Story that didn’t turn out happily....
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road by Loudon Wainright III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4
That crow is not a democRAT!
Animals can truly be the best of us at times.
I heard an avian expert say crows are self-aware and also understand the concept of death.
The crow was trying to find a way to EAT that prickly potential meal.
Crow epistemology is a term coined by Ayn Rand to refer to the principle that human beings can only deal perceptually with five or six units simultaneously. The “Crow” label refers to a psychological experiment where three people went into the woods, and the crows would go into hiding until all three people came out. This experiment was used to illustrate that crows have a limited cognitive capacity and cannot track more than a few objects at the same time.
I don’t buy this lefty feel good take on this situation. A lot of people fall for this. Several days ago there was a feel good story about a grizzly that ate only berries - which was an obvious lie.
Having lived around birds and other animals that are meat eaters I can seriously doubt the supposed motives of this crow. Crows eat anything and are meat scavengers. I’d say this bird was just testing this little guy to see if it was wounded enough to eat. Animals sense the dead and near dead. I suspect the hedge hog as sick, wounded or somehow near death which was why it was in the middle of the road to begin with. Prod any nearly dead animal, and it will move.
Crows are amazing animals
I never saw a black and white crow before.
Looks more like a helping crow than a hungry one. What crow in its right mind would want to risk those spines in its face?
Not a crow. Crows are all black. Looks like a magpie. They are related though.
No, no, no. The crow was not just nudging, it was trying to turn it over to get at the not prickly parts. I will believe in the “goodness” of a crow when the video shows it flying off.