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Things I Learned on RF Today
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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McBell
Unbound
Funny thing is, they are mostly theists...
I love any bird, any animal realy, even the viper that just missed me a couple of years ago.
Yes crows are cool but they can be vicious. Ever hear murder of crows ripped apart another bird? Sounds horrendous
Edit, that ripped should read ripping
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Secret Chief
Veteran Member
We get an occasional crow in the garden. At once beautiful and scary. When one lands the birds already there go "Yep well I think I'll be off then..."
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There are plenty here, they have places just outside the village. Very intelligent bird, they use tools. I reckon they are ot far from their version of their stone age
Secret Chief
Veteran Member
I saw a short video on fb the other day....
There was a glass bottle with some water in it. By it was a crow that wanted to drink the water, but the level of it was too low for the crow to be able to reach down to it. So what did the crow do? Some pebbles were to the side of the bottle...
The crow picked up a pebble and dropped it in the bottle. Then another and another, raising the water level up so it could then have a drink. This of course lowered the level again. So more pebbles....
Corvids are the future
"Corvids display remarkable intelligence for animals of their size, and are among the most intelligent birds thus far studied. Specifically, members of the family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (Eurasian magpies) and tool-making ability (e.g. crows and rooks), skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other higher mammals. Their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to that of non-human great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than that of humans."
- Corvidae - Wikipedia
I saw a short video on fb the other day....
There was a glass bottle with some water in it. By it was a crow that wanted to drink the water, but the level of it was too low for the crow to be able to reach down to it. So what did the crow do? Some pebbles were to the side of the bottle...
The crow picked up a pebble and dropped it in the bottle. Then another and another, raising the water level up so it could then have a drink. This of course lowered the level again. So more pebbles....
Corvids are the future
"Corvids display remarkable intelligence for animals of their size, and are among the most intelligent birds thus far studied. Specifically, members of the family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (Eurasian magpies) and tool-making ability (e.g. crows and rooks), skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other higher mammals. Their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to that of non-human great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than that of humans."
- Corvidae - Wikipedia
I think I've seen that vid, it won't have been on fb thought, i only use it to keep in touch with family and friends with messenger. Maybe an old BBC Horizon.
Squirrels are pretty good problem solvers so that implies smarts. Not on the same level as crows of course.
And thinking about it, gold fish can solve mazes with a brain the size of a grain of rice so maybe problem solving is easy.
Its use of tools and self awareness that makes crows superior
squirrels make up for immediate intelligence by being persistent and trying things until they figure it out...
Secret Chief
Veteran Member
Not a single crow voted for Bonzo.
Definitely a smart animal
How to get rich quick.
Now, Secret Chief continuously carries pebbles everywhere he goes..I saw a short video on fb the other day....
There was a glass bottle with some water in it. By it was a crow that wanted to drink the water, but the level of it was too low for the crow to be able to reach down to it. So what did the crow do? Some pebbles were to the side of the bottle...
The crow picked up a pebble and dropped it in the bottle. Then another and another, raising the water level up so it could then have a drink. This of course lowered the level again. So more pebbles....
Corvids are the future
"Corvids display remarkable intelligence for animals of their size, and are among the most intelligent birds thus far studied. Specifically, members of the family have demonstrated self-awareness in mirror tests (Eurasian magpies) and tool-making ability (e.g. crows and rooks), skills which until recently were thought to be possessed only by humans and a few other higher mammals. Their total brain-to-body mass ratio is equal to that of non-human great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than that of humans."
- Corvidae - Wikipedia
Then he sets up half a glass of water and sells the pebbles to crows.
Good business man eh?
@JustGeorge uses her butt to store loose change
I just don't have any pockets....