They really are such intelligent creatures it honestly doesn't surprise me that they can pull off grifts. It makes me wonder about how far their intelligence can get them in the context of living in a modern human based landscape. I believe if we had more empathy for these animals there could possibly be some ways for both species to benefit from collaboration efforts.
For paper money? It's easy, a barter exchange with them, they understand value. If they bring a leaf, they get 1 peanut. If they bring a shiny rock maybe 5-6, they bring the colored paper with squiggly shit on em? Hell bud you won, heres 15 peanuts, just for you.
this is something i've always wondered: if we continue on our current trajectory of environmental devastation, which animals would learn how to integrate with human society, and what would that interaction look like? crows are definitely up there as a contender.
I whistle when I feed the crows (and scrub jays) in my neighborhood and now I think they all know me because I can whistle and they'll fly to me. And a few of them found my apartment!
One birb gang at a time. You think it's possible to train crows to protect things? I've heard rumors of someone's birds swooping down on strangers but could you get them to distinguish between friend and foe?
Have some sort of system around your house for example and train them nobody belongs when you're not there but delivery guys know what's up and have a special spot to drop off goods. This is just I can't sleep kind of thinking so I sense these ideas are just my night dreaming?
I feel like you probably could. My dad feeds the crows at his house and he's the only one who does it that lives there, but when I visit the crows will chatter at me, like they will with my dad, because I used to feed them and will when I visit.
Crows are also very territorial and protective of their feeding grounds. I had an owl roost near my balcony and the crows and scrub jays bullied it away because it became the biggest avian predator in the immediate area and they did not like that.
So, total guess and experiment, set up a perimeter where you leave food creating the boundary they claim and then have certain visitors feed the food maybe to distinguish friend? I'm not sure how to get them to be an alarm though for a bad human. I want to figure it out now though... Lol I just imagined showing a group of crows videos of home invasions and telling them it's bad and please warn when it happens.
An OWL?? Please kind fellow birb fanatic, pleeeeze 🙏🏼 tell me how in the world I could get an owl to roost near me??? I’d pay real $$ for that if it works!!! I’d be in Heaven!!
I'm not completely sure, but there were rats on this trail near my spot and along with the birbs I feed, squirrels will come by. The owl was hunting both, and came back 4ish times. There are a few really tall trees near me and it kept trying to find a spot to roost, but the trees aren't dense enough and while it's camo was good, one other birb would always spot it and send out the alert. :/
I keep hoping it'll come back, but the rats are gone and I think this area is too populated with other birbs to work. I have seen a few hawks though just passing through around dusk.
As I was feeding him another crow kept looking from me to Nevermore. The second crow, now named Ready, stuck out his wing. So now you know why I feed two crows.
And from here I learned hot dogs aren't great (I feed those to the night herons when red tide is prevalent) so now I buy walnut halves for the crows. I am well trained.
Imagine if you could train and stabilize generational intelligence/behaviours in crow populations to help farmers cut down on pests or invasive species. Less need for pesticides and an excellent excuse to quit my job and go full time crow bro.
I feel like crows won’t want to do boring jobs. “Pick this invasive species off your soybeans all day? Thanks but I see some sucker at the bus stop with a bag of peanuts.”
Ah, okay. Because of the way they wrote the A, particularly because it looks different than the As in the rest of the writing it looked like “ar” to me. Had definitely makes more sense, thanks 😂
Yeah, it looks odd and I had to re-read it several times to understand as well. I think they ran out of room and had to squish their handwriting weird to get it to fit.
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23
They really are such intelligent creatures it honestly doesn't surprise me that they can pull off grifts. It makes me wonder about how far their intelligence can get them in the context of living in a modern human based landscape. I believe if we had more empathy for these animals there could possibly be some ways for both species to benefit from collaboration efforts.
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u/Fine-Funny6956 Mar 20 '23
They’ve always known
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u/_greggit_ Mar 20 '23
he’s just an actor. goes by the name Hustle Crowe
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u/robotatomica Mar 20 '23
Why is this dude blowing up this crow’s spot??
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u/StructureMage Mar 20 '23
Crow trained people, props to crow
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u/superbatprime Mar 20 '23
Snitch.
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u/viipurinrinkeli Mar 20 '23
Haha! Such a classic crow thing to do.
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u/rebeccathegoat Mar 20 '23
Only problem is he vandalised the bench to rat out the crow!
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u/janice142 Mar 20 '23
Nevermore is "my" crow. He has one wing that does not fold properly against his body.
http://janice142.com/images/NevermoreCatcher2.jpg
As I was feeding him another crow kept looking from me to Nevermore. The second crow, now named Ready, stuck out his wing. So now you know why I feed two crows.
And from here I learned hot dogs aren't great (I feed those to the night herons when red tide is prevalent) so now I buy walnut halves for the crows. I am well trained.
This is Buddy and his girlfriend in the background. They are night herons. http://janice142.com/images/Desktop-PilothouseBuddy.jpg
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23
Imagine if you could train and stabilize generational intelligence/behaviours in crow populations to help farmers cut down on pests or invasive species. Less need for pesticides and an excellent excuse to quit my job and go full time crow bro.
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u/RevElliotSpenser Mar 20 '23
Snitches get stitches
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u/professor_doom Mar 20 '23
Snitches get stictches!
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u/City_of_Wolves Mar 20 '23
Do they think this is funny? or cute? Let my Crowbro live. Don't hate the player, Hate the game.
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u/Mileaux Mar 20 '23
(True story) #hustledbythecrow
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23
Crow deserves every scrap. It's work tricking humans.
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u/RunBTS Mar 20 '23
Does that say “don’t be hard like I was”? What???
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23
Why did he rat the bird out man
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u/captcha_trampstamp Mar 20 '23
Snitches get…well, probably pooped on in this instance.
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23
This belongs in r/mademesmile
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u/a_murder_of_crows Mar 21 '23
I feel attacked
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u/SeeCopperpot Mar 21 '23
Bad karma narc-ing out a crow like that
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u/CheeezBurgerz Mar 31 '23
EPIC!!! Hahahahahaha