Posted on 01/13/2012 6:27:13 PM PST by beaversmom
Crows are scarily smart.
Here is a youtube on the amazing intelligence of crows. It is a fascinating video. It left me in awe of crows.
No problem — I found it by the title. It is an amazing story. Thanks for posting it!
you say: “I don’t know what goes on in my pets mind.”
Is he a dog?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw
just for a bit of levity to end the night ;o)
>”It will go and get other crows and try to kill you”<
What do you mean “try”? #;^)
Several times, when I was hunting quail with my friends, we had hawks hovering above us, following along. They’d wait for us to flush a covey, then dive down and attempt to grab one out of the air, or try to get one of our wounded birds. How they knew we wouldn’t shoot them, I don’t know.
That’s a great video. We like the one with the beaver too—”Welcome to Canada”. We’ve got dogs, cats, and gerbils as pets. You wouldn’t think it, but even the gerbils all have different personalities.
When I was a child my father brought home a baby crow we named Rosco. I remember feeding it cooked oat meal with a spoon, when it was a baby. It had a cage outside but when it was grown it spent its days out in the yard and roosted in the cage at night. It started harassing school kids walking to school past our house, pecking them, it never pecked us. Dad found it a home with a friend out in the country. I remember the crow learned to say Mama. Nice memory.
Thanks for posting.
Aw, I bet you look cute out there yelling, “Here Ducky Ducky!”.
Nice story.
Years ago National Geographic had an issue entitled Animal at Play. Lots of amazing stuff, one of the animals was a Crow that repeatedly sledded down a little hill. He didn’t use any kind of tool, like this amazing little guy. He simply flipped over on his back.
link to an excerpt here...
http://being.publicradio.org/programs/play/brown_animalsatplay.shtml
Amazing vid!
Birds is SMART! Way smarter than we give them credit for!
In any case, I think it's evidence that calling someone a 'Bird Brain', isn't such an insult after all.
Those 'peckers' (pun2) are smarter than most college grads, at least those with a BA in Psychology 
Sorry but I loathe all 'Arts' degrees. My career is/was in SCIENCE.
So if it isn't at least a 'BSxx' it don't count for squat.
Yep, in this area they are also known as "Quail Hawks", but I always call them coopers hawks. I think they are neat with their long tail and how graceful they are.
That long tail (rudder) in combination with their short but very broad wings gives them a lot of maneuverability, which they need, of course, to catch their main prey: other birds.
It's a quail's worst nightmare. :^o
Flycatcher identified it in post #8—I think it’s kind of a cousin to our crow.
Love Rosco. Hope he had a long life.
I don’t know how Rosco did after he left our house I was only about 7 or 8 at the time. He had another word that he said maybe it was “hello mama” or “here’s mama”. My dad said that normally a crow’s tongue has to be split for it to be able to talk but dad never did that. Fun pet.
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