You can practically see the gears turning in his head during all this, wow. Crows are such amazing creatures. Many see them as big, ugly, evil scavengers, but I think they're beautiful brilliant birds.
Crows are seriously amazing. This guy just solved a 3 stage puzzle using tools, which is typically something only primates can do. They also have incredibly good memories in regard to remembering where they (or other birds that they can steal from) have hidden their food. Good memory isn't uniquely human, but it's still something that defines us. In the exploding toad cases a few places around the world, crows had learned and taught each other where the liver of toads are. They simply flew over to the toads, poked out and ate the nutricious liver, and entirely circumvented all if the chemical defenses of the toads. A side effect of this was that the lungs of the toads often got punctured, leading to the thing exploding 0o Lastly, crows can use pretty much anything as a tool (just like humans). There was a case where crows had started using cars to crack nuts. Imagine the thought process; This nut is too hard for me to open up, twigs won't smash it, and I can't pick up rocks with my beak. But over there is a place (a road), and heavy things (cars) move (drive) on it. If I place the nut over there, the things will move over it, and the nut will crack. I can imagine even a primate would have a hard time figuring that one out, and this is an animal with a brain roughly the size of a marble 0o
***** There is absolutely no doubt that crows are highly intelligent, this video is evidence of that. There is also little doubt that primates, specifically Chimpanzee's and Bonobo's are also highly intelligent. But until they can build the internet, land on the moon, or split the atom, Homo sapiens will remain the "smartest of them all". For one can still respect nature and all it's beauty while being at the top.
@@mosipd It's good to be proud of human accomplishment, but imagine the task of an individual thrust into the wilderness with no resources other than his/her wits. Even given the advantage of knowing what's possible, would it be possible to recreate it without a worldwide collaborative effort? It's only with the luxury of food and shelter provided for by others that there's sufficient time to put forth developing the building blocks of technology. If you're starving and running away from tigers trying to make a meal of you, you won't be thinking how cool it would be to develop a transistor.
Another ways to prove how smart is a crow: 1:when they found any type of nut/peanuts 2:they go to traffic light 3:Put the hard-shell protected peanut at the road when the light is red 4:they wait on the tree until the light turn to green 5:car's wheel smashed the shell 6:the next red light they fly to the cracked nut/peanuts and start eating.
At the border of South Australia and West Australia is a fruit checking station. Some fruit is not allowed to be taken in to WA. I watched a crow salvage a tomato from a rubbish bin. Someone had dropped the tomato, in a plastic shopping bag, in the bin. The crow picked up the bag by one handle and swung it until the other handle caught on the side of the bin. It then tore the bag allowing the tomato to drop. It then retrieved its meal.
This is taken from a wonderful video called "A Murder of Crows" which is owned by PBS or someone. Anyhow what I wanted to say is this. The crow was not trained to do this. You are watching the very first time it was placed in this environment with the needed twig on the string. The crow combined what it had previously learned and made a tool to get another tool to get the food. The video also shows that crows are extremely good a human facial recognition. Almost frighteningly so. If you have a chance to see it, it is worth the half hour or so. Cheers.
That some well deserved food. What astounds me is that the crow doesn't even try to get it without a stick. It knows that the head wouldn't fit. They are so smart, it's incredible.
These are amazing. Makes you realize how little we really know or appreciate the creatures around us. Seems like the crows are more trustworthy than some of our politicians.
Their fuckin' brains are like... 1/50th the size of ours, but yet they can figure out mechanical puzzles like this. That is intelligence beyond what we're comfortable with as humans. Amazing.
They might just have less glial cells than we do. Whales for example have way bigger brains than us, but because of the differences in brain tissue they function differently. Crows may have a higher concentration of the brain mater that makes you "smart"
Versatile, clever and patient. One can see the thinking process as the crow is working out how to sort out the problem. Measly reward for such work 😢 Wonderful birds.
I noticed something here and I might be reading too much into it, but there's one more thing. Pay attention to how he treats the tools after using them. The tools are left carefully on the floor, not tossed away. Does it demonstrate an ability to think forward in time?
Probably upset they took away the long stick setting up the twig on the string. "Man, why they keep putting it back in the cage after I got it out already??"
anyone who has ever just watched crows in the nature must have noticed that these animals are really smart. one example is, when they sit on a road because theres food for example and they see a car coming, they only hop on the curb, because they know that cars wont drive on the curb. sometimes they even hop on the other lane. if you see a pigeon though, they almost always fly off
Not the city pigeons where I live. They are serious daredevils. They just barely step out of the way of passing cars, cyclists, pedestrians, buses, and trucks. They will keep pecking at something on the edge of a crowded sidewalk with people constantly passing by, apparently able to judge who is a threat and who isn’t; they realize most people don’t even notice them, or don’t care. When I am riding my bike they sometimes fly right down the middle of the street just front of me, swooping up a little bit just in time to avoid an oncoming vehicle. They are very acrobatic flyers with impressive street smarts.
My dad had one as a pet when he was a kid. He said that it was way smarter than his dog. He taught it many tricks and had him for years as his pet. One day he flew away and came back in an hour, left the next day for a couple hours and returned with another crow. They both stayed for a while and then left and never returned.
I recently read there are no crows in Ireland; that came as a shock. Untill I googled, I believed the Jackdaw was actually a hooded crow. Lol. These birds are so intelligent and so beautiful.
+Vadim Schmitz If English is indeed not your native language means you have not been in America for a good amount of time which means you should not be judging.
This small bird with a peanut sized brain is still smarter than most big dogs and cats. My dog can’t even go through a narrow door with a stick without figuring out how to turn her head to go through.
Crows: one of less than a handful of species that actually MODIFIES their tools. There's a few videos on youtube that show this. One's called 'Tool-making Crows'. Another one is "Betty the Crow Modifies a Tool."
If crows had opposable thumbs and the ability to form complex language, there's no telling what they'd be actually capable of, I'm not saying they're as intelligent as humans, but its still an interesting thought.
Flash news! the International Monetary Fund has decided that from now on, all staff positions will be awarded to crows. Projections show a 300% increase in economic growth over the next month.
stephen88hox You can't say that. He might have been caught that same day. It is routine to tag animals when conducting research so they can be easily identified from the other test subjects.
I kid you not, I was feeding a wild crow at the zoo. What amazed me was that since I was feeding him hot cheetos, he was smart enough to rinse it first by a pond. I was impressed, he understood it was sort of spicy. Smart birds
Not just primates. You would be amazed at how intelligent horses are, and they have used tools as well to get to food, or to let themselves in and out of their stalls or the pasture. They are great escape artists.
I think on behalf of the rest of the world I'll have to throw that back and say: "...if you're not from this country, mind your own affairs and leave our democracy to us."
***** It has something to do with the legitimacy of non-americans voicing their opinions about american politics. Minding our own affairs means we have to pay atttention to yours. When you do not get your shit together we suffer, and electing a tyrant like Trump would make the world suffer.
Crows can be very intelligent... While in Boston the other day, I was walking down the road when I saw a chicken standing on the shoulder...just standing there... I wondered why it didn't cross the road, then I heard it...a crow flying high above crying out its warning, "Cah..! Cah..! Cah..!!!"
During summer last year I was watching a crow on a plot of grass near my house. It turned over one of the many clumps of dried grass cuttings and put something under it, then covered it up. It then flew off to a nearby roof. About 30 seconds later a different crow landed and started searching through the clumps of grass until it found the item the first one had hidden. It then flew over to where the first one was. I'm convinced they were playing a game.
I think it's very important to search for animal intelligence. When we learn that common everyday animals like crow can be intelligent like this, it might make us to think twice before hurting them. Like, I live in countryside, and it's common thing there people shoot these birds on fields. I can get it as agriculture is their living and everything depends on that, but still I keep on wondering, if there could be another, less violence way to "negotiate". Haha, you can call me weird :D
Yea, they doesn't :D But they do understand some kind of concept of "mine" and "yours", according to studies made in laboratories. Though I'm not sure if it's possible to use that knowledge in farms...
What you don't see is the other crow just out of shot playing the guitar..
Lol :D nice joke
hahahahaha
xDD
O em gee - I was going to make a comment just like that! GMTA!
Zbriu FTW!
And yet there's people who don't know how to operate a vending machine...
And birds that DO know how to operate a vending machine too apparently.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!
Remy Blas lol
Remy Blas True story!
***** You'd think that broad problem solving skills would help you learn how to use it.
You can practically see the gears turning in his head during all this, wow. Crows are such amazing creatures. Many see them as big, ugly, evil scavengers, but I think they're beautiful brilliant birds.
because people don't like intelligent creatures
nore do they like intelligent humans
Hannah Aisling that’s true
@@capichemadafakas5436 no because they are stupid
Thanks 👍 I'mma smarted crow 😁
They also have a casual understanding of water displacement.
how is that?
cuz evolution
what is next?! crow becoming a software engineer.
jonathan hudgens in time good sir, in time
you probably meant 'causal' not 'casual' lol
I love that bird instincts kick in every 2 seconds or so to make it look around for danger and then it's back to advanced puzzle solving.
Soon, they'll learn to drive and operate heavy machinery.
I for one, welcome our new Crow overlords...
Malovon The dinosaurs rise again, i knew this would happen.
+BlackhawkX02 birds arent dinosaurs.. :-/
AKA as Zeus
Yes they are, they evolved from them and in the scientific community they are considered to be avian dinosaurs
+Malovon I pledge allegiance to the majestic bird...
Has to be more trustworthy than a politician.
But their small size puts them at a huge disadvantage to elephants, apes, and dolphins.
Crows are seriously amazing.
This guy just solved a 3 stage puzzle using tools, which is typically something only primates can do.
They also have incredibly good memories in regard to remembering where they (or other birds that they can steal from) have hidden their food. Good memory isn't uniquely human, but it's still something that defines us.
In the exploding toad cases a few places around the world, crows had learned and taught each other where the liver of toads are. They simply flew over to the toads, poked out and ate the nutricious liver, and entirely circumvented all if the chemical defenses of the toads. A side effect of this was that the lungs of the toads often got punctured, leading to the thing exploding 0o
Lastly, crows can use pretty much anything as a tool (just like humans). There was a case where crows had started using cars to crack nuts. Imagine the thought process; This nut is too hard for me to open up, twigs won't smash it, and I can't pick up rocks with my beak. But over there is a place (a road), and heavy things (cars) move (drive) on it. If I place the nut over there, the things will move over it, and the nut will crack. I can imagine even a primate would have a hard time figuring that one out, and this is an animal with a brain roughly the size of a marble 0o
***** There is absolutely no doubt that crows are highly intelligent, this video is evidence of that. There is also little doubt that primates, specifically Chimpanzee's and Bonobo's are also highly intelligent. But until they can build the internet, land on the moon, or split the atom, Homo sapiens will remain the "smartest of them all". For one can still respect nature and all it's beauty while being at the top.
*****
Because crows have their own civilization and all that. In fact, I think there's videos of us solving problems on CrowTube.
Man European Magpies pass the mirror test and crows are closely related to them. Dogs and cats don't even pass it.
DahBjorn not to mention they wait for red lights to eat the nut
@@mosipd
It's good to be proud of human accomplishment, but imagine the task of an individual thrust into the wilderness with no resources other than his/her wits. Even given the advantage of knowing what's possible, would it be possible to recreate it without a worldwide collaborative effort? It's only with the luxury of food and shelter provided for by others that there's sufficient time to put forth developing the building blocks of technology.
If you're starving and running away from tigers trying to make a meal of you, you won't be thinking how cool it would be to develop a transistor.
Please god nobody teach a crow how to use an assault rifle.
Klate Wilson Too late >:^D
"Give me bread or die bitch."
Klate Wilson, Why ? The world we be a safer place if they did. 2nd amendment is the best thing America has.
God doesn't exist, but I'm giving the crow an assault rifle.
Another ways to prove how smart is a crow:
1:when they found any type of nut/peanuts
2:they go to traffic light
3:Put the hard-shell protected peanut at the road when the light is red
4:they wait on the tree until the light turn to green
5:car's wheel smashed the shell
6:the next red light they fly to the cracked nut/peanuts and start eating.
Chin Jason observed in Japan
@@lucasqwert1 yes
@@lawliet2263 that's really fascinating! :D
This is why crows are my favorite animal, not because I'm edgy lol.
Yes, I've seen them do that.
Incrowdible
+Gasssolo hhhhhhhhhhhhhh (y)
Don't forget about the ice cubes!
Edible
hah lol nice one
no u
That crow should be president!
And has committed no crimes like Hillary who has committed murder.
@Димитър not the sharpest foreign tool, are ya?
How smart is a crow? Smarter than plenty of humans.
At the border of South Australia and West Australia is a fruit checking station. Some fruit is not allowed to be taken in to WA. I watched a crow salvage a tomato from a rubbish bin. Someone had dropped the tomato, in a plastic shopping bag, in the bin. The crow picked up the bag by one handle and swung it until the other handle caught on the side of the bin. It then tore the bag allowing the tomato to drop. It then retrieved its meal.
This is taken from a wonderful video called "A Murder of Crows" which is owned by PBS or someone. Anyhow what I wanted to say is this. The crow was not trained to do this. You are watching the very first time it was placed in this environment with the needed twig on the string. The crow combined what it had previously learned and made a tool to get another tool to get the food. The video also shows that crows are extremely good a human facial recognition. Almost frighteningly so. If you have a chance to see it, it is worth the half hour or so. Cheers.
ruclips.net/video/hBJKPwIFzDI/видео.html
its also banded on both legs
That some well deserved food. What astounds me is that the crow doesn't even try to get it without a stick. It knows that the head wouldn't fit. They are so smart, it's incredible.
These are amazing. Makes you realize how little we really know or appreciate the creatures around us. Seems like the crows are more trustworthy than some of our politicians.
how cute and to actually see it being resourceful like that is very enlightening
Of course a crow will instinctively use any stick as a crowbar.
PN Houle you saw the video? She sole an entire... (тригеред
Their fuckin' brains are like... 1/50th the size of ours, but yet they can figure out mechanical puzzles like this. That is intelligence beyond what we're comfortable with as humans. Amazing.
They might just have less glial cells than we do. Whales for example have way bigger brains than us, but because of the differences in brain tissue they function differently. Crows may have a higher concentration of the brain mater that makes you "smart"
Versatile, clever and patient. One can see the thinking process as the crow is working out how to sort out the problem. Measly reward for such work 😢
Wonderful birds.
so insult "bird brain" doesn't work anymore
Horacio Ulloa bird brain maybe small but body to brain ratio makes them smarter.
I've never seen someone use "Bird brain" as an insult.
Smarter than humans for sure.
smarter than some people that i know XD
Haha! The background music made it better 😃
The crow actually uploaded this video
I noticed something here and I might be reading too much into it, but there's one more thing. Pay attention to how he treats the tools after using them.
The tools are left carefully on the floor, not tossed away. Does it demonstrate an ability to think forward in time?
Hal shot first perhaps.... good observation
Probably upset they took away the long stick setting up the twig on the string. "Man, why they keep putting it back in the cage after I got it out already??"
Some crows actually make, keep and re-use tools. Their called new caledonian crows and they are really cool.
Hail to our new ~CROWVERLORDS~
+J-DogXXVIII Oh for the love of *crowist* that was a terrible pun...
Sorry, I'll just *Crowl* on outta here.
J-DogXXVIII That comment is going to make me *crowl* over in my grave.
xD
Okay, you guys are really crowver doing it now, seriously
Crow up already.
anyone who has ever just watched crows in the nature must have noticed that these animals are really smart.
one example is, when they sit on a road because theres food for example and they see a car coming, they only hop on the curb, because they know that cars wont drive on the curb. sometimes they even hop on the other lane. if you see a pigeon though, they almost always fly off
Not the city pigeons where I live. They are serious daredevils. They just barely step out of the way of passing cars, cyclists, pedestrians, buses, and trucks. They will keep pecking at something on the edge of a crowded sidewalk with people constantly passing by, apparently able to judge who is a threat and who isn’t; they realize most people don’t even notice them, or don’t care. When I am riding my bike they sometimes fly right down the middle of the street just front of me, swooping up a little bit just in time to avoid an oncoming vehicle. They are very acrobatic flyers with impressive street smarts.
1:57 savoring his intellectual victory?
Clearly looking into the camera as if to say "What else you got my way?"
Watching this baked out of my mind and I'm so glad I found it.
I need to capture one with my Pokeball
Murkrow.
ok
The only bird that freaks me out are the crows.
Quoth the raven
My dad had one as a pet when he was a kid. He said that it was way smarter than his dog. He taught it many tricks and had him for years as his pet. One day he flew away and came back in an hour, left the next day for a couple hours and returned with another crow. They both stayed for a while and then left and never returned.
At the end, you can see the crow cherishing/gloating before he ate the meat like "Yeah, I'm badass"
I recently read there are no crows in Ireland; that came as a shock. Untill I googled, I believed the Jackdaw was actually a hooded crow. Lol. These birds are so intelligent and so beautiful.
So far 30 people have given this a thumbs down. Maybe they felt intimidated.
This crow is much smarter than a lot of my co-workers at McDonalds.
This crow is smart enough that I feel uncomfortable seeing those things on its ankles while it's forced to solve puzzles for food.
It's no surprise they formed a band.
The raptors in Jurassic Park must have gotten their intelligence from crow DNA.
He is smarter than the average amarican
+Vadim Schmitz Don't make fun of something you cannot spell (:
+NaOnka english is not my native language so deal with it.
+Vadim Schmitz If English is indeed not your native language means you have not been in America for a good amount of time which means you should not be judging.
+NaOnka its just a joke, dont be so butthurt about it
+NaOnka He is right though, he said average American, not all americans
There was a crow on Dunsmuir who did my taxes two years ago. Bastard flew off with my return.
Wish we could get crows to think with portals
in my unique opinion, this crow is smarter then some humans i know
Ha,i would have to say the same!
smarter than you for example
thAn*
Than you?
Beautiful, intelligent creatures!
This small bird with a peanut sized brain is still smarter than most big dogs and cats. My dog can’t even go through a narrow door with a stick without figuring out how to turn her head to go through.
CROW FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!
Crows: one of less than a handful of species that actually MODIFIES their tools. There's a few videos on youtube that show this. One's called 'Tool-making Crows'. Another one is "Betty the Crow Modifies a Tool."
Please do something like this with a magpie...I would love to see my favourite bird in the world solving stuff like this out...it would make my day😊
If crows had opposable thumbs and the ability to form complex language, there's no telling what they'd be actually capable of, I'm not saying they're as intelligent as humans, but its still an interesting thought.
+BasePuma4007 Yeah,and if I had four arms I could eat dinner and fondle two women at the same time.
What is the point of if,just worry about what is.
+Ian Jackson you're a very boring person.
+BasePuma4007 They would most likely be relegated to a status similar to the house elf.
if this is what you would do if you had 4 arms then I really hope crows will take over this world soon.
Not a bad totem animal to have as your guide
Wow! They are amazing creatures. Thank you
Yeah the things the crows do in the video are amzing and all, but I keep rewatching this video just for the background music.
This bird is smarter than most engineers I know.
Flash news! the International Monetary Fund has decided that from now on, all staff positions will be awarded to crows. Projections show a 300% increase in economic growth over the next month.
Wow, that crow is really smart :)
Is this a wild crow?! Crows are awesome!
no hes tagged and prob been doing this all his life
...Oh. XD
*****
yes but i highly doubt this is a random wild crow off the street.ive never seen a crow in this country tagged
Calm down guys. It was just a question.
stephen88hox
You can't say that. He might have been caught that same day. It is routine to tag animals when conducting research so they can be easily identified from the other test subjects.
this bird is even smarter than both Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus combined.
Hurray for bird !!
Great success !!
How smart is a crow? There's a crow saying "Fuck you" to someone.
Jon Snow I saw this one funniest thing ever
You know nothing, dude.
I kid you not, I was feeding a wild crow at the zoo. What amazed me was that since I was feeding him hot cheetos, he was smart enough to rinse it first by a pond. I was impressed, he understood it was sort of spicy. Smart birds
Wow!!! I could watch this all day long and still not believe it...
Smarter than some people I know. There are many in the forest behind my home, and they are constantly talking to one another.
Not just primates. You would be amazed at how intelligent horses are, and they have used tools as well to get to food, or to let themselves in and out of their stalls or the pasture. They are great escape artists.
Meanwhile, americans are voting for Trump...
Trump would say this is not a smart crow he is smarter. This is stupid crow because its got captured.
If you live in the USA and you can vote then yes, I do want you to vote for Hillary. And no, I am not retarded "from birth", or from anything else.
I think on behalf of the rest of the world I'll have to throw that back and say:
"...if you're not from this country, mind your own affairs and leave our democracy to us."
I remember when the US was left to do democracy 13 years ago and it destabilized the middle east and flooded Europe with refugees.
***** It has something to do with the legitimacy of non-americans voicing their opinions about american politics. Minding our own affairs means we have to pay atttention to yours. When you do not get your shit together we suffer, and electing a tyrant like Trump would make the world suffer.
Many Birds are smarter than we think. Great video of figuring out how to get the food.
Pound for pound,the smartest creature on earth.
Crows can be very intelligent...
While in Boston the other day, I was walking down the road when I saw a chicken standing on the shoulder...just standing there...
I wondered why it didn't cross the road, then I heard it...a crow flying high above crying out its warning, "Cah..! Cah..! Cah..!!!"
literally better problem solving skills then me.
its official they're taking over the world one day.
Crows will conquer the world
This crow gets four bands, special crow!
Music goes well with this video, it makes you feel like "Ok, is he gonna get this...ok, he got it, yahhhh!"
how can you not love crows they are so awesome
Wow! They're smarter than many people I know!
I love how the crow just looks at us in the end while slowly chewing on his snack like: Is that the best you can do?!
In the wild they use stones to raise the water to drink :D
Crows also seem to be somewhat social. So clearly there is intelligence.
That crow is smarter than most people I know.
During summer last year I was watching a crow on a plot of grass near my house. It turned over one of the many clumps of dried grass cuttings and put something under it, then covered it up.
It then flew off to a nearby roof.
About 30 seconds later a different crow landed and started searching through the clumps of grass until it found the item the first one had hidden. It then flew over to where the first one was.
I'm convinced they were playing a game.
Wow. This crow is officially smarter than some people I know.
This crow has more intelligence than some people I've met. Oh, cool music.
This video proves, that crows are VERY SMART animals : )
I think it's very important to search for animal intelligence. When we learn that common everyday animals like crow can be intelligent like this, it might make us to think twice before hurting them. Like, I live in countryside, and it's common thing there people shoot these birds on fields. I can get it as agriculture is their living and everything depends on that, but still I keep on wondering, if there could be another, less violence way to "negotiate". Haha, you can call me weird :D
They are not that smart if they haven't yet figured out to not approach other people's stuff.
ICEGTN Lol :D Maybe the farmers should tell them in Crowish, that it's their property.
Yea, they doesn't :D But they do understand some kind of concept of "mine" and "yours", according to studies made in laboratories. Though I'm not sure if it's possible to use that knowledge in farms...
you definitely are not weird. happy to know people like you exist!
Haha thanks :D Yea, I think only by finding more information about things we can make more clever decisions.
And now millions of corporate drones are sweating...
Damn. This crow is more hardworking than me.
When you dont see the other crow filming and directing this
Adam Carolla brought me here he talks so much about them
3 degrees of complexity
Better than many 3rd world peoples
Smarter than all of my coworkers combined
A Crow taught me how to beat Shadow of the Colossus.
This is how crowfunding started.
Where you see that brain size doesn't matter so much…
Crows and Ravens are very smart. They have both shown "tool use". Both have shown "playful aspects."
That is why crows guard the Wall at the Night's Watch
That's some escape game shit right there
I for one welcome our new Crow overlords.
Smarter than some humans I know
More intelligent than most human beings
الغراب فعﻻ زكى جدا جدا، ونظرة حاد جدا ،ممكن يشوف الشارع من فوق عمارة 20 دور واكتر ، سبحان الله
The crow cannot grow really big
But it can dig and dig
And it looks like it is smart
Maybe it could make some art
Answer: smarter than me.