Silverchase@sh.itjust.works to Crows@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoClever crow outsmarts TWO turkey vultures with ONE moveyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkClever crow outsmarts TWO turkey vultures with ONE moveyoutu.beSilverchase@sh.itjust.works to Crows@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month ago“I know! I’ll sneak up behind them, pull their tail feathers, they’ll get spooked and leave, and then I can bathe in peace.” Well done, crow. I’m not sure I would have thought of that…
minus-squareCoelacanth@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIt’s more that it gets the one to chase after the other and gets rid of both in one trick. Though I guess whether you believe it was intentional or not is another matter, but given how smart we know they are I choose to believe it.
minus-squareSilverchase@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe corvid sense of theory of mind at work
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days ago it gets the one to chase after the other I hadn’t noticed that. That’s… even more impressive.
“I know! I’ll sneak up behind them, pull their tail feathers, they’ll get spooked and leave, and then I can bathe in peace.”
Well done, crow. I’m not sure I would have thought of that…
It’s more that it gets the one to chase after the other and gets rid of both in one trick. Though I guess whether you believe it was intentional or not is another matter, but given how smart we know they are I choose to believe it.
The corvid sense of theory of mind at work
I hadn’t noticed that. That’s… even more impressive.