be smaller in number than seagulls and send one of their “scouts” to distract and irritate them as they hide in a nearby tree. Then the scout will either pick up the gulls’ food when they are looking in the other direction or lets another scout swoop in from behind them.
I love how they are able to triangulate in groups. Recently I witnessed two crows scavenging a trash can that was protected by two human securities (public swimming pool) . Seemed like two other crows were on the look out and strategically positioned to overview the area around while the others emptied the trash searching for good stuff. Security came out of a building however and immediatly scared the two away. I think after that the scavanging crows complained to the lookout crow that they hadn't done their job right. ':D
best thing i heared about crows and ravens they tend to work in tandem with wolfs the bird scours the perimeter for any potential prey and if they see one they alarm the wolf or the pack to its location via sound after the wolfs ravaged the carcass the crows and ravens are left with a whole buffet which they wont be able to eat alone
I had a baby crow visit me a few days ago. Came into my garden.heard him squawk so I said hello which made him look. I lifted my arm and he just jumped on and walked up my arm and stood on my shoulder. Swapping between left and right should then flapping and Jumping on my head. Stayed in our garden for about 2 hours. And at 1 point was falling asleep on my lads lap. It really was a 1 in a million experience.
I found an injured crow and rescued it. It had a broken wing and scratches. I spent as much time with it as posible during his recovery. We became friends and trusted each other. I even learn to differentiate some of the noises it'll make. He would ask for food or be petted. We were together for 1 full year. It fully recovered but wouldn't leave my side anyways. One day I had to run some errands but I was feeling sick. I ask the crow to do those for me and gave him my credit card and social security number. HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME. now I'm homeless.
Your way too trusting bro!smarten up in the future!what if he used your credit to buy nukes from Russia sells them to North Korea.....etc butterfly effect watch the movie sheese!i
That little tail tug at the beginning and then the 'nothing' look after, distracting the seagull, was a brilliant bird move but failed as a tactic to actually get the food. Pretending to be disinterested combined with timing was the better strategy. Clever bird.
Maybe they weren't so smart and prepared on the ground but I have a feeling they snatched the food right back in the air. I watch seagulls every day doing that and I'm utterly impressed by their agility. I don't know about crows though. But a single one against a few gulls doesn't sound too good.
@@dan-nutu Bro, crows are always on that gang shit. Man was just patrolling the block and found sw ops... probably had like 200 killers waiting in the wings. They don't call 'em a "murder" for nothing.
I mean gulls and crows both do that both amongst themselves and to each other _all the fucking time_ - food is SRS FKN BZNS, yo, and both are perfectly willing to get down and dirty to get some. No big surprise they're each others' main rivals (alongside their own ilk) where both occur.
When I was in military, the area where served was full of walnut trees. The crows used to pick walnuts and fly very high and drop them on the asphalt to break them open. I was amazed. Crows are incredibly intelligent birds.
They learn how high they have to fly- too low and it won't crack, too high and it will explode all over the place. They learn where the goldie locks zone is. Also they often leave walnuts on roads so cars break them open for them.
Crows in certain areas will also leave nuts in crosswalks, and wait for cars to run them over. Then when the light turns red, they fly down to collect their prize while the cars are stopped
I left peanuts for crows in my back yard. At first they would congregate and eat the peanuts, blasting away the shell, then break up the peanuts, the gobble the pieces up. Now they think of me as an "In N' Out" restaurant. They grab one or two peanuts and fly off to neighbors' roof to eat the peanuts. I can only imagine how the residents felt hearing a noise they can't figure out where it is coming from.
@@bondgabebond4907 I 've had a flock of well over 50 follow me from Volunteer Park (Seattle) almost to my apartment 6 blocks away but I have fed them regularly for years. All the crows in my neighborhood know me. I have plenty of crow stories ✔✔
Just looking at their body language, you could tell they are miles beyond in their intelligence. There's planning, seeking opportunity, and timing in their movements, whereas the seagulls just stand idly, reacting to any response
Most of the gulls being juveniles might of have something to do with it. They also don't seem to actually know what to *do* with that bit of damn hardtack; corvids are rather better at that kind of problem-solving. I've seen gulls spend like ten minutes trial-and-erroring some particularly inconvenient morsel - whereas crows just unceremoniously find something to wedge such bits in and then pick them to bits suitable for consumption. (I've seen them use everything from rock crevices and tram tracks to the windscreen wipers of parked cars for such purposes.) Gulls are smart, as omnivores are wont to be, and urban ones doubly so out of necessity given the extreme complexity and variety of the man-made environment; they just aren't _as_ smart as the corvids which alongside the parrots are the certified Einsteins of the bird world.
Yesterday I saw similar situation. Seagull was trying get to the food inside of a very small plastic bag. Right nex to seagull there was a crow and at first tried to take the bag but was smaller than seagull and could not to. Crow waited then. Seagull was holding and tossing bag in try to get to food. When eventually food came out from bag, crow was ready to take it immediately before seagull drop bag to take food which just came out from a bag. It was funny to watch.
@@dariusgreysun He's Eastern European, seems to speak Slavic natively. Probably much, much more fluent in English than you are in Polish or Hungarian. :P
This was a wonderful story, thank you for sharing. If it were a video i would watch in a heartbeat lol. Crows are just smart enough to have perfect comedic timing
I feed peanuts to my crows everyday. One morning as I was feeding them, they took off across the parking lot and scared a bear away. Even though I am just a food source; it feels good knowing they protected me.
I feed the crows daily also. One morning I heard loud noises down the block. It was a coyote and the crowd were letting everyone know about it. I got in my car and drove along with the crows together following for 3 blocks till they peeled off and I continued till I got construction.
When I was young I was fishing, I had a bag of bread with me to use for fishing. Suddenly a crow came by, picked up my bag of bread and flew with it to the other side of the water. There was no way I could come there without swimming or walking about a mile, mainly on gravel ground and I'm pretty confident that if I would show up at the other side, he would simply fly back with my bread.
In all fairness even adult gulls aren't too good at problem-solving and hardtack isn't the easiest thing to eat without grasping appendages. These juveniles are pretty visibly flummoxed by it. Crows just find something to wedge such uncooperative morsels in so they stay in place and cheerfully peck them apart - I've seen them do that with frozen bits of bread and freaking car windshield wipers.
Crows are definitely smarter in both Ravens on the other hand are more individual than crows Edit: Just remembered my online name is Crow, I PROMISE IM NOT BIASED I SWEAR
When was the last time you witnessed a crow wolf down a pigeon whole? Those seagulls must be immature gulls, they didn't know how to break the cracker. The crow simply took it off of them and flew away with it!
There are some crows living near me that I feed dog food. Occasionally I'll toss out some stale bread slices. The crows will carry the dry bread to the bird bath and soak it till it's soft enough to break into smaller pieces.
And yet a few weeks ago I saw a crow fly into a tree. Not land on a tree branch, mind you, but fly into a tree and then fall on the ground. When it picked itself off the ground it was looking around like it was trying to tell if any other crows saw it happen.
I like how the person filming this knew *something* was going to happen, even if they didn't know quite what, so they opened their camera. Those poor seagulls chasing that clever crow at the end, going, "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
Crow uses the human commentator to distract the gulls who are now thinking about what the human is talking about. Crow moves in and takes the biscuit lol
Gulls take 4 years to mature, so the ''adult looking ones'' are probably 3 years. Those spots on the head seem to be the last of the ''baby'' feathers. While the other ones are probably on year 1. Crows are definetly smarter, but put a 15 year old seagull there and things would be different.
Right I have a murder in my woods and some hawks. I hear them fighting alot and one day got to witness it the crows had that thing surrounded and were attacking in coordination.
7 years ago, my dad brought a crow chick home that fell out of the nest and broke its leg. We cared for it, his leg healed, he grew to a healthy 1 meter wingspan and his name was Rah. Best pet I ever had. Said "hello" each time he saw me and always wanted to share his food when I gave him. Learned him to fly by putting him in the air on a broom and he flew each morning to school with me untill a certain point and returned. A truly magical experience. He is now in a nature reserve socializing with the others!
In my town there is always seagulls and I have to watch them when feeding crows (mainly in winter, east of Canada) If I put bread it will surely be spotted by seagulls that are going to come from nowhere and do a «gulp and run». They always make lots of circles in the air before going down, to make sure all is safe. My solution was to give crows some peanuts in shell, which seagulls don’t really like. (when it comes to food, seagulls seems to be more aggressive compared to crows)
Yeah I've noticed that seagulls don't seem to like peanuts and I think it's because they don't know how to open them. They just attack them, then the peanut goes flying and they rage quit, lol. But crows will hold the peanut down with their foot and tear the shell open with their beak
My parents have a fountain in their back yard. Crows would often bring cookies or crackers (probably from the elementary school a couple blocks away) and dip them in the fountain to soften them up before eating them. Clever birds.
Yeah they love to dip their food in water... Be it anything.. I read somewhere it's because they don't make saliva, so moist food tastes better... Don't know how true it is
Anytime I can see crow's brain scheming I immediately think they're so cute. You can see his little brain going "okay, how am I going to play these idiots" as he walks around biding his time, haha.
Crow thoughts ---------> "na im not interested in that cracker, not at all.... Hmmm look at that over there.... well I will just leave my back to it and watch out for ya...... Suckers!!!...........
It has an awareness of mind. It knows that if it positions its body so that it isn't facing the food then the seagulls won't see it as a threat. That is some advanced mental capacity
I find that generalisation a bit of a received wisdom anthropomorphic vanity. Each species has their their own etiquette and, while crows and gulls do tend to co-habitate quite a lot (along with pied wagtails and to an extent pigeons), the gull is without doubt the more assertive. Those are baby gulls, anyway, and will become a lot more adept at fighting for food in a few weeks.
Yes, once people know some fact about an animal (like "this animal is smart/dumb") they tend to interpret everything they see based on that. There was no outsmarting in this video, just a bird seizing an opportunity. Gulls snatch food from humans, but we don't say they're outsmarting us.
@@rebeccahicks2392 nah we are just too lazy to fight for our food. For us not getting a slight mark on our skin by a seagulls claws or beak is more important than not loosing food. We can buy food in seconds, but we cant make the wound heal in seconds. We just dont care that much about food.
I don't think that crow stole the cooky because of it smartness. First of all it was baby seagulls vs adult crow. Besides those seagulls seems to be not very hungry
Crows absolutely adores seagulls... There is no comparison in the smartness between them here in this video.... These are baby black headed seagulls called.,. The laughing gulls.... They are usually left in warmer climates to Winter over... I have actually seen Canadian geese take care of baby laughing gulls in the winter.... Although the laughing gull will go sit on a large body of water at night they will still return to those who are helping them.... They are totally oblivious to many dangers.... But crows protect the seagulls the best they can when they're in land during the winter.... I have actually seen seagulls bring shy crows bread..,... I have many beautiful stories about crows and seagulls....
@@terryenglish7132 Terry.... Accidents do happen... Shame on people who teach seagulls to take food from their hands while they're in flight... If one is going to throw food they need to throw it in a proper direction... I've actually thrown food many , many years ago...... I threw food up in the air and two collided and one died by breaking its neck.... I have seen so much death in My Time.... These birds have the hardest Life to live.,.. they only sleep about 1 hour a day..... They try to find large bodies of water at night.,,... They are scared to death of the dark..... I have seen a baby who accidentally pooped on me... And an elder leader had beaten it up in midair for doing so.... Everything wants to kill seagull is what I've always said.... But they are protected and blessed from high above.... I've studied for over 20 years and I could write two books about them.... Eagles consider them their number one victim.... They are hunted at night from my understanding greatly.... The seagull is capable of doing one thing during the day which will make an eagle so dizzy it will almost hit the ground head first.... Seagulls have to find high carbohydrates.... And enough food to survive.... Imagine being a little bird on the ocean and if the waters are too rough or the winds are too strong you have to fly all night long... They are scared all the time but they love children.... I have stood under millions to billions of different directions of seagulls flying over me..... And rarely have I ever been pooped on.,.. but there has been one or two that have been very naughty in the bunch... Who has tried to snatch food out of my hands.... I give them a good talking too.... And do not put up with that behavior..... But when one is hungry and competing for food it is quite understandable.... I have also had these birds as companions.... The most wonderful birds I have ever had..... Not only do they have a language , they also use their feet as language as well as their wings in flight..... And The Black Crow love them.... And they have actually protected them from the Hawks in land.... And they have been a true blessing for the seagulls to survive..... During the day inland during the winter....
I disagree! I saw an adult seagull taking and wrapped food product out of the bin and take it onto a road. Placed it down and watched a car nearly run the package over. It didn't work! so the seagull re positioned it on the road for a better strike
Always interesting to watch. Little qualifier here that these are young inexperienced seagulls, the one that is in front of the food raises its head in typical 'begging' mode wanting to be given food it actually understands (so to speak) but its parent(s) are not around. With adult seagulls the crow will usually not succeed, and in my experience they are quite weary of them; obviously if there is an opportunity to take the food without getting attacked crows will still take it (usually when they can escape to trees or know the hooks and crannies of an urban environment for quick getaways).
😒 There is no comparison. Crows are problem solvers & one of the MOST intelligent animals on the planet if you were unaware. They are up there with dolphins. Smarter then most monkeys/apes. They can solve complex puzzles. Like that smart. And if you didn’t notice these aren’t “baby” seagulls these are late teenage/young adults. Roughly 2/3 yrs of age. They become “full” adults around 3/4 yrs. Also there was at least 2 adult in this group. So roughly anywhere between 18-23 in human age. (As far as being FULLY matured) from what I observed I saw what looked alike about three roughly 18 year olds - one 21 yr old & 2 adult adults (unknown age) 6 total. Had there been a small equal size murder of these crows (yes even youths) it wouldn’t be close. It’s also difficult to tell the age of the crow itself but the tail feather do look shorter than average & very blunt/shabby leading me to belive this is also a young adult crow. Seagulls usually just copy what they see other seagulls do where a crow Ken learn from memory as well as trial and error. They have extremely complex prefrontal cortex. Which allows them to solve puzzles without observing another crow successfully complete it. I would absolutely suggest watching some of the amazing scientific research done on crows. Specifically New Caledonian crow‘s. There’s also a wonderful experiment that was done at a college where they wore masks to scare a flock of crows. And something like 20 years later they were still able to remember and identify this mask. Sure seagulls have been known to drop crabs and clams from a pie to get them to crack on the cement. But most of this behavior is done by watching other seagulls not trial and error. Crews have learned to do similar with cracking walnuts using oncoming traffic. They also identify when the light turns red so they know when to grab the nutmeat. Hence why you trying to get the point across that these animals are not comparable. Best to you on your journey learning about the amazing mind of crows. 🙂
Everybody knows crows are some of the smartest birds. Saying they're smarter than seagulls is like saying humans are smarter than gorillas. Does it even need to be said?
That is a reasonable statement since it's widely reported. I suspected, based upon experience in conversation, that someone imagined the visual would convey an unspoken color-coding of intelligence. (Maybe not.) The reply to that is universal: "If they believe that coloration causes intelligence, how smart can they be?" This is only a comeback, not a conversation starter.
@@stickiedmin6508 Extreme predators & we are part of their food chain, thats why they multiply like bacteria, they eat near enough anything from pigeons to your small garden pets, they have an insatiable appetite & like the bullfrog, if it fits in the mouth it will fit in the stomach & they absolutely hate us.
This crow is so clever, he distracted the seagulls with important social commentary and once their guard was down stole their food.
LOL 😂
You got me laughing so hard just now, thank you for making this comment
Its so perfect because a few times the crow seems to gesture along with the dialogue
For a seagull that biscuit is low value food.
Their favourite food is fish
@@parajacks4 Around here, their favorite food is whatever you are holding
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Anyone who lives near seagulls can tell you that just about everything is smarter than seagulls.
Except that one seagul that hunts pigeons. Hunters tend to be more intelligent anyhow.
Seagulls are actually pretty intelligent. They can learn on their past mistakes and share their knowledge with others. Basically, they present social learning which is a sign of greater intelligence in animals.
They were also found to be able to solve puzzles on the same level as parrots and corvids.
They are not as smart as crows or ravens though.
@@enfieldlammergeier crows and ravens are both corvids - as well as magpies
@@Justin_Bank
I never said they weren’t?
I said that seagulls are not as smart as crows or ravens lmao
@@enfieldlammergeier yeah, like one thing seagulls will often learn to do is drop clams, mussels, or other similar animals from the sky onto rocks, because then they can access the actual meat. Their prevalence in coastal cities also shows that they adapt well to the relatively new condition of human dominance.
They can’t hold a candle to a crow, though.
Crows are smarter than a lot of people I know.
hA!
You should change your social circle then.
I can feel myself getting dumber and dumber every day.
Makes sense considering crows intelligence are equal to a 7 year old human 😂 especially a liberal..
Facts.
Not surprised, I watched this in parking lots constantly. Crows will pretend to be smaller in number than seagulls and send one of their “scouts” to distract and irritate them as they hide in a nearby tree. Then the scout will either pick up the gulls’ food when they are looking in the other direction or lets another scout swoop in from behind them.
"Oldest trick in the book"
-sun tzu
I love how they are able to triangulate in groups.
Recently I witnessed two crows scavenging a trash can that was protected by two human securities (public swimming pool) . Seemed like two other crows were on the look out and strategically positioned to overview the area around while the others emptied the trash searching for good stuff.
Security came out of a building however and immediatly scared the two away. I think after that the scavanging crows complained to the lookout crow that they hadn't done their job right. ':D
best thing i heared about crows and ravens they tend to work in tandem with wolfs
the bird scours the perimeter for any potential prey and if they see one they alarm the wolf or the pack to its location via sound
after the wolfs ravaged the carcass the crows and ravens are left with a whole buffet which they wont be able to eat alone
@@oxXBubbleXxo Oh I think that's really cute! What a wonderful world we live in.
Коллективная работа приносит плоды. Однако знание психологии нередко помогает и одиночке. Браво ворону!
I had a baby crow visit me a few days ago.
Came into my garden.heard him squawk so I said hello which made him look.
I lifted my arm and he just jumped on and walked up my arm and stood on my shoulder. Swapping between left and right should then flapping and Jumping on my head.
Stayed in our garden for about 2 hours. And at 1 point was falling asleep on my lads lap.
It really was a 1 in a million experience.
You're lucky!
pics or it didn't happen!
@@thisguy8916 I have pictures
@@grumpy-dad3701 Very nice, if so! Have always had an affinity for Corvids. Great characters.
Crows remember and so do their children. They'll be back one day if they can and so will their family if you always treat them kindly.
There’s something so relaxing and nostalgic about watching birds from a car listening to public radio in the rain
agreed, feels relaxing
ikr omg
I love watching birds that are listening to public radio in the rain
With coffee, and maybe a donut.
This is the type of comments that get me back to he basics of the life I once had. Thanks.
He got more patience than every kid in the world
almost every animal has more patience than a kid when it comes to food. Have you seen how long it take lions, cheetahs and other predators to hunt
not all children are american
@@--973-- what does America have to do with anything
@@KoId. ok?
@@cinna_to4st_waff1es ok? What
I found an injured crow and rescued it. It had a broken wing and scratches. I spent as much time with it as posible during his recovery. We became friends and trusted each other. I even learn to differentiate some of the noises it'll make. He would ask for food or be petted. We were together for 1 full year. It fully recovered but wouldn't leave my side anyways. One day I had to run some errands but I was feeling sick. I ask the crow to do those for me and gave him my credit card and social security number. HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME.
now I'm homeless.
Your way too trusting bro!smarten up in the future!what if he used your credit to buy nukes from Russia sells them to North Korea.....etc butterfly effect watch the movie sheese!i
That's what you get for trusting the mafia of the bird world. There's no such thing as a part-time gangster.
Hey that happened to me too. People need to know how evil they are.
Yesterday I got a phone caw from one of those $&@! things saying there was a problem with my Windows. But he didn’t fool me; I use a Mac.
Man, I hate when that happens 😔
Nobody commenting on the crow pulling the seagull's tail XD That was hilarious!
😅
Crows do that often
Standard tactic. They do that to nut eating squirrels too, hoping they drop an open nut
Read that they do that to distract others to steal food but in some cases just for fun too
Testing how aggressive the seagull would be. Very smart
That little tail tug at the beginning and then the 'nothing' look after, distracting the seagull, was a brilliant bird move but failed as a tactic to actually get the food. Pretending to be disinterested combined with timing was the better strategy. Clever bird.
The tactic was to get the gull more interested in the crow than the food. Crow was playing the long game.
It was downright hilarious how the gulls took off after the crow at the end like "Don't let him get away!"
Maybe they weren't so smart and prepared on the ground but I have a feeling they snatched the food right back in the air. I watch seagulls every day doing that and I'm utterly impressed by their agility. I don't know about crows though. But a single one against a few gulls doesn't sound too good.
@@dan-nutu Bro, crows are always on that gang shit. Man was just patrolling the block and found sw ops... probably had like 200 killers waiting in the wings. They don't call 'em a "murder" for nothing.
@@dan-nutu yeah we used to feed them in the playground at achool, throw food in the air and watch them catch it out the sky
I mean gulls and crows both do that both amongst themselves and to each other _all the fucking time_ - food is SRS FKN BZNS, yo, and both are perfectly willing to get down and dirty to get some.
No big surprise they're each others' main rivals (alongside their own ilk) where both occur.
When I was in military, the area where served was full of walnut trees. The crows used to pick walnuts and fly very high and drop them on the asphalt to break them open. I was amazed. Crows are incredibly intelligent birds.
Seagulls do this to clams and crabs
@@kenmatree.3167 I think Eagles do it to turtles...
They learn how high they have to fly- too low and it won't crack, too high and it will explode all over the place. They learn where the goldie locks zone is. Also they often leave walnuts on roads so cars break them open for them.
Crows in certain areas will also leave nuts in crosswalks, and wait for cars to run them over. Then when the light turns red, they fly down to collect their prize while the cars are stopped
Hawks do that with large prey like chickens and bunnies.
Poor seagulls are playing Go Fish and the crow is playing nuclear physics.
They were playing checkers, he was playing chess
@@jeffadams4590 4D chess at that
Nuclear physics isn’t a game, idiot
If the crow is playing psychics can he read their minds? he could learn how to go fish like the seagulls and not have to steal ther food
@@bfboobie bruh
original comment said physics, not psychics. nuclear. physics.
and Go Fish is a card game.
They are so gull-ible.
They are sea gull-ible*
Crows are curious, apprehensive and intelligent all at the same time. You'll rarely run across a dumb crow.
I left peanuts for crows in my back yard. At first they would congregate and eat the peanuts, blasting away the shell, then break up the peanuts, the gobble the pieces up. Now they think of me as an "In N' Out" restaurant. They grab one or two peanuts and fly off to neighbors' roof to eat the peanuts. I can only imagine how the residents felt hearing a noise they can't figure out where it is coming from.
@@bondgabebond4907 I 've had a flock of well over 50 follow me from Volunteer Park (Seattle) almost to my apartment 6 blocks away but I have fed them regularly for years. All the crows in my neighborhood know me. I have plenty of crow stories ✔✔
I'd love to hear about these crow stories you speak of :D
a dumb crow isn't long for this world. they survive on their wits because they must.
@E GIBSON ‘cept fer Jim Crow of course
Crows and Ravens are two of the smartest birds there are
Don't forget magpies!
Ravens, jay, crows, magpies, chough are part of Corvids and are smart
Owls are pretty smart
@@railroadforest30 nah. They are dumb AF
@@railroadforest30 I've heard they're actually rather dull by bird standards
Crow: that’s fine, I didn’t want that food anyway
Seagulls look away
Crow: SIKE!
* psych
@@peter9477 sick men
Seagulls: Son of b***. He stole our food. Get him.
or Psyche
@@justayoutuber1906 I doubt it. That's a different word, one where you pronounce the "e".
Just looking at their body language, you could tell they are miles beyond in their intelligence. There's planning, seeking opportunity, and timing in their movements, whereas the seagulls just stand idly, reacting to any response
Most of the gulls being juveniles might of have something to do with it. They also don't seem to actually know what to *do* with that bit of damn hardtack; corvids are rather better at that kind of problem-solving. I've seen gulls spend like ten minutes trial-and-erroring some particularly inconvenient morsel - whereas crows just unceremoniously find something to wedge such bits in and then pick them to bits suitable for consumption. (I've seen them use everything from rock crevices and tram tracks to the windscreen wipers of parked cars for such purposes.)
Gulls are smart, as omnivores are wont to be, and urban ones doubly so out of necessity given the extreme complexity and variety of the man-made environment; they just aren't _as_ smart as the corvids which alongside the parrots are the certified Einsteins of the bird world.
Youre projecting your anthropomorphic world view onto a bird.
@@CrnogorskiNacionalista explain how. Nothing they said is was wrong. But, please, enlighten me.
@@CrnogorskiNacionalista The word is "anthropocentric" btw
Reacting to responses okay
love how he turned around like he wasnt even interested in the food. played it off so cool.
He took our food! After him!!
Mine, mine, mine...
Yesterday I saw similar situation. Seagull was trying get to the food inside of a very small plastic bag. Right nex to seagull there was a crow and at first tried to take the bag but was smaller than seagull and could not to. Crow waited then. Seagull was holding and tossing bag in try to get to food. When eventually food came out from bag, crow was ready to take it immediately before seagull drop bag to take food which just came out from a bag. It was funny to watch.
Would you like a nice balsamic vin to go with that family sized word salad?
@@dariusgreysun I understood the story easily without any problems.
@@dariusgreysun He's Eastern European, seems to speak Slavic natively. Probably much, much more fluent in English than you are in Polish or Hungarian. :P
YOINK
This was a wonderful story, thank you for sharing. If it were a video i would watch in a heartbeat lol. Crows are just smart enough to have perfect comedic timing
I feed peanuts to my crows everyday. One morning as I was feeding them, they took off across the parking lot and scared a bear away. Even though I am just a food source; it feels good knowing they protected me.
I feed the crows daily also. One morning I heard loud noises down the block. It was a coyote and the crowd were letting everyone know about it. I got in my car and drove along with the crows together following for 3 blocks till they peeled off and I continued till I got construction.
Those are baby seagulls, adult seagulls would have finished the cracker or chased off the crow. Crows are smart but gulls are more assertive.
Not baby, juvenile. Teens, essentially.
Absolutely
But one seagull was an adult one - the white one with some dark feathers ..even this bird could'nt handle the cracker in a good way...!
@@1derfullBeast Those spots on the head seem to be the last of the ''baby'' feathers. Gulls take 4 years to mature so they are probably 3 years
Tell me about it! I was sitting on a street in Rotterdam eating a sandwich I just bought and a gull came flying down and snatched it!
When I was young I was fishing, I had a bag of bread with me to use for fishing.
Suddenly a crow came by, picked up my bag of bread and flew with it to the other side of the water. There was no way I could come there without swimming or walking about a mile, mainly on gravel ground and I'm pretty confident that if I would show up at the other side, he would simply fly back with my bread.
He, that's unfair!
You are compairing adolescent sea-gulls with a mature crow.😂
In all fairness even adult gulls aren't too good at problem-solving and hardtack isn't the easiest thing to eat without grasping appendages. These juveniles are pretty visibly flummoxed by it.
Crows just find something to wedge such uncooperative morsels in so they stay in place and cheerfully peck them apart - I've seen them do that with frozen bits of bread and freaking car windshield wipers.
I always remember seeing a load of geese fighting over some bread and just when one thought he had finally won, a crow flew down and nicked it lol
Seagulls have herd intelligence while crows have high individual intelligence
Crows have both to a greater extent than seagulls. When they fly in huge masses to go roost at night it’s like a giant life form
so you are saying americans are dum
Crows are definitely smarter in both
Ravens on the other hand are more individual than crows
Edit: Just remembered my online name is Crow, I PROMISE IM NOT BIASED I SWEAR
Crows are incredibly social creatures. Magpies and other Corvids also mourn their dead and have complex social hierarchies and communication.
Crows have Herd intelligence...
You can watch often crowns hunt Owls in a Group while Owls hunt silently and Alone.
Like Lions and hyenas
Seagulls: "mine mine mine mine mine mine mine...."
Crow: "oh shut up that's mine" **proceeds to nab and flies away**
This needs a voice over edit for the seagulls and crow just watching without the sound was hilarious!!
Hah, like those old videos of the dog and cat "talking" to their owner 😆
I love how that middle seagull chases after the crow all mad knowing full well he ain't gonna do nothing lol
When was the last time you witnessed a crow wolf down a pigeon whole? Those seagulls must be immature gulls, they didn't know how to break the cracker. The crow simply took it off of them and flew away with it!
There are some crows living near me that I feed dog food. Occasionally I'll toss out some stale bread slices. The crows will carry the dry bread to the bird bath and soak it till it's soft enough to break into smaller pieces.
Those brown plumage seagulls are juveniles which just left their parents nests. The mature seagulls have white plumage.
Seagulls don't eat pigeons whole either. Pelicans do that.
@@chaotixthefox Pelicans do it more often, but often big gulls aren't hesitant to gulp down a whole pigeon either.
@@chaotixthefox I’ve seen videos of gulls eating other birds whole and alive
Got to acknowledge that little tail-feather pull at the beginning.
And yet a few weeks ago I saw a crow fly into a tree. Not land on a tree branch, mind you, but fly into a tree and then fall on the ground. When it picked itself off the ground it was looking around like it was trying to tell if any other crows saw it happen.
it's been suggested that crows have the intelligence of a 10 year old child. 🤔😳
With these days intellect, I'd say crow can outsmart a 20 years old.
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😁🤣🤣
6 or 7 , not 10.
@@blacklight4720 fuck me and I'll believe it
@@bobbah676 There are a 20 years old, who watch shows like Kardashians. Crows are like rocket scientists compared.
Crows : * steals food *
Seagulls : MINE! MINE! MINE!
The crow now has a bunch of seagulls screaming *"MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE!!!!!!"* While being chased like the pelican from _Finding Nemo._
I like how the person filming this knew *something* was going to happen, even if they didn't know quite what, so they opened their camera. Those poor seagulls chasing that clever crow at the end, going, "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
Crows are some of the most intelligent birds in the world bar none!
Crow uses the human commentator to distract the gulls who are now thinking about what the human is talking about. Crow moves in and takes the biscuit lol
this is certified meme material. The boring lecture goes so well with what is going on outside the window.
Lol thats not a lecture i think thats a joe rogan episode
Pretends to walk away when the gulls turn their backs , then quick as a flash turns and nabs the bread. Genius.
"The art of steal" Sun Crowtzu
Mr. Crow was working against immature gulls who didn't know about crow treachery. Next time kids!
I thought the title said cows, watched the whole video expecting to see a cow
Gulls take 4 years to mature, so the ''adult looking ones'' are probably 3 years. Those spots on the head seem to be the last of the ''baby'' feathers. While the other ones are probably on year 1. Crows are definetly smarter, but put a 15 year old seagull there and things would be different.
15 year old seagull would just eat the crow no questions asked.
@@fubar12345 it would try and fail
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Right I have a murder in my woods and some hawks. I hear them fighting alot and one day got to witness it the crows had that thing surrounded and were attacking in coordination.
My favourite is the Great Black- Backed Gull. I like that they rarely become city birds like the Common Gull, and live by the rough sea.
*"mine!"*
"mine _now!"_
7 years ago, my dad brought a crow chick home that fell out of the nest and broke its leg. We cared for it, his leg healed, he grew to a healthy 1 meter wingspan and his name was Rah. Best pet I ever had. Said "hello" each time he saw me and always wanted to share his food when I gave him. Learned him to fly by putting him in the air on a broom and he flew each morning to school with me untill a certain point and returned. A truly magical experience. He is now in a nature reserve socializing with the others!
To be fair those are baby seagulls so they are pretty clueless to begin with.
I admire that crow's patience
In my town there is always seagulls and I have to watch them when feeding crows (mainly in winter, east of Canada) If I put bread it will surely be spotted by seagulls that are going to come from nowhere and do a «gulp and run». They always make lots of circles in the air before going down, to make sure all is safe. My solution was to give crows some peanuts in shell, which seagulls don’t really like. (when it comes to food, seagulls seems to be more aggressive compared to crows)
Yeah I've noticed that seagulls don't seem to like peanuts and I think it's because they don't know how to open them. They just attack them, then the peanut goes flying and they rage quit, lol. But crows will hold the peanut down with their foot and tear the shell open with their beak
The talking crow is even able to mimic a speech on equality by Marrtin L King on de radio, multi tasking show-off
Adult Crow amongst teenager Seagulls - unfair advantage.
Scientists studying corvids are discovering crows may be more intelligent than chimpanzees.
My parents have a fountain in their back yard. Crows would often bring cookies or crackers (probably from the elementary school a couple blocks away) and dip them in the fountain to soften them up before eating them. Clever birds.
Yeah they love to dip their food in water... Be it anything..
I read somewhere it's because they don't make saliva, so moist food tastes better... Don't know how true it is
Putting its back to the food to make out like its not interested in order to drop the gulls defences. Smart
Anytime I can see crow's brain scheming I immediately think they're so cute. You can see his little brain going "okay, how am I going to play these idiots" as he walks around biding his time, haha.
Looked like he was going to crap on it or them for a second. He sure got the food. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video
Crows are clever.
They can even count upto 12
but there are only 10 digits
in binary
@@Blox117 good one
Some would say, smarter than the lady on the radio too.
5 seagulls were later arrested for a horrendous attack on an unidentified bird.
Crow thoughts ---------> "na im not interested in that cracker, not at all.... Hmmm look at that over there.... well I will just leave my back to it and watch out for ya...... Suckers!!!...........
Lol go crow they clearly didn’t want it
The crow is certainly brighter than the videower who couldn’t even find the sound mute button 🤪
It has an awareness of mind. It knows that if it positions its body so that it isn't facing the food then the seagulls won't see it as a threat. That is some advanced mental capacity
Filming crows and listening to civil rights causes definitely not a good idea
but that was the crow talking
Damn it, I thought I was going to be watching a video of some clever cows.
Same here dude
crow turned his back pretending he wasn't gonna do anything, exactly what a human would do
Crows are much more intelligent than most animals. So, it's not that surprising but still a beautiful and amazing thing to see.
I find that generalisation a bit of a received wisdom anthropomorphic vanity. Each species has their their own etiquette and, while crows and gulls do tend to co-habitate quite a lot (along with pied wagtails and to an extent pigeons), the gull is without doubt the more assertive. Those are baby gulls, anyway, and will become a lot more adept at fighting for food in a few weeks.
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Yes, once people know some fact about an animal (like "this animal is smart/dumb") they tend to interpret everything they see based on that. There was no outsmarting in this video, just a bird seizing an opportunity. Gulls snatch food from humans, but we don't say they're outsmarting us.
@@rebeccahicks2392 nah we are just too lazy to fight for our food. For us not getting a slight mark on our skin by a seagulls claws or beak is more important than not loosing food. We can buy food in seconds, but we cant make the wound heal in seconds.
We just dont care that much about food.
what a smart crow. The woman had nothing to say and he was just waiting for the seagull to lose focus and fall asleep, so he could steal the food
If crows were 3 or 4 times bigger, they'd be killin us
the girl rambling you know, on the radio ummm and so, you know...
I don't think that crow stole the cooky because of it smartness. First of all it was baby seagulls vs adult crow. Besides those seagulls seems to be not very hungry
*juvenile
A baby seagull is a chick
Corvids are among the most intelligent birds on Earth
Corvids are in the Crow family. Same damn thing.
@@charlie6629 hey buddy, does someone need a hug?
@@charlie6629 crows are in the corvid family* idiot
@@charlie6629 would you like to share your birding knowledge and put it to the test?
@@solitudeguard5688 It's not worth trying with an idiot.
That crow said”SEE YA!”🤣
I once saw an angry old man being deliberately wound up by crows. Imagine being so thick as to be socially outwitted by an animal.
Those are baby seagulls and their beaks are not strong enough to break it.
well crows are the 2nd smartest animal, so they a far smarter than seagulls anyway ,seagulls are pretty dum actually
@@bobcatfan358 "dum"
@@bobcatfan358 seagulls are highly intelligent. U know nothing
@@davidandrew6347 but a Crow is smarter
@@bellaoberg8630 seagull are not dumb
Crows absolutely adores seagulls... There is no comparison in the smartness between them here in this video.... These are baby black headed seagulls called.,. The laughing gulls.... They are usually left in warmer climates to Winter over... I have actually seen Canadian geese take care of baby laughing gulls in the winter.... Although the laughing gull will go sit on a large body of water at night they will still return to those who are helping them.... They are totally oblivious to many dangers.... But crows protect the seagulls the best they can when they're in land during the winter.... I have actually seen seagulls bring shy crows bread..,... I have many beautiful stories about crows and seagulls....
Top tier random social commentary lol
I love real Sea Gulls. Those damn Jack Ass gulls should be on the open season list.
@@terryenglish7132 I believe you'll be on the open season list before they will be..... Happy Days 🌞😁
@@deniecedonnafield5264 I saw a 4 year old girl get pecked in her eye when one missed the french fry she was holding.
@@terryenglish7132 Terry.... Accidents do happen... Shame on people who teach seagulls to take food from their hands while they're in flight... If one is going to throw food they need to throw it in a proper direction... I've actually thrown food many , many years ago...... I threw food up in the air and two collided and one died by breaking its neck.... I have seen so much death in My Time.... These birds have the hardest Life to live.,.. they only sleep about 1 hour a day..... They try to find large bodies of water at night.,,... They are scared to death of the dark..... I have seen a baby who accidentally pooped on me... And an elder leader had beaten it up in midair for doing so.... Everything wants to kill seagull is what I've always said.... But they are protected and blessed from high above.... I've studied for over 20 years and I could write two books about them.... Eagles consider them their number one victim.... They are hunted at night from my understanding greatly.... The seagull is capable of doing one thing during the day which will make an eagle so dizzy it will almost hit the ground head first.... Seagulls have to find high carbohydrates.... And enough food to survive.... Imagine being a little bird on the ocean and if the waters are too rough or the winds are too strong you have to fly all night long... They are scared all the time but they love children.... I have stood under millions to billions of different directions of seagulls flying over me..... And rarely have I ever been pooped on.,.. but there has been one or two that have been very naughty in the bunch... Who has tried to snatch food out of my hands.... I give them a good talking too.... And do not put up with that behavior..... But when one is hungry and competing for food it is quite understandable.... I have also had these birds as companions.... The most wonderful birds I have ever had..... Not only do they have a language , they also use their feet as language as well as their wings in flight..... And The Black Crow love them.... And they have actually protected them from the Hawks in land.... And they have been a true blessing for the seagulls to survive..... During the day inland during the winter....
With great patience comes great biscuits.
I haven't a clue why this got recommended to me, but I'm all for it.
I don't know why this is so entertaining.
I disagree! I saw an adult seagull taking and wrapped food product out of the bin and take it onto a road. Placed it down and watched a car nearly run the package over. It didn't work! so the seagull re positioned it on the road for a better strike
the crow is very smart !
all birds have their own personalities and skills. i have pigeon, seagull and crow friends and value them all x
If I had the crow's cunningness and patience i would have ruled the world- of seagulls at least.
Always interesting to watch. Little qualifier here that these are young inexperienced seagulls, the one that is in front of the food raises its head in typical 'begging' mode wanting to be given food it actually understands (so to speak) but its parent(s) are not around. With adult seagulls the crow will usually not succeed, and in my experience they are quite weary of them; obviously if there is an opportunity to take the food without getting attacked crows will still take it (usually when they can escape to trees or know the hooks and crannies of an urban environment for quick getaways).
😒 There is no comparison. Crows are problem solvers & one of the MOST intelligent animals on the planet if you were unaware. They are up there with dolphins. Smarter then most monkeys/apes. They can solve complex puzzles. Like that smart. And if you didn’t notice these aren’t “baby” seagulls these are late teenage/young adults. Roughly 2/3 yrs of age. They become “full” adults around 3/4 yrs. Also there was at least 2 adult in this group. So roughly anywhere between 18-23 in human age. (As far as being FULLY matured) from what I observed I saw what looked alike about three roughly 18 year olds - one 21 yr old & 2 adult adults (unknown age) 6 total. Had there been a small equal size murder of these crows (yes even youths) it wouldn’t be close. It’s also difficult to tell the age of the crow itself but the tail feather do look shorter than average & very blunt/shabby leading me to belive this is also a young adult crow. Seagulls usually just copy what they see other seagulls do where a crow Ken learn from memory as well as trial and error. They have extremely complex prefrontal cortex. Which allows them to solve puzzles without observing another crow successfully complete it. I would absolutely suggest watching some of the amazing scientific research done on crows. Specifically New Caledonian crow‘s. There’s also a wonderful experiment that was done at a college where they wore masks to scare a flock of crows. And something like 20 years later they were still able to remember and identify this mask. Sure seagulls have been known to drop crabs and clams from a pie to get them to crack on the cement. But most of this behavior is done by watching other seagulls not trial and error. Crews have learned to do similar with cracking walnuts using oncoming traffic. They also identify when the light turns red so they know when to grab the nutmeat. Hence why you trying to get the point across that these animals are not comparable. Best to you on your journey learning about the amazing mind of crows. 🙂
Everybody knows crows are some of the smartest birds. Saying they're smarter than seagulls is like saying humans are smarter than gorillas. Does it even need to be said?
No, but it's a funny title nonetheless because it captures the whole essence of the video.
That is a reasonable statement since it's widely reported. I suspected, based upon experience in conversation, that someone imagined the visual would convey an unspoken color-coding of intelligence. (Maybe not.)
The reply to that is universal: "If they believe that coloration causes intelligence, how smart can they be?" This is only a comeback, not a conversation starter.
I'd take a seagull over you in an intelligence test.
you made me listen to a social commentary audio for a whole minute, that's the real smart trick :P
My dyslexia is bad, I was watching this waiting for the cow to show up
😂 That was hilarious
What the heck babble was that on the radio?Comedy
If the topic was "The great replacement theory," or how the pale face males are the "most discriminated against" you'd be all for it.
@@seenyour34 Well you see, one is actually real
@@TheBlahman3 Stop having a "victimhood mentality," isn't that what your ilk likes to tell others.
@@seenyour34 all I heard was a female babbling about how sexy and rich and famous muhammad ali is
That’s the most gentle seagul I’ve seen. Here in Norway that cookie would’ve been devoured in one second. Only pigeons eat like that.
POV: The crow is me pretending I don’t need to cross the street because I like to cross when there is no cars instead of making them slow down.
I like crows but dislike seagulls
Seagulls where I live are like sharks with wings.
Little feathery crocodiles.
@@stickiedmin6508 Extreme predators & we are part of their food chain, thats why they multiply like bacteria, they eat near enough anything from pigeons to your small garden pets, they have an insatiable appetite & like the bullfrog, if it fits in the mouth it will fit in the stomach & they absolutely hate us.
The gulls where I live are like unpleasant thug gangs but those where I work are like friendly neighbours.
Liberal talk radio
Zzzzzzzzz
Republican radio is just gun shots?
Whaat?
@@wh3747 -Gunshots and kids screaming!
Liberal/conservative radio, either way it's just mostly pale faces pushing their ideology.
@@seenyour34
Yes but pale faces stab and shoot less.
Crows are smarter than a lot of people too lol...
The crow is like "hey seagull what's that over there?" and as the seagull turns and looks the other away, the crow snatches the food then flies off. 😆
What's up with the social justice bs in the background?
"The great replacement theory" is probably more to your liking.
@@seenyour34 it's not a theory it's a fact.
@@johnterry3312 Stop having a "victimhood mentality" isn't that what your ilk like to say?
@@seenyour34 What do you mean by 'your ilk'? Too scared to say what you really mean?
So idiots can cry about it
A crow is one of the most intelligent creatures so it’s hardly surprising
For some reason I misread "crows" as "cows" and was waiting for a cow to show up
I'll guess being patient can make you smarter than the average person...or bird.