It's scientific! They ran test using masks. Researchers donned threatening masks, odd, it seems the face aims upward and that alone would mark it different from all others, and they followed through by switching around subjects between places to show the crows communicate between flocks and between generations about specific people.
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I had a pet crow about 25 years ago. I named him Buddy. One of the most destructive animals in existence. Back then, I subscribed to the St Paul MN newspaper, which was put in a plastic box below the mailbox, and if I didn't retrieve it before Buddy got there he would get on top of the plastic box, reach in, and shred the whole fucking paper.
He would strut around and grab my barn cats by the tail and drag them around.
I'm quite sure he also visited other places around here, and because of his assholeness, some one probably shot him.
I have a picture somewhere.
I misunderstood. The guy looked up at the crows in his mask. I never did understand what made the man threatening beyond him wearing a caveman mask that is ugly. That alone is not a threat. But the ornithologist with the other mask who assaulted the bird nest was a real threat and to those same birds when they were babies. They were attacked directly and later again when rigged up with radios, that is a very real threat, and so one of the three survives and squawks the "threatening human" squawk and the ornithologist considers it win. And I suppose so do I. These ornithologists are an odd lot. They seem individually motivated.
It's Spring and the last month or so crows have been paying their annual visits to the homes of smaller birds when mom and dad are out looking for food. It's not unusual to see one fly away with one of the kids in its mouth with the outraged parent birds in hot pursuit who would kill the thieving murderer if they could. The video overlooked that little quirk of theirs.
I've never heard of one dragging cats around, AllenS. Buddy sounds like he was a real character, even for a crow.
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