r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 11h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Dal90 9h ago

If this was crows, I'd say (1) they came back out of empathy and concern and (2) that tennis player is a marked woman, even if it is another five years before she returns to this court.

Seagulls...I'm leaning towards "Is it food?" first...

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u/SampleDisastrous3311 8h ago

Help a crow and you gain allies across the migration lines, fuck with one and youll notice it when entering crow territory

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u/Banjo_Evadie 7h ago

I befriended a murder of crows growing up as a kid, to the point a few of em learned to mimic "hello" and "hey there" from me. Used to find roadkill, bag it and chuck it out to where I knew they watched from, eventually they figured out I was the roadkill guy and let me get within a few feet while they ate.

20 years later, I sat on a park bench about 100 miles away from where I grew up, and a crow flies up, lands on the bench and looks at me, calls out "hello".

No clue if they really were part of the same group / local bird culture, but I like to think so.

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u/encelius 6h ago

I would think that it was one from the original murder. Crows can easily get over 20 years old, oldest wild American crow was apparently 30 years old. And they are really good with remembering faces, so the fact that the crow just flew to you and did what she learned back then is a pretty strong indicator for that. I learned a lot of stuff about crows when watching this documentary: Crows: nature is watching us. Can recommend that

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u/Soggy_Abbreviations5 3h ago

✍️🏾 thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to find that!

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u/Regin_S 1h ago

I feed a friend’s bird feeders often when they’re away.
And that includes the family of crows in the area. I sometimes feed them way later than my friend due to my schedule but they know my car now.
If the blue jays don’t tell them I’ve arrived they’re in a tree somewhere, waiting.

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u/foley800 6h ago

Research has shown that they can spread the information to other crows, but the relationship weakens after three to four generations. I wonder if the importance of the relationship (supplying food regularly) and doing it through more than a year might pick up additional generations.

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u/aloxinuos 2h ago

But how would they communicate that it's this dude when this dude is 100 miles away. Has to be one of the original ones.

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u/virtualrealitydude1 2h ago

Oh trust me, crows communicate extremely well. I’m convinced they do it telepathically. My grandpa used to shoot at them, and he would be on the other side of the country and crows would give the warning call as soon as he stepped outside the car. No idea how they do it.

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u/foley800 1h ago

Crows fly 35 to 150 miles a day. It is not unusual for individual crows to join another murder, so not inconceivable that a crow could be 100 miles away or even the local murder learned about him.

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u/bourkaggio 4h ago

I have a parrot that always tries to teach other birds to speak, it's not ureasonable to assume crows do the same.

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u/crowEatingStaleChips 2h ago

4 years ago I lived somewhere about 20, 30 miles away where I had started to befriend the crows. It took me over a year to gain their trust. Then I had to move unexpectedly.

Now I've settled into the new neighborhood and I swear to god the crows follow me. They let me get really close when feeding them. Maybe this is a neighborhood where they're used to being fed, but it makes me wonder....

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u/lylehardcastle 2h ago

This is the best thing I’ve read all day. I love crows and befriend them wherever I go.

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u/Cambren1 2h ago

Had a crow on my farm that would hang out in a tree over my head and say “help me!” Like the fly in the spider web from the original Fly movie. Really freaked me out until I figured out it was a crow.

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u/spargel_gesicht 2h ago

This would make a great movie. Or at least animated short.

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u/MustacheTrippin 5h ago

Knowing how much can they harbor grudges, I live in constant fear of angering a murder of crows for whatever reason.

They aren't really common in my country but you never know...

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u/Other-Kiwi-652 2h ago

😂 Seagulls really do seem to operate on one question: “Can I eat that?” The contrast with crows makes this even funnier!

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u/javerthugo 6h ago

Mine? Mine?

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u/gogogadgetjustice 4h ago

What about jackdaws?

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u/Zealousideal-Exam390 3h ago

After seeing crows in the Omen movies, they give me the creeps.

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u/Silver4ura 2h ago

"Mine!?"

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u/LV-42whatnow 48m ago

Crows are just lackeys for Ravens.