I have a friend who went to Alaska to work in the fisheries (or something like that.) She said after work they would drive to the town dump and watch to bears. After eating, the bears would climb up the hill and slide down the snowy hill on their asses — then climb back up and do it again, just like school kids on a snow day.
And as for crows, I read that crows have been known to pick up nuts and drop them in the road — then wait for the squirrels to come by and get hit by a car. Then they feast on the squirrels. Can crows really be that smart?
I know seagulls carry clams and muscles high above the parking lot at the beach and drop them on the asphalt to crack open the shells. So maybe that’s what the crows are doing too.
It is amazing how much we don’t know about the world around us.
Thanks for your stories. I think some animals are very clever. I’d like to know what goes on in my pets’ mind.
Crows are scarily smart.
Here is a youtube on the amazing intelligence of crows. It is a fascinating video. It left me in awe of crows.
Several times, when I was hunting quail with my friends, we had hawks hovering above us, following along. They’d wait for us to flush a covey, then dive down and attempt to grab one out of the air, or try to get one of our wounded birds. How they knew we wouldn’t shoot them, I don’t know.
When I was a child my father brought home a baby crow we named Rosco. I remember feeding it cooked oat meal with a spoon, when it was a baby. It had a cage outside but when it was grown it spent its days out in the yard and roosted in the cage at night. It started harassing school kids walking to school past our house, pecking them, it never pecked us. Dad found it a home with a friend out in the country. I remember the crow learned to say Mama. Nice memory.
I think crows are that smart....The question you need to ask is are squirrels that stupid that they keep falling for the same old trick.......LOL!