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 ...
By comparison, some people use only a one-step process to get food (food stamps).
I’ve observed a lot of crows and they are definitely smart. However, Ravens are smarter.
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.
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
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?
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.
Make good targets too ;-)
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.
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!
Do you eat them...or just kill them for fun?
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.
I beg to disagree.
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
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!
I still think that Crow is hawt.
Not schmart but hawt!
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.
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