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I saw a science program about a Univ in Washington State that did a study of crows where one group of people wore masks and dressed the same and were slightly aggressive to crows, shooing them away and such. The crows learned that they were "bad" people and spread the word among crow friends and all began to caw in warning when the people in the test group passed by, even though they had never been aggressive outside the test area.

After months of that, the people stopped wearing the masks and dressed differently, and the crows still sent warning calls that they were coming! The crows had identified them by other visual signals like walking, size, sex, etc.

Smart little guys! Good at identifying undesirables, too!

ha! yes sir willymac I was reading some articles like that and couldn't hardly believe it! I mean that's much better than humans could do isn't it? and to spread the "word" about the undesirable humans is amazing!

and here I thought they were just a bunch of loud-mouthed, obnoxious birds!

Yeah, humans have always assumed that we are smart and nothing else on the planet has any feelings or intellect. We treat animals so badly and the average person seems to remain ignorant on that subject.

One of my main sore spots that has been with me a long time.

I wonder what the crows' collective opinion of us would be? Probably not very flattering.

haha! the Crow's collective opinion of us..that's a good question but you;re right I don't think we want to know the answer to that!
yes sir like dogs, idiotic people treat dogs like they don't have brains or emotions! total ignorance.

I have a real short fuse when I see someone mistreat an animal. Especially a dog, and more especially, a small dog. Just can't put up with it.

I couldn't agree with you more sir willymac and there is way too much of that, I think people use animals to take out there frustration and pain on!