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Crows Are Incredibly Smart
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Posted on 04/07/2013 6:38:29 PM PDT by navysealdad

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1 posted on 04/07/2013 6:38:29 PM PDT by navysealdad
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To: navysealdad

By comparison, some people use only a one-step process to get food (food stamps).


2 posted on 04/07/2013 6:42:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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3 posted on 04/07/2013 6:44:20 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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I’ve observed a lot of crows and they are definitely smart. However, Ravens are smarter.


4 posted on 04/07/2013 6:44:54 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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Hell, them beast have me beat.

1. Ass off chair.
2. Walk to ‘fridge.
3. Open said ‘fridge.
4. Grab groceries.
4.5 Nuke if necessary.
5. Return to chair.


5 posted on 04/07/2013 6:49:15 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: navysealdad

Nearly all Corbids, of which crows are a member are astonishingly intelligent.

They possess language and exhibit behaviors that make even the smartest dog look stupid in comparison.

Cheers,

knewshound


6 posted on 04/07/2013 6:49:17 PM PDT by knews_hound (Reading without commenting since 2001.)
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What’s the difference between a crow, a grackle and a raven?
We have have hordes of grackles around here, a raven or grackle wouldn’t exactly stand out.

How do you tell?


7 posted on 04/07/2013 6:51:37 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: navysealdad
Yes they are.

In general, I think animals are smarter than humans because human have gotten mentally lazy (Think Holder's/Obama's people).

If and when an animal gets sloppy...they end up on the menu.

This is the same reason why some men like dangerous professions and avocations...they are more alive when their lives are hanging in the balance.

Thx to Obama, Conservatives, Christians, and Jews around the world are now living more interesting, more vibrant lives.

We are an endangered species.

8 posted on 04/07/2013 6:51:43 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: knews_hound

Make good targets too ;-)


9 posted on 04/07/2013 6:57:39 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
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To: txhurl

We have grackles here, too, that roost. Noisy as hell and love to get into the cat food. They have an irridescent sheen (green-blue) to their feathers and bright golden eyes. The call sounds like a squeaky screen door opening and closing.


10 posted on 04/07/2013 6:59:07 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: knews_hound; navysealdad

What a lovely video (how research was funded? Not gonna go there!).

My favorite bird is their corvid cousin the bluejay with its many (22?) distinct warning calls. Can’t find the source, may have been Cornell ornithology, but it’s also fascinating. Thanks for posting. Cheers!


11 posted on 04/07/2013 7:00:18 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Do you eat them...or just kill them for fun?


12 posted on 04/07/2013 7:00:33 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: txhurl
Grackle -- 11 inches or so. Slim and streamlined. Slim bill. Black will pronounced blue-ish sheen. They glisten.
Crow -- 16 inches or so. Fuller, heavier body. Black. Slim bill.
Raven -- 23 inches or so. Very full body -- a big bird. Black. Larger, substantial bill.
13 posted on 04/07/2013 7:01:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: navysealdad

You can call in crows and shoot some of them, and you might even call them back again, but as soon as they figure out what is happening you will never call them again.

Not even 10 years later.


14 posted on 04/07/2013 7:01:58 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: navysealdad; a fool in paradise
Crows Are Incredibly Smart

I beg to disagree.


15 posted on 04/07/2013 7:03:26 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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BLUEJAYS

Now there is more to a bluejay than any other animal. He has got more different kinds of feeling. Whatever a bluejay feels he can put into language, and not mere commonplace language, but straight out and out book talk, and there is such a command of language. You never saw a bluejay get stuck for a word. He is a vocabularized geyser. Now you must call a jay a bird, and so he is in a measure, because he wears feathers and don’t belong to any church, but otherwise he is just as human nature made him. A bluejay hasn’t any more principle than an ex-congressman, and he will steal, deceive and betray four times out of five; and as for the sacredness of an obligation, you cannot scare him in the detail of principle. He talks the best grammar of all the animals. You may say a cat talks good grammar. Well, a cat does; but you let a cat get excited, you let a cat get at pulling fur with another cat on a shed nights and you will hear grammar. A bluejay is human; he has got all a man’s faculties and a man’s weakness. He likes especially scandal; he knows when he is an ass as well as you do.
- “Morals Lecture,” 7/15/1895; similar passage in A Tramp Abroad


16 posted on 04/07/2013 7:05:04 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple
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To: navysealdad
Owls may not be as smart, but they have a great sense of humor..........


17 posted on 04/07/2013 7:06:42 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: navysealdad

Amazing video. I’ve seen ravens and Canada jays do some pretty amazing things out in the wild. You have to keep your eye on your camping gear when those buggers are around!


18 posted on 04/07/2013 7:06:57 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Revolting cat!

I still think that Crow is hawt.

Not schmart but hawt!


19 posted on 04/07/2013 7:10:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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They are predatory critters...kill ‘em to keep ‘em outta my food plot. They are very smart...leave the carcass lay where killed for a couple days, and you will be crow free for a week.


20 posted on 04/07/2013 7:11:10 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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