New Study Shows Crows Can Recognize Geometrical Shapes

Greek Reporter ^ | April 15, 2025 | Nisha Zahid

[Jamestown1630]

I guess I just have this weird tendency to want to abide by the law...and crows are illegal to keep throughout the US, unless one is a licensed rehabber nursing one.

The only wild birds that it’s legal to take and keep without a license are feral pigeons, house sparrows, and starlings. I’ve had all of those.

(There used to be a ‘movement’ promoting the taking of crows as pets; I don’t know whatever happened to it...)

[Jamestown1630]

They seem to like ‘shiny’ things.

If you make friends with one and give it treats, it might bring you gifts in return :-)

[Labyrinthos]

I had a pet crow as a child. Crows really smart and fascinating.

[fidelis]

Knott’s Berry Farm in California used to have a chicken that, when you placed a coin in a slot, would play the first few bars of some little nursery rhyme tune on a toy piano which would win her a handful of chicken feed.

[No name given]

Like that movie with Brandon Lee.

[tumblindice]

“Grecian Delight supports Greece”
Whut?

[Vaquero]

They are friggin smart.

[Deaf Smith]

Yes, they recognize the shape of a Boom Stick.

*If you’re carrying one or not.

[Salamander]

I, for one, welcome our new Corvid overlords

[Salamander]

Bend the knee to your new overlords

[Jamestown1630]

https://www.sciencing.com/real-life-uses-pythagorean-theorem-8247514/

But I don’t think crows do, or NEED to do, any of those things. Their lives are a lot more simple than ours.

[Salamander]

One of the royal guard horses would drop his oats on the ground to attract pigeons just so he could stomp them to pulp.

Who’s smarter now?

[Crusher138]

“Grecian Delight supports Greece”

Whut?

My Free Republic pet peeve...

I get highlighting the whole article and then pasting it into your post.

It REALLY bugs me when the poster doesn't go through what they have pasted and remove the ads and the duplicate lines of text.

Not proofing yourself is a whole new level of lazy...

[HandyDandy]

Welp, you see, the pigeon isn’t necessarily smarter than your average crow. It’s just that when it comes to chess the pigeon will land on the board, flap his wings and knock down all the pieces, beshat himself all over the board and then strut about it like he won! Can your royal guard horse do that?

[tumblindice]

Grecian Delight
Said a chic and attractive young Greek,
“Would you like a quick peek that’s unique?”
“Why, yes,” Joe confessed,
So she quickly undressed
And showed him her sleek Greek physique.

[crusty old prospector]

Give out more grants.

[Jane Long]

They’re also VERY good at spotting Cottonmouth snakes ... and, pecking them to death.

[Fester Chugabrew]

They certainly know a pecker when they see one.

[Jamestown1630]

'The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.'

(H/T to Wiki.)

[PeterPrinciple]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

skinner used pigeons.....................