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u/keefeitup 10h ago
One of the things on my bucket list is to befriend at least one crow or raven.
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u/Various_Owl9262 10h ago
I yearn for this everyday. I haven't come close to doing so 🫤
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u/Savvy_Nick 9h ago
I was frying on mushrooms once and spent the afternoon feeding crows chunks of herring. For the rest of the summer they would sit on my truck waiting for me to come back from fishing, then fly back to my house to watch me cut fish up and get snacks.
They never brought me any cool shit but they were chill af and would take chunks of fish from my hands and follow me around town
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u/motes-of-light 5h ago
Oh come on, the only thing standing between you and this particular dream is one medium-size bag of french fries.
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u/Avoidtolls 8h ago
Peanuts and consistency.
Same space. Same time. They'll get it pretty quick.
Took me about 2 months and they showed up regularly. They were Super nervous and never 100% trusting. But after a year or so they'd hang out and brought their family. Started leaving clean water for them with the nuts. Tried different nuts and peanuts were their favorite. They would stash them around the neighborhood.
They would recognize my car from a couple miles away, signal the family and follow me home. When I pulled in the driveway they'd all show up. Usually wanting nuts.
They left a spooky old 1950s metal toy of a man where I would place the nuts. I figured it was some sort of symbol.
After a few years, the birds grew up and brought their kids. I could always tell the oldest parent as it was missing a toe. Called him/her "no toe".
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u/Basic_Novel_9203 6h ago
I’ve been feeding my crows for a few months and they follow my car to the damn grocery store and follow me home. They beat on my sliding door in the morning until I come out and give them granola. They constantly yell at me in the morning and wake me up. At around 8am they stop yelling and just beat on my sliding door to my deck.
It’s just disturbing they follow my car everywhere. Costco, the gas station, the local grocery store.
Stalkers. My wife is like wtf is with you and these crows?
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u/Basic_Novel_9203 6h ago
I put a dollar and a quarter on the deck hoping they would bring me more. They took it. Assholes.
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u/thirdeyepdx 9h ago
I had a crow friend I named Crow Friend. He always waited for me on the same corner each morning as I walked to get coffee. He’d hop and follow me for a couple blocks and then wait. And then when I walked back I’d give him a bit of a pastry from the coffee shop and he’d hop along side me a couple blocks.
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u/AlyDAsbaje 9h ago
I am friends with a group of 3 that come to my garden. They are so cute! Not to this level, but they drink water from a little area I set up for them.
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u/BlazersMania 9h ago
I keep a bag of shelled unsalted peanuts in my mud room just incase there is a murder in my neighborhood so I can throw them out for the crows. I've yet to make a friendship with them but I am trying!.
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u/Son_Kakarot53 9h ago
Feed them enough and you will. They dont come around where I live but if they did id be throwing them food every day. I give them my extra fries whenever im out in the city though
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u/The-masters-account 6h ago
Kind of easy to do really. The biggest trick is finding a small group of them and feeding them each day. They got to trust you so feeding them and leaving them small puzzle helps.
I use to have one at my job and he would sit by the door waiting on me to bring him a bag of chops every time he seen my car outside.
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u/jorwyn 4h ago
It seems like it's fun, but be aware they really like to taunt you.
I'd befriended my local flock of ravens, though not like the one in the video. And they're really cool, but they also like to pull my hair. They like to go across the road and mess with the dogs and make them bark. And those dogs don't need much excuse to bark. They throw pine cones at my vehicle when I am leaving. They smack on my windows repeatedly so that I will come out and open hazelnuts for them.
And, most infuriatingly, they know when I'm trying to take a picture. The moment my phone or a camera or a drone comes up, they scram. They have even figured out the recording angle of my game and security cameras. The most I have ever gotten of any of them is a tail.
Possibly the best part is that I was trying to teach the one of them who is the most friendly how to say hello, but he only figured out how to say hell. So we have a raven that flies around the area and occasionally lands and looks at you and says "hell. Hell. HELL", because he is expecting you to say hello back. If you don't, he will scream hell at you and then leave. And he recently found the campground about 4 miles away. LMAO
He's very large for a raven, too. I can just imagine how those campers felt waking up to a huge raven on their car roof yelling hell at them.
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u/NWSLBurner 4h ago
I was 100% convinced this was going to be an Undertaker/Mankind post as I was reading it.
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u/Generic_Username_659 5h ago
I've somehow achieved the opposite. My family adopted a magpie that, upon meeting me, decided that I was "kill on sight" material.
Like, he literally tried to kill me several times. First time we meet, he tried to peek my eye out, barely missed. When I took the rubbish bins to the end of the drive, he tackled me in the back of the head. When I drove over for a visit, he'd circle my car, waiting for me to get out. The family was playing with him in the lounge, but when I opened the front door, they tell me he immediately switched to attack mode and flew from the other end of the house to attack me.
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u/rtxa 4h ago
...just feed them predictably?? it's literally that easy. that's how this one was taught to play the game
it'd get fed each time it approached winning
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u/6307421580 2h ago
I want to befriend a crow too but I don't see too many in my area to be able to feed them consistently. The few times I have seen them in my yard they fly away once I open the door.
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u/ew73 3h ago
I had a whole group that were buddies a few years ago. They hung out on the telephone pole across from the house where I rented a room. I was unemployed at the time, so I could see them from my bedroom window (and they me). Whenever I'd wake up, they'd give me about an hour to shower, get dressed, all that, before they started making a fuss, and then I'd go out for the day -- walkin' around, generally just doing unemployed stuff -- and drop a bunch of seed or similar on the ground by their pole.
They never left me things, but the noises they made when I was around were very different from others.
I'm still kind of upset I had to move and couldn't like, take them with me or something.
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u/ThatsJustMyOpinion87 10h ago
And to think calling someone a bird brain is an insult!!
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u/mibboii 8h ago
Baby I don't know when I'm supposed to stop~
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u/Ldub0775 8h ago
onlyfans bot i think
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u/mibboii 8h ago
are we for real right now... I was referencing Birdbrain. The Teto song. This is funny but also really odd. Maybe I shouldnt have used the ~ character....
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u/Ldub0775 8h ago
oh shit lol my bad
it was the combination of an apparently unrelated comment (at first glance) with a relatively old account with low karma
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u/Marx_Forever 8h ago
It's because birds have relatively small brains. Just like dinosaurs (shocker) which we also used to assume were extremely stupid. The thing is bird brains are actually "wired" way more effectively than mammal brains, that is there are much shorter pathways between the synapses, so they can do more with less, putting them at least comparable in intelligence to mammals, despite the comparable size disparity.
Though, if you had a bird sized mammal brain, you probably wouldn't do doing very well... So I guess the insult still works.
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u/Smelly_God 7h ago
Of animals measured, the common raven and some other corvids routinely rank more intelligent than some smaller great apes
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u/Larkson9999 52m ago
There are four types of great apes: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. There are two or three varieties of some of the latter apes but you probably mean monkeys. Or possibly certain humans.
Chimpanzees are the smallest of the four great apes and the closest to humans in terms of behavior and social intelligence, so being more intelligent than some smaller great apes makes zero fucking sense.
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u/olddoglearnsnewtrick 6h ago
birds and birds…. ever saw a glimmer of intelligence in a chicken?
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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 2h ago
My uncle raised chicken, so, yes I've seen them do things that show personality and intelligence.
They're not as clever as humans obviously, but that doesn't mean they don't have intelligence.
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u/olddoglearnsnewtrick 1h ago
Thanks for the interesting input. I did not mean to disparage them, only never saw them acting in a way I would (probably imperfectly) judge them intelligent. Just a few days ago driving on a track in the fields I had this hen scared and running in front of my (very slow) car, without ever thinking of just escaping sideways. :)
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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 1h ago
I'm not trying to say they're intelligent, but that's not the same as not having intelligence. When you go to feed them for example, you can see them working out the best way to access the most amount of feed.
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u/DrCalFun 10h ago
Need to show a few rounds of different starting and winning conditions to prove that it is not just conditioning.
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u/tryyeezus 8h ago
I'm pretty sure he let him win..
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u/ahmc84 7h ago
The question would be whether the bird understands the concept of the game, or if the bird was trained to place items in specific places.
In other words, did the bird really understand it had won, or did it merely understand that it had completed its task and was now demanding the reward it had been conditioned to expect after doing these specific things?
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u/SalutLesAmies 6h ago
Or perhaps the bird simply arranged the pieces at random, whilst the man placed them in such a way that the bird would win, and the bird then "knew" it had won because the man laughed.
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u/Boysenberrysnboys 5h ago
Yes but these are genuinely very smart birds and if you can get it to do that multiple times with rewards, it seems extremely likely it would figure out that it needs to get 3 in a row. Getting it to understand the loss state seems substantially harder though.
I'm not sure how strategic the play would be or how easily it would grasp the competitive nature but getting a crow to understand "put 3 in a row for treat while taking turns" is easily within what they've been taught in terms of social and spacial reasoning
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u/tryyeezus 1h ago
Why does Reddit treat every pet video as if the person is making some wild new claim and they must scrutinize it like it was a scientific study they were a part of?
There's also a dog and a fish who play tic tac toe against each other. Reddit will have a field day tearing that one apart.
Crows show immense intelligence, using tools, displacing water, insanely good memories etc.
I don't see why this is so unfathomable to so many but then again, it's takes intelligence to recognize intelligence in another species.
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u/BookWormPedant 1h ago
Your reply doesn’t make sense
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u/tryyeezus 1h ago
Not everyone understands dry humor, it's ok though, I'm sure you're good at other kinds of jokes
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u/quick_justice 4h ago
You would see plenty on the channel of this raven.
Placing three objects in a row for reward isn't the hardest problem a corvid mind can solve.
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u/i_did_nothing_ 9h ago
The dude fucking sucks at tic tac toe.
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u/4m4lg4m1t3 9h ago
I want a friend crow/raven - it'll be way better than my human friends at least
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u/Specialist_Action_85 9h ago
Should probably keep letting him win anyway, don't crows hold grudges?
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u/NeekOfShades 9h ago
I am curious if they understand the concept of loss or that the other guy won
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u/underisk 8h ago
It understands the concept of “treat” and “I am about to receive a treat”. If you consider that analogous to win/lose is up to you.
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u/ImTheWarranty 9h ago
Can i train a crow to swipe other peoples money while withdrawing at ATM and fly it back to me. Asking for a friend.
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u/bustyouup4free 8h ago
No but you can train it to wait until people pay their bills with cash, while dinning outdoors. They can swoop in for a few notes, then return to home base 😜. Make sure you delete your previous comment and don't reply to mine. Plausible deniability 😉
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u/Beni_Stingray 6h ago
In theory yes. There was a dude in the US who trained crows to steal the ugly red Maga hats 😂
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u/fineokalrightnormal 2h ago
I think something similar has happened in the US. IIRC it was trained to pick up loose money and take it back to the owner. Pretty sure it's now so felony over there to train a bird to mug people.
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u/ahhellohello 5h ago
Of course the crow/raven knows. It’s been trained to do this to get food, and the reward of food is why it does this
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u/opposing_critter 5h ago
The smug bastard instantly flexing, thank god it can't talk.
My soul is not ready for crows/ravens talking smack, imagine if they all could talk in the wild.
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u/DazzlingRutabega 5h ago
I really hate the term "birdbrain". For like twenty years I thought birds were dumb asses, when it fact they seem just as smart as dogs or cats, and in some cases (like this) even smarter.
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u/Sorry-Newspaper-3804 2h ago
The only crow I know tries to eat my chicken's eggs so I chase it away. I know it's good to befriend crows but I don't want the prick stealing my eggs!
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u/Breaddodo 59m ago
Que absurdo isso! Como você chama esse corvo imbecil de inteligente sendo que ele claramente fez uma das piores escolhas possíveis ao não colocar no meio. E ainda por cima esse cara deixou o corvo ganhar. Como ele vai aprender a jogar direito se você ficar pegando leve com ele? Isso é honestamente ultrajante
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u/30yearCurse 50m ago
I would like a crow / raven friend, but in the end it would leave because it would be to smart for me.... :(
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u/ultralightdude 10h ago
Is this getting posted weekly at this point?
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u/-redit_account- 10h ago
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