The intelligence of the Crow

[Steve Walker]

This was just a wild jackdaw that learned to mooch of humans.

Thought to be what also happened with cats and dogs.

[Phone]

As a kid we had an indoor/outdoor crow - Kinda cool but I was pretty little. More amazing however was a Professor of something (first name Irene) that came into the Valley National Bank in Phoenix when I worked there.

 

It talked (mimic) very well - much better than her parrot.

 

Phone

[poledark]

There was a Starling at Sutton lakes that imitated a bite alarm.........got many a guy running for his rods

 

Den

[Dave H]

I have seen a crow kill a peregrine falcon before. The falcon was feasting on a pigeon and it dive bombed it and killed it outright.

I once saw an incident which really surprised me. A magpie attacked a small dove held it down pecked its eyes out and watched it trot round blinded before it just flew off. I thought maybe it was a mother defending its youngsters as they will attack humans at times ( search Australian Magpie human attacks on u-tube) but it was in September?

Edited April 26, 2014 by Dave H