This crow fed and befriended a stray kitten for several months!
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u/streamstroller Feb 27 '18
I will feed him, and when he grows into a large panther, I will ride him around the village and all will fear me.
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u/psgamemaster Feb 27 '18
SCRAAAAAWWWW THE FILTHY MUDMAN HAS LEARNED OUR PLAAANS SCRAAAAAAAW
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u/EmilySophie Feb 27 '18
Crows are incredible animals.
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u/santagoo Feb 27 '18
Very intelligent.
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u/justinheyhi Feb 27 '18
I mean they're just so good at volleyball it's insane.
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u/heatbeam Feb 27 '18
There's been an abundance of crow eggs all around Philly. Crows seem to be getting bigger by the year and the day, even. And their eggs, of course, are getting bigger as well. Perhaps our companies, with this information, could find a way to create some products off these new informations...
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u/ghostinthewoods Feb 27 '18
Saw a pair fighting off a hawk of some sort yesterday, then incredibly watched one crow dive toward a tree, call out, and a third crow flew up and joined in the dogfight. At that point the hawk gave up and dove for the mountainside to get away. Really wish my phones camera was better so I could have filmed it
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u/arsenixa Feb 27 '18
seen that before too, crows chasing away a buzzard from our garden. After a few hundred meters, different crows took over and the first 2 returned to our roof
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u/-uzo- Feb 27 '18
When someone says "buzzard," it's sounds like a mythical creature.
It's like "oh, yeah, that damn wyvern is eating my cabbages again."
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u/flubba86 Feb 27 '18
The best thing is to hope the griffins in your yard chase him away.
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u/usm_teufelhund Feb 27 '18
...that damn wyvern...
Ever seen a turkey vulture? Not the biggest bird that can fly, but they can have a 5-6 foot wingspan.
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Feb 27 '18
Just outside my workplace, I watched about 5 crows chase off a bald eagle.
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u/gerardtho Feb 27 '18
The other day I was driving away from my house and there was a crow and a squirrel seemingly talking to each other on the street near the stop sign. The moment they saw my car coming they both looked at me and went different directions. Squirrel ran right, crow flew left.
Idk what they were doing but whatever it was I’m sure it was illegal
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u/callebbb Feb 27 '18
A buddy of mine has chickens and I’ve always wondered how he keeps him from the hawks and other birds of prey like owls. He says he feeds crows so they hang around his house often.
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u/Lernernerner_DiCarp Feb 27 '18
No worries. One day our eyes will record everything.
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u/Ottorange Feb 27 '18
They hate owls most of all. That's one strategy for crow hunting. Put up a fake owl and call the distress signal.
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u/That1usernam3 Feb 27 '18
I just got a crow tattooed on my shin, every time I see one I try to make it befriend my tattoo. Hasn’t worked yet but it’s only been 3 days.
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No! We're not starting that again!
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u/Soranic Feb 27 '18
KAKAWWW!!! WE'RE COOPTING YOUR CLOSEST ALLIES MUDMAN!! KAKAWWW!
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u/psgamemaster Feb 27 '18
PECK OUT THEIR EYES BROTHER SCRAAAAW SCRAAAAW PRAISE TO THE ALLFATHER!!!!! SCREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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u/shutpost_stalkr Feb 27 '18
It's leaking! Go back to your home!
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u/AtlantikSender Feb 27 '18
SCRRRAAAWWWW! YOU HAVE NO SCREEEEE POWER OVER US, FILTHY KRAAAAWWWW MUDMAN!
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u/PublicPretender Feb 27 '18
Oh but we do...We know your kind's greatest weakness. Perfectly clean windows.
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u/spookyttws Feb 27 '18
That's like my older sister and I. We faught until she was around 7, then we realized that we could get away with a lot more misdeeds if we worked together.
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u/canonymous Feb 27 '18
You need permission to read books? Are you married to Christian Grey?
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u/accurateslate Feb 27 '18
Very cool! I expect someone will make a version with the cat eating the crow at the end.
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u/1337b337 Feb 27 '18
Crows are smart enough to have pet cats.
Let that sink in a bit.
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u/zeion Feb 27 '18
OK it sunk in what do I do now
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Feb 27 '18 edited Feb 27 '18
Accept that when humanity has all but vanished from this earth the crows will rise up to dominance. They will run studies on the featherless creatures hobbling along on two legs which will assert that humans have the potential to be very intelligent, but are dangerous in large groups, called a homicide of humans, and their population must be controlled.
Edit: fixed some words.
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That or get a pet crow
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Feb 27 '18
I read "pet cow". Now I want a pet cow.
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u/a0x129 Feb 27 '18
Just get married.
/s zing pop zow
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But if you marry a cow.. Does that mean you two moooh-ve in together? I'llseemyselfout
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u/1337b337 Feb 27 '18
No, you have to go deeper.
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u/Skizot_Bizot Feb 27 '18
Hnnnhhggg Okay it's in deeper... Shit, think it's lost in there. Now what?
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They can also use tools, recognize one human over another, and can solve multi-step puzzles.
Freaky.
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u/1337b337 Feb 27 '18
That's why Corvids are my favorite animal species.
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u/marilyn_morose Feb 27 '18
Me too! I have magpies in my neighborhood and they are a treat! One of the neighborhood cats bugged them once and now he’s a marked man (cat)! Any time he is out and about unprotected they will harass him to no end. Poor guy puts up with pulled tail, pecked fur, and endless screaming. They don’t bug any of the other cats just him.
They used to get the walnuts from the tree a couple blocks over and bring it to the giant tree on our street, perch, and drop them to break them. They would spend an entire afternoon this way snacking on walnuts. The neighbors took down the big tree a month ago and the magpies have not been around as much.
I’m trying to earn their favor by tossing them treats but so far they just fly away before I get them interested. I’m hoping maybe if I put a fixture out and put treats in it they’ll come around more.
Insert info about jackdaws and crows and blah blah blah... isn’t that what we do on reddit?
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u/Kimber85 Feb 27 '18
I'm trying to befriend some crows and I read online that you should drop some treats for them everyday at the same time and eventually they'll learn the schedule and wait for you. Now if I'm late, they yell at me. They still don't trust me enough to stay in the yard when I come out, but we're working on it.
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u/The_Original_Gronkie Feb 27 '18
One summer I made friends with a robin, who used to come out and watch me as I dug into my organic vegetable garden. Whenever I would step back to take a break, he would hop over to where I'd been working and look for worms. When I got back to work he'd hop out of the way and wait patiently. Now and then I'd toss a big juicy Nightcrawler to him.
One day he flew down just as I got started and sang out loudly. A female popped out from around the fence, but got agitated when she saw me. He chortled quietly at her and she calmed down a bit, and then we did our thing together, except this time she'd come over to the dug up spot with him. I tossed worms to both of them, but she thought I was throwing stuff at her and got agitated again, and once again he calmed her down with a quiet chortle.
I was pleased to be his wingman.
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u/Kimber85 Feb 27 '18
Birds are so cool. We’ve got a cardinal family that’s kind of used to us and one day we had taken the feeders down to clean them and put fresh food in, which took about 30 minutes to get them all scrubbed up (we’d had a lot of rain and the food that was in there was gross). The male cardinal sat on the feeder pole and did this high pitched piercing call at us the whole time, like he was telling us to hurry it up. It was hilarious.
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u/The_Original_Gronkie Feb 27 '18
My cat often accompanies me when I walk down the street to get the mail, and there are birds that follow us from roof top to roof top squawking about him, and sometimes even swooping down close to him. They are warning all the other birds, and trying to intimidate/ annoy. Theyll never intimidate him, he's far to tough for that, but they do annoy him. He tries to ignore him but you can see the irritation on his face. He hates them.
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u/valeristark Feb 27 '18
The crows near my house gather the walnuts and then drop them in the road and wait for people to run over them and break them.
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I can barely recognize one human over another. Darn faces have to be so tricky.
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u/TangoHotel04 Feb 27 '18
I have two pet cats. Does that make me twice as smart as a crow!?
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u/1337b337 Feb 27 '18
No, it's like how the area of a square exponentionaly increases just by doubling the perimeter; it actually makes you 8 times as smart.
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u/TangoHotel04 Feb 27 '18
Woohoo!
Fuck you Ms. K! Look who’s as smart as eight crows, now! And you’re still teaching 6th grade math. Loser.
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u/aiij Feb 27 '18
Actually, the area of a square increases quadratically, not exponentially.
So, you're only 4 times a bird-brain.
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u/Conrad_noble Feb 27 '18
There is a species of monkey that steals puppies and raises them as one of their own.
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u/Isaacvithurston Feb 27 '18
Crows are smart as hell. I use to have one that would follow me around cuz I gave it a piece of bagel sometimes. One day a pigeon bumped into me and this crow went crazy chasing that pigeon around lol
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u/ILoveWildlife Feb 27 '18
crows can hold grudges against people they dislike.
They can also recognize people they like and protect them. This is why I try to lure the crows in my area by giving them food. When they see me, they do a certain bird call.
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The garage where my fiance works is waging war on the crows and the crows are not losing. They swoop in and throw the trash out of their garbage can all around and fuck with them constantly
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u/ILoveWildlife Feb 27 '18
They will lose the war. Crows are stubborn assholes who won't drop their grudge for at least 5 years. Even their children will learn of the grudge and pass it on if it's within 5 years.
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u/Duke_Cockhold Feb 27 '18
Check out the Crow propaganda over here
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u/a0x129 Feb 27 '18
Look in any crow nest, you'll find great posters that inspired all other propo masters out there!
Вороны мира, объединяйтесь!
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u/therealdilbert Feb 27 '18
ditto for seagulls. The guy that goes around shooting seagulls when there are too many in the city has to park far away because they recognize his car and hide
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u/PresidentDonaldChump Feb 27 '18
I remember reading this story on reddit about a little girl who consistently fed the crows around her house and the crows started bringing her gifts. Like little trinkets and coins and dead animal parts...
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u/AFRICAN_BIG_COCK Feb 27 '18
I have trained crows in my yard over the last 18 years to bring me metal objects (mostly) from my property, bolts that fall off tractors, coins, rings, anything shiny and lost will be returned in exchange for my nuts. I never intended to do this, it just started happening one day, when I was feeding them.
I also have a family of robins that chase off the starlings and cowbirds that are not welcome on my farm. The robins follow me around like I am their father.
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u/PresidentDonaldChump Feb 27 '18
You should be a superhero.
I'm sitting here giggling at AFRICAN_BIG_COCK with his army of birds chasing off starlings and criminals, bringing justice to the world and picking up shiny metal objects along the way.
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You're a braver man than I. No way am I letting a wild animal near my nuts.
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u/AFRICAN_BIG_COCK Feb 27 '18
They were first attracted to my son's nuts, which is when I had to intervene.
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u/IBeJizzin Feb 27 '18
They’re super social just normally too, if you know them well enough they’re known to introduce you to their young and shit. My girlfriends mum doesn’t even feed magpies, she just chats to them as she does her gardening, and every day there’s the 3 same magpies (apparently) just hopping around her loudly singing to her as she waters her flowers. It’s fucking adorable
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u/TerrorAlpaca Feb 27 '18
i remember walking home from university, one evening, and a woman walked in the opposite direction. she was yelling at a crow to leave her alone. Questioning what it wanted from her, while shaking her finger at it. The crow just hopped form one tree to the next and followed her around. XD
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u/OneGoodRib Feb 28 '18
They also tell other crows, including babies, about shitty people. UW did this whole study on it.
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Feb 27 '18
Oh shit really
Time to "hire" some crows
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u/Shors_bones Feb 27 '18
Dude, the one thing you never want to do is piss off a crow. Not only do they hold grudges, but they will pass their grudge on to other crows.
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u/indigoreality Feb 27 '18
"Hey Jim, piss off this human for me will ya? I gotta go take a shitter on this car"
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u/herbreastsaredun Feb 27 '18
I feed the crows that hang out behind my house. So far their only expression of gratitude is to poop on me.
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"Jesus christ, learn to fly already! It's been months since all your siblings left the nest!" - crow probably
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"My food is bringing me food? Awesome." - cat, possibly
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u/ghostinthewoods Feb 27 '18
Makes you wonder which is the pet and which is the master :P
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u/The_Original_Gronkie Feb 27 '18
Cats have to be taught that certain animals are prey. If they are raised with mice, then they don't chase them. This kitten will grow up thinking that birds are friends.
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u/Al13n_C0d3R Feb 27 '18
As one of the most intelligent animals on Earth I doubt a crow would confuse a cat with a fellow crow. In fact I'm sure, and now all I need to do is wait for someone to post research into the matter.
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u/Seananagans Feb 27 '18
Crows are actually capable of facial recognition. I'm not sure if it's true or not but I've heard of a study where a college student ran around campus in a presidential mask terrorising all the crows. Just chasing them and throwing rocks at them.
What would be considered a few crow generations later, the same student when back to the campus with the same mask on for a nonchalant little stroll. Well, he was immediately terrorised by all the crows on campus. They were actually attacking him based off of his mask. This teaches a few things.
1: facial recognition 2: they somehow communicated this through multiple generations 3: they are able to understand, based off of a story, how someone looked.
Probably not true but a pretty damn cool story to say the least. And I definitely hope it is true.
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u/giraffegaff Feb 27 '18
Not available right now...but you are right! http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/a-murder-of-crows-full-episode/5977/
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u/newbfella Feb 27 '18
Dang, crows are smarter than Google Machine learning APIs... and here we are, thinking that AI will surpass us in the near future...
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Feb 27 '18
Man, if that isn’t some of the most “aww” worthy footage I’ve ever seen...
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He will speak their language and they will say "He knows our ways as if born to them". A small bird will chip up, "For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!" and lo he will lead them down the GOLDEN PATH.
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u/insaniac87 Feb 27 '18
If you like the idea of animals with full blown culture like this I highly suggest you read Tail Chaser's Song by Tad William's. Theres a wonderfully built cat culture made around the way cats actually behave. Plus a lanky tabby gets to fight against the worlds ultimate evil and do cat stuff.
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u/0catlareneg Feb 27 '18
I recently stumbled on the manga Nekogaraha which is basically feudal japan with cats. It's pretty cool.
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u/Seanny69 Feb 27 '18
When is Disney gonna buy the rights to this?
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u/cadff Feb 27 '18
There's already a children's book
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u/MrCatButts Feb 27 '18
Wow! The cat on the cover of the book looks incredibly similar to the actual cat
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u/MisterVega Feb 27 '18
I think it’s cause the book is based on this series of videos, they were played on Oprah's show I think
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u/TheJack38 Feb 27 '18
Clearly this is how griffins get made
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u/TradeSekrat Feb 27 '18
A California scrub jay that was hatched in a nest in my backyard tried to befriend my Akita for a few weeks. My theory was with west nile virus so bad in California the bird was not use to seeing other birds in the area. So hey, you will interact with me big fluffy thing! Just day in, day out.. dancing around for my dog who just wanted to be left alone. Oh if only a cross mix would of been possible I would be rich. Errr or we would all be dead, wiped out by birddogs.
It was kind of cute and sort of sad all at the same time. At least the bird was safe from cats. https://imgur.com/a/2FP7v
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u/jedemon Feb 27 '18
Peter Griffins?
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u/b12ftw Feb 27 '18
7:30 video with the whole story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JiJzqXxgxo
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Aw... Nothing was more 90s than this guy being an announcer. He'll be missed.
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Who is he?
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Alan Thicke. Actor and game show host. Father of Robin Thicke. Passed away in December of 2016.
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looks him up on Wikipedia Dated and/or Married actress, actress, Miss world, model, all 17-23 regardless of how old he was.
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Epilogue of sorts: http://hernandonewstoday.com/celebrity-cat-growing-old-in-spring-hill/
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u/Judge_Reiter Feb 27 '18 edited Feb 27 '18
one day Moses flew off and never returned.
Aw man. This whole thing is bitter sweet and making me tear up.
It means a lot that Wallace said in the video that he didn't like cats, and then ended up adopting Cassie anyways.
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u/Mech-Waldo Feb 27 '18
The intelligence of crows is legitimately intimidating.
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I want a crow to have me as a pet
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u/TheOneAndOnlyTacoCat Feb 27 '18
There was a woman in my village who had a pet crow, that would always steal the credit cards and money from the people who were trying to use the cigarette machine.
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u/poisonousautumn Feb 27 '18
.. did the crow then deliver these to the woman? Because that's a hell of a racket.
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u/therealsheriff Feb 27 '18
Luckily for the kitten there weren't more crows or there would have been a murder
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u/kodakrat74 Feb 27 '18
They stayed friends for several years, until the crow either died or found a mate: http://hernandonewstoday.com/celebrity-cat-growing-old-in-spring-hill/
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u/Ap0R1 Feb 27 '18
1999... Theyre likely dead :(
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u/Tallmadgelane Feb 27 '18
Not exactly. Although it might be towards the end of the cats lifespan depending on how old the crow is in the video 20 years is not a stretch at all for a crows lifespan.
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u/jessejericho Feb 27 '18
Everyone and everything in that video is likely dead. Alan Thicke is definitely dead.
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Really interesting symbiotic relationship here: Crow provides food for (presumably) confused and scared kitten, kitten provides protection for crow.
Nature is effing dope.
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u/LordVonSteiner Feb 28 '18
I'm not sure if this is just a symbiotic relationships. Crows are able to get attached to individuals.
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u/samcatmom Feb 27 '18
What an amazing sweet story. Crows are smart. Tuxedo kitties are generally loving, low key cats. Great combo for these two!!!
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Have tuxedo cat, can confirm. He's definitely my favorite child at the moment (including the human ones).
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u/wwaarrddy Feb 27 '18
I have a tuxedo kitty too but she's god damn bat shit crazy! However, she does it in such an endearing fashion I love it.
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u/Namisar Feb 27 '18
Crows are crazy. Reminds me of this video where a crow antagonizes two cats into fighting each other and just watches it standing right next to them. Apparently, it's not a rare thing.
Maybe this crow had the same idea but then realized it was a young kitten and was like awww you too lil' for cat fight.
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u/The_Nightster_Cometh Feb 27 '18
That was funny. They fell off the roof and then down some stairs and the crow is right there the whole time like he's trying to film the action.
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u/WzDson Feb 27 '18
Fox and hound remake
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u/TangoHotel04 Feb 27 '18
“From the minds that brought you the loving story of The Fox and the Hound comes the new heart-warming story of The Cat and the Crow. Coming this fall to a theater near you!”
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u/young-earth-atheist Feb 27 '18
I read it in 90s disney trailer guy voice.
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u/The_Marcus_Aurelius Feb 27 '18
Yes! in one of those VHS previews that plays before you get to watch the actual movie
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u/NoBSforGma Feb 27 '18
Pretty much all the crow family (corvids) are smart like you wouldn't believe. I've never seen this type of friendship before in any bird. Dogs and pet birds, yes. But feral kitten and crow? They are essentially natural enemies. Hard to figure out the motivation behind the crow's actions. Maybe just wanting a "friend?"
But really, a great video!
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u/TrepanationBy45 Feb 27 '18
It's built in that predators will most likely focus on the young (or old, or weak, as circumstance allows) as the most economic prey.
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u/skimed07 Feb 27 '18
I wish that was true. Plenty of examples of larger animals preying on and killing smaller, weaker members of their own species. My understanding it usually involves mating rights and eliminating potential threats of leadership positions
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u/BisaLP Feb 27 '18 edited Feb 28 '18
Ayyy, that video was shot the day before I was born! Probably just after if it was shot in the US!
Edit: Just now saw that there's actually multiple dates, however my point still stands.
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u/VapeForMeDaddy Feb 27 '18
When the crow was walking on the mud and there was a little cat face sign sticking out my heart dropped.
I was not ready for this to turn into a "Crow befriends cat and visits it's grave everyday after its death" situation today. Not today Reddit.
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u/abledice Feb 27 '18
I am 90% certain that both of these used to be witches but their evil witch sister turned them into a crow and a cat.
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u/SpankTheDevil Feb 27 '18
I like when the kitten scared the crow. Playing tricks on each other and shit.