Posted on 12/23/2025 1:25:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
You think you’re being watched by satellites and smartphones—but the real surveillance network is perched on power lines above your head. Scientists recently trained artificial intelligence on thousands of hours of crow vocalizations, expecting meaningless animal noise. Instead, the AI detected structured language, syntax, planning behavior, and something far more disturbing: humans are the primary subject of crow communication.
This documentary explores how crows recognize individual human faces, assign identifiers, share reputations across generations, and coordinate warnings through a global avian network. From facial recognition experiments and tool-making intelligence to crow funerals, justice systems, and possible encrypted communication, the evidence suggests crows are not reacting to us—they are studying us.
If AI can no longer translate their calls… did they change the language on purpose?
Watch carefully. The observers may already know who you are.
Transcript linked below video
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“I have seen a crow funeral.”
I’ll go you one better - I caused a crow funeral. I was on the first hole of a golf course in Oak Creek AZ (near Sedona) making my second shot. Some crows were gathered on the fairway between my location & the green. I hit a low screamer that was going directly over the crows when they took flight which caused one of them to be hit by my ball.
The obviously dead crow fell to the ground & the rest of them returned to walk around the dead one while making much noise, looking at me with their evil black eyes. They continued to follow me for a few holes while continuing their incessant cawing to harass me.
Crows are, to use a George Bush term, misunderestimated.
Natural markings my foot, I know a QR code when I see one!
Those bastards! Drug dealers were selling them on the street corners in Manhattan, and I bought two of them and took them homme, and they eventually died. I bet they were casing my Far Rockaway house via remote turtle cameras to see if there was anything worth stealing, so they (the drug dealers, not the turtles) could send in their junky minions to snag some swag to sell to them for a fix. Seeing I was just a poor rzlub with nothing worth note, just some crappy computers and a crappy TV, along with lots of old books, they programmed them by remote control to sicken and die.
Ironically, what mockingbirds do to crows, crows do to owls. Crows will mob an owl giving it no peace until it's chased far away.
There were a few in the German village I lived at that everyone recognized. It was fun watching them. They would collect chest nuts and fly way up and drop them on the road. They would check if they cracked from the drop or would wait until a car drove over them and cracked them. They had different calls for the different people who would feed them. And once, a wayward one came in toe the neighborhood an one of them pecked the other one to death. Now I live where there are magpies but my bird dogs keep them at bay.
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Or “I had to eat crow.”
Ernest Thompson Seton was saying this sort of stuff about crows in 1898, in Wild Animals I Have Known. Not everyone believed him.
People tend to believe crows are smart, but they are no where as “culturally” smart as this video claims.
How they treat their spy animals is a crime.
>Tolkien’s depictions of ravens was not that far off
Had to read that twice but good caw (pun intended). Not Saruman’s minions, but the messengers that served Thorin and Co.
Ravens good; crebain bad. (Even this, apparently, is after some revision — granted I wouldn’t be trusting of crow either if I’d served on the battlefields of WWI.)
I have yet to earn any part of their trust, but it’s hard to in an area where they’re legal to bring down..
LOL!
Yup.
Just wait till they decide cat communication 😵
I do remember that young boy shooting a bird cartoon. It was done in that SIlly Symphony style of the day (of which I always considered the best period of cartoons) I think the young boy was finally forgiven and learned his lesson not to go around shooting birds...
Here is that cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsdWOYF08Po
They’ve had very long time to watch.
From what I’ve been told the primary way to differentiate a crow from a raven is by their flight feathers.
Crows have 12 flight feathers and ravens have 13.
So, when it comes down to it, the difference between a crow and a raven is a matter of a pinion.
h/t Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey
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