Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Crows@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoClever crow outsmarts TWO turkey vultures with ONE moveyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkClever crow outsmarts TWO turkey vultures with ONE moveyoutu.beSilverchase@sh.itjust.works to Crows@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoBrilliant! I love seeing examples of corvid cleverness, blows my mind how smart they are.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month ago“I know! I’ll sneak up behind them, pull their tail feathers, they’ll get spooked and leave, and then I can bathe in peace.” Well done, crow. I’m not sure I would have thought of that…
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s more that it gets the one to chase after the other and gets rid of both in one trick. Though I guess whether you believe it was intentional or not is another matter, but given how smart we know they are I choose to believe it.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month ago it gets the one to chase after the other I hadn’t noticed that. That’s… even more impressive.
minus-squareSilverchase@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe corvid sense of theory of mind at work
Brilliant! I love seeing examples of corvid cleverness, blows my mind how smart they are.
“I know! I’ll sneak up behind them, pull their tail feathers, they’ll get spooked and leave, and then I can bathe in peace.”
Well done, crow. I’m not sure I would have thought of that…
It’s more that it gets the one to chase after the other and gets rid of both in one trick. Though I guess whether you believe it was intentional or not is another matter, but given how smart we know they are I choose to believe it.
I hadn’t noticed that. That’s… even more impressive.
The corvid sense of theory of mind at work