Posted on 06/13/2020 7:53:57 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I have seen this scene many times in my backyard. A turtle digs up dirt made soft by a recent rain, lays its eggs, followed by the inevitable crow digging up some of the eggs to eat. However, yesterday an interesting twist. The turtle probably only seemed to lay eggs, perhaps knowing of their fate due to the crow standing nearby. This was followed by the crow furiously trying but failing to dig up the eggs. Watching this crow you can tell it was incredibly frustrated by its failure to find any turtle eggs in the ground.
I know crows are scavengers - like garbage collectors that keep things relatively clean - but I still don’t like them. Especially a murder of crows.
> Angry Crow Tries to Dig Up Turtle Eggs <
I really have to work on my reading comprehension. I initially read that title twice. And both times I read it as “Angry Cow Tries to Dig Up Turtle Eggs”.
So I’m thinking Oh, great. Now even the cows are angry.
I think the modern internet term for that is called
“Gaslighting”: doing something to make somebody else doubt their own sanity.
The term comes from a 1944 movie where a husband slowly manipulates his wife into believing she’s going mad. He would dim the gaslights in her part of the house and then act as though nothing was wrong with the lights at all, she must have been having yet another case of ‘bad nerves’. “Have another pink pill, Dear.”
BTW, these are snapping turtles. A couple of them out back are quite big.
LOL! I read it as an “angry cow” too and thought to myself, “How odd that a cow would be angry at a turtle.”
Where do I go to get my 10 minutes back?
The attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.
You can't possibly know whether crows even experience "anger," much less that's what this one was displaying.
Looks like a softshelled turtle. They get very large, and are easily as aggressive as snappers. Maybe more so, as they are pretty vulnerable when in land.
Since emotion arises from the limbic portion of the brain, if memory serves, then yes a crow could get angry. They are also smart critters. Not as smart as an African Grey Parrot, but smart. They are natural ‘tool users’. Had one in my yard picking up broken shells of walnuts and taking them up into the tree looking to find just the right branching to place the hull into so it could dig out the pulp. Did it over and over. My cats wouldn’t even rush it. They just paced on the porch flicking their tails as if trying to make up their minds whether to chase it or ignore it. It was a big crow ...
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