Posted on 02/11/2014 5:44:04 PM PST by navysealdad
This Is Really Amazing: Crow Solves An 8-Step Puzzle To Get Food!
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When I lived in Tokyo, rocks were being found on the train tracks. Potentially, very damaging. Never caught anyone doing it. Cameras were set up. Crows were doing it so the trains would bust up the rocks into smaller pieces for their craws...
Quick! Someone call Alfred Hitchcock!
They learn how high to fly above the range of shotgun pellets.
Wait until it finds out that it can sit at home and do nothing — and an EBT card will magically arrive and provide food without all that work.
eh...wake me when the “puzzle” is the NYTimes crossword puzzle. :)
Smarter than most Congressmen.
Crows can be taught to talk (after hand-taming), but they hog the phone after that. :’)
Corvids are amazing. I like ravens best but crows and magpies are very smart too. I throw some scraps out almost every day and get a crowd of all three.
Wow. You just know at the end of all that work, the poor crow was saying, “And all I get is this ONE lousy piece of food?!?!”
Also in Japan, they discovered that crows were dropping nuts into traffic, so the cars would break them open for them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NenEdSuL7QU
My grandmother use to hang her clothes out to dry in her back yard. She told the story of a crow watching her, waiting til she went back in the house, then picking off the clothes pins so her dresses would fall on the grass.
"They show extreme intelligence, even problem solving. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in, she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one - -when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out."
Great scene...
ack yot yeesus woman
wait until you have a mocking bird hamming it up
They do it all the time here.
A guy in an article about crows related an interesting story.
Every year when he went deer hunting on his property, without fail, when he left the house on the first day of hunting season, there would be crows lined up in the trees just watching him. Apparently, they would stay quiet as not to alert the deer, and when the guy bagged and gutted a deer, they could all come over and have a feast on the gut pack.
Thing was, he could never figure out how they knew it was the first day of hunting season and would be waiting for him. Not on any other day, just that one, and anytime after he went out.
Then he figured it out.
They knew because they would watch him through his windows, as he would get ready, days in advance, bringing his hunting gear out into his living room, cleaning his guns and so on.
They saw him preparing.
Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone’s relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu.The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.
However, during the one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000) detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird’s beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.
The MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist for another one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.
The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause:
When crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger.
They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout “Cah”, not a single one could shout “Truck.”
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