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EP Ryan (Earthperson Ryan)

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Language stuff, city stuff, bus stuff 🏳️‍🌈 also millennial... Gay for cities and infrastructure. opinions my own, not anyone else's. in Chicago, IL. From Minneapolis

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ERpyry.lutefisk.onlineJul 28, 2024 3:43pm

Oh wild, I didn't know this. Amazing:

Screenshot from article:

Crows hide food in hundreds of locations and can remember those exact locations. But when they know they’re being watched by another bird, crows will pretend to hide food and then hold the food in their throat pouch and take it to another hiding spot.

Pendergraft points out that crows only demonstrate this behavior if they themselves have stolen another bird’s food.

“Once they do that, they realize, ‘Oh, wait a minute. If I can steal his food, then he can steal my food,” he said.

SBsailorbarsoom.bsky.socialJul 28, 2024 3:52pm

The thief crows are my favorite part of the article!

LMlizamazel.bsky.socialJul 28, 2024 5:36pm

I for one welcome our corvid overlords

ERpyry.lutefisk.onlineJul 28, 2024 3:45pm

Oop, missed this part:

screenshot continued: Studies have shown that crows and ravens are guarded about hiding food, if they believe they’re potentially being watched. They will even check to make sure other birds haven’t seen their hiding spot and then move their stored food to make sure it stays hidden.

“That implies theory of mind,” Pendergraft said.

EWevpok.bsky.socialJul 28, 2024 4:03pm

oh i knew that Eurasian jays were like that, i didn't know other corvids had that same behaviour

Nnabelew.bsky.socialJul 28, 2024 3:45pm

alt-universe career path: doing ethnographies of individual crows’ falls from innocence

EP Ryan (Earthperson Ryan)

@pyry.lutefisk.online

Language stuff, city stuff, bus stuff 🏳️‍🌈 also millennial... Gay for cities and infrastructure. opinions my own, not anyone else's. in Chicago, IL. From Minneapolis

480 followers310 following6.5k posts