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Crow Roof Tubing
You Tube ^ | January 11, 2012 | unknown

Posted on 01/13/2012 6:27:13 PM PST by beaversmom

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TOPICS: Humor; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: crow; tubing
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To: Semper911
Can crows really be that smart?

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.

The Amazing Intelligence of Crows

21 posted on 01/13/2012 8:42:02 PM PST by sand88 (Hey Rove et al, I will, with great pleasure, NOT cast a vote for the Statist Mitt.)
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To: Semper911
Opps, I left off a letter!! Sorry

The Amazing Intelligence of Crows.

22 posted on 01/13/2012 8:55:36 PM PST by sand88 (Hey Rove et al, I will, with great pleasure, NOT cast a vote for the Statist Mitt.)
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To: sand88

No problem — I found it by the title. It is an amazing story. Thanks for posting it!


23 posted on 01/13/2012 9:13:39 PM PST by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: beaversmom; All

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)


24 posted on 01/13/2012 9:22:33 PM PST by maine-iac7 (A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
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To: Krankor

>”It will go and get other crows and try to kill you”<

What do you mean “try”? #;^)


25 posted on 01/13/2012 9:33:58 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
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To: Semper911

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.


26 posted on 01/13/2012 9:36:24 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: maine-iac7

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.


27 posted on 01/13/2012 9:42:53 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Semper911

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.


28 posted on 01/13/2012 9:50:19 PM PST by Ditter
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To: sand88

Thanks for posting.


29 posted on 01/13/2012 9:56:01 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Gator113

Aw, I bet you look cute out there yelling, “Here Ducky Ducky!”.


30 posted on 01/13/2012 9:58:20 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Ditter

Nice story.


31 posted on 01/13/2012 9:59:59 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

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


32 posted on 01/13/2012 10:05:29 PM PST by moehoward
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To: beaversmom
It triggered another memory. My parents would sit out in the yard in the summer under the trees (no a/c back in the 40’s) and drink iced tea. Mom noticed that our ice tea spoons were disappearing. When our neighbor across the street did some roof work on his house, he found where Rosco had been hiding the ice tea spoons. Until then I don't think anyone had suspected the sneaky crow of being the thief.
33 posted on 01/13/2012 10:09:00 PM PST by Ditter
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To: beaversmom

Amazing vid!

Birds is SMART! Way smarter than we give them credit for!


34 posted on 01/13/2012 11:14:47 PM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: beaversmom
Not to be picky (pun) but I'm not sure that's a 'Crow'.
The Russian translates into: 'Raven rolls off the roof'.

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.

35 posted on 01/14/2012 4:56:47 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Flycatcher
I got 'em out here in the desert too. They love quail.

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.

36 posted on 01/14/2012 10:35:56 AM PST by calex59
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To: calex59
Yep. Amazing predators.

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

37 posted on 01/14/2012 10:51:25 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Condor51

Flycatcher identified it in post #8—I think it’s kind of a cousin to our crow.


38 posted on 01/14/2012 2:41:32 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Ditter

Love Rosco. Hope he had a long life.


39 posted on 01/14/2012 2:43:16 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

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.


40 posted on 01/14/2012 2:48:58 PM PST by Ditter
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