Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Crows@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoClever crow outsmarts TWO turkey vultures with ONE moveyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: videos@lemmy.world
arrow-up140arrow-down1external-linkClever crow outsmarts TWO turkey vultures with ONE moveyoutu.beSilverchase@sh.itjust.works to Crows@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: videos@lemmy.world
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoBrilliant! I love seeing examples of corvid cleverness, blows my mind how smart they are.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months 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-up2·3 months 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-squareSilverchase@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThe corvid sense of theory of mind at work
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago it gets the one to chase after the other I hadn’t noticed that. That’s… even more impressive.
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.
The corvid sense of theory of mind at work
I hadn’t noticed that. That’s… even more impressive.