I used to feed the crows and ravens in front of my house. They recognized my generosity and would bring me all kinds of stuff like bottle caps, small toys and just random junk. My neighbor then shot one with a pellet gun, killing it and the entire murder of crows remembered him and basically stalked him for months. I live these birds and always give them respect.
Your neighbor did the songbird population a solid. Corvids often eat the young of native songbirds, when they don't just throw them out of the nest as eggs. In the UK many hunt them to protect songbird populations.
I had heard a bit ago that some crows had formed partnerships with wolf packs. The birds scout out potential prey, then signal to the pack where the prey is so that the wolves attack. The wolves get a meal, and the crows get the left overs. Even more recently, the crows were observed to be playing with the wolf cubs in order to form closer, life-long bonds.
There is a species of monkeys that work with a species of deer. I can’t remember it that well, but I think the deer share food with the monkeys, and the monkeys stay in the trees while the deer are gathering to alert them when the see predators like wolves or tigers
My son used to feed some crows every day waiting for the school bus. After a few months my son got bored with the whole thing (he was 7) well one day a crow flew down and dropped a dime by his feet. Another brought a thin shiny rock. I went inside grab bread and pecans.. anything I could think of... my son fed them and they flapped around a few minutes. Over the weekend we found bits of string wrapped around grass and shiny rocks. Like a thank you card. It was so amazing. We ended up moving a few months later and I often think about those crows. Altogether we got around 65 cents.. 8 years later and we still have most of the gifts. They are priceless to me.
I honestly really wish I had crows that lived around me. Obviously not all of them are the same, but as long as you can prove to be useful to them, you may find a few new outside friends. Smart animals are simply amazing
yea i had a pet crow well he flew on to of our hose and i gaved him food well her she had 2 sons and i think 1 of them were adoptef he did not look like the mom you know the duck story well its that but the ugly one gets the most care well the mom crow had a cousen too and he was a rely scared of peple but the mom crow started beliving on me good ending
My dad always tell the story of his roommate once kicking a crow walking from his car to work. Every day after that, the crows would peck and bend his windshield wipers until he had to replace them a few weeks later. Of course, they kept doing it to the new ones so he got a rental car the next day to try and make them forget what his car looked like. Only to find the rental cars wipers destroyed as well. They were watching him and saw that he arrived in a different car and changed their target
About a month or so ago some scientists here in Australia tried to study magpies by fitting them with tracking devices. They were like little backpacks that were meant to be difficult to remove, but the magpies found a weakness and had the first one removed only 10mins after it was fitted. I think it was less than 3 days before all the trackers had been removed
If it only took less than 3 days then they weren't actually difficult to remove. They probably underestimated bird intelligence and just gave it security they think would be good enough.
I read about that, the reason it was so easily removed is because the other magpies helped the tracked magpies remove the tracking devices, and the scientists didn't design the devices with such altruistic behaviours in mind, since it's a rare trait in most species. The devices were actually near impossible for a magpie to get it off by itself, they just didn't expect the magpies to get help!
@@lacunalshadow actually quite sad this. Most underested traits in animals are usually social, emotional or empathic behaviour, but i guess you need social, empathic scientists to come up with this....rather rare still nowadays as it seems...i hope this will change in the future
I was at a park one time, I heard a puppy barking and I couldn’t find it. Come to find out a crow right next to me was barking like a puppy to get my attention and he gave me a walnut to crack for him. Then when more crows came around he started to practice his crow before they arrived. You could tell he knew he would t fit in barking like his dog friends.
My uncle had a pet crow for a long time. I guess he found it out of his nest when it was a baby, he raised it up to where it was strong and healthy, when he tried to let it go free it just didn't want to leave. So my uncle let the bird stay. He was friendly to. I had a pet sparrow as a kid that did the same thing. I found it in the grass by a big tree in the yard, no feathers, and bug eyes and almost gone. We fed him bread soked in milk with a little sugar. In no time he was full grown and like a little pet. I tried to let him go at the park, I sat him on a tree branch and he had no idea what to do. He pecked the branch a few times and seemed like he was going to go with the other bird, but as I was walking away he landed on my shoulder and came back home with me 🙂 birds have a lot of character and personality. It's pretty cool
No doubt. One of my hardest pet losses was a cockatiel. Not wild, obviously, but birds in general can be so affectionate and charming once they bond to a human. She would get so excited when she heard me enter the house and would cry without stopping until I entered our room. She would always fly over to preen my hair and nudge her little head against mine whenever I was sitting down. It's making me tear up thinking of it now. It's no wonder why the Master is aware when a little sparrow dies. Birds have a very special relational capacity amongst people and themselves.
I had a pet crow. I took him in after the guy that originially tamed had him went to jail. After a couple weeks at my place, I left the door of his cage open so he could come and go as he pleased. He ended up living in the trees around my barn for years. I could call him and he would come to me. I fed him a bit of raw deer meat every day. I have so many funny stories about him. He loved to aggravate my barn cats. I fed the cats in the morning in this pie pan. The crow would fly down, shove that pan under a pallet in the feed room then cackle his head off as he watched the cats trying to get the pan back out from under the pallet. He would fly through the barn and dive bomb the cats with stuff. When he hit one he’d land in the rafters and cackle his head off. He was a cool pet but I’d warn anyone considering keeping a crow as a pet that they can be incredibly destructive birds especially when confined to small spaces.
A bird hit my window one time on a hot summer day when I was a teenager. I thought it was injured, so I brought it in in a shoebox. I kind of fucked up. I put bird seed and water next to it, and it drank a good amount of the water, and it ate a bit of the bird seed. It quickly perked up, seemingly fully recovered, and took off flying in my house like nothing had happened. I originally thought it was too injured to fly but I think it might have been knocked out and briefly disoriented. Luckily I found it trying to perch on one of the bricks laid in my fireplace wall, so I put my finger underneath it so it was able to perch on it instead. When I brought it outside though it didn't want to leave my finger. It kinda just looked calm and chill and didn't want to leave. I waited patiently, and it let me pet it and take a picture. But after 5 minutes it still wouldn't leave. I tried to nudge it and tap its feet to get it to take off but it still wouldn't budge. Eventually I had to gently kind of push it onto my bird feeder, and only then did it take off into the trees. To this day I still have no idea why it was so reluctant to leave. It was perfectly capable of flying, and appeared healthy. It was also a fully grown adult.
Crows also have an attraction to shiny objects like us humans do. During my career as a major crimes detective I went through a training program called "Recovery of Buried Bodies and Surface Remains" that was developed in Tennessee at what many people have heard called The Body Farm. Following classroom lecture, we formed into teams to search an area of farmlands where human remains had been hidden a full year prior to the seminar. It was a common crow that helped me find the starting point to check soil conditions and vegetation growth to begin our search after I spotted it going to what I mistakenly thought was a squirrel nest in the base of a tree. The bird was actually hiding stuff it collected, one of them being an earring belonging to the "victim" my teammates and I were assigned to locate. Out of the five separate teams in the class mine was the only one to successfully locate the remains. Makes me wonder if the outcome would have been different without the crow showing up. 🤔
Story of Abel and Cane in the Qur'an - a crow taught him how to bury the corpse فَبَعَثَ اللہُ غُرَابًا یَّبْحَثُ فِی الۡاَرْضِ لِیُرِیَہٗ کَیۡفَ یُوٰرِیۡ سَوْءَۃَ اَخِیۡہِ ؕ قَالَ یٰوَیۡلَتٰۤی اَعَجَزْتُ اَنْ اَکُوۡنَ مِثْلَ ہٰذَا الْغُرَابِ فَاُوٰرِیَ سَوْءَۃَ اَخِیۡ ۚ فَاَصْبَحَ مِنَ النّٰدِمِیۡنَ ﴿ۚۛۙ۳۱﴾ Then Allah sent a raven, scratching in the earth, so that he might show him, how he should hide the corpse of his brother. He said, ‘Oh woe is me! I could not be able even like this raven so that I may hide the corpse of my brother, Then he remained repenting. (Al-Maidah 5, Verse 31)
I was once walking home from work in an area where nobody was in that moment, during a winter, and I heard someone sneeze and said ”bless you” as a reflex. I looked around and realized there was nobody but a crow walking around, a few meters behind me, who had either sneezed exactly human-like, or was just messing with me. Needless to say I felt funny that day, for having said ”bless you” to a crow.
Corvids mimic human voices and sound better than parrots. I used to work for a Raptor rescue when I was in college. There was a Raven named Edgar Allan Crow there who used to talk a lot. Deformed beak, life long resident. One night, when I was out there doing a few duties around the birds toward the evening, the owner was on the top of the hill in her house, I heard the owner talking to me. It was a sharp, scolding and disciplinary tone. "What are you doing!?" I looked around anxiously. It came again, and again. Finally my eyes laid on Edgar, who looked at me, turned her head sideways and said again, very calmly this time, as if she was genuinely curious, "What are you doing???" I've been fond of these guys ever since. Amazing mimicry, sounded just like the owner.
Something not mentioned in this video is that Ravens teach their children how to use tools, which is INCREDIBLE in the animal kingdom, when animals use and understand tools it shows incredible intelligence and understanding and the most important thing is that they do this in the wild on their own, hard time reaching a bug? No problem grab a stick! That kind of thinking is what got humans where we are today. Like he said in the video they share information about things that are dangerous or helpful to the murder leading to success for the whole group. They also have a capacity for spite, playfulness and even mourning which shows emotional intelligence as well.
@@opinanlosjovenesrd3477 I can see why you would think that but it is definitely not in my opinion and just from the research i've done, crows mimicking speech without knowing what it means could be argued for sure but problem-solving at the level crows do isn't just mimicking or instinct. They can be taught to solve the puzzles scientists give them but no one taught them to smash walnuts on a pedestrian crosswalk to minimize the chances of getting run over. If all crosswalks completely changed in appearance and location the crows would still understand what they are and drop walnuts there. African grey parrots and some other parrots are great examples of animals who do properly understand words though and have been worked with for years to prove they know the meaning of words not just copying what they're told which is interesting.
Wolves and ravens have been found cohabitating and even playing together. Some people have theorized that individual ravens and wolves even form bonds. I wonder if ravens are on the cusp of domesticating dogs too. I wonder if one day we'll uplift corvids to be the next non-human persons on Earth.
I still remember the day when one of my friends attacked on crow. What happened next was epic. A full family of about 10 crows did not let him come out of home for about a month. Whenever he tried to go outside they were waiting for him outside and immediately attacked him every time.
A relative of my brother-in-law (no, this isn't a "friend of a friend" story) had tons of ravens around his house - he was a hunter and often hung out carcasses to cure them, but the ravens went "free food!" and so he took to bringing his gun out to fire a warning shot that'd scare them off for a while. Eventually they took off the moment they saw him bring it out, so he didn't have to fire it. Now, Sweden has fairly strict regulations on guns - one being that unless you have a license, don't touch them. And sometimes he had to be away from the house, and took the keys to the gun cabinet with him. His wife then had to guard the game from the ravens. But she couldn't use the gun without breaking the law. So he made a fake gun for her - it looked exactly like a real one... But the ravens weren't fooled. Not even when the guy himself used the fake, in case it was because of it being his wife doing it. Nope. *They could tell a fake gun from a real one.*
as a kid of about 12, i was on holiday with my parents. My parents were out of my sight. A big crow came landing on my arm and sat there comfortably for a few instants. Then it flew away. I never knew why he or she did it but il never forget my feeling for the animal: totally surprised, in awe, full of respect. Trying to observe this animal as much as i could. Hoping he would stay a little longer....
Everyone knew about this one crow in my town. The biggest crow I have every seen over the size of a rooster. It lived in the dumbster at Mcdonalds. One time it stole a burger right off tray and flew a short distance to open the wrapping. I ran to get it off the ground and this crow... this crow got in front of my burger and stood up to me. It flapped it's wings to show me it meant business and I walked away humiliated. Nobody blamed me because of how big it was. Even the Mcdonalds employees were afraid of it.
Okay, so i have story. I used to work at a grocery store. And I would always take my break around 1 pm. There was always a crow there staring at me. He looked friendly, so I started giving it food, but it would always stay on the roof. A couple of days passed and when I went on my break I wanted to eat as well. Suddenly a little sparrow started "attacking" my sandwich. I was so angry, I was trying to get it to leave, but it was a always coming back. Suddenly, out of nowhere, that crow attacked it and chased it away. It then went back on its usual place on the roof and looked at me like "I got you bro". Damn I miss that crow...the only good thing about that job...
I had a crow buddy that followed my car around, he lived at my parents and I was super friendly to him cause I love em so I would feed him treats, loved raw fajita (skirt steak) strips and my pistachios. So he would pop up if I was within a 15 mile radius, land next to the car or on top. He would sit above my window and when I rolled it down he would stick his head down and in to look at me kinda to confirm like he had landed on a similar car and saw a garbage person lol. I miss the guy, I'm sure he made a beautiful family over by the lake.
When I was a teen, I was sitting next to my mum in the car that one time. We were on our way home from buying groceries. She was driving down the country road and noticed a crow standing on the side of the road, looking in our direction. She slowed down and stopped the car (there were no other cars around us) and the crow hopped onto the street, walked across and hopped back up on the other side. And the way he walked... strutting very slowly, almost lazily, with his wings to his side it looked like he had "his arms" folded behind his back. A true gentleman.
I wonder if it was having trouble flying (across the road). Or, better yet, the murder had a standing bet on which crow could get a car to stop for it. 😂 - BG
We had a visually impaired wild born adult crow (detached retinas) live with us f9or just over 10 years. It devised a system of miming actions to tell us things, accompanied with crow language calls. She had her own sleeping hutch, complete with a heated perch, in the back garden and would spend the day in the garden before going to bed, in her hutch. She was a fussy eater (only ate cooked food) and would throw a hissy fit if the food item wasn't what she wanted at a particular moment. Her understanding of English became good enough to offer her a menu choice. Like all pet crows, she loved to be petted & made a fuss of. She became the centre of attention and we treated her like another human personality.
I befriended a wild crow one time. 2nd story apt window was level with the telephone/power lines. He first would land there caw and I'd put food on the ledge and walk back away from the window. In no time I had him landing, and walking inside through my open window to see what I was up to or if I had a treat for him. I named him Crowbert. My friends who would visit would come in and in no time they'd be like "where's Crowbert, was he around yet?" So many cool encounters. I watched crows on the roof of another building play keep away with a ball they found. They would hop and chase whoever had the ball in their beaks and knock it out. Next crow would grab it and hop around trying to avoid the attempts by the other crows to knock it out. Amazing birds.
I saw a flock of ravens playing some.kind of ball game with a chunk of ice one time. One would pick it up in its claws and fly aloft with it while the others swirled and dived at it, trying to get it to drop the ice, then another would snatch the falling chunk of ice out of midair and the game would continue...
I found an injured crow in my yard a few years ago (It looked like it's wing had been shot with a pellet gun) and I took it him and nursed it back to health for a couple of weeks. I fed it in the yard for a day, and then got a blanket, went outside, and threw the blanket over him, so I could pick him up without getting bit or clawed. When I threw the blanket, he played dead all the way into the house. They are super smart, but also have an attitude big time. My crow (I named Edgar because I though it was a raven at first) would like purposely spill his water and wait for me to come clean it up, so he could peck my hand. And, when I put him outside in his big cage, he would throw his food and water all over the cage, and he figured out how to unlock the cage too. Anyway, after a few days, I let him go and he flew away, so I guess he healed. They are so smart, but I don't know if they would make a good pet.
First mistake is having a "pet" mentality. It's a wild animal. Trying to "keep" it is as wrong as slavery. Coexist with it as a friend. It will come back if and when it wants to, and should be free to make its own decisions and live it's life as it sees fit.
It was already a wild animal probably it had a bad attitude..if u raised it as a baby that crow wouldn't go anywhere and all it would know is u ..speaking from experience
This reminds me of one time I was waiting at a bus stop and was eating a burger and some fries I had gotten at my local burger joint. I noticed a crow was sitting at a table across from me and I was curious and put out a single fry from my bag across from me and the crow flew over to me and took it. Right after I did that I looked up and saw a few dozen crows were watching me hoping to put out some more. I would over time set down one fry after the other and watch a crow come and eat it. One crow in particular was super cute and landed on my table, had his wings half-raised and staring at me as he got closer to the fry, paused for a second, then took the fry and fled. Once my bus showed up I poured the rest of my fries on the table and all the crows came to eat what I laid out for them. Loved these animals ever since
Crows are actually polite about it. If you feed a fry to a seagull, they mob you and steal your food, not caring if they land on your head with their scratchy feet.
I hate Herring Gulls cheeky greedy thieving little bar stewards, one stole my fish out of my hands another crapped in my roast potato with mayonnaise in lucky l saw it l had just bought it at Manchester market turned my head as l was turning back l saw its mess go into my mayonnaise, grrrr.. If l had had my airgun with me I'd have shot it in the arse. 😂
I had a pet crow for a few years, he did learn how to say a few words, got really good at it too. Edit: 7:00 they do commit crime, maybe not human crimes but they steal from one another a great deal, crows have been observed to pretend to hide food a few times before actually hiding it, then pretending to hide it a few more times, just to throw off observing crows that are going to steal their stash later.
I have a few Ravens, Crows, And Magpies where I live and we kept feeding them whenever they showed up, And each time we fed them they would always get closer and more comfortable being around us, One almost came into our house lol, I remember watching a video about a guy who feeds a bunch of different birds in his yard and he noticed that the Corvidaes waited until all the other birds were done and they didn’t get much food, So every time he went out to feed them he would ring a bell and the Corvidaes noticed this and arrived first compared to the other birds who didn’t pick up on the bell ringing meaning food, Some of them even came into his house almost like what happened to us lol, It’s quite fascinating.
i had a gang of 3 ravens that would patrol my street every morning. wouldnt fly, they would just walk up and down the side walk. it was crazy to me because they kind of just.... walked. not the bird hop im used to seeing.... and they even had a confident strut. i even started waking up earlier just to catch em. miss those birds
It's my understanding that ants have an anti-bacterial affect. Some tribes put cloth ove an ant hill, and after it's been covered in ants for a while, the cloth is used as a bandage for an open wound.
Yeah that's because ants mix things together to make stuff with antibacterial properties and then spread it around the colony to avoid sickness. They even have a graveyard and only certain ants are allowed to deal with them.
I once rescued a raven with a broken wing...he understood that I was not a threat. One day he flew away and I thought I'd never see him again..to my surprise, I actually found a "goodbye letter" addressed to me laying inside the bird cage..I couldn't believe it. He thanked me for my kindness..the low and behold,I began to notice a bird flying above me or my car or my house...turns out it was the crow..he was bringing me gold rings and small gold bars...I developed feelings for him and we had a thing going for awhile. I'll always remember those days..still have the letter too if anyone wants to see it
Raven/Crows are some of the most fascinating birds out there with just how intelligent they are. Another interesting thing about them is how they can develop bonds with wolves
@@RemyKingKen the raven/crows will help the wolves in their hunt so that way they will get the the left over from the hunt and because they can recognize other animals (like humans) in time they will start developing bonds with the wolves (particularly the pups) and will try and play with them like playfully tugging at their tails so that they will chase them. It’s really interesting stuff. In fact in some Native American cultures, the raven was considered to the sister of the wolf, and in Norse mythology the crow and wolves would accompany Odin (the main Norse god) Also they have been known to give people who feed them gifts (generally shiny things that crows like)
@@daryno9047 I’ve actually heard some of those things but never thought they were all related. Nice to know nature really is a circle. It all makes so much sense now
@@daryno9047 if true, this adds fuel to the knowledge fire on the theory that corvids helped early hominid (homo sapien acestor's evolve) because guess what? Homosapiens & wolves co-evolved, and possibly helped lay the foundation for breaking away from hunter gatherers into agriculture aka, the genesis of state level (complex, non-subsistence based) societies, with institutions like organized religion, government, politics, etc etc.... thanks for the info!
The pointing at objects is similar to how domesticated dogs have evolved with us. They literally look at what a person points to. There are so keen that even just looking at a certain direction ( just moving your eyes , not your head) they will likely look at it as well. Pretty fascinating stuff.
you reminded me of my neighbour who taught his dog to bark at a specified person, only with eye indication. The pup knew he had to only scare the person just for fun and enjoyed the trick as much.
Dogs have an inborn ability, or at least desire, to read human faces. It's not a skill that serves them with other dogs or anything else, it's just to read people.
Frankly I don't get it either that saying no other animal points at objects, at least my dogs have been pointing with their nose towards stuff or places where stuff they want is, it's rather obvious even, dogs definitely know how to communicate.
Every morning, I feed a family of crows in my front yard. One crow, I named Myron, calls to me as soon as I open the door. Once I put out food, he signals others with a special call so they can eat too. Last week, I was in the back of the house and he saw me open the BACK door. He called out to me! These birds know us personally! I enjoy interacting with them!
yeah lol, I think there's an old clip on youtube of a raven saying nevermore. they were trained to speak it, obviously, but they are pretty great mimics with good accuracy.
I’ve been interested in learning about crows and other birds. As I walk to my bus stop, there’s the same crow sitting on this street light half way there. I’ve made an effort to look at the crow every morning so it remembers me, and it does. Now every so often the crow will actually wave at me almost saluting. It does this until I do it back, and then it either goes back to just watching me walk away, or does a small dance. Crows are really cool creatures. I hope there will be more information on these birds later on as they continue to get smarter.
I had a friend that lived in Boston and met a crow that got stuck in a fishing line. He freed it and the crow remembered him and was genuinely grateful. It actually followed him around and even allowed him to pet it.
Once I saw a crow walk up to a bunch of potato chips in a parking lot and pick each chip up and make a pile so he could pick it all up at once and fly away with it.
I've watched Australian Magpies closely for decades and I think their weird picking on the baby is to discourage dependent behaviour and prepare them to be kicked out of the territory as soon as they mature, a few months later. It's just what they do, they don't socialise like crows and ravens, they make annual nuclear families. Silly little buggers, got to love 'em.
One time I picked up a Raven that was in the road so I could bury it as I didn't want it squished all over the road. I had the thing in the back of my truck and when I came outside there were dozens of Ravens sitting in the trees around my house. None of them was making any noise. ALL of them were staring at me. Absolutely one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life. I buried the Raven and since then I've had mad respect for Ravens. I think many of them in town recognize me and follow me as I often toss food offerings for them.
They don’t trust humans that are seen with a dead member of their species. A scientist out West tested that by wearing a mask and placing a dead crow outside. If she wore the mask again, they would all give warning calls. Of course, the mask was absolute nightmare fuel, so I don’t blame them.
@@evilsharkey8954 That was the general vibe I got. It seemed like they were trying to send me a message not to fuck wit them. I don't know what it would be like to have fifty Ravens attack you at once but I'd rather not find out.
@@alaskansummertime wait till they start dropping rocks from the sky on you and your car (if they really hate you) lol. It happened to some kid who bullied a injured crow at school. These birds are smart.
Seriously, our European magpies make nests out of steel wire. And it's not even unique, they like steel nests! They just steal it. They are on another dimension compared to birds. Monkeys that fly. Extremely intelligent.
I once found a baby magpie on the street and it literally came to me to be saved of all the people that passed she sensed that I am the one who loves animals and birds and I had her for some time until my dad let her out but I miss her a lot and was amazed everyday by her intelligence
One time I was driving in my neighborhood and noticed that in some sections of the road, as you pass by, immediately crows rush from tree tops to look for something on the road, I got curious so one time I stopped close to such a spot to see why they were doing it, it turns out they have these spots where they throw nuts on sections of road in order to have cars run over them and crack them, then they rush in to check if the nuts were cracked.
I love ravens/crows, once when I was little a crow or raven dropped a walnut exactly under my foot as I was about to step down to break it open and I was so impressed because the precision that took was unbelievable, the fact that a bird did that blew my mind
I have had crows at my summerhouse for years and they are most interesting birds. One year there was a couple after whom I could check the time. They came for a walk on my lawn EVERY day punctually at 4 PM ! One year there was a couple who constantly quarreld. There fights were so noisy that I was quite releaved when they did not nest near me next year. Once I saw that the male crow got a piece of bread, he was taking it to the nest where female was sitting on eggs. He flew to the ground under the nest tree, ate half of the bread, then looked up whether he had been noticed and when everything was quiet , ate some more. Then he took the piece that was left , and flew proudly to feed his mate. But that look up, that was really SOMETHING. Etc.
Every once in a while I had an owl perch in my backyard, which was wild cuz I lived close to the city center! Anyway when he did, the crows got p¡ssed! They'd scream at the owl, to leave I suppose, getting all their buddies over to scream at this owl to leave. The owl didn't seem to care. Don't know how he slept thru that! I know I couldn't! I love crows & owls but that was unpleasant!
I don't know why, but "Imagine the shock of the first crow that fell into an anthill and suddenly discovered it actually felt, nice" and then you watch its pupils just expand... I actually burst out laughing at work.
Don’t forget about how octopi can learn to grab a bunch of shells at once, and pull them over their heads as armor, grab halves of a coconut as a portable home, I even heard that some octopi (or were they squids, one or the other) that had a WAR down there, one group fighting another with sharp shells, and what is even more impressive is that our most recent common ancestor was some sort of worm like creature, so their intelligence evolved completely separately from ours, they are the closest thing we have on earth to an alien intelligence, the reason why they haven’t invented what are basically space suits to come onto land for more than 10 minutes at a time is because they can’t pass on their knowledge to their offspring due to their lifecycle causing them to be orphaned almost immediately before/after hatching
@@ElderWillows I just looked it up, and while I was lied to about the sharp shells, they do live in a community, and they were throwing rocks, a behavior previously only seen in primates
@@MrNathan23554 real world octopi have basically every superpower, they can regenerate, squeeze through spaces a small fraction of their size (an octopus with a radius of a meter can fit through a hole the size of a quarter) they can camouflage (both color and texture), they are really strong, the mimic octopus can pretend to be other animals, crawl onto land for about 10 minutes , cuttle fish (a type of cephalopod. Though not an octopus) can hypnotize fish, and all cephalopods have a siphon that they can use as an under water jet pack. The only reason they aren’t at our level of civilization is because their lifecycle makes it so they are orphaned almost immediately after they hatch
I was waiting on the train a few years ago and a young crow was hopping around the people who were having something to snack while waiting. Obviously waiting for something to fall or the likes, but it was hopping around all round and floofed and being adorable looking so one of the people there broke off a piece and tossed it over. After which the bird stretched out and smoothed its feathers into a visual approximation of a lanky teen, snagged up the food and flew off. It was deliberately appearing cuter and younger to bum food. Because people like the cute and round looking ones better.
A study was actually conducted (I remember since it happened in my Alma mater) that showed they could recognize faces and would act more aggressive towards the people that had chased them off, to the point of vengeance (for the purpose of the experiments, no birds were harmed. Mildly annoyed and scared though….)
In quarantine, a murder of crows lived in our back yard. I remember my dad threw crackers out on the lawn for them all to share, but only one crow took all the crackers for his/herself. It was really funny because it’s like a 7 year old taking all the cookies in a cookie jar for themself 😂
Actually, this intelligence isn't indicative of dinosaur intelligence. One of the closest living genetic relatives is the domestic chicken, so that would best represent Saurid intelligence.
Actually, this intelligence isn't indicative of dinosaur intelligence. One of the closest living genetic relatives is the domestic chicken, so that would best represent Saurid intelligence.
We have a raven (Jack) who lives on our deck, he has his own nest box (with a small heater in it) and he loves to come get scritches on his head and we feed him fruit, nuts, and salt-free jerky. We've tried to get him to talk, to teach him words, but he's not very interested and just wants to hang out. Sometimes we find weird random things on the deck by the door; fishing lures, sunglasses, bolts, costume jewelry, etc., they're his way of paying us back in barter for giving him a home. I think that's a good trade.
I was raised in a Muslim family, and was thought a lot about the religion. a Story 2 sons of Adam fought each other and one of them died. the one who won the fight didn't know what to do with his brother's body until he saw a 2 crows fought, one died and the other buried the dead crow. Muslims believe Crow/Raven is the first teacher to Human. so its very interesting that other cultures have similar believe!
After witnessing human stupidity, I'm fully convinced that some animals are smarter than full grown adult humans. I've seen people act dumber than a Koala, and I think that says a lot.
I’ve come to think the difference between animals and humans is insecurity- I think our over grown self awareness means we simply cannot experience the clear cognitive freedom an animal does. Arrogance means we deem our position is that of superiority, dumb asses.
I once had a dog who learned to turn on the faucet. He also liked to jump on the trampoline by himself. What would amaze me is if they also turned off the water when finished.
I was born in Bangladesh and in my primary school books in 1982 + > there was an animation story of a thirsty Crow next to a water vessel and the story went crow saw a little water at the bottom but the bottle-neck shape of the vessel didn't allow it to dip it's head and drink from the bottom so it kept picking stones and pebbles 1 by 1 to fill the vessel until the water reached to the top and it drank; these observations and knowledge has been known. In the Holy Quran it explains how Caine and Able (Habil and Kabil), which ever of the two murdered his brother and didn't know what to do with his brothers corpse then observes a Raven which burries another dead Raven in the ground and watching the Raven and learning from it He becomes remorseful that he had to learn from a Raven what he should do with his own brothers dead body and how weak he is in reality but his ego and jealousy made him feel falsely entitled and arrogant so much so that it made him to take another human life.
When I was a kid, sleeping with my window open, I was woken by a small black feathered bird talking to me thru the screen. I actually got up & went over to the window & sat on a built in set of drawers to talk to the bird. I looked out the window to see about 45 crows sitting on the neighbor's house, wires, & ground. The bird who was talking was about 1/2 the size of the crows. After about 2 1/2 minutes, I thought to myself: "Wow, I'm talking to a damn bird." Up to that point I thought nothing of it, just like talking to a human. At that thought, the bird said: "Well, I got to go." It took off, & all the bigger crows left with it.
I had an Australian raven that I rescued and it liked to take anything that was gold and silver, he/she eventually realised where all my coins where and one day I couldn't find my walled when I got up for work, (keep in mind it was still wild not a pet it just came back daily to say hi and bring gifts and I left my window open for it) turns out this little bugger stole it and was giving my money to his girlfriend 😂 I found a nest in my tree and it was filled with coins it had started stealing from everyone, I used to go to the nest every day and collect coins like they were chicken eggs and would feed them in return and Because they didn't have to spend lots of time hunting one of them went on daily coin hunts. In the 2 years they lived with me I accumulated over 500 dollars which I got my sons first trampoline with, these birds are brilliant so smart majestic and gorgeous. I love them so much, but then again I love every animal on this planet accept humans :)
"Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!" Luke 12:24
Lol 🤣 I befriended the crows in my area and it's hilarious they think they're using me but I'm using them. I have chickens and I like to let them over on the yard. We have a lot of foxes and eagles in the area so I'm always scared that they will attack my chickens. One time I noticed the crows dive bombing an eagle so I start leaving food for the crows in a safe spot so they hang around my chicken coop. They leave the chickens alone because the chickens can't do anything to them and they chase away squirrels, eagles and sometimes foxes. And the only time they really do squawk is when there is no food in there feeder other than when they chase a way other animals.
Side note they hate my neighbor. He started yelling at them and using a bullhorn to get rid of them so they squawk at him and throw acorns (and rocks) at his Tesla there are a bunch of dents in this car.
My mom was in Barstow in the truck stop fuel island feeding crows. After a minute, a huge Raven landed on her mirror and ate the fries out of her hand.
@@jacobhoover1654 well those crows were then taught by higher intelligent crows that even gave Rick a run for his money. Rick himself even admits that their tech was some next level shit
I live on the top floor of a 6 floor apartment building. I have a terrace. A week ago, i left some chicken meat on the terrace. The next morning, it was gone. When i walked out of the front door of the building (same day), a chicken bone gel right in front of my feet. Looked up, amd a raven greeted me, sitting on a lamp post. I kid you not. A week later, i again left some chicken meat (leftovers) on my terrace. The next day, it was gone. Instead, i had a small opened pack of cookies on my terrace :))) No way it somehow flew up here with the wind or something. 😁
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@@scratchy996 This would actually be quite an amazing process of evolution. However, it'd probably quite hard to ever find evidence for this, so it remains more of a speculation.
Fascinating video! Didn't know crows could talk/imitate sounds. I once had a Common Grackle and a Blue Jay housed together. They weren't releasable and became companions. With one at one end of the enclosure and one at the other, they would communicate with one another. Grackle sounded like a Blue Jay and vice versa. They would also toss a waffle ball cat toy with a bell inside to each other for entertainment. Laughing? I had a Starling in my aviary with other species of birds. One morning the birds were crowded around their various food and Kramer, the Starling, couldn't get near. He shrieked like a hawk and terrified the others into flight. Casually, Kramer walked over to the food saying, "Mine. Mine. Mine" and laughed ! Thanks for the video! 🖖🐾
Had an African grey parrot. His intelligence surprised me and others a lot. He had to be left in his cage when no one was home just so he doesn't destroy things as he was still playing like an 8 year old human, but he learnt how to open it, and it was locked from the outside. Then we tried using a screw so it was impossible to open it even if he unlocked it, but he quickly learnt to unscrew it and got out anyway. Then we just ditched trying to lock the cage after a few attempts and just allowed him to be in one room when we left him alone. The cage just acted like his comfort zone where he ate, slept, played and did his business at. He was part of the family and felt like he was my little brother. Miss that chap, he moved to another home after my mother's mental health problems got worse and so did I
My wife saw a fox going from home to home, specific homes, with a bag !! yes a bag used as a … bag. He was putting the food into it … and carrying the bag to the next house , and the next house, she saw him do this several times. With the same bag :-) ++ i saw a crow breaking nuts by letting them fall on the concrete, and since it wouldn't break, fliying higher ... till it would work ++ My dog had humor and would mock at people, knowing that he was tall and impressive ... he played systematicaly with that. ++ In my acquarium, the cychlids are fishes from central africa. well they need a cave to make kids and then walk them in the tank !! very defensively so that the other don't eat them. ++ Animals are incredible. Incredible.
Every time the theme of crows and ravens come up, I remember that 4chan story about a dude that trained a bunch of them, while terrorizing other group. Which finally led up to a bird war outside his works parking lot. One group fighting bc they despised the guy and the other bc they appreciate him
Q: "If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, could some of them develop human- like intelligence?" A: "They weren't all extinct, and some did. Look at corvids."
Almost every creature on this earth that has had interactions with humans has learned something from said interaction Why do you think a gathering of crows is called a murder of crows? In the dark ages it was the sign of death in the area when crows would gather
Actually, ants do depend on other animals. For example, ants raise aphids like dairy cows. They drink the aphids honey sap (can't remember what it's called rn) after they tap on the aphids with their antennae!
canadian, currently have a murder of atleast 13 wild crows that im aware of who pose for photos, listen to VERY basic commands like telling them to move, look, pose or come closer. this has been over the coarse of a year and started with 1 that i rescued and named gary (same day release). i know theres easily 30+ locally who trust me and the numbers just keep exponentially increasing. ide also argue canadian geese r showing increased intelligence from human facial recognition, speech recognition and even basic commands as listed above. maybe im looking into it to much but as someone who has had a fairly consistent routine involving paying attention to everything around me ive just noticed an extreme increase in most avian intelligence since covid. the last year or so just feels like a borderline fever dream at times wen it comes to the capabilities and actions of some of the local wild life both in and out of the city.
Went to the tower of London when my wife and I were on our honeymoon. Got yelled at for handling and petting the ravens. I stopped and walked away but one hopped on my shoulder and wouldn't get off. They were not enthused I was dying laughing.
I've had cats that see how doorknobs/handles and faucets work, and try to like jump up and turn the doorknob with their paws... but most cats don't, and those cats were exceptionally intelligent in general... though I do think cats are way smarter in general than most people give them credit for. And it's not uncommon for them to be very emotionally attached to you, follow you around, greet you when you get back, sleep with you, etc, like a lot of people think only dogs will do.
I worked at a tire shop and noticed a few corvids flying around. I fed them and soon that few turned into hundreds. It was a fun experience being able to feed all of them
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that crow almost speaking our language. I was always told that only parrots could speak our language but now crows are doing it too? What if crows are evolving into speaking human language and then starting to understand what those words mean?
They know what the word means well before they can mimic it. I once asked my dog if he wanted his "Toy" and when he got all excited i said "Toy - Outside" and he tilted his head in amazement and ran outside to grab his toy.
We were renovating our house while living in our toolshed, my wife was cooking all our meals outdoor like at camp. Those bastards were waiting every morning for our eggs to be boiled, but they figured it out that as long we are able to see them, they will be unsuccessful. So after a few days they weren't there anymore staring at us cooking, but as soon my wife turned around and went to the garage to get dishes, our eggs were gone!!😀 They figured it out that not being seen is the way to get what they want, so they were hiding somewhere in trees to make us think it's safe to leave eggs unattended!! After the first couple of times our human IQ kicked in finally and we didn't leave them unattended again. Even a heavy lid and boiling hot water wouldn't stop them!!
That's real cool, you know other animals can point too. squirrels often point to tell me to put the nuts down on the ground if I hold it out. they usually wait a few seconds and if i don't do it they'll point with their noses and eyes where they want me to place the nuts. If I asked my dog where his ball was he would point in the direction with his eyes usually. it's so cute. I'd do the same thing. they dont seem to understand when you point with your finger but maybe try pointing to something with your eyes or face
I have a large number of Crows living near me and they are absurdly smart. Just so much fun to watch. Easily one of my favorite birds especially in the winter when you see their cleverness at work as they survive the harsh Wisconsin winters.
2 years ago, I attacked crows in my previous house i lived, when i changed the house and gone to roof every crows attacked me but not my parents, i think they realy identify persons 😂 😂 😂
yeah, they do. they hold grudges far longer than humans. they remember faces, and even if they haven't seen that person, they'll still know who they are because of other crows and their interactions with that person. this feud could literally last for multiple crow generations.
@@myrkr_ Wow!! This explains why i sometimes got crows all over town acting like they think i got food Because the ones i feed in my neighborhood somehow gettin the word out!!!
@@GORILLA_PIMP oh, for sure. feed one constantly, and it'll tell its friends/family about you, and eventually you'll have more than one crow come visit when its feeding time.
My family brought in a magpie fledgling with a broken wing when I was little. When we released him, he refused to leave and when we went on a three-month vacation, he decided to join. There, he made himself a nest and stole everything we had and took it to the nest (socks, money, shiny stuff, ...). Once he took all of our dish scrub scotches and my mom had to go to the village to get replacements. When she came back, to her surprise, the magpie had brought back all of them and put them at the spot he had picked them (I think he had realized his new carpets were to rough)! He was also a bit of a sadist. If he learned that something pisses somebody off, he made a habit of doing it. If you stopped reacting for a while, he put down the habit. If my mom picked up flowers and brought them in, he took off the petals one by one and made a sound everytime to make sure that my mom sees him and gets angry. If he learned that somebody is afraid of him, he followed that person and if someone yelled at him, he revenged by pecking the yeller on the head of his big toe when he was reading a book or something (sometimes a day or two later)! He actually became so famous amongst the villagers that the village kids decided to kidnap (or magpienapped?) him (we found and saved him the first time, but we failed to find him the second time).
I used to feed the crows and ravens in front of my house. They recognized my generosity and would bring me all kinds of stuff like bottle caps, small toys and just random junk. My neighbor then shot one with a pellet gun, killing it and the entire murder of crows remembered him and basically stalked him for months. I live these birds and always give them respect.
Your neighbour is an a**hole. But you seem to be a great guy. Corvids are just great birds.
Cool
A friends father tried to shoot one too, way back when. I hate people like that.
Your neighbor did the songbird population a solid. Corvids often eat the young of native songbirds, when they don't just throw them out of the nest as eggs. In the UK many hunt them to protect songbird populations.
Yeah this totally happened lol
I had heard a bit ago that some crows had formed partnerships with wolf packs. The birds scout out potential prey, then signal to the pack where the prey is so that the wolves attack. The wolves get a meal, and the crows get the left overs. Even more recently, the crows were observed to be playing with the wolf cubs in order to form closer, life-long bonds.
That is really interesting
fuck, life is a disney movie
Amy source pls
Wow. Impressed. I think we better watch out for them. Friend. Good. Foe not so good.
There is a species of monkeys that work with a species of deer. I can’t remember it that well, but I think the deer share food with the monkeys, and the monkeys stay in the trees while the deer are gathering to alert them when the see predators like wolves or tigers
My son used to feed some crows every day waiting for the school bus. After a few months my son got bored with the whole thing (he was 7) well one day a crow flew down and dropped a dime by his feet. Another brought a thin shiny rock. I went inside grab bread and pecans.. anything I could think of... my son fed them and they flapped around a few minutes. Over the weekend we found bits of string wrapped around grass and shiny rocks. Like a thank you card. It was so amazing. We ended up moving a few months later and I often think about those crows. Altogether we got around 65 cents.. 8 years later and we still have most of the gifts. They are priceless to me.
I honestly really wish I had crows that lived around me. Obviously not all of them are the same, but as long as you can prove to be useful to them, you may find a few new outside friends. Smart animals are simply amazing
Canada has too many crows
@@Curtis_Fu hey now, I didn't ask for a few thousand Crows lol, just a few
I'd take crows over these pidgeons and grackles.
yea i had a pet crow well he flew on to of our hose and i gaved him food well her she had 2 sons and i think 1 of them were adoptef he did not look like the mom you know the duck story well its that but the ugly one gets the most care well the mom crow had a cousen too and he was a rely scared of peple but the mom crow started beliving on me good ending
Honestly I think it would be possible to teach them how to steal money lol.
My dad always tell the story of his roommate once kicking a crow walking from his car to work. Every day after that, the crows would peck and bend his windshield wipers until he had to replace them a few weeks later. Of course, they kept doing it to the new ones so he got a rental car the next day to try and make them forget what his car looked like. Only to find the rental cars wipers destroyed as well. They were watching him and saw that he arrived in a different car and changed their target
Crows hold a grudge, yo.
Gotta love crows.
he had it coming
I have a suspicion that all the fables of crows being evil were written by people who were assholes that messed with crows.
@@float32 lol That sounds about right.
About a month or so ago some scientists here in Australia tried to study magpies by fitting them with tracking devices. They were like little backpacks that were meant to be difficult to remove, but the magpies found a weakness and had the first one removed only 10mins after it was fitted. I think it was less than 3 days before all the trackers had been removed
If it only took less than 3 days then they weren't actually difficult to remove. They probably underestimated bird intelligence and just gave it security they think would be good enough.
I read about that, the reason it was so easily removed is because the other magpies helped the tracked magpies remove the tracking devices, and the scientists didn't design the devices with such altruistic behaviours in mind, since it's a rare trait in most species. The devices were actually near impossible for a magpie to get it off by itself, they just didn't expect the magpies to get help!
@@lacunalshadow actually quite sad this. Most underested traits in animals are usually social, emotional or empathic behaviour, but i guess you need social, empathic scientists to come up with this....rather rare still nowadays as it seems...i hope this will change in the future
The chad crows
bruh Australia can't even won a war against emus back in 1932, just saying
I was at a park one time, I heard a puppy barking and I couldn’t find it. Come to find out a crow right next to me was barking like a puppy to get my attention and he gave me a walnut to crack for him. Then when more crows came around he started to practice his crow before they arrived. You could tell he knew he would t fit in barking like his dog friends.
he wanted to keep his secret, intellectual property you know.
Yo that’s so smart and you are pretty lucky to find that
Amazing! Crows are marvelous creatures.
@Mandi Hamm what did that crow know about you 🤔
@Mandi Hamm 🤣
WATOP: "Why would a crow need a knife anyway?"
Crow: "Wouldn't you like to know, weatherboy?"
Ah, I see you're a person of culture
WATOP: "The crow seems sketchy"
The crow WAS the murderer; they were returning to the scene of the crime!!
@@dandeleon2764 A whole new meaning to a murder of crows.
I am 1kth like. Your welcome ;).
My uncle had a pet crow for a long time. I guess he found it out of his nest when it was a baby, he raised it up to where it was strong and healthy, when he tried to let it go free it just didn't want to leave. So my uncle let the bird stay. He was friendly to. I had a pet sparrow as a kid that did the same thing. I found it in the grass by a big tree in the yard, no feathers, and bug eyes and almost gone. We fed him bread soked in milk with a little sugar. In no time he was full grown and like a little pet. I tried to let him go at the park, I sat him on a tree branch and he had no idea what to do. He pecked the branch a few times and seemed like he was going to go with the other bird, but as I was walking away he landed on my shoulder and came back home with me 🙂 birds have a lot of character and personality. It's pretty cool
No doubt. One of my hardest pet losses was a cockatiel. Not wild, obviously, but birds in general can be so affectionate and charming once they bond to a human. She would get so excited when she heard me enter the house and would cry without stopping until I entered our room. She would always fly over to preen my hair and nudge her little head against mine whenever I was sitting down. It's making me tear up thinking of it now.
It's no wonder why the Master is aware when a little sparrow dies. Birds have a very special relational capacity amongst people and themselves.
@@thewardenofoz3324 absolutely my friend 🙂
I had a pet crow. I took him in after the guy that originially tamed had him went to jail.
After a couple weeks at my place, I left the door of his cage open so he could come and go as he pleased. He ended up living in the trees around my barn for years. I could call him and he would come to me. I fed him a bit of raw deer meat every day. I have so many funny stories about him. He loved to aggravate my barn cats. I fed the cats in the morning in this pie pan. The crow would fly down, shove that pan under a pallet in the feed room then cackle his head off as he watched the cats trying to get the pan back out from under the pallet. He would fly through the barn and dive bomb the cats with stuff. When he hit one he’d land in the rafters and cackle his head off.
He was a cool pet but I’d warn anyone considering keeping a crow as a pet that they can be incredibly destructive birds especially when confined to small spaces.
lol I love it
A bird hit my window one time on a hot summer day when I was a teenager. I thought it was injured, so I brought it in in a shoebox.
I kind of fucked up. I put bird seed and water next to it, and it drank a good amount of the water, and it ate a bit of the bird seed. It quickly perked up, seemingly fully recovered, and took off flying in my house like nothing had happened. I originally thought it was too injured to fly but I think it might have been knocked out and briefly disoriented.
Luckily I found it trying to perch on one of the bricks laid in my fireplace wall, so I put my finger underneath it so it was able to perch on it instead.
When I brought it outside though it didn't want to leave my finger. It kinda just looked calm and chill and didn't want to leave. I waited patiently, and it let me pet it and take a picture. But after 5 minutes it still wouldn't leave. I tried to nudge it and tap its feet to get it to take off but it still wouldn't budge. Eventually I had to gently kind of push it onto my bird feeder, and only then did it take off into the trees.
To this day I still have no idea why it was so reluctant to leave. It was perfectly capable of flying, and appeared healthy. It was also a fully grown adult.
Crows also have an attraction to shiny objects like us humans do. During my career as a major crimes detective I went through a training program called "Recovery of Buried Bodies and Surface Remains" that was developed in Tennessee at what many people have heard called The Body Farm.
Following classroom lecture, we formed into teams to search an area of farmlands where human remains had been hidden a full year prior to the seminar. It was a common crow that helped me find the starting point to check soil conditions and vegetation growth to begin our search after I spotted it going to what I mistakenly thought was a squirrel nest in the base of a tree. The bird was actually hiding stuff it collected, one of them being an earring belonging to the "victim" my teammates and I were assigned to locate.
Out of the five separate teams in the class mine was the only one to successfully locate the remains. Makes me wonder if the outcome would have been different without the crow showing up. 🤔
That crow looks like the one that got me to invest in his start up. I should have known something was up when he shat on my table
Story of Abel and Cane in the Qur'an - a crow taught him how to bury the corpse
فَبَعَثَ اللہُ غُرَابًا یَّبْحَثُ فِی الۡاَرْضِ لِیُرِیَہٗ کَیۡفَ یُوٰرِیۡ سَوْءَۃَ اَخِیۡہِ ؕ قَالَ یٰوَیۡلَتٰۤی اَعَجَزْتُ اَنْ اَکُوۡنَ مِثْلَ ہٰذَا الْغُرَابِ فَاُوٰرِیَ سَوْءَۃَ اَخِیۡ ۚ فَاَصْبَحَ مِنَ النّٰدِمِیۡنَ ﴿ۚۛۙ۳۱﴾
Then Allah sent a raven, scratching in the earth, so that he might show him, how he should hide the corpse of his brother. He said, ‘Oh woe is me! I could not be able even like this raven so that I may hide the corpse of my brother, Then he remained repenting.
(Al-Maidah 5, Verse 31)
@@AA-mg3xr سبحان الله العظيم
@@AA-mg3xr thats crazy
thats the place i wanna donate my body to when i die
I was once walking home from work in an area where nobody was in that moment, during a winter, and I heard someone sneeze and said ”bless you” as a reflex. I looked around and realized there was nobody but a crow walking around, a few meters behind me, who had either sneezed exactly human-like, or was just messing with me. Needless to say I felt funny that day, for having said ”bless you” to a crow.
Corvids mimic human voices and sound better than parrots.
I used to work for a Raptor rescue when I was in college. There was a Raven named Edgar Allan Crow there who used to talk a lot. Deformed beak, life long resident.
One night, when I was out there doing a few duties around the birds toward the evening, the owner was on the top of the hill in her house, I heard the owner talking to me. It was a sharp, scolding and disciplinary tone.
"What are you doing!?"
I looked around anxiously. It came again, and again. Finally my eyes laid on Edgar, who looked at me, turned her head sideways and said again, very calmly this time, as if she was genuinely curious, "What are you doing???"
I've been fond of these guys ever since. Amazing mimicry, sounded just like the owner.
Something not mentioned in this video is that Ravens teach their children how to use tools, which is INCREDIBLE in the animal kingdom, when animals use and understand tools it shows incredible intelligence and understanding and the most important thing is that they do this in the wild on their own, hard time reaching a bug? No problem grab a stick! That kind of thinking is what got humans where we are today. Like he said in the video they share information about things that are dangerous or helpful to the murder leading to success for the whole group. They also have a capacity for spite, playfulness and even mourning which shows emotional intelligence as well.
I appreciate the effort animals do but at least in my opinion it all resumes to mimicking.
@@opinanlosjovenesrd3477 I can see why you would think that but it is definitely not in my opinion and just from the research i've done, crows mimicking speech without knowing what it means could be argued for sure but problem-solving at the level crows do isn't just mimicking or instinct. They can be taught to solve the puzzles scientists give them but no one taught them to smash walnuts on a pedestrian crosswalk to minimize the chances of getting run over. If all crosswalks completely changed in appearance and location the crows would still understand what they are and drop walnuts there. African grey parrots and some other parrots are great examples of animals who do properly understand words though and have been worked with for years to prove they know the meaning of words not just copying what they're told which is interesting.
Crows are a good candidate to become the next civilised species on earth after humans.
Sensibility. Emotional intelligence doedn t exist
@@opinanlosjovenesrd3477 they fucking Bury their dead relatives !
Wolves and ravens have been found cohabitating and even playing together. Some people have theorized that individual ravens and wolves even form bonds. I wonder if ravens are on the cusp of domesticating dogs too. I wonder if one day we'll uplift corvids to be the next non-human persons on Earth.
Praise crowsus
Reject Christianity, return to birb
There are no non-human persons on Earth.
the crows scout for prey and the wolves do the killing. the crows get to eat the leftovers
There's a reason the Vikings believed that wolves and ravens were connected to Odin, their god of wisdom.
I still remember the day when one of my friends attacked on crow. What happened next was epic. A full family of about 10 crows did not let him come out of home for about a month. Whenever he tried to go outside they were waiting for him outside and immediately attacked him every time.
Your friend couldn't kill 10 birds? LMAO.
Why did your friend attack a crow in the first place?
@@KpopLover1013 that will just bring more crows to harass him killing one brought ten more what if he kills ten how many crow will come then
@@Oleanderz why did you respond to my comment with that
@@KpopLover1013 probably misclicked. It looked like the reply to the first reply of the original comment.
A relative of my brother-in-law (no, this isn't a "friend of a friend" story) had tons of ravens around his house - he was a hunter and often hung out carcasses to cure them, but the ravens went "free food!" and so he took to bringing his gun out to fire a warning shot that'd scare them off for a while. Eventually they took off the moment they saw him bring it out, so he didn't have to fire it.
Now, Sweden has fairly strict regulations on guns - one being that unless you have a license, don't touch them. And sometimes he had to be away from the house, and took the keys to the gun cabinet with him. His wife then had to guard the game from the ravens. But she couldn't use the gun without breaking the law. So he made a fake gun for her - it looked exactly like a real one...
But the ravens weren't fooled. Not even when the guy himself used the fake, in case it was because of it being his wife doing it. Nope. *They could tell a fake gun from a real one.*
I think it was more like: We dare you to shoot come on
@@lovacc_1967 lol
No they obviously just knew it was illegal for her to use a gun
Scary as fuck...
@@housel9352 yeah they were up to date to the newest news and they read about it in the newspaper
as a kid of about 12, i was on holiday with my parents. My parents were out of my sight. A big crow came landing on my arm and sat there comfortably for a few instants. Then it flew away. I never knew why he or she did it but il never forget my feeling for the animal: totally surprised, in awe, full of respect. Trying to observe this animal as much as i could. Hoping he would stay a little longer....
Maybe that crow rarely saw or never saw a human and was curious too
Everyone knew about this one crow in my town. The biggest crow I have every seen over the size of a rooster. It lived in the dumbster at Mcdonalds. One time it stole a burger right off tray and flew a short distance to open the wrapping. I ran to get it off the ground and this crow... this crow got in front of my burger and stood up to me. It flapped it's wings to show me it meant business and I walked away humiliated. Nobody blamed me because of how big it was. Even the Mcdonalds employees were afraid of it.
Was it wearing a mask and a hat?
I think you may have met the Hamburglar
@@jaytea3299 😂
Good story but u cant let it do that cause then it thinks i got away with it once i can do it again
Talk about a thug. I bet that if one learn that ppl trade coloured paper for food, he s gonna start harassing and stealing money to trade for food
@@joaop4585 That would be hilarious though, imagine a crow going to buy muffins and pulling out bills and coins out of his feather wallet.
Okay, so i have story. I used to work at a grocery store. And I would always take my break around 1 pm. There was always a crow there staring at me. He looked friendly, so I started giving it food, but it would always stay on the roof. A couple of days passed and when I went on my break I wanted to eat as well. Suddenly a little sparrow started "attacking" my sandwich. I was so angry, I was trying to get it to leave, but it was a always coming back. Suddenly, out of nowhere, that crow attacked it and chased it away. It then went back on its usual place on the roof and looked at me like "I got you bro". Damn I miss that crow...the only good thing about that job...
I had a crow buddy that followed my car around, he lived at my parents and I was super friendly to him cause I love em so I would feed him treats, loved raw fajita (skirt steak) strips and my pistachios. So he would pop up if I was within a 15 mile radius, land next to the car or on top. He would sit above my window and when I rolled it down he would stick his head down and in to look at me kinda to confirm like he had landed on a similar car and saw a garbage person lol. I miss the guy, I'm sure he made a beautiful family over by the lake.
He died ❔😔
@@easports2618 I'm not sure how long they live but I had to move. I'm sure he lived hid best life.
@Giffy Pop hopefully
@@easports2618 hopefully
"as we study birds, the birds study us"
That pigeon on the balcony watching me: "he goes to sleep at 12 pm.. pretty bad sleep schedule i must say"
, Pigeon 1 to pigeon 2 :: this guy uses single underwear for a week
@@tito6559 pigeon 2 to pigeon :
I know, but did you see how much time he uses watching WATOP videos, i think he is slowly getting smarter..
Man, i cant even begin to picture what your balcony is like if you dont scare away any pigeon as soon as you see it
@@matteodotdpsatgmaildotcom2451 I have so many pigeons around that some even lay eggs and they hatch into tiny pidgey babies
@@matteodotdpsatgmaildotcom2451 pigeons are chill, I like pigeons.
When I was a teen, I was sitting next to my mum in the car that one time. We were on our way home from buying groceries. She was driving down the country road and noticed a crow standing on the side of the road, looking in our direction. She slowed down and stopped the car (there were no other cars around us) and the crow hopped onto the street, walked across and hopped back up on the other side.
And the way he walked... strutting very slowly, almost lazily, with his wings to his side it looked like he had "his arms" folded behind his back. A true gentleman.
Im John
@@Gaelthegamer Me too!
@@beuwm ummmmm i have a turtle
@@Gaelthegamer Me too!
I wonder if it was having trouble flying (across the road). Or, better yet, the murder had a standing bet on which crow could get a car to stop for it. 😂
- BG
My nana loved crows. She fed and watched them and was always blown away at how smart they are. R.I.P. sweet nana
We had a visually impaired wild born adult crow (detached retinas) live with us f9or just over 10 years. It devised a system of miming actions to tell us things, accompanied with crow language calls. She had her own sleeping hutch, complete with a heated perch, in the back garden and would spend the day in the garden before going to bed, in her hutch. She was a fussy eater (only ate cooked food) and would throw a hissy fit if the food item wasn't what she wanted at a particular moment. Her understanding of English became good enough to offer her a menu choice. Like all pet crows, she loved to be petted & made a fuss of. She became the centre of attention and we treated her like another human personality.
I befriended a wild crow one time. 2nd story apt window was level with the telephone/power lines. He first would land there caw and I'd put food on the ledge and walk back away from the window. In no time I had him landing, and walking inside through my open window to see what I was up to or if I had a treat for him. I named him Crowbert. My friends who would visit would come in and in no time they'd be like "where's Crowbert, was he around yet?" So many cool encounters. I watched crows on the roof of another building play keep away with a ball they found. They would hop and chase whoever had the ball in their beaks and knock it out. Next crow would grab it and hop around trying to avoid the attempts by the other crows to knock it out. Amazing birds.
I saw a flock of ravens playing some.kind of ball game with a chunk of ice one time. One would pick it up in its claws and fly aloft with it while the others swirled and dived at it, trying to get it to drop the ice, then another would snatch the falling chunk of ice out of midair and the game would continue...
Why does this remind me of the Harry Potter game in the movie haha
I found an injured crow in my yard a few years ago (It looked like it's wing had been shot with a pellet gun) and I took it him and nursed it back to health for a couple of weeks. I fed it in the yard for a day, and then got a blanket, went outside, and threw the blanket over him, so I could pick him up without getting bit or clawed. When I threw the blanket, he played dead all the way into the house. They are super smart, but also have an attitude big time. My crow (I named Edgar because I though it was a raven at first) would like purposely spill his water and wait for me to come clean it up, so he could peck my hand. And, when I put him outside in his big cage, he would throw his food and water all over the cage, and he figured out how to unlock the cage too. Anyway, after a few days, I let him go and he flew away, so I guess he healed. They are so smart, but I don't know if they would make a good pet.
First mistake is having a "pet" mentality. It's a wild animal. Trying to "keep" it is as wrong as slavery. Coexist with it as a friend. It will come back if and when it wants to, and should be free to make its own decisions and live it's life as it sees fit.
Thank you for this amazing comment, Godbless everyone and keep safe everyone through Our Lord Jesus Christ in His Holy Name Amen.
Why do you want to keep a bird as pet? They deserve to fly in not sky, they don't belong in cages
@@aspiring_pilot I guess you didn't read the part where I let it go after a couple days after it's wing healed.
It was already a wild animal probably it had a bad attitude..if u raised it as a baby that crow wouldn't go anywhere and all it would know is u ..speaking from experience
This reminds me of one time I was waiting at a bus stop and was eating a burger and some fries I had gotten at my local burger joint. I noticed a crow was sitting at a table across from me and I was curious and put out a single fry from my bag across from me and the crow flew over to me and took it. Right after I did that I looked up and saw a few dozen crows were watching me hoping to put out some more. I would over time set down one fry after the other and watch a crow come and eat it. One crow in particular was super cute and landed on my table, had his wings half-raised and staring at me as he got closer to the fry, paused for a second, then took the fry and fled. Once my bus showed up I poured the rest of my fries on the table and all the crows came to eat what I laid out for them. Loved these animals ever since
Crows are actually polite about it. If you feed a fry to a seagull, they mob you and steal your food, not caring if they land on your head with their scratchy feet.
@@evilsharkey8954 growing up in Long Island NY I can attest to this lol
I hate Herring Gulls cheeky greedy thieving little bar stewards, one stole my fish out of my hands another crapped in my roast potato with mayonnaise in lucky l saw it l had just bought it at Manchester market turned my head as l was turning back l saw its mess go into my mayonnaise, grrrr.. If l had had my airgun with me I'd have shot it in the arse. 😂
they were so polite!
Looks like the one that got me to invest in his start up. I should have known something was up when he shat on my table
I had a pet crow for a few years, he did learn how to say a few words, got really good at it too.
Edit: 7:00 they do commit crime, maybe not human crimes but they steal from one another a great deal, crows have been observed to pretend to hide food a few times before actually hiding it, then pretending to hide it a few more times, just to throw off observing crows that are going to steal their stash later.
Read John 3:16 🙏
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 Read Shut The Hell Up by Nobody S. Cares
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 read how to be a better person and not force other people to follow your shitty religion 🥶🥶🥶
Maaan you're like one of the OG youtube users, 16 years of account.
I have a few Ravens, Crows, And Magpies where I live and we kept feeding them whenever they showed up, And each time we fed them they would always get closer and more comfortable being around us, One almost came into our house lol, I remember watching a video about a guy who feeds a bunch of different birds in his yard and he noticed that the Corvidaes waited until all the other birds were done and they didn’t get much food, So every time he went out to feed them he would ring a bell and the Corvidaes noticed this and arrived first compared to the other birds who didn’t pick up on the bell ringing meaning food, Some of them even came into his house almost like what happened to us lol, It’s quite fascinating.
Oh that's interesting! I'd like to check them out, can you share the link to his channel?
@@yanderegirl0666 its called ididathing
i had a gang of 3 ravens that would patrol my street every morning. wouldnt fly, they would just walk up and down the side walk. it was crazy to me because they kind of just.... walked. not the bird hop im used to seeing.... and they even had a confident strut. i even started waking up earlier just to catch em. miss those birds
Dude that's weird asf lol!!
Saves energy I mean taking flight do consume alot of energy compared to walking
So funny.
where are they now?
I once saw a pigeon hop a full flight of stairs
It's my understanding that ants have an anti-bacterial affect. Some tribes put cloth ove an ant hill, and after it's been covered in ants for a while, the cloth is used as a bandage for an open wound.
Yeah that's because ants mix things together to make stuff with antibacterial properties and then spread it around the colony to avoid sickness. They even have a graveyard and only certain ants are allowed to deal with them.
Wow that's super facinating!!
I once rescued a raven with a broken wing...he understood that I was not a threat. One day he flew away and I thought I'd never see him again..to my surprise, I actually found a "goodbye letter" addressed to me laying inside the bird cage..I couldn't believe it. He thanked me for my kindness..the low and behold,I began to notice a bird flying above me or my car or my house...turns out it was the crow..he was bringing me gold rings and small gold bars...I developed feelings for him and we had a thing going for awhile. I'll always remember those days..still have the letter too if anyone wants to see it
Raven/Crows are some of the most fascinating birds out there with just how intelligent they are. Another interesting thing about them is how they can develop bonds with wolves
In what ways?
@@RemyKingKen the raven/crows will help the wolves in their hunt so that way they will get the the left over from the hunt and because they can recognize other animals (like humans) in time they will start developing bonds with the wolves (particularly the pups) and will try and play with them like playfully tugging at their tails so that they will chase them. It’s really interesting stuff. In fact in some Native American cultures, the raven was considered to the sister of the wolf, and in Norse mythology the crow and wolves would accompany Odin (the main Norse god)
Also they have been known to give people who feed them gifts (generally shiny things that crows like)
@@daryno9047 I’ve actually heard some of those things but never thought they were all related. Nice to know nature really is a circle. It all makes so much sense now
Dog friendship with crow.
@@daryno9047 if true, this adds fuel to the knowledge fire on the theory that corvids helped early hominid (homo sapien acestor's evolve) because guess what? Homosapiens & wolves co-evolved, and possibly helped lay the foundation for breaking away from hunter gatherers into agriculture aka, the genesis of state level (complex, non-subsistence based) societies, with institutions like organized religion, government, politics, etc etc.... thanks for the info!
The pointing at objects is similar to how domesticated dogs have evolved with us. They literally look at what a person points to. There are so keen that even just looking at a certain direction ( just moving your eyes , not your head) they will likely look at it as well. Pretty fascinating stuff.
You should read the book, "A Dog In The Cave," if you have not yet. It consists of evidence based speculation on the coevolution of humans and dogs.
you reminded me of my neighbour who taught his dog to bark at a specified person, only with eye indication. The pup knew he had to only scare the person just for fun and enjoyed the trick as much.
Dogs have an inborn ability, or at least desire, to read human faces. It's not a skill that serves them with other dogs or anything else, it's just to read people.
Dogs have their own facial expressions so its not too much of a leap that they would learn to take cues from human faces too.
Frankly I don't get it either that saying no other animal points at objects, at least my dogs have been pointing with their nose towards stuff or places where stuff they want is, it's rather obvious even, dogs definitely know how to communicate.
Every morning, I feed a family of crows in my front yard. One crow, I named Myron, calls to me as soon as I open the door. Once I put out food, he signals others with a special call so they can eat too. Last week, I was in the back of the house and he saw me open the BACK door. He called out to me! These birds know us
personally! I enjoy interacting with them!
To the people that say “Crows are trained to speak like humans” remember that even you are trained to speak like human.
Ratio
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There’s a difference between mimicry and actually understanding what the words mean
But I am a human.. and crows are crows
This is about on the same level as “people die when they are killed”
So ravens can speak human? Does that mean that one actually said "nevermore"?
yeah lol, I think there's an old clip on youtube of a raven saying nevermore. they were trained to speak it, obviously, but they are pretty great mimics with good accuracy.
That would be creepy. I would run away till my feet bled 😂
Yeah, RUclips is actually full of speaking ravens, I'm surprised you didn't knew about the nevermore one.
motherfucker said bitch in front of me
This can happen, but it requires a process of "freeing their tongue" (Don't ask). But yeah, they can speak in more than crows.
I’ve been interested in learning about crows and other birds. As I walk to my bus stop, there’s the same crow sitting on this street light half way there. I’ve made an effort to look at the crow every morning so it remembers me, and it does. Now every so often the crow will actually wave at me almost saluting. It does this until I do it back, and then it either goes back to just watching me walk away, or does a small dance. Crows are really cool creatures. I hope there will be more information on these birds later on as they continue to get smarter.
I had a friend that lived in Boston and met a crow that got stuck in a fishing line. He freed it and the crow remembered him and was genuinely grateful. It actually followed him around and even allowed him to pet it.
Once I saw a crow walk up to a bunch of potato chips in a parking lot and pick each chip up and make a pile so he could pick it all up at once and fly away with it.
I've watched Australian Magpies closely for decades and I think their weird picking on the baby is to discourage dependent behaviour and prepare them to be kicked out of the territory as soon as they mature, a few months later. It's just what they do, they don't socialise like crows and ravens, they make annual nuclear families. Silly little buggers, got to love 'em.
One time I picked up a Raven that was in the road so I could bury it as I didn't want it squished all over the road. I had the thing in the back of my truck and when I came outside there were dozens of Ravens sitting in the trees around my house. None of them was making any noise. ALL of them were staring at me. Absolutely one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life. I buried the Raven and since then I've had mad respect for Ravens. I think many of them in town recognize me and follow me as I often toss food offerings for them.
Oh my
They don’t trust humans that are seen with a dead member of their species. A scientist out West tested that by wearing a mask and placing a dead crow outside. If she wore the mask again, they would all give warning calls. Of course, the mask was absolute nightmare fuel, so I don’t blame them.
@@evilsharkey8954 That was the general vibe I got. It seemed like they were trying to send me a message not to fuck wit them. I don't know what it would be like to have fifty Ravens attack you at once but I'd rather not find out.
@@alaskansummertime wait till they start dropping rocks from the sky on you and your car (if they really hate you) lol. It happened to some kid who bullied a injured crow at school. These birds are smart.
@@WhiteWolfos Well seeing as this happened TEN YEAR AGO I don't think that is likely. But thanks for playing
Seriously, our European magpies make nests out of steel wire. And it's not even unique, they like steel nests! They just steal it. They are on another dimension compared to birds. Monkeys that fly. Extremely intelligent.
I wanna like this, it's at 69 likes though so..
@@dawnstag7267 Nice
@@dawnstag7267 at the time of typing this its 96.. should I like or not?.. 96 is kinda useless ..
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I once found a baby magpie on the street and it literally came to me to be saved of all the people that passed she sensed that I am the one who loves animals and birds and I had her for some time until my dad let her out but I miss her a lot and was amazed everyday by her intelligence
One time I was driving in my neighborhood and noticed that in some sections of the road, as you pass by, immediately crows rush from tree tops to look for something on the road, I got curious so one time I stopped close to such a spot to see why they were doing it, it turns out they have these spots where they throw nuts on sections of road in order to have cars run over them and crack them, then they rush in to check if the nuts were cracked.
I love ravens/crows, once when I was little a crow or raven dropped a walnut exactly under my foot as I was about to step down to break it open and I was so impressed because the precision that took was unbelievable, the fact that a bird did that blew my mind
I have had crows at my summerhouse for years and they are most interesting birds. One year there was a couple after whom I could check the time. They came for a walk on my lawn EVERY day punctually at 4 PM ! One year there was a couple who constantly quarreld. There fights were so noisy that I was quite releaved when they did not nest near me next year. Once I saw that the male crow got a piece of bread, he was taking it to the nest where female was sitting on eggs. He flew to the ground under the nest tree, ate half of the bread, then looked up whether he had been noticed and when everything was quiet , ate some more. Then he took the piece that was left , and flew proudly to feed his mate. But that look up, that was really SOMETHING. Etc.
Every once in a while I had an owl perch in my backyard, which was wild cuz I lived close to the city center!
Anyway when he did, the crows got p¡ssed!
They'd scream at the owl, to leave I suppose, getting all their buddies over to scream at this owl to leave.
The owl didn't seem to care.
Don't know how he slept thru that!
I know I couldn't!
I love crows & owls but that was unpleasant!
That look up , if he ever was noticed by his mate is definitely SOMETHING
Just want to say I appreciate all these awesome stories everyone is leaving! Much love! If anyone wants to drop some more I will happily read. Cheers!
wow, WATOP actually kept on one topic for the whole video! That's almost as impressive as the crow's intelligence!
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Was it absolutely necessary to superimpose birds onto multiple layers of low-res windows xp images lol
I don't know why, but "Imagine the shock of the first crow that fell into an anthill and suddenly discovered it actually felt, nice" and then you watch its pupils just expand... I actually burst out laughing at work.
Birds are truly stunning little critters!
I agree. I also lived with birds
Same with the crocs cause they get there teeth cleaned and if they want a snack chomp
Creatures
@@beastboyash9342 Don't tell me you had a intimate relationship with one!
Don’t forget about how octopi can learn to grab a bunch of shells at once, and pull them over their heads as armor, grab halves of a coconut as a portable home, I even heard that some octopi (or were they squids, one or the other) that had a WAR down there, one group fighting another with sharp shells, and what is even more impressive is that our most recent common ancestor was some sort of worm like creature, so their intelligence evolved completely separately from ours, they are the closest thing we have on earth to an alien intelligence, the reason why they haven’t invented what are basically space suits to come onto land for more than 10 minutes at a time is because they can’t pass on their knowledge to their offspring due to their lifecycle causing them to be orphaned almost immediately before/after hatching
RUclips "Octopus Armor" it was a really good watch thanks bud! I'm still trying to find the shanking one.
@@ElderWillows watch “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix, really shows the intelligence of these wondrous creatures
@@ElderWillows I just looked it up, and while I was lied to about the sharp shells, they do live in a community, and they were throwing rocks, a behavior previously only seen in primates
@@researcherchameleon4602 Big sigh of relief. Can you imagine how dangerous scuba diving would be? Aliens swimming around with 8 shanks.
@@MrNathan23554 real world octopi have basically every superpower, they can regenerate, squeeze through spaces a small fraction of their size (an octopus with a radius of a meter can fit through a hole the size of a quarter) they can camouflage (both color and texture), they are really strong, the mimic octopus can pretend to be other animals, crawl onto land for about 10 minutes , cuttle fish (a type of cephalopod. Though not an octopus) can hypnotize fish, and all cephalopods have a siphon that they can use as an under water jet pack. The only reason they aren’t at our level of civilization is because their lifecycle makes it so they are orphaned almost immediately after they hatch
"WHY IS THE BIRD SMART ENOUGH TO WEAR CLOTHES, BUT I DONT?!?"
I was waiting on the train a few years ago and a young crow was hopping around the people who were having something to snack while waiting. Obviously waiting for something to fall or the likes, but it was hopping around all round and floofed and being adorable looking so one of the people there broke off a piece and tossed it over.
After which the bird stretched out and smoothed its feathers into a visual approximation of a lanky teen, snagged up the food and flew off.
It was deliberately appearing cuter and younger to bum food. Because people like the cute and round looking ones better.
That's very impressive, pretty clever that crow.
A study was actually conducted (I remember since it happened in my Alma mater) that showed they could recognize faces and would act more aggressive towards the people that had chased them off, to the point of vengeance (for the purpose of the experiments, no birds were harmed. Mildly annoyed and scared though….)
UW is great.
In quarantine, a murder of crows lived in our back yard. I remember my dad threw crackers out on the lawn for them all to share, but only one crow took all the crackers for his/herself. It was really funny because it’s like a 7 year old taking all the cookies in a cookie jar for themself 😂
You do realize birds are basically dinosaurs right? You're literally seeing dinosaur intelligence at work. Those guys ruled for hundred million years.
They're far more advanced than dinosaurs. Dinosaurs had quite small brains, crows have brain-body ratio similar to apes.
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Actually, this intelligence isn't indicative of dinosaur intelligence. One of the closest living genetic relatives is the domestic chicken, so that would best represent Saurid intelligence.
Actually, this intelligence isn't indicative of dinosaur intelligence. One of the closest living genetic relatives is the domestic chicken, so that would best represent Saurid intelligence.
We have a raven (Jack) who lives on our deck, he has his own nest box (with a small heater in it) and he loves to come get scritches on his head and we feed him fruit, nuts, and salt-free jerky. We've tried to get him to talk, to teach him words, but he's not very interested and just wants to hang out. Sometimes we find weird random things on the deck by the door; fishing lures, sunglasses, bolts, costume jewelry, etc., they're his way of paying us back in barter for giving him a home. I think that's a good trade.
That's cool one day he might bring you something gold 😁
I was raised in a Muslim family, and was thought a lot about the religion. a Story 2 sons of Adam fought each other and one of them died. the one who won the fight didn't know what to do with his brother's body until he saw a 2 crows fought, one died and the other buried the dead crow. Muslims believe Crow/Raven is the first teacher to Human. so its very interesting that other cultures have similar believe!
After witnessing human stupidity, I'm fully convinced that some animals are smarter than full grown adult humans. I've seen people act dumber than a Koala, and I think that says a lot.
I’ve come to think the difference between animals and humans is insecurity- I think our over grown self awareness means we simply cannot experience the clear cognitive freedom an animal does. Arrogance means we deem our position is that of superiority, dumb asses.
@@denzali You are thinking like an misanthrope.
@@bakedbeans5494 Not at all
@@nicholaseastman6915 It is, Nicholas.
Humans are the dumbest living beeings, theire the only species who have to pay to live on earth.
I once had a dog who learned to turn on the faucet. He also liked to jump on the trampoline by himself. What would amaze me is if they also turned off the water when finished.
Our dog used to answer the phone imitating talking! It was scary!
Thank you for this amazing comment, Godbless everyone and keep safe everyone through Our Lord Jesus Christ in His Holy Name Amen.
Why would they turn it off? The only reason we turn it off is because we know water is limited.
I was born in Bangladesh and in my primary school books in 1982 + > there was an animation story of a thirsty Crow next to a water vessel and the story went crow saw a little water at the bottom but the bottle-neck shape of the vessel didn't allow it to dip it's head and drink from the bottom so it kept picking stones and pebbles 1 by 1 to fill the vessel until the water reached to the top and it drank; these observations and knowledge has been known.
In the Holy Quran it explains how Caine and Able (Habil and Kabil), which ever of the two murdered his brother and didn't know what to do with his brothers corpse then observes a Raven which burries another dead Raven in the ground and watching the Raven and learning from it He becomes remorseful that he had to learn from a Raven what he should do with his own brothers dead body and how weak he is in reality but his ego and jealousy made him feel falsely entitled and arrogant so much so that it made him to take another human life.
When I was a kid, sleeping with my window open, I was woken by a small black feathered bird talking to me thru the screen. I actually got up & went over to the window & sat on a built in set of drawers to talk to the bird. I looked out the window to see about 45 crows sitting on the neighbor's house, wires, & ground. The bird who was talking was about 1/2 the size of the crows. After about 2 1/2 minutes, I thought to myself: "Wow, I'm talking to a damn bird." Up to that point I thought nothing of it, just like talking to a human. At that thought, the bird said: "Well, I got to go." It took off, & all the bigger crows left with it.
They are evolving.... Not long until they declare war on us
Could have been a spirit inside of the bird
the last part gave me a "short mafia boss" vibes
Consider rehab.
"When you study birds, the birds study you too"
Lmaoo creepy yet true
I had an Australian raven that I rescued and it liked to take anything that was gold and silver, he/she eventually realised where all my coins where and one day I couldn't find my walled when I got up for work, (keep in mind it was still wild not a pet it just came back daily to say hi and bring gifts and I left my window open for it) turns out this little bugger stole it and was giving my money to his girlfriend 😂 I found a nest in my tree and it was filled with coins it had started stealing from everyone, I used to go to the nest every day and collect coins like they were chicken eggs and would feed them in return and Because they didn't have to spend lots of time hunting one of them went on daily coin hunts. In the 2 years they lived with me I accumulated over 500 dollars which I got my sons first trampoline with, these birds are brilliant so smart majestic and gorgeous. I love them so much, but then again I love every animal on this planet accept humans :)
"Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!" Luke 12:24
Dude; you just watched a video explaining Corvids are smart enough to store food and trinkets… once again proving the Bible wrong
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Lol 🤣 I befriended the crows in my area and it's hilarious they think they're using me but I'm using them.
I have chickens and I like to let them over on the yard. We have a lot of foxes and eagles in the area so I'm always scared that they will attack my chickens. One time I noticed the crows dive bombing an eagle so I start leaving food for the crows in a safe spot so they hang around my chicken coop. They leave the chickens alone because the chickens can't do anything to them and they chase away squirrels, eagles and sometimes foxes. And the only time they really do squawk is when there is no food in there feeder other than when they chase a way other animals.
Side note they hate my neighbor. He started yelling at them and using a bullhorn to get rid of them so they squawk at him and throw acorns (and rocks) at his Tesla there are a bunch of dents in this car.
Ha wow so awesome lol
@@usb6000 lol he brought that on himself
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My mom was in Barstow in the truck stop fuel island feeding crows. After a minute, a huge Raven landed on her mirror and ate the fries out of her hand.
I see thats why Rick choose two crows over Morty in season 5😂
Isn't Morty Supposed to be 14? So two crows with the intelligence of a seven year old equal one Morty.
@@jacobhoover1654 and knowing that our Morty isn't really the smartest...
@@jacobhoover1654 well those crows were then taught by higher intelligent crows that even gave Rick a run for his money. Rick himself even admits that their tech was some next level shit
So you're telling me, if I make a peanut vending machine, the crows will pay me, sweet
I live on the top floor of a 6 floor apartment building. I have a terrace. A week ago, i left some chicken meat on the terrace. The next morning, it was gone. When i walked out of the front door of the building (same day), a chicken bone gel right in front of my feet. Looked up, amd a raven greeted me, sitting on a lamp post. I kid you not. A week later, i again left some chicken meat (leftovers) on my terrace. The next day, it was gone. Instead, i had a small opened pack of cookies on my terrace :))) No way it somehow flew up here with the wind or something. 😁
What do you call 2 crows sitting on a branch?
Attempted murder.
Decent
Blue jays mimic sounds too. I vividly remember a weird one when I was a kid. I heard a turkey, but in the top of a tree. Yep, it was a blue jay!
Jays are corvids too, probably why
Wild turkeys can fly
You're a simple channel that delivers with no issue. I have never had a complaint or grievance with a single one of your videos. Thank you dude you're very entertaining
Ravens & Crows are my favorite birds, simply because of their intelligence.
What if people developed intelligence because they mimicked how corvids use tools ?
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This would actually be quite an amazing process of evolution.
However, it'd probably quite hard to ever find evidence for this, so it remains more of a speculation.
Fascinating video!
Didn't know crows could talk/imitate sounds.
I once had a Common Grackle and a Blue Jay housed together. They weren't releasable and became companions. With one at one end of the enclosure and one at the other, they would communicate with one another. Grackle sounded like a Blue Jay and vice versa. They would also toss a waffle ball cat toy with a bell inside to each other for entertainment.
Laughing? I had a Starling in my aviary with other species of birds. One morning the birds were crowded around their various food and Kramer, the Starling, couldn't get near. He shrieked like a hawk and terrified the others into flight.
Casually, Kramer walked over to the food saying, "Mine. Mine. Mine" and laughed !
Thanks for the video!
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Had an African grey parrot. His intelligence surprised me and others a lot. He had to be left in his cage when no one was home just so he doesn't destroy things as he was still playing like an 8 year old human, but he learnt how to open it, and it was locked from the outside. Then we tried using a screw so it was impossible to open it even if he unlocked it, but he quickly learnt to unscrew it and got out anyway.
Then we just ditched trying to lock the cage after a few attempts and just allowed him to be in one room when we left him alone. The cage just acted like his comfort zone where he ate, slept, played and did his business at. He was part of the family and felt like he was my little brother. Miss that chap, he moved to another home after my mother's mental health problems got worse and so did I
My wife saw a fox going from home to home, specific homes, with a bag !! yes a bag used as a … bag. He was putting the food into it … and carrying the bag to the next house , and the next house, she saw him do this several times. With the same bag :-)
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i saw a crow breaking nuts by letting them fall on the concrete, and since it wouldn't break, fliying higher ... till it would work
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My dog had humor and would mock at people, knowing that he was tall and impressive ... he played systematicaly with that.
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In my acquarium, the cychlids are fishes from central africa. well they need a cave to make kids and then walk them in the tank !! very defensively so that the other don't eat them.
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Animals are incredible. Incredible.
Every time the theme of crows and ravens come up, I remember that 4chan story about a dude that trained a bunch of them, while terrorizing other group. Which finally led up to a bird war outside his works parking lot.
One group fighting bc they despised the guy and the other bc they appreciate him
I am amazed that the guy was able to tell which ones to feed
@@susanfarley1332 the ones that didn't attack him? Maybe there were double agents 🤣
Q: "If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, could some of them develop human- like intelligence?"
A: "They weren't all extinct, and some did. Look at corvids."
1:36 when you aren't very good at photoshop
Photoshop is for images.
And that isn’t a image
You can Clearly see that crow is clipping with the green screen
Almost every creature on this earth that has had interactions with humans has learned something from said interaction
Why do you think a gathering of crows is called a murder of crows?
In the dark ages it was the sign of death in the area when crows would gather
Actually, ants do depend on other animals. For example, ants raise aphids like dairy cows. They drink the aphids honey sap (can't remember what it's called rn) after they tap on the aphids with their antennae!
canadian, currently have a murder of atleast 13 wild crows that im aware of who pose for photos, listen to VERY basic commands like telling them to move, look, pose or come closer. this has been over the coarse of a year and started with 1 that i rescued and named gary (same day release).
i know theres easily 30+ locally who trust me and the numbers just keep exponentially increasing. ide also argue canadian geese r showing increased intelligence from human facial recognition, speech recognition and even basic commands as listed above.
maybe im looking into it to much but as someone who has had a fairly consistent routine involving paying attention to everything around me ive just noticed an extreme increase in most avian intelligence since covid. the last year or so just feels like a borderline fever dream at times wen it comes to the capabilities and actions of some of the local wild life both in and out of the city.
Murder?
@@devika2545 thats wat a group of crows is called
@@hotudk ooh. I didn't know that. Thank you for that information.
Went to the tower of London when my wife and I were on our honeymoon. Got yelled at for handling and petting the ravens. I stopped and walked away but one hopped on my shoulder and wouldn't get off. They were not enthused I was dying laughing.
I've had cats that see how doorknobs/handles and faucets work, and try to like jump up and turn the doorknob with their paws... but most cats don't, and those cats were exceptionally intelligent in general... though I do think cats are way smarter in general than most people give them credit for. And it's not uncommon for them to be very emotionally attached to you, follow you around, greet you when you get back, sleep with you, etc, like a lot of people think only dogs will do.
I worked at a tire shop and noticed a few corvids flying around. I fed them and soon that few turned into hundreds. It was a fun experience being able to feed all of them
Training smart birds to collect garbage should be put into practice.
wait until we start hearing the crows saying "so long and thanks for all the fish"
Muahahahahahah most underrated comment in the whole section.
Crows are super smart and hard to hunt if one sees you, they all see you.
Humans sometimes including myself, often make me question if human intelligence is an oxymoron.
my grandmother says they are a very sacred animal in our culture and faith
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that crow almost speaking our language. I was always told that only parrots could speak our language but now crows are doing it too?
What if crows are evolving into speaking human language and then starting to understand what those words mean?
quite a few corvids and other birds can mimic our language
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@@great_channel nope. There's a bird that can mimic so well that it's sound is indistinguishable from what it mimics.
They know what the word means well before they can mimic it.
I once asked my dog if he wanted his "Toy" and when he got all excited i said "Toy - Outside" and he tilted his head in amazement and ran outside to grab his toy.
@@devika2545 lol are you talking about those jungle birds that mimic machinery to scare away predators? Those are awesome
We were renovating our house while living in our toolshed, my wife was cooking all our meals outdoor like at camp. Those bastards were waiting every morning for our eggs to be boiled, but they figured it out that as long we are able to see them, they will be unsuccessful.
So after a few days they weren't there anymore staring at us cooking, but as soon my wife turned around and went to the garage to get dishes, our eggs were gone!!😀
They figured it out that not being seen is the way to get what they want, so they were hiding somewhere in trees to make us think it's safe to leave eggs unattended!! After the first couple of times our human IQ kicked in finally and we didn't leave them unattended again.
Even a heavy lid and boiling hot water wouldn't stop them!!
That's real cool, you know other animals can point too. squirrels often point to tell me to put the nuts down on the ground if I hold it out. they usually wait a few seconds and if i don't do it they'll point with their noses and eyes where they want me to place the nuts.
If I asked my dog where his ball was he would point in the direction with his eyes usually. it's so cute. I'd do the same thing. they dont seem to understand when you point with your finger but maybe try pointing to something with your eyes or face
I have a large number of Crows living near me and they are absurdly smart. Just so much fun to watch. Easily one of my favorite birds especially in the winter when you see their cleverness at work as they survive the harsh Wisconsin winters.
The crow stole the knife because it smelt blood and thought it was meat, they're omnivorous.
Raven about to say something important to humanity...
"Give me food"
Me after having some amsenia haze...
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2 years ago, I attacked crows in my previous house i lived, when i changed the house and gone to roof every crows attacked me but not my parents, i think they realy identify persons 😂 😂 😂
yeah, they do. they hold grudges far longer than humans. they remember faces, and even if they haven't seen that person, they'll still know who they are because of other crows and their interactions with that person. this feud could literally last for multiple crow generations.
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Wow!!
This explains why i sometimes got crows all over town acting like they think i got food
Because the ones i feed in my neighborhood somehow gettin the word out!!!
@@GORILLA_PIMP oh, for sure. feed one constantly, and it'll tell its friends/family about you, and eventually you'll have more than one crow come visit when its feeding time.
My family brought in a magpie fledgling with a broken wing when I was little. When we released him, he refused to leave and when we went on a three-month vacation, he decided to join. There, he made himself a nest and stole everything we had and took it to the nest (socks, money, shiny stuff, ...). Once he took all of our dish scrub scotches and my mom had to go to the village to get replacements. When she came back, to her surprise, the magpie had brought back all of them and put them at the spot he had picked them (I think he had realized his new carpets were to rough)! He was also a bit of a sadist. If he learned that something pisses somebody off, he made a habit of doing it. If you stopped reacting for a while, he put down the habit. If my mom picked up flowers and brought them in, he took off the petals one by one and made a sound everytime to make sure that my mom sees him and gets angry. If he learned that somebody is afraid of him, he followed that person and if someone yelled at him, he revenged by pecking the yeller on the head of his big toe when he was reading a book or something (sometimes a day or two later)! He actually became so famous amongst the villagers that the village kids decided to kidnap (or magpienapped?) him (we found and saved him the first time, but we failed to find him the second time).