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When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

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Re: When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

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Post by epidemian »

slavik81 wrote: post #26
adrianm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any evidence this isn't fake?

He does sound a little like a voice synthesiser, but I think that's mostly because both birds and computers speak English poorly. Here's another example: https://youtu.be/AfsnHVaScjg

I think he sounds like a voice synthesizer because the owner probably "trained" the raven to say nevermore by letting a computer program repeat that word occasionally over long periods of time. Thus he learned to mimic the synthesizer sound, not a real human saying it. You can also hear the bird repeat some notification sounds a "waka waka" sound that sounds like Pacman.

Re: When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

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Post by pestaa »

sirtastic wrote: post #39

I believe ravens and crows are very similar, this is a personal (long, and not the great) story about a raven I messed around with in Yosemite National Park: When I was up on north dome (not to be confused with half dome) there was a group of raven's hanging out on the rocks watching us eat our late lunch. I had an apple core that I tossed to the side and watched as a raven warily tried to approach it. I walked over…

I'm in love with your writing style.

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Post by raphman »

travmatt wrote: post #25
adamnemecek wrote: post #4

If you find this interesting, you should really look into the intelligence of crows. They've been observed to remember human faces, wait on traffic lights, plan, and a whole bunch of things that are very impressive. And don't even get me started on _jackdaws_.

>And don't even get me started on _jackdaws_ Top level trolling

Hmm, I found it a rather distracting inside joke. I can happily live without reading Reddit memes in this forum.

Re: When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

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Post by cossatot »

My wife and I picked up a seemingly injured young crow from our yard before the neighborhood cats (or buses) found it, and we took it to a local wounded bird shelter. The crow's family(?) crowed incessantly whenever we walked outside for a few months afterward. They would even start when we were several blocks away, coming home from farther out, and would follow us to our door. (The young crow apparently had a head injury, and we never heard back from the place on its recovery.)

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Post by manojlds »

sirtastic wrote: post #39

I believe ravens and crows are very similar, this is a personal (long, and not the great) story about a raven I messed around with in Yosemite National Park: When I was up on north dome (not to be confused with half dome) there was a group of raven's hanging out on the rocks watching us eat our late lunch. I had an apple core that I tossed to the side and watched as a raven warily tried to approach it. I walked over…

> I believe ravens and crows are very similar,

Have to ask - read only the article title?

Re: When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

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Post by dmix »

> Each volunteer was either holding a dead crow, standing near a dead red-tailed hawk—a crow predator—or standing near a dead red-tailed hawk holding the dead crow.

I had to reread this about 5 times to make sense of it. Am I just tired from a long work day or is that a poorly phrase sentence?

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