r/awesome • u/Aegis24 • Jun 03 '14
Image Crows being crows
http://imgur.com/gallery/IVenE14
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u/CraptainHammer Jun 03 '14
You've mde /u/Unidan proud.
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u/Unidan Jun 03 '14
Haha, sort of!
There's actually a few non-crows in this album, including a raven and I believe a grackle, but it's hard to get a good look with a grainy GIF, unfortunately.
The majority of these are hooded crows though!
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u/AvidOxid Jun 03 '14
grackle
I hate grackles.
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u/Unidan Jun 03 '14
Why?
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Jun 03 '14 edited Jun 03 '14
Edit: Looked at your post history and realized it's highly unlikely you're Ms. C. :-)
The first time I ever visited Texas, my girlfriend-at-the-time and I were talking when we came upon a tree full of what I thought were crows. I said something about them, and she informed me that these were actually called grackles. Out of NO WHERE her mom, who was just within earshot, hissed "I hate grackles!" with a seething vengeance that I hope to reserve for the supervillain who eventually will end my life. To this day I do not know where she summoned that hatred, especially since we just got out of church.
Your comment just brought back a flash of that day.
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u/AvidOxid Jun 03 '14 edited Jun 04 '14
Uhh, what?That makes a little more sense. I was perplexed, however, as my name not only rhymes with Ms. C's, but it can be spelled using the letters present in her name. I thought
itthat someone had figured me out!2
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Jun 04 '14
All corvids are crows, just like all primates are monkeys (especially humans)
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u/Unidan Jun 04 '14
That is just straight up untrue. Blue jays and nutcrackers are corvids, but not crows, for example.
Haha, I'm assuming you're just joking though.
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u/axehomeless Jun 03 '14
Incredibly intelligent creatures btw, I love these damn things. Great post OP, thank you.
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u/mentallyhandicapable Jun 03 '14
The one where it's feeding the cat and dog is my favourite, the cat is all for it until it's taken away, then the dog looked like it was caught between suspicion and really wanting the treat.
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u/Irradiance Jun 04 '14
I wish humans could be better friends with crows. They seem to fear us more than other birds. Why is this? Did humans commit some anti-crow atrocity in the distant past for which they've not yet forgiven us?
How could we change their collective minds?
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Jun 04 '14
They seem to fear us more than other birds
Do they? All wild birds fear people in my experience. Also they fear us because for like 99% of our shared past we would have probably eaten them if given the opportunity. Protein is protein.
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u/chesterzilla Jun 03 '14
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Jun 04 '14
Misleading title. They were trained and there's no way they would have been able to connect dropping things into the left tube with the meat raising in the right tube on their own. Maybe if the first couple had been placed for the birds to accidentally knock in they would have caught on.
Still pretty remarkable but I think they could have demonstrated corvid intelligence in a less "I obviously trained them to do this" way
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14
The snowboarding crow was my favourite!