like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
they are scary smart at solving puzzles
some crows stay with their mates until one of them dies
they can remember faces
SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT. They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows. Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag. But the nice guys with masks they left alone. THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight. THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.
A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.
Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill
I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.
Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.
That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him.
Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree.
That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.
Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.
that last reply made me wanna cry. that’s so beautiful.
this one morning i kept hearing really loud caws, i remember it was like 5am, LIKE REALLY LOUD AND ANNOYING AND AGGRESSIVE, so loud that i could hear it through a closed window, and i eventually went outside to check it out. there was a crow on my front lawn, it had an injury on its head and couldn’t fly and there were two other crows circling right above it, and they were cawing like mad.
i tried to get close and take a better look and one of them dived super low and tried to attack me. so i went back in the house and chopped some sliced raw meat and tossed it at him from a distance.
a few more times later, very soon after, they could tell i was trying to help, and did not attack me. i was “allowed” to walk up close and pick him up, he couldn’t drink water properly so i had to dip my finger in a bowl and stick it in his mouth.
i did this few times a day and it went on for about a week before he disappeared, i thought he recovered and left, but he came back the next day and lands on me, and i see him around the block quite often, and he would come sit on my shoulder for a few minutes and then fly away again. i feel like i’ve adopted a son.
Corvids are smart, and people have known it for a long time; that’s why crows, ravens and the rest keep turning up in folktales from all over the world.
is it bad that i really don’t like getting gifts on any holiday or birthday? I mean i love giving them. But i just don’t like getting them?
Anonymous asked: if the star wars universe and star trek universe clashed star wars would win. because A. the speed the star wars ships compared to the enterprise speeds put the enterprise taking years to get places the falcon can do in days and that's actually putting the star fleets fastest ship in the mix. and B. star wars just out numbers star trek at least 10 fold and have weapons that destroy multiple planets and have weapons that can destroy a whole universe. and star wars did have hard point weapons
Correct, Star Wars revolves around a Type 2.5ish civilization spanning a galaxy, while Star Trek revolves around a Type 1 to 1.5ish civilization occupying about a tenth of a galaxy.
And yes, averaging around Warp 5 to 7 means the Federation would take longer to deploy across a galaxy than the Republic/Empire would, given how Voyager averaged around Warp 5 to 7 and took years just to cross part of the Milky Way. Warp 9 might be comparable, though.
Things in the Federation’s advantage, though:
The Federation is in the Milky Way galaxy and Star Wars is in the Triangulum galaxy, 3 million lightyears away (per the tie-in between ET: The Extra Terrestrial and Star Wars Episode 1). That means the Federation is in a larger galaxy with potentially more resources, if it could mobilize them.
Federation has a clear technology advantage with matter transporters, better medical technology, and the ability to replicate matter.
The Federation’s ships, while not the kilometer-sized bruisers the Empire uses, are still formidably armed with photon torpedos and phasers, which have a similar power output to the turbolasers of Star Wars. They could pose problems for Star Destroyers and may even win one on one with skilled use of the Federation’s science advantages, but the Federation would be heavily outnumbered by the Imperial fleet if they invaded Imperial space.
The way I see it, due to the -immense distances- involved, either faction invading the other faction’s galaxy would lose, despite the Empire’s superior numbers, FTL speeds, and power generation technology or the Federation’s technological advantages in matter manipulation. Neither side would have the numbers and supply lines needed to cross intergalactic space -and- take and hold territory in the opposing galaxy.
Well there’s also the force to take into factor. While I’m sure people like Picard and crusher would be able to resist jedi mind control, I think worf and Weasly would be susceptible to it. Not to mention the force can guide in flying and help them dodge phasers.
Do you know how many posts of dogs wrapped in blankets pretending to be food there are floating around this godforsaken website? And then THIS rolls around and im stuck for 15 seconds trying to wrap my head around exactly which end of a the “puppy” is sticking out of these “towels” getting progressively more concerned when i can’t figure it out, im upset
You thought someone stacked a bunch of dogs on top of each other?
THATS WHAT IT FUCKING LOOKED LIKE TO ME OKAY DONT DRAG ME LIKE THIS
