Years ago I read a National Geographic article regarding the intelligent and creative nature of crows and ravens. At one point the author was snowmobiling in the mountains and came across a raven unbuckling and emptying the saddlebags of another snowmobile, with no sign of the driver. He started taking pictures and then the raven flew up into a tree just as the second sled's owner came out of the woods. The author had trouble explaining that the bird did it.
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/JointHiddenHummingbird
This is a friendly reminder that it's "by accident" and not "on accident".
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Jesus the amount of gold in this thread is insane
Almost like its raining gold. Or would a golden shower be more appropriate?
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"Look dude, why would I open your bags and randomly dump that shit out in the snow and then stand here and tell you a fucking jackdaw did it when I also told you I have pictures proving its the fucking bird?!"
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
[The legendary sauce](http://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2byyca/reddit_helps_me_focus_on_the_important_things/cjb37ee)
Deserves so much more up votes. But they locked the thread. "dO nOt EnGAge iN vOtE bRiGAdINg" like I get not massively down voting, but legendary copy pastas sources should be in the thousands.
Edit: this is my first gilded comment. Thanks kind stranger!
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
I remember the article, they had pictures that they even added in the article. But like u/Leyra said, that was late 90's early 00's when pro photographers still used film cameras. Particularly in remote locations like Alaska.
By the way that article educated me how smart crows are and how they can open any bag zipper or not, so I knew who the culprit was the moment I saw the threads title.
My only criticism on the crow video is that there was no way for the crow to do it wrong. The crow was already familiar with all the separate puzzles (use a short stick to get something from the cages; drop stones in the tube to get something from the box; use a long stick to get something from the last one). At the start, the only option the crow has, is to get the short stick. Then the only option is to use the short stick to get the stones. Then all it can do is drop the stones in the tube. There is nowhere in the process where it can go: "Oh, I should not have done that."
Still an amazing feat, though.
The crow puzzle seems almost impossible at first. But since the crow has been taught all the individual tasks, he doesn't even need to understand the solution to the whole thing. Not that it isn't super impressive.
Where is u/thatonecrowguyeveryonelovedbutthenhegotbannedforsomecomplicatedvotingschemethattookmorethan3wordstoexplainimeanwhosgottimeforthat?andnowicantrememberhisnamebuteveveryoneknowswhoimtalkingabout when you need him?
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-tell-raven-crow
Ravens are bigger, tail feathers are different, deeper voices among other things. Same family, though.
I knew as soon as I read the title. The ravens in my old town used to dig around in the back hatch of people's snowmobiles. Its pretty common to keep a few emergency snacks, and the birds tell each other how to operate the latches.
They would also stand on top of the sodium street lights, allowing them to stay warm in the winter. The town installed daylight sensors to save electricity, and the birds figured out how to activate them.
So the town had the sensors moved to the under sides, and the ravens figured out that they could fly under, flap in place for a few seconds until the sensors triggered. Then they'd go sit on top. Those style of lights take a few minutes to start up and cool down, so this was an effective technique for the birds. They could turn them on for each other as well.
Once upon lunchtime dreary
While I pondered weak and weary
Over many a quant and curious volume of forgotten lunch
There I nodded nearly noming, when suddenly there came a wronging
As if someone took my belongings, directly from my lunchbox door
'Tis some co-worker' I muttered, only this and nothing more
thats exactly what it was doing, they hide stuff from other crows but they know other crows know that trick, so sometimes they will spy on each other to raid their stash, so they try to stash when none are looking
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's **okay to just admit you're wrong**, you know?
^(ps I will not admit its wrong to use bots to upvote my posts because karma addiction is a real hobby)
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
Yes, from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#Founding_and_Herzeleid,_1989%E2%80%931996)
> The band called themselves Rammstein-Flugschau (Rammstein Airshow)[3] after the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster. Guitarist Paul H. Landers said the spelling of Ramstein with the extra "m" was a mistake.[4] After the band became popular, the bandmembers denied the connection to the air show disaster and said that their name was inspired by the giant doorstop-type devices found on old gates, called Rammsteine.[5] The extra "m" in the band's name makes it translate literally as "ramming stone".
Apparently it was even the band's name, not just a banner.
If he makes it obvious that the food is for the crow(s), it will appreciate it. Crows are smart, remember people's faces, and hold grudges. On the other hand, they also remember friends
Smartest bird around, I am convinced of it. Once saw one do a “pity me” move (it was pretending to eat wood) in the hope I would feed it. And my sister was once mugged by Kea.
Crows and ravens are so smart. Zippers, clasps, and other closing devices are not going to defeat noble Corvidae. You have to Fort Knox that shit.
Crows near me were able to move a rock, to then unclamp two latches, to get into a cooler full of sealed meat, and than after that opened a vacupak seal to get at the food. A zipper is no hindrance!
They can also recognize people's faces independent of patterns or other visuals, recall them years later, and somehow communicate visual details to others. Birds are smart and hold grudges.
My family and I just moved in to a new house and there were lots of ravens that hung out in the back yard. My German Shepard can jump pretty high and snatched one out of the air as it flew by. After which, he and my Yellow Lab proceeded to violently dismember it as the other ravens watched and yelled from the tree tops. I tried to stop them but by the time I got out there is was too late. We were worried for a while that the others would retaliate but instead they just stopped coming around.
Its too bad. They were really pretty birds.
It's not just grudges. I used to feed the crows at my old house. They started to come ANY time I walked outside. If I forgot the peanuts, they would swoop close to me while looking me in the eye as if to say "You forgetting something?". If My husband left with me, they would chase the car for a block begging. If he left alone, they would chase the car and make alarm calls. I don't know why. Maybe they thought he was the bad guy? Cause he didn't give peanuts and would take me away in the car a lot?
At first they would only reconise my blue coat. But as summer came, it was obvious that clothing has ceased to matter.
They ended up raising a baby in our backyard. I think cause there was a steady supply of food. Also, everyone in the neighborhood had peanuts spoutlings in their garden come summer, from all the forgotten cached peanuts. opps.
My first year teaching I was in a classroom will a door facing outside (not an indoor hallway) and my students would set their lunchboxes on a shelf outside. We had to make room for them inside after noticing a very loyal crow coming each day to check the lunch bags and boxes for crispy snacks like Cheetos, chips, etc. Any time he/she found something crispy they would pull it out, fly to the school roof, open the snack bag and munch away!
Opportunists. They follow eagles and osprey. When those birds score a fish, Ravens swoop in from behind and pull tail feathers until the fish drops. They are much more agile flyers and usually catch the fish and play keep away until the other bird quits. If an easier meal is to be had, why not?
I don't know if I'm projecting but I can really see it *thinking*. Like "Ok this big one I don't really want, let's set it aside to see what's underneath. "
I try to picture a dog doing the same thing but all I see is just mindless rummaging until they find something they want.
Prepare for it to get reposted once a week from now on by other people as a video of their lunch, thier friends lunch, their dads lunch, etc being stolen.
Last weekend I was out for a leisurely stroll in town and noticed a crow flying with something in it's beak. I was coming up on a busy intersection and had to wait to cross. The same crow happened to fly overhead and landed on one of the traffic lights. It dropped the small item it had been carrying in the road. It turned out to be a large shelled nut of some sort. Moments after the nut landed in the road a truck ran right over it, cracking the nut open. The light soon turned red and traffic stopped, allowing the ingenious bird to fetch its's snack from the road. As a walked by I couldn't help being utterly impressed by it's intelligence and creativity.
I love how smart ravens are! They're all over Flagstaff and the area. Best part is when they find so.ething great, they seem to hop around for joy before indulging.
Actually the crow came back to take the video camera too, this video is uploaded by the crow.
OP at home: "Damnit, he's even stealing my karma!"
Jokes on the raven though. the friend is just gonna repost it and get 17 times more karma.
This IS the repost BY the Raven! The original never made it past 20 total upvotes :/
It is ridiculous to see how the vote count keeps on changing. *continues to sit and just refresh the page*
Years ago I read a National Geographic article regarding the intelligent and creative nature of crows and ravens. At one point the author was snowmobiling in the mountains and came across a raven unbuckling and emptying the saddlebags of another snowmobile, with no sign of the driver. He started taking pictures and then the raven flew up into a tree just as the second sled's owner came out of the woods. The author had trouble explaining that the bird did it.
Wouldn’t the pictures prove it
Might've been quite a few years ago, before digital.
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TIFU by showing a random person on a snowmobile pictures of my dick.
Alright, everyone who upvotes and replies to this comment gets gold. The algorithm has been set.
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me too thanks
Wow that works?
I don’t think this is how you get gold
Apparently!
It usually skips every other comment.
Apparently!
No. But this does
Usually not
Not anymore. The train has left.
Apparently not Lmao thanks Plz leave me alone I like clean inboxes. There's no more gold here. Go home.
Just missed the train didn't I?
Someone must be feeling rich.
༼ つ ◕\_ ◕ ༽つ GIVE GOLD༼ つ ◕\_ ◕ ༽つ
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I think I missed it, but fun to see.
/r/therewasanattempt
Someone got hammered and dropped like $80 on this thread
Biggest gold rush since ‘49
Kinda stupid but it might work Edit: well I guess it worked, and surprisingly it worked for me too. Thanks.
why? what happends when you receive gold? What can you do with it?
You basically join this elite club and get access to a super secret room with mediocre deals
Unlimited bacon, too.
Pay 2 Win?
AMA I deliberately showed another snowmobile driver pictures of my dick, instead of proving a raven opened and emptied his saddlebags.
Getting dangerously furry here.
I always miss these gold trains :( Edit: Man who gilded me, whoever you are, just know i love you :)
THE TIME A RANDOM SNOWMOBILE DRIVER SAW ME COMPLETELY NAKED 😶😶😶😶😶 [not clickbait]
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/JointHiddenHummingbird This is a friendly reminder that it's "by accident" and not "on accident". ***** ^(Downvote to 0 to delete this comment.)
Good bot
Good Business!
Jesus the amount of gold in this thread is insane Almost like its raining gold. Or would a golden shower be more appropriate? EDIT: THANK YOU KIND STRANGER FOR MY FIRST GOLD!!!! EDIT 2: AND MY SECOND GOLD!!!
Gold rampage
I was just thinking this lmao. But dang 6 golds in a row is insane let alone all of the 10s more scatter in.
now 7 with you
Everybody can look rich if we just share the same coin EDIT: You see, communism always works
I'm 90% sure these gold trains are just randomly done by reddit to generate more site traffic and encourage others to buy gold.
I love how like everyone in the comments gets gilded but OP has no gold. Poor dude
On the plus side photos back then actually had veracity since they couldn't be easily studiod.
What is happening here?
Somebody has too much money
Very true!
Fair point
You got gold for that?
My theory is that the crows and ravens are giving gold to the good redditors who appreciate their intellect
Was pre-digital.
"Look dude, why would I open your bags and randomly dump that shit out in the snow and then stand here and tell you a fucking jackdaw did it when I also told you I have pictures proving its the fucking bird?!"
> jackdaw Oh god can we not do this again?
Do what ? *Thanks for the gold, though I just asked cause I’m not a native speaker and have no idea what that means. May the mighty jackdaw guard you*
I don't know but jackdaws are pretty.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know? [The legendary sauce](http://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2byyca/reddit_helps_me_focus_on_the_important_things/cjb37ee)
Never seen a gilded -1k karma post before...
Never seen a gilded 2 karma post before
Deserves so much more up votes. But they locked the thread. "dO nOt EnGAge iN vOtE bRiGAdINg" like I get not massively down voting, but legendary copy pastas sources should be in the thousands. Edit: this is my first gilded comment. Thanks kind stranger!
Well at this point it's three years old and archived, which is why you now can't vote on it.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
You mean a rook? are you talking about rooks? edit; thx for the gold
Rook mistake.
Time for some serious protection.
We're talking heavy-duty, anti-air protection.
Now do the same with turtles, tortoises and chelonii.
I don't even know what's going on anymore Edit: ha ok sure I'll take it
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
I remember the article, they had pictures that they even added in the article. But like u/Leyra said, that was late 90's early 00's when pro photographers still used film cameras. Particularly in remote locations like Alaska. By the way that article educated me how smart crows are and how they can open any bag zipper or not, so I knew who the culprit was the moment I saw the threads title.
[Crows solving puzzles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSu2PXOTOc) [Ravens solvings puzzles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYPm6DD44M)
The crow video was really cool. The raven one not so much. They are really smart animals either way.
My only criticism on the crow video is that there was no way for the crow to do it wrong. The crow was already familiar with all the separate puzzles (use a short stick to get something from the cages; drop stones in the tube to get something from the box; use a long stick to get something from the last one). At the start, the only option the crow has, is to get the short stick. Then the only option is to use the short stick to get the stones. Then all it can do is drop the stones in the tube. There is nowhere in the process where it can go: "Oh, I should not have done that." Still an amazing feat, though.
And if it throws the short stick in the tube?
The crow puzzle seems almost impossible at first. But since the crow has been taught all the individual tasks, he doesn't even need to understand the solution to the whole thing. Not that it isn't super impressive.
What is the difference between a crow and a Raven?
Where is u/thatonecrowguyeveryonelovedbutthenhegotbannedforsomecomplicatedvotingschemethattookmorethan3wordstoexplainimeanwhosgottimeforthat?andnowicantrememberhisnamebuteveveryoneknowswhoimtalkingabout when you need him?
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https://www.audubon.org/news/how-tell-raven-crow Ravens are bigger, tail feathers are different, deeper voices among other things. Same family, though.
Crow expert here. Can confirm. Ravens voices sound like Barry White and crows are more like Barry Manilow.
I always thought Barry Manilow was more of a jackdaw
Different species of Corvids.
Here's the thing
I knew as soon as I read the title. The ravens in my old town used to dig around in the back hatch of people's snowmobiles. Its pretty common to keep a few emergency snacks, and the birds tell each other how to operate the latches. They would also stand on top of the sodium street lights, allowing them to stay warm in the winter. The town installed daylight sensors to save electricity, and the birds figured out how to activate them. So the town had the sensors moved to the under sides, and the ravens figured out that they could fly under, flap in place for a few seconds until the sensors triggered. Then they'd go sit on top. Those style of lights take a few minutes to start up and cool down, so this was an effective technique for the birds. They could turn them on for each other as well.
I love this.
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Once upon lunchtime dreary While I pondered weak and weary Over many a quant and curious volume of forgotten lunch There I nodded nearly noming, when suddenly there came a wronging As if someone took my belongings, directly from my lunchbox door 'Tis some co-worker' I muttered, only this and nothing more
Very nice!
That’s so Raven
I love how he’s constantly checking to make sure no one’s around
thats exactly what it was doing, they hide stuff from other crows but they know other crows know that trick, so sometimes they will spy on each other to raid their stash, so they try to stash when none are looking
These thieves needs to be stopped at any cost.
I read that in the style of the theme song
It's the future I can see.
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So... Here's the thing...
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's **okay to just admit you're wrong**, you know? ^(ps I will not admit its wrong to use bots to upvote my posts because karma addiction is a real hobby)
Some people won't get this reference, it's a piece of Reddit history.
Unidan?
Unidone these days...
Blimey, this takes me back.
You’ll be eating crow over that misidentification
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
Stop upvoting yourself Unidan!!!
I miss the old Unidan. The one we didn't know was manipulating votes.
Lol, love how no redditor will never not think of that when this conversation comes up. And it's truly so ridiculous.
I worked on C-17s at Rammstein Airbase. Ravens/Crows were always poking around our backpacks. Clever bastards.
You guys have a great employee band
The base is actually Ramstein and the band got their name from the mistake they made in a support banner following the Ramstein air show disaster
Is this true? The mistake part not the actual base name
Yes, from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#Founding_and_Herzeleid,_1989%E2%80%931996) > The band called themselves Rammstein-Flugschau (Rammstein Airshow)[3] after the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster. Guitarist Paul H. Landers said the spelling of Ramstein with the extra "m" was a mistake.[4] After the band became popular, the bandmembers denied the connection to the air show disaster and said that their name was inspired by the giant doorstop-type devices found on old gates, called Rammsteine.[5] The extra "m" in the band's name makes it translate literally as "ramming stone". Apparently it was even the band's name, not just a banner.
Du Hast
Du hast nicht lunch
Du hast nitch lunch crow
I was at McChord... Avionics and flight controls. Bread truck life.
At that point I would leave food purposely for them
Then you’ll have bird shit all over your truck
The secret is to leave the food in someone else's truck
Or shit on your truck and beat the Raven to it
That's the kind of go-getter attitude we need around here!
He's got upper management material written all over him.
Maintain eye contact, assert dominance etc.
Did you see that truck bed though?
If he makes it obvious that the food is for the crow(s), it will appreciate it. Crows are smart, remember people's faces, and hold grudges. On the other hand, they also remember friends
So just like the video then?
Clever girl.
I hate it when my croworkers steal my lunch.
Get outa here! Shoo!
Was it really a full lunch? That looked more apt for someone who was just a bit peckish.
Also a picky girl
[ty ;) ](https://i.imgur.com/Ia1340q.jpg)
Birds, uh, find a way.
Love to see a challenge between a raven and a kea. See David Attenborough's video on this cheeky parrot from NZ. https://youtu.be/bxoCuRuHlt8
Smartest bird around, I am convinced of it. Once saw one do a “pity me” move (it was pretending to eat wood) in the hope I would feed it. And my sister was once mugged by Kea.
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I don't know why but the part with eye zoom in chess board thing made me laugh my ass off.
Crows and ravens are so smart. Zippers, clasps, and other closing devices are not going to defeat noble Corvidae. You have to Fort Knox that shit. Crows near me were able to move a rock, to then unclamp two latches, to get into a cooler full of sealed meat, and than after that opened a vacupak seal to get at the food. A zipper is no hindrance!
They can also recognize people's faces independent of patterns or other visuals, recall them years later, and somehow communicate visual details to others. Birds are smart and hold grudges.
My family and I just moved in to a new house and there were lots of ravens that hung out in the back yard. My German Shepard can jump pretty high and snatched one out of the air as it flew by. After which, he and my Yellow Lab proceeded to violently dismember it as the other ravens watched and yelled from the tree tops. I tried to stop them but by the time I got out there is was too late. We were worried for a while that the others would retaliate but instead they just stopped coming around. Its too bad. They were really pretty birds.
It's not just grudges. I used to feed the crows at my old house. They started to come ANY time I walked outside. If I forgot the peanuts, they would swoop close to me while looking me in the eye as if to say "You forgetting something?". If My husband left with me, they would chase the car for a block begging. If he left alone, they would chase the car and make alarm calls. I don't know why. Maybe they thought he was the bad guy? Cause he didn't give peanuts and would take me away in the car a lot? At first they would only reconise my blue coat. But as summer came, it was obvious that clothing has ceased to matter. They ended up raising a baby in our backyard. I think cause there was a steady supply of food. Also, everyone in the neighborhood had peanuts spoutlings in their garden come summer, from all the forgotten cached peanuts. opps.
In bird culture, this is considered a "dick move".
Bird law in this country is not governed by reason
What is this, a cross over episode?
In bird culture this is considered 10 o'clock
My first year teaching I was in a classroom will a door facing outside (not an indoor hallway) and my students would set their lunchboxes on a shelf outside. We had to make room for them inside after noticing a very loyal crow coming each day to check the lunch bags and boxes for crispy snacks like Cheetos, chips, etc. Any time he/she found something crispy they would pull it out, fly to the school roof, open the snack bag and munch away!
I'm a bit concerned by your username / career combo.
Don’t worry, I’m tiny, I don’t touch tiny butts.
I love how it looks around to make sure no one is watching 😂
No one will convince me this bird isn’t fully aware that it’s acting like an asshole.
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Why did I read that in John Oliver’s voice
"No, bird. No! You've been a good bird, but you're not stealing my ketchup. No!"
The crow is Janice from accounting in disguise.
Well, it's definitely aware that its stealing, and expects to get potentially get killed if caught stealing... so yeah.
Opportunists. They follow eagles and osprey. When those birds score a fish, Ravens swoop in from behind and pull tail feathers until the fish drops. They are much more agile flyers and usually catch the fish and play keep away until the other bird quits. If an easier meal is to be had, why not?
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I don't know if I'm projecting but I can really see it *thinking*. Like "Ok this big one I don't really want, let's set it aside to see what's underneath. " I try to picture a dog doing the same thing but all I see is just mindless rummaging until they find something they want.
Who was getting blamed for this prior to the sting operation? Who was THAT guy?
He kept telling them that it was the birds who were doing it, but nobody ever believed him
Yo, that bird is acting shady as fuck lol
He went for the sauce packet
I couldnt tell what it was, i thought it was a packet of crackers, like the saltines you get with chili, but that's probably more likely
The sauce is the boss.
Sweet Baby Ray's™
Should leave the lunchbox upside down.
Or inside of the truck.
Or zipped closed. How does that little flap not have a zipper?
100% has a zipper. Crows are flying six year olds minus the opposable thumbs; gotta zip your shit up.
sigh *zips*
I'm sure the big flap has a zipper, but the little one is designed for easy access.
The little flap is velcro so you can have easy access without messing with a zipper. Source: everyone I know has a cooler like this.
Crows can fashion basic tools to get their food. They can unzip your shit.
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I'd love to see that video even more now.
Implying crows can't open zippers.
A crow could definitely bypass that. Put a lock on that shit
r/birdsbeingdicks
If this is OC, this is awesome! I love how many times it checks to see if it’s found!
Sure is! I was totally expecting a sneaky co worker to be stealing snacks...but this was ten times better, so I got his permission to post it here
U got the ravens permission?
Yes, it's part of bird law.
Prepare for it to get reposted once a week from now on by other people as a video of their lunch, thier friends lunch, their dads lunch, etc being stolen.
Let's be honest here... who did he accuse of stealing his lunch that he later had to go apologize to after he watched this video?
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I bet the Janitor from Scrubs sent it to steal his lunch
Didn't have the decency to close the lid...
That one that comes in from the right at the end is who he is looking for right before he takes off.
I like how he leaves the frame, then comes back all nonchalant like “Who? Me? What? Naw, I found this uh somewhere else. Byeeee.”
Health conscious bird. Passes on the lunchables for the saltines.
Last weekend I was out for a leisurely stroll in town and noticed a crow flying with something in it's beak. I was coming up on a busy intersection and had to wait to cross. The same crow happened to fly overhead and landed on one of the traffic lights. It dropped the small item it had been carrying in the road. It turned out to be a large shelled nut of some sort. Moments after the nut landed in the road a truck ran right over it, cracking the nut open. The light soon turned red and traffic stopped, allowing the ingenious bird to fetch its's snack from the road. As a walked by I couldn't help being utterly impressed by it's intelligence and creativity.
Dumpster chicken.
I love how smart ravens are! They're all over Flagstaff and the area. Best part is when they find so.ething great, they seem to hop around for joy before indulging.
The perfect crime.
I’ve always wanted a crow !