Ravens are very intelligent birds and are known for having a bit of a naughty streak. Watch this guy repeatedly untie a woman’s shoelaces and try to take off with her little pan.
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It’s a hooded crow. They are the most common crow here.
I used to have a tame one just like this guy, and he’d do the same silly things. Untie shoelaces and also hide food under the laces or down the inside of the shoe somewhere he could get his beak in…. or he’d sit on my shoulder and try to hide food down my collar.. eek yummy!
They’re playful like cats, and then they have an instinct for hiding food for later… or non-food… just sticking interesting stuff they found into good hiding places.
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Yes, it’s called caching. It forms a large part of their thinking. Where to cache, hiding the cache from other ravens, stealing other ravens’ caches, unearthing and re-burying a cache in a different spot…
How do you get a raven to play with you like that?
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We found a young one just out of the nest. They can’t fly the first few days out of the nest… or they have a week of not really leaving the nest but kinda doing it anyway. Klutzing around in the branches. The weather was miserable and there were dogs around and he was on the ground and too cold and stupid to stay up on a branch. So we took him in.
Dried him, warmed him, fed him for a day and he was imprinted on us and kept hanging out with us until he was ready to move out. He couldn’t fly for a bit, so we practiced it… had to climb up on the roof one of the first times to get him down again… down, apparently, is a lot scarier than up, to a bird… funny enough. You can feed them cat-food, so that’s what we did and he actually stayed for a long while, until a couple of adult crows next door chased him away. Later I heard he had moved in near a home for old people where he had taken to stealing their food out of their hands… cheeky bugger. I knew it was him when they said he landed on people’s heads and took food out of their hands. I hope he made it in the big world. He was definitely smart enough.
I am sure this guy in the video was raised by humans too. He’s asking for food.
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Wow, what a great story! Thanks for sharing.
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Reblogged this on boblongwordsguy and commented:
Thanks for sharing this Kim! Very cute.
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Thanks for sharing it yourself!
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Hello.. interesting.. very interesting these creatures of feather and flight.. great sense of humor..
Quoth the quoter quoth the bird.. quoth street cleaners.. quoths abird.. time of living knowing.. time when Poe was round.. crows.. squirrels and parrots.. exchange ancient sounds.. Peace Tony…
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The passive-aggressive raven: “Nevermind.”
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‘Evermore’.. :-).. Peace T.
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