like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
they are scary smart at solving puzzles
some ravens stay with their mates until one of them dies
they can remember faces
SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT. They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows. Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag. But the nice guys with masks they left alone. THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight. THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.
YEAH! THEY ALSO PLAY FOR NO EVIDENT REASON OTHER THAN FUN AND THEY LOVE THE SNOW! Crows are seriously the coolest birbs ever.
To think a lot of people hates them *sigh* because they’re black and caw. Crows are like black cats, I’d love to see two play together.
I love crows
Crows are lovely :)
They are such clever and adorable birbs
crows have such a great understanding of the human world. there’s the video of one asking a human to open a bottle fo rit so it could drink, there’s a couple of photosets of crows throwing stuff in bins.
one of my favourite stories is the experiment with food in a tube. 2 crows in separate spaces given a piece of wire to hook the food out of the tube. they then get put together with one straight piece of wire and one bent so it wouldn’t fit. researchers expected the crows to fight over the straight wire, but instead they worked together to straighten out the bent wire so they could both get the food
Crows are far kinder and more lovely than some people are…
