Be Nice To Crows

15 years ago

There's no doubt about it TB - animals know who their friends are. When an animal tries to tell me something, I always listen.

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PandaPoacher

15 years ago

Crows are as smart as they are ugly too.

That's it, Imma start looking for scraps to throw at them!

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Frank Donovan

15 years ago

Originally Posted by PandaPoacher

Crows are as smart as they are ugly too.

I don't see crows as ugly - I think they're pretty cool, actually. But you're right that they're smart cookies.

Here's how some of them have figured out a way of using a pedestrian crossing for their own means:

Crows using traffic to crack walnut - YouTube

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larrydcook

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

I don't see crows as ugly - I think they're pretty cool, actually. But you're right that they're smart cookies.

Here's how some of them have figured out a way of using a pedestrian crossing for their own means:

Crows using traffic to crack walnut - YouTube

Frank

Crow technology man we should learn from their ways of thinking eh! very good thanks!

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seasoned

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

I don't see crows as ugly - I think they're pretty cool, actually. But you're right that they're smart cookies.

Here's how some of them have figured out a way of using a pedestrian crossing for their own means:

Crows using traffic to crack walnut - YouTube

Frank

OK, I'll thank you for this. The most likely place they will do this, however, is at crosswalks! Placement of poles is best done on streets, and stop lights are often hung from cables crossing the cross streets. Since that allows clustering the walk lights, and is the best place to stop, that is ALSO where most crossings are!

Still, it is ASTOUNDING what the brain can handle. I mean look at ANTS! They have to know a LOT, and it CAN'T be instinct! ONE mistake can mean a cavin, dead farm, dead nursery, etc... Yet they MANAGE! A birds brain is obviously FAR larger. Some get dozens or hundreds of words that they keep apart from their OWN vocabulary, and must learn to vocalize. Well, you get the picture.

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MoneyMagnetMagnate

15 years ago

I don't know if they are that intelligent, but they are very smart - they are like flying raccoons :rolleyes: they figure things out very quickly...

Ravens and Crows have brains twice as large as other birds their size - not as big as parrots, but they have been shown to be smarter...(I don't know why they don't mimic like parrots - maybe they just don't want to...:rolleyes

They also mate for life...which can be 20yrs...so that explains why they frequently sound cranky...

A researcher at WSU in Seattle has been studying them for years, and they do have recognition of individual human faces in crowds...he has even seen compelling evidence that they pass their knowledge of which humans to avoid, and which are ok to their offspring...

So who knows? - maybe they knew?

and I never found them ugly (noisy buggers maybe) -

they get a bad rap..."quoth the Raven - nevermore!")
('scuse me...I think someone's at the door - :rolleyes

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HeySal

15 years ago

I don't see how someone could call a crow ugly without calling most species of birds ugly. They mostly are the same with different color feather variations.

That was a great video, Frank. Brings up my question of why people find animals stupid? I've seen and heard of animals doing all sorts of things that seem to surprise people that they can master.

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nyasje 15 years ago

Didn't believe it when I was told that crows can live over one hundred years, its amazing
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  Kay King 15 years ago
  
  Crows are very smart and have been filmed making and using "tools" - just like the nut cracking behavior.
  
  There was rather tame crow that lived at the nature center a couple miles from my house in Ohio. I used to go visit the animals there frequently and would play with him. He followed me home one day. I was in a convertible, and driving slow back roads. At stop signs he would swoop down to the car.
  
  For the rest of that summer, the crow would occasionally show up at my house and sit on my car waiting for seeds or something shiny to carry home with him. Very smart little feathered dude - if you didn't hold on he would pluck shiny car keys right out of your hand
  
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  The life span of crows is said to be 7-8 years but a few have been documented to live up to 30 years.
  
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Rick McCombs

15 years ago

Crows, like other birds, can be taught to speak. My uncle had one he found when it was young and raised as a pet. He named it Oswald. Over a period of three years, he taught him to speak several words including his name. When he would have him down in the basement of his house, that crow would walk around on the concrete floor saying "Oswald's feet cold". When my uncle had him outside, that crow would walk the sidewalk in front of his home and say "hello" to anyone that came down the walkway.

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Dennis Gaskill

15 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

A friend of mine likes to feed crows on her balcony and her neighbors sometimes complain about it. One day, she was walking along a narrow pathway going home when crows swooped around near her, cawing very loudly and behaving very bizarrely. They kept it up so much that she freaked out and screamed. This caused a police car to turn in to investigate. The police found a man nearby wielding a knife. It was her ex-husband who had been stalking her and threatening her.

That's a cool story. I might like to use it as part of a larger story. Was this reported in any online newspapers or other websites? Not that I don't believe you, mind you, but I don't want my readers to not believe me! It is rather incredible.

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thunderbird 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

That's a cool story. I might like to use it as part of a larger story. Was this reported in any online newspapers or other websites?<snip>

Nope. This is not a tech savvy individual. She uses a manual typewriter. She's told me that she is part of the Crow clan (Deisheetaan) and literally sees crows as kin.
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JSanti7

15 years ago

Interesting story. But not surprising. Animals have been proven to be intelligent and they are capable of a lot of things.

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Patrician

15 years ago

Crows are funny - they really have a personality.

My favorite story about them is when I was working a contract in a town that has a street named Crow Canyon Road which is a pretty major street in the town.

Just off CCR are little streets that go to various office buildings, etc. At lunch hour there is always alot of traffic but one day it was a literal jam. Cars backed up for two blocks. I couldn't wait to get up there to see what happened.

What happened was a bunch of crows decided they would lolly gag in the crosswalk. Just take their good old time crossing the street and I know they were smirking and giggling about all the people sitting there in their cars worrying about getting back from lunch late.

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KingOfMusic

15 years ago

Stories like these make me happy, animals are so cool. I usually wave to birds an stuff heh, they are no way inferior to us!

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Fernando Veloso

15 years ago

Pretty cool

Most animals have a good heart and enjoy when people "take care" of them. But don't go trying that with a Shark... lol

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Robert Michael

15 years ago

I agree, all animals are smarter than we give them credit for.

If my dog doesn't like you, I don't like you either. She's the sweetest dog you will ever meet.. so when she doesn't like you, something isn't right and it's time to get the pistol.

She picks up on things that people do not. And my dog has no ulterior motives like people do. She is just trying to protect me and alert me when something isn't right. She's a really amazing dog.. she has like 20 toys and I can tell her to go and get one of them, and she will actually understand what I'm saying. She will go and pick out the right toy and come back wiggling all over the place

lol so cute

BTW she's a chocolate lab/pitbull mix, saved her from the pound when she was 5 weeks old. That was 5 or 6 years ago. <3

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JoeUK

15 years ago

Crows are the bomb! I watched a docu that illustrated they were as clever as monkeys if not more so. Watched 3 of them in the park bullying an older dog the other day hopping after it & when it turned round they would too - just like the ghosts from the super mario haunted houses haha! Definitely one of my fav animals - check youtube out for videos of them talking!

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James Yarbrough

15 years ago

We have ravens where I live. They are bigger then crows, but just as smart.

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thunderbird

15 years ago

This is something else. A crow snowboarding on a roof:

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seasoned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

This is something else. A crow snowboarding on a roof:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Now THAT is cute! You can be a cynic here, but it all gets shot to heck when you realize he brings a piece of ice with him! SMART! And he flaps to control is descent. I wish I could do that!

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HeySal

15 years ago

LMAO - that's hilarious. TB. I don't have any bird stories. But I'm having fun with everyone else's. Animals are the kewlest people I know.

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MoneyMagnetMagnate 15 years ago

Silly Bird...He seemed to be doing that for absolutely no practical purpose...other than - it was fun!
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