None of the crows where I live like me :(

Corvids are smart as fuck. I love this fact so I’m sorry if I’ve said this before but they did a test on Magpies. Might have been Australian Magpies. You’d think with how I love this anecdote I’d remember the details but fuck it: bird talk incoming.

They put a paper sticker on the Magpie’s chest and put them in front of a mirror. The Magpie would notice the sticker and use their beak to pull it off. That means the Magpie was capable of seeing itself in the mirror and recognizing that it was itself. You ever seen the video where they put up a big mirror in the African jungle and filmed animals reacting? The Gorillas were freaked out. A male saw himself, started threat displays, and charged the “other gorilla.” Chimps recognized themselves. Elephants recognized themselves. Both of those are some of the smartest non-human mammals on Earth. Apparently Corvids are on that list.

They’re wicked smaht.

Even birds take standing lessons.

Comrade crow :rat-salute:

here’s my crow stories or ‘crowies’. My girlfriend was driving and she saw a crow with a stick stuck in its beak the wrong way. She pulled over and the crow came up to her and let her unstick it.

The crows around my house started to become a nuisance. They’d start hooping and hollering at like 7 am so I’d go out and throw sticks at them until they left. It’s true that crows remember faces because when I open the door, they book. But when she does they persist. I warn her they’re smart and they don’t take her seriously. She says she knows they’re smart and she shouldn’t be taken seriously.

One day a flock of crows I didn’t know started a squakfest in the woods. I go out and watch them flush a bobcat out of their territory. Just bouncing around above it being pissy and it ran like shit. They pursued the bobcat to a certain point and then dropped off the second it passed the imaginary border.

summer break in the suburbs me and my friend would walk to the grocery store looking for free samples because they hadn’t invented internet yet. There was a dead crow on the side of the road and we’d poke it with sticks grossing ourselves out. We poked it for several days because we got samples every day. This other friend who was my best friends ‘other’ friend came with us once and he kicked the crow into traffic and I thought it was so disrespectful.