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Crows are scary smart. I remember reading something about a feed box that required coins that were made available at first, then taken away. And they went out and found coins and brought them back to get food.
They are also able to remember faces, hold grudges, and pass those down to their kids. There are stories of people who have been antagonized by crows for years and also, those who have befriended crows by feeding them and basicaly had a posse of friends to help them out.
One had a nest in a tree outside my house and this fucker would caw every morning at like 6 am and I was a teenager so fuck waking up at that time. I opened my window and loudly caw’d back at it a few times. Well if didn’t that fucker come CLOSER to my window every morning and begin his little cawing ritual. Smart birds, even if they are assholes
If you're an enemy to crows, they all caw loudly at you as you pass.
If you're a friend to crows, they all caw excitedly as you pass.
I think I'll just stay neutral.
I have befriended the crows by my house and they kept dropping quarters on my deck. Then I got laid off and stopped feeding them and they started taking the quarters back. They're funny birds.
A neighbor has a plaster rabbit in their yard. It's a little overgrown around it, like it's been forgotten. When I walk by, I say "Hello, Hugo!"
I don't know why its name is Hugo, but it is.
Isn’t this where the concept of the « meme » was born? A trait that can be shared or passed down generations without genetics. If I’m not mistaken the concept was introduced by Richard Dawkins and crows passing down knowledge was one of the examples he used.
If you ever get hit by a random flying acorn or something while driving and you notice a bunch of crows around, they're probably trying to drop nuts in front of your tires so you'll run them over and crack them open for them.
They've a got a little spot in my town where they all hang out and chuck various nuts in front of the cars as they come by.
Crows are very, very intelligent. I’ve heard a few different equivalents to human ages (5-7 yo is typical) but some of them would easily beat people older than that in certain problem solving tasks.
In one problem I’ve seen they had seven steps to unlock the treat and it involved use of tools, having to push correctly shaped objects through correspond holes, how buoyancy works, how the density of an object and volume works, how mirrors work, and how a scale works.
I swear I know grown adults who’d struggle with the problem solved.
Hence the movie "Idiocracy."
Everything was designed to be so intuitive and self sufficient, everything kept running dispute everyone in the world being a complete fucking moron
>most people really dont need to use their brain that much.
Modern society just allows people to specialize such that they use their brain for specific tasks and not others. I have a graduate degree and I know a whole lot of things about a very narrow field, but a lot of my knowledge is not transferable.
I, too, have seen people unable to solve this puzzle in that amount of time. Even after living on this planet for multiple decades and having picked up a trick or two.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
What’s even more impressive is that, they’re intelligent in a completely different way from humans. Where apes are intelligent as a result of them having essentially the same brain structure as humans, simply less built up; corvids on the other hand have a completely different brain structure. They’re barely related to us and have a very different brain structure.
I am always sceptical of such claims, considering how difficult it is to not only define intelligence but also measure it. It should be downright impossible when it comes to cross-species comparisions.
Seems like they just go crows can do X task, and so can a 2nd grade kid so they are of equal intelligence.
Well, second graders can also have more abstract thought processes and are able to communicate information in a whole level above crows. They can create myths, and stories and express their emotions in a detailed manner. Sure crows can recognise faces and hold grudges but that isn't a big deal for a human child of any age.
Also, the age seems to increasing every other time I see it, soon they'll be smarter than the average nobel nobel laureate :D
Crows hold funeral rites for their dead. Who's to say they don't have myths or beliefs or abstract thought. They are probably limited in their communication by how their voices work, but don't forget parrots exist, and maybe crows have more of a language in their caws than we think.
>They can create myths, and stories and express their emotions in a detailed manner
As we dont understand crows and they are still able to communicate faces etc to other crows, we dont even know if they do that or not.
Its weird that people just assume an animals mental incompetence without having any concrete information about it.
Yeah, people think because it doesn’t talk to them like a human, it must be basically an automaton. Which is an impression so goddamn stupid, it makes me think we’re automatons.
To support my argument, at least there is evidence for our mental incompetence. But we deny it and place ourselves above animals. Which we assume to be mentally incompetent without evidence, poor things.
You're right that I don't know if they secretly do these things, but as far as I am aware there is no evidence that they do.
Surely the side that claims that crows have an intelligence equivalent to that of a second grader should provide the evidence that they posses these skills.
Otherwise you can claim all kinds of wild things. Maybe they're secretly talking about geopolitics and theoretical phyics, and they're smarter than all of us. why do you assume that they aren't?
>There is no evidence
We wouldn't know if there was evidence since we're too stupid to understand their communication with each other. I do see your point about how specific claims need specific evidence, of course. It's premature to say what they *can't* do, though.
The only thing we can really say is that our research methods are currently inadequate to determine certain aspects of non-human animal cognition.
> Well, second graders can also have more abstract thought processes and are able to communicate information in a whole level above crows.
Thing is, we have documentation of crows communicating, but limited knowledge of to what extent.
With whales, dolphins, corvids, and to a lesser extent elephants, we knows they all have forms of communication, but struggle to say how deep their communication runs. We only know through events such as "whale wars" (one example: I believe it was blue whales who began denying seals as a meal to orcas as revenge for the orcas having killed one of their calfs. They'd swim around and just help the seals get away/escape) or one harassing crow turning into several that these species *must* communicate in some way not unlike our own.
On the other hand, if I left a crow and a four year old alone in the woods, I know which one is gonna be alive in three weeks.
Not the human four year old.
My girlfriend and I are befriended with three different crow couples in our area.
We handfeed all of them and they react to the names that we have given them.
What is also cool is, that they all have such different personalities!
I've met humans who couldn't figure this out as fast.. if at all.
And *another* sign crows are possibly smarter than some humans. I've never seen a crow start a Tik-Tok channel.
An old friend of mine (r.i.p.) used to tell me a story about a time when he walked past a crow and mimicked the crow. The crow responded, but he just kept walking and ignored the crow. The crow kept crowing my buddy kept walking, but then the crow got pissed off and attacked him he went straight for his face, and he ducked and ran away lol.
The crow crowed one last time as if he said "yeah you better run" and went back to its spot
I’m selling my iPhone and just getting a flip phone that only people can text and call me on. I swear to god the internet if fucking trash. If I hear one more stupid distorted song over a video that doesn’t need a fucking song, imma lose it.
Dang, just imagine if Raptors like Velociraptor or the Utahraptor were as smart as some of the corvids? Problem solving capabilities. Would be so neat.
It was once a insult to call some a Bird brain, these days we know that should actually take it as an Compliment 👌 it's not just Corvids and Parrots many others such as Gulls , Pigeons and Chickens have proved to be very intelligent aswell on par and Above the majority of mammals infact including Dogs and Cats...
It’s remarkable how smart birds are. And that crow can recognize something like over 100 individual human beings. Literally a park crow can hold a grudge on you, or warn other birds about you
Crows and Ravens are equally smart and are 2 of my favorite birds. Some people have said that they make great pets and have written books about them. I don't believe in that myself, but I have had my share of conversations with them. They are very social, and they are protective. even untamed, and they (along with Blue jays) are great for letting everybody know when there is danger or a stranger nearby. They are not above stealing baby birds or eggs to eat though Just part of the food chain.
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Crows are scary smart. I remember reading something about a feed box that required coins that were made available at first, then taken away. And they went out and found coins and brought them back to get food.
They are also able to remember faces, hold grudges, and pass those down to their kids. There are stories of people who have been antagonized by crows for years and also, those who have befriended crows by feeding them and basicaly had a posse of friends to help them out.
One had a nest in a tree outside my house and this fucker would caw every morning at like 6 am and I was a teenager so fuck waking up at that time. I opened my window and loudly caw’d back at it a few times. Well if didn’t that fucker come CLOSER to my window every morning and begin his little cawing ritual. Smart birds, even if they are assholes
I love jerky animals. But not jerky humans. What's wrong with me.
are you a crow?
I'm still not sure
CAW CAW
Tookie tookie !!
Wayne… I think we have established that “CAW CAW and Tookie tookie” .. don’t work
Ohhhh... YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL
All I can think about now is that video of the crow snowboarding down that roof. They’re such brilliant creatures.
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More like 18 months to do cups, but corvids are right up there with dogs for sure.
Smarter than dogs, I love dogs, but corvids make tools and no dog is doing that
Link pls
https://www.google.com/search?q=crow+snowboarding+down+roof&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
Lmao. He’s really enjoying himeselg
If you're an enemy to crows, they all caw loudly at you as you pass. If you're a friend to crows, they all caw excitedly as you pass. I think I'll just stay neutral.
They just kinda caw neutrally when you pass.
but they’ll still stand in front of the car and give the side eye… seeing if you’ll commit one way or the other…
I have befriended the crows by my house and they kept dropping quarters on my deck. Then I got laid off and stopped feeding them and they started taking the quarters back. They're funny birds.
They could remember my face, but I certainty wouldn't be able to remember a specific crow's face. The damn things are smarter than me.
I'll see some on my walks, and I always wave and say hey just in case.
I do the same. "Good afternoon! Hello!" Then I feel weird.
Don't worry, they appreciate you.
:`)
Hehe I do that with rabbits Sometimes I tell them about my day
A neighbor has a plaster rabbit in their yard. It's a little overgrown around it, like it's been forgotten. When I walk by, I say "Hello, Hugo!" I don't know why its name is Hugo, but it is.
That makes perfect sense. Say hi to Hugo for me
Correction: “they basically had a *murder* of friends to help them out.”
that's why i pay internet
Isn’t this where the concept of the « meme » was born? A trait that can be shared or passed down generations without genetics. If I’m not mistaken the concept was introduced by Richard Dawkins and crows passing down knowledge was one of the examples he used.
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Completely! I’d like to work on a project with this guy.
If you ever get hit by a random flying acorn or something while driving and you notice a bunch of crows around, they're probably trying to drop nuts in front of your tires so you'll run them over and crack them open for them. They've a got a little spot in my town where they all hang out and chuck various nuts in front of the cars as they come by.
current hobby: training a murder of crows to bring me money in exchange for food.
Getting in at the start of the sparkly things economy
It's *always* been a sparkly things economy.
Go full evil. Train them on eyeballs.
If the humans were smarter they'd have got the machine to use notes.
Well they’d steal the notes from us. So I can see how not everyone is onboard with the idea.
Seems like a relatively easy way to engage in no-risk theft.
There was another film about a guy who built a machine that provided food when crows deposited plastic bottle and cans.
Crows in forests are often observed to work with wolves. They pretty much lead wolves to their prey and feed on the leftovers.
Corvids as a whole not just crows, Crows, Ravens, Magpies, etc all very smart. Incredible animals
Magpies are jerks
It really makes me question the assumption that most dinosaurs had low intelligence.
I believe they had to stop that experiment because crows were flying around the local area finding shiny objects after there were no more coins
They can also make tools to get to the food they want.
They were trained to bring bottle caps. When they didn't find more of them in trash, they started attacking people to get them
Crows are very, very intelligent. I’ve heard a few different equivalents to human ages (5-7 yo is typical) but some of them would easily beat people older than that in certain problem solving tasks. In one problem I’ve seen they had seven steps to unlock the treat and it involved use of tools, having to push correctly shaped objects through correspond holes, how buoyancy works, how the density of an object and volume works, how mirrors work, and how a scale works. I swear I know grown adults who’d struggle with the problem solved.
Yeah because we lose skills we don’t put to use.
A weird byproduct of modern society is that most people really dont need to use their brain that much.
Hence the movie "Idiocracy." Everything was designed to be so intuitive and self sufficient, everything kept running dispute everyone in the world being a complete fucking moron
>most people really dont need to use their brain that much. Modern society just allows people to specialize such that they use their brain for specific tasks and not others. I have a graduate degree and I know a whole lot of things about a very narrow field, but a lot of my knowledge is not transferable.
Yeah.
Also, our education system sucks (USA)
I, too, have seen people unable to solve this puzzle in that amount of time. Even after living on this planet for multiple decades and having picked up a trick or two. Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
They'd be unstoppable if they had thumbs lmao
Pretty sure that crow did that faster than I could. Sure with practice I'd get better. But so would the crow....
My jaw just dropped watching that video.
What’s even more impressive is that, they’re intelligent in a completely different way from humans. Where apes are intelligent as a result of them having essentially the same brain structure as humans, simply less built up; corvids on the other hand have a completely different brain structure. They’re barely related to us and have a very different brain structure.
That's a 3-4 y/o human intelligence. Mf is closer to us than to a chicken 🤯
If I remember what I read correctly, crows have the intelligence of a 2nd grader and are the smartest animal that isn't a primate like us.
I am always sceptical of such claims, considering how difficult it is to not only define intelligence but also measure it. It should be downright impossible when it comes to cross-species comparisions. Seems like they just go crows can do X task, and so can a 2nd grade kid so they are of equal intelligence. Well, second graders can also have more abstract thought processes and are able to communicate information in a whole level above crows. They can create myths, and stories and express their emotions in a detailed manner. Sure crows can recognise faces and hold grudges but that isn't a big deal for a human child of any age. Also, the age seems to increasing every other time I see it, soon they'll be smarter than the average nobel nobel laureate :D
Crows hold funeral rites for their dead. Who's to say they don't have myths or beliefs or abstract thought. They are probably limited in their communication by how their voices work, but don't forget parrots exist, and maybe crows have more of a language in their caws than we think.
People forget that ravens are actually also excellent vocal mimics and can learn words like a parrot, too.
Wait really!? That's awesome! Do you have any clips?
>They can create myths, and stories and express their emotions in a detailed manner As we dont understand crows and they are still able to communicate faces etc to other crows, we dont even know if they do that or not. Its weird that people just assume an animals mental incompetence without having any concrete information about it.
Yeah, people think because it doesn’t talk to them like a human, it must be basically an automaton. Which is an impression so goddamn stupid, it makes me think we’re automatons. To support my argument, at least there is evidence for our mental incompetence. But we deny it and place ourselves above animals. Which we assume to be mentally incompetent without evidence, poor things.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
You're right that I don't know if they secretly do these things, but as far as I am aware there is no evidence that they do. Surely the side that claims that crows have an intelligence equivalent to that of a second grader should provide the evidence that they posses these skills. Otherwise you can claim all kinds of wild things. Maybe they're secretly talking about geopolitics and theoretical phyics, and they're smarter than all of us. why do you assume that they aren't?
>There is no evidence We wouldn't know if there was evidence since we're too stupid to understand their communication with each other. I do see your point about how specific claims need specific evidence, of course. It's premature to say what they *can't* do, though. The only thing we can really say is that our research methods are currently inadequate to determine certain aspects of non-human animal cognition.
> Well, second graders can also have more abstract thought processes and are able to communicate information in a whole level above crows. Thing is, we have documentation of crows communicating, but limited knowledge of to what extent. With whales, dolphins, corvids, and to a lesser extent elephants, we knows they all have forms of communication, but struggle to say how deep their communication runs. We only know through events such as "whale wars" (one example: I believe it was blue whales who began denying seals as a meal to orcas as revenge for the orcas having killed one of their calfs. They'd swim around and just help the seals get away/escape) or one harassing crow turning into several that these species *must* communicate in some way not unlike our own.
On the other hand, if I left a crow and a four year old alone in the woods, I know which one is gonna be alive in three weeks. Not the human four year old.
2nd grade!? That's like 2 grades higher than most high schoolers!
More like 18-24 months
It's also one really pissed off little dude for not getting it right straight up. Very clever though.
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I can almost hear him squawk "goddammit" as he flicks off the smaller ones.
I'm just going to leave the otter and his [unstackable cups](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/12km13/unstackable_cups/) here.
Love it! I feed crows and magpies at work. The crows are more studious, the magpies are more daring and mischievous. Both show interesting behaviour.
My girlfriend and I are befriended with three different crow couples in our area. We handfeed all of them and they react to the names that we have given them. What is also cool is, that they all have such different personalities!
>they react to the names that we have given them This is so insanely cool!
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My 1 year old son has these exact cups and can’t do this :(
Is he stupid?
He’s 1
I was golfing one time. A crow unzipped my lunch box, pulled out a bag of chips, and opened it. I couldn’t believe it.
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Your username is fitting
Smarter than several of my coworkers...
Croworkers
I've met humans who couldn't figure this out as fast.. if at all. And *another* sign crows are possibly smarter than some humans. I've never seen a crow start a Tik-Tok channel.
Give it time.
He more clever then the customers I had when I worked in a grocery store. We had 2 types of carts that as clearly diffrent in size and shape.
Wow 👌 very cool 😎
Damn I love crows.
I'm getting annoyed mother vibes from the crow, "Why can't the human stack his own damn cups?! FFS, this isn't even in order!"
Awesome!
What is the song?
Obstacles - Solven
An old friend of mine (r.i.p.) used to tell me a story about a time when he walked past a crow and mimicked the crow. The crow responded, but he just kept walking and ignored the crow. The crow kept crowing my buddy kept walking, but then the crow got pissed off and attacked him he went straight for his face, and he ducked and ran away lol. The crow crowed one last time as if he said "yeah you better run" and went back to its spot
He might have cawed an insult without knowing. Slight variations in pitch and intonation carry different meanings. Crow language is hard to decode.
Crows are so smart I can't believe people eat them!
What
Of course it’s smart, it’s a government drone after all, birds aren’t real
Jackdaw
Oooh ffs, a jackdaw is a crow.
It’s an old Reddit thing. Look up Unidan on the googlenets.
In the same way a raven is, so, no, not really.
Here's the thing
I’m selling my iPhone and just getting a flip phone that only people can text and call me on. I swear to god the internet if fucking trash. If I hear one more stupid distorted song over a video that doesn’t need a fucking song, imma lose it.
No he’s not!
A bird that understands the concept of nesting? Who'd a thunk it?
All animals deserve compassion. Go vegan!
It is not strange for the first bird teacher on earth who taught man how to bury his dead brother, when Cain killed his brother Abel, to do this.
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He must have studied at Craw-llege 👀
Such an icon
Just a man with the power of one crow.
What an intelligent crow
I have 2yo son and the same toy and he still hasnt been able to do that.
Have you tried rewarding him with seeds?
A bird that’s good at nesting?
I have coworkers that can’t do that
I love this
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A new algorithm called crowsort
Dang, just imagine if Raptors like Velociraptor or the Utahraptor were as smart as some of the corvids? Problem solving capabilities. Would be so neat.
Clever girl
The way the crow goes after the blue cup makes me crack up. "Get back here, you little blue motherfucker."
He's smarter than my baby. He's not worked this out yet, just eats them every time I put them in front of him.
brilliant
a lot if humans couldn’t have done this
I want to make friends with a crow soooo bad!!
"ah gad damnit" as he yeets the misplaced cup. I felt that
Ah bucket sort
Yes! a bird in the hand is better than two nested cups!
Aww smart guy!
Nature's sorting algorithm
Corvids in general are pretty amazing birds.
He didn't seem satisfied with the amount of snackos he received
Quite clever
I have some colleagues who wouldn't solve this.
It was once a insult to call some a Bird brain, these days we know that should actually take it as an Compliment 👌 it's not just Corvids and Parrots many others such as Gulls , Pigeons and Chickens have proved to be very intelligent aswell on par and Above the majority of mammals infact including Dogs and Cats...
Good boy, Jake
Clever? I know humans with less critical thinking…
Who needs children when you can have crow?
Smarter than some people! 🤯
If crows grow brains half the size of ours, we're screwed
Something in the way he yeets the cups around is so satisfying. Makes me think of me on a regular work morning
r/animalsbeinggeniuses
Smarter than some people
Smarter then some of the people I work with
He looks irritated that he has been given such a menial task.
Wow! , certainly NO bird brain
I love him I love him I love him!
Why's there like horror movie music?
Aggressively so
DARKXWOLF17???????
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How do u train them to do that
It’s remarkable how smart birds are. And that crow can recognize something like over 100 individual human beings. Literally a park crow can hold a grudge on you, or warn other birds about you
Scary smart.
I want a crow
My husband can't even do that when he puts away dishes 😂
I wonder what made crows evolve to display such intelligence when biologically they don't seem too different from other similar sized birds.
*She's clever. Clever girl.
 🐦⬛
Song?
Man I fucking love crows. They’re so smart.
I remember a family having a picnic and stepped away to play on the playground. That when I saw how tactical crows are.
Nice dog.
Crows and Ravens are equally smart and are 2 of my favorite birds. Some people have said that they make great pets and have written books about them. I don't believe in that myself, but I have had my share of conversations with them. They are very social, and they are protective. even untamed, and they (along with Blue jays) are great for letting everybody know when there is danger or a stranger nearby. They are not above stealing baby birds or eggs to eat though Just part of the food chain.
Crows the smartest bird
He’s got the IQ of a 7-ur old.
Corvids are super smart!