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Crows Are Incredibly Smart
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/crows.html ^

Posted on 04/07/2013 6:38:29 PM PDT by navysealdad

Crow uses three step process to get food.

(Excerpt) Read more at angelfire.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: crows; intelligence; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: RoosterRedux

But didn’t she testify against OUR Lance?


21 posted on 04/07/2013 7:13:29 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: navysealdad

Crows can be temporary guests in your neighborhood but somebody has to be feeding them. They’re not bothered by kids...a little kid can walk along the sidewalk and given a stick or something, tap it on the ground, the crow will walk along with the kid but when another crow sees that and flies down on...they both fly off and maybe later one of them will come back for more, especially if you call them by name. However, they remember but they’ll always go back to being what they are. Enjoy the fact that this or that crow seemed to make friends with that kid for however long.


22 posted on 04/07/2013 7:13:34 PM PDT by equaviator
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To: navysealdad

23 posted on 04/07/2013 7:13:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: SgtBob

No problem with that. But I have a problem with killing for fun.


24 posted on 04/07/2013 7:13:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Growing up on the farm, we would shoot them on sight. We all carried a 20ga w/#4 shot on the tractor, combine or truck.

We never ate them...it never occurred to us to consider such.

We considered them vermin and they were Wiley to shoot. Once they saw the gun, they would bolt.


25 posted on 04/07/2013 7:14:02 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

What a great writer. He nailed it! Thanks for that excellent reminder. :o)


26 posted on 04/07/2013 7:14:37 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: SgtBob

Crows amaze me when they’re eating something on the highway and you’re approaching at 80 mph, and, at the last second, they hop out of the way, then hop right back and continue eating.


27 posted on 04/07/2013 7:15:59 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: txhurl

The Ravens say “nevermore?”


28 posted on 04/07/2013 7:16:11 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: HerrBlucher
The Ravens say “nevermore?”

So you don't think they'll repeat as Super Bowl champs?

29 posted on 04/07/2013 7:17:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!
She didn't, did she.

As a biker, I am conflicted about Lance.

Drugs are a big part of the Cycling Industry. If you want to win...you have to master the process.

Lance lived by the industry norms.

Is he scum...sure. Would I have done it...no.

Am I morally superior to Lance. Probably not.

30 posted on 04/07/2013 7:17:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: JmyBryan
you’re approaching at 80 mph

If they were as smart as they say, they'd give you a speeding ticket!

31 posted on 04/07/2013 7:17:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: txhurl

Grackles aren’t particularly smart, move in huge flocks, foul everything wherever they are with copious splats of poop and have a very annoying call like a chorus of porch swings with rusty chains needing a good dose of WD-40.

Crows and ravens are more of the individualist though they will move in groups at times. They’re not such slobs. They’re not as easily startled by people either. If you shoot grackles they’ll go away but will be back. If you shoot crows or ravens, it will be a very long time before you ever see one again.


32 posted on 04/07/2013 7:18:42 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Ouderkirk
If one is keeping vermin off crops...no problem with that.

I live in a rural area. We do what we have to do.

That said, when I was a kid, I did kill for fun for a short time...much guilt/shame about that.

33 posted on 04/07/2013 7:20:28 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: Revolting cat!


34 posted on 04/07/2013 7:21:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!

35 posted on 04/07/2013 7:23:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Counting Crows ... boy is that one whiny annoying band.


36 posted on 04/07/2013 7:27:05 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: navysealdad

Crows are interesting characters and they are probably not as harmful as some farmers think but I have personally seen them carrying off baby birds in their beaks.

I shoot them and feel no regrets in doing so.


37 posted on 04/07/2013 7:27:43 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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38 posted on 04/07/2013 7:32:01 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: dfwgator
Here's an interesting little tidbit for ya:

I always thought the Counting Crows song "A Murder Of One" -- from their August and Everything After CD -- had one of the cleverest titles of any song I've heard.

For some reason that I've never understood, the word "murder" is used to describe a group of crows. Go figure.

39 posted on 04/07/2013 7:32:04 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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40 posted on 04/07/2013 7:33:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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