I love this story @janton! Brian and I have a thing for crows and ravens and find them very impressive. Did you know they mate for life, and hold funerals too. They are such social birds and so so smart. I watched one get hit by a car in a busy city intersection, and the howling mate beside the dead bird would NOT move. Seriously, stopped traffic for a bit. But I will never forget the forlorn pain in that bird's cry!
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oh my gosh I've never heard anything like that! that's so sad..and they hold funerals? come on! how do they do that?
True! Another time, Brian picked a dead one off the street who'd been hit by a car, while its mate cried on the sidelines. He picked it up and put it on the grassy side of the highway and within seconds, about 30+ birds were at it's side, cawwwing away. I also witnessed a good Samaritan pick up a wounded baby, and put it in his truck to presumably take for help, and the mother followed him the entire time, swooping and cawwing at his vehicle. At a stop light I got out and ran to the driver's side window to tell him what I'd been witnessing, so he let the baby out and the mom and several other crows were suddenly by the baby's side! They are really amazing!!
There's also a lot written on their ability to remember human faces .. for years! It explains them leaving gifts for this little girl I think!
howdy again lynncoyle1! oh my, that is totally amazing. And yes someone sent me a research article about them remembering human faces and not just the one's who had contact with humans but all of them would harass a worker who had captured and tagged just a few of them! lol. we need to study them more I think. thanks so much for the information, wow!
oh yeah, they really are amazing, and so very intelligent!
If you do some research, see if you can find anything on their daily migration patterns in Vancouver, BC. The sky darkens at the same time daily when hundreds of them fly from one area to another. It's the strangest thing!!
really? I had no idea and had no idea that you could look up their daily migration patterns. I hope hunters don't use that. alot of people think they are evil and are afraid of them.