that's a really profound statement friend...are you a wizard?
what i said is simple and well-known fact. Not fallacy.
ok friend, learning is fun
Near human-like levels of consciousness" have been observed in the African gray parrot
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that's a really profound statement friend...are you a wizard?
ok friend, learning is fun
You Win Perfect
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I wonder if he knows when its time to be quiet and go to bed though.Hear that that squawking in the middle of the night have a friend waking up with bloodshot eyes stomping into the living room like.
Can you HUSH PLEASE, friend?!?!!?!??!?!
Do you keep all your friends in cages, friend?
Called "A Murder" for a reason
by Keh26 · 13 hours ago
Every once in a while, someone will post a cool crow fact or an adorable corvid .gif and it usually makes my day. I've always loved animals but my first real introduction to birds was with crows. I have been hooked ever since
This is Professor John Marzluff of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I got to work with him for about a year while getting my undergrad in evolutionary and conservation biology. He is most well known for his work in corvid intelligence.
The experiment was pretty simple. Capture a few crows while wearing the caveman mask, take some measurements and draw some blood, and most importantly make sure the birds got a good look at your “face” and then let them go. Give the birds a couple days to get over their abduction and then take a walk.
Not only did the birds remember the face, they remembered the face belonged to an a$$hole. At first, it was only the crows that were caught, but then word began to spread.
When a crow puts out an alarm call, all crows in the area will respond. This is called “mobbing”. And when crows start mobbing you, you notice (trust me, it’s happened to me and it’s terrifying). Think of the birds, except instead of just staring, all these crows are screaming and diving out of the air at you.
These few captured crows told their friends about the caveman but then the next spring, they began teaching their babies too. These babies had never seen anyone in the mask doing anything other than walking around, but they knew that caveman mask = raise the alarm.
Even better, in another experiment, the lab tried wearing the mask upside-down. They made it a little way across campus, drawing stares from the birds but no calls, until suddenly a crow flew past and did a barrel-role mid-flight. The crow recognized the face was upside-down and decided he needed to check, just to be sure it wasn’t that damn caveman. When he realized it was, he landed and raised the alarm.
Now I know some of you like science so you’re thinking, “masks are creepy. I’d be freaked out if I saw someone in a mask wandering around no matter what mask it was, how do we know that's not what the crows are doing?” Well, Marzluff thought of that too. The lab tried out a different mask, the lovely dikk Cheney mask shown above. They took turns with the mask walking around campus, and while they got many strange looks, they got no reaction from the crows. The birds could tell the difference.
I won’t ruin their big reveal, but when I left the lab almost 2 years ago they were trying the caveman mask further and further out into the surrounding neighborhoods. Generally, all crows sighted responded as if they had been the ones originally captured.
I’ve rambled enough, so here is a .gif of a crow playing in snow. The project I worked on was whether or not crows can tell the difference between raptors that eat crows (Red-tailed Hawks) and those that don’t (Osprey). Spoiler alert: They can. Or at least, they can in areas where they are used to Osprey. Drop an Osprey in an area where a crow has never seen them before, and the birds will see big talons and sharp beak and react the same way. Thanks for reading this far and feel free to ask questions! Also, here is a link to a really cool documentary about the mask experiment. Sorry not sorry, but I’m not in it.
by Keh26 · 13 hours ago
Every once in a while, someone will post a cool crow fact or an adorable corvid .gif and it usually makes my day. I've always loved animals but my first real introduction to birds was with crows. I have been hooked ever since
This is Professor John Marzluff of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I got to work with him for about a year while getting my undergrad in evolutionary and conservation biology. He is most well known for his work in corvid intelligence.
The experiment was pretty simple. Capture a few crows while wearing the caveman mask, take some measurements and draw some blood, and most importantly make sure the birds got a good look at your “face” and then let them go. Give the birds a couple days to get over their abduction and then take a walk.
Not only did the birds remember the face, they remembered the face belonged to an a$$hole. At first, it was only the crows that were caught, but then word began to spread.
When a crow puts out an alarm call, all crows in the area will respond. This is called “mobbing”. And when crows start mobbing you, you notice (trust me, it’s happened to me and it’s terrifying). Think of the birds, except instead of just staring, all these crows are screaming and diving out of the air at you.
These few captured crows told their friends about the caveman but then the next spring, they began teaching their babies too. These babies had never seen anyone in the mask doing anything other than walking around, but they knew that caveman mask = raise the alarm.
Even better, in another experiment, the lab tried wearing the mask upside-down. They made it a little way across campus, drawing stares from the birds but no calls, until suddenly a crow flew past and did a barrel-role mid-flight. The crow recognized the face was upside-down and decided he needed to check, just to be sure it wasn’t that damn caveman. When he realized it was, he landed and raised the alarm.
Now I know some of you like science so you’re thinking, “masks are creepy. I’d be freaked out if I saw someone in a mask wandering around no matter what mask it was, how do we know that's not what the crows are doing?” Well, Marzluff thought of that too. The lab tried out a different mask, the lovely dikk Cheney mask shown above. They took turns with the mask walking around campus, and while they got many strange looks, they got no reaction from the crows. The birds could tell the difference.
I won’t ruin their big reveal, but when I left the lab almost 2 years ago they were trying the caveman mask further and further out into the surrounding neighborhoods. Generally, all crows sighted responded as if they had been the ones originally captured.
I’ve rambled enough, so here is a .gif of a crow playing in snow. The project I worked on was whether or not crows can tell the difference between raptors that eat crows (Red-tailed Hawks) and those that don’t (Osprey). Spoiler alert: They can. Or at least, they can in areas where they are used to Osprey. Drop an Osprey in an area where a crow has never seen them before, and the birds will see big talons and sharp beak and react the same way. Thanks for reading this far and feel free to ask questions! Also, here is a link to a really cool documentary about the mask experiment. Sorry not sorry, but I’m not in it.
these crows are so cool
Crow solves an 8 step process.
Crows are amazing, I’ve been photographing them here in Seattle for a couple of years. They have distinct personalities and remember our faces. They actually started flying in and waiting for me when I would get home in hopes of a free unsalted peanut. I think of them as friends
these crows are so cool
Crow solves an 8 step process.
Crows are amazing, I’ve been photographing them here in Seattle for a couple of years. They have distinct personalities and remember our faces. They actually started flying in and waiting for me when I would get home in hopes of a free unsalted peanut. I think of them as friends
Take It In Blood
Banned
the crazy thing is
these muthafukkas are descendants of dinosaurs
imagine how intelligent dinosaurs would have been if they never died out
T Rex with PHDs
these muthafukkas are descendants of dinosaurs
imagine how intelligent dinosaurs would have been if they never died out
T Rex with PHDs
KeysT
Playa from the Himalayas #ByrdGang
We breed them as companions so every generation the ones who don’t play well with humans get filtered out. Maybe not smarter in the wild but definitely smarter at understanding what humans want and need.