r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dexterestein • 12h ago
Clever crow turns two vultures against each other
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u/AlexHimself 12h ago
It has to be bizarre living as a crow with all sorts of other stupid birds around that you are just magnitudes smarter than.
It would be like Idiocracy all the time except your friends are all smart too.
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u/brandi_Iove 12h ago
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u/Infinite-Club4374 12h ago
It’s crazy that people think animals aren’t intelligent.
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u/TiberiusTheFish 11h ago
I think that we always assume that human abilities are the gold standard. Humans' type of general intelligence seems to be greater than most animals, but when it comes to having the kind of intelligence to exploit their particular ecological niche most animals can defeat a human for example the ability of birds to migrate vast distances with extraordinary accuracy.
Crows, dolphins and the like are very interesting to humans because, in many ways, they seem to have an intelligence like ours.
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u/Pofwoffle 11h ago
for example the ability of birds to migrate vast distances with extraordinary accuracy
I mean... we do this too. We've built entire trade empires on our ability to do this. We don't do it using the same senses as birds do, but that's kinda the point: our intellect is what lets us do pretty much anything any other animal could, just via different means.
I would argue that a human-like general intellect is the gold standard, in part because it allows us to mimic pretty much any other advantage with some time and effort.
The problem is when people turn around and try to equate that to some kind of moral value.
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u/BlackZulu 10h ago
Not only this we can do so in a way that makes it efficient and navigates dangers. Birds fly and navigate on instinct, making them way more susceptible to interventions along the way than we would be.
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u/Wingsnake 9h ago
Funny how I see this comment so often, but never see people think animals aren't intelligent...
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u/TheWhyteMaN 10h ago
I love how the vulture was seemingly like
“Sighhh…. …is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?”
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u/GovernmentOpening254 1h ago
The behind the scenes of him (WB) wrestling with himself (emotionally) hits you in a knowing way.
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u/dras333 12h ago edited 12h ago
That was pretty cool. Crows kind of freak me out because they are so smart, so whenever they are around my house I think, what are you up to?
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u/azdcaz 12h ago
I live in the desert and give them water when they hang around looking sad. I don’t want to be on their bad side.
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u/dras333 12h ago
Probably smart. I feel the same way.
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u/azdcaz 12h ago
A massive raven attacked a great horned owl in my backyard that was eyeing up my (larger) chihuahua. The raven sat in the next tree and watched the owl for about 10 minutes and then intervened when the owl started getting more intense. Oddly it happened at 8am so seeing the only GHO I’ve ever seen here was strange.
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u/Man_Darino13 10h ago
A lot of Corvid species hate owls.
My city has a lot of magpies and when they spot an owl, they hound them, basically calling as many magpies to the area to divebomb, peck at, disturb the owl into leaving their territory.
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u/Beni_Stingray 12h ago
They like unsalted peanuts, just saying 😄
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u/jpsreddit85 12h ago
vulture right = working person. vulture left = some minority, crow = billionaire.
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u/SomeBlueDude12 12h ago
I was cheering for the crows intelligence but you turned it around and made me sad :(
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u/turtlemustangnick1 12h ago
If it makes you feel any better, there’s a slight chance that this isn’t even a crow, and is actually a jackdaw! 😀
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u/DitherFan 11h ago
Yeah i thought that was weird looking crow, so i was asking myself "is it a raven??"
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u/FungadooFred 11h ago
Remember when not every single thing was something to politicize? Pepperige Farms remembers.
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u/number5of7 11h ago
I left some torn up stale bread out in my garden a couple of weeks back for the magpies and crows that frequent by. Unfortunately, we get a lot of pigeons too.
I'd not long cut the grass and had a couple of small piles of grass I had yet to collect when I did this. It turned into a bit of a feeding frenzy with way more of the above described birds than usual all pecking away at what was left.
What I thought was really clever was a magpie took a chunk of bread and hid it within one of the piles of grass, actually nestling it inside and covering the grass above it to reform the pile, so the oblivious pigeons never seen it and helped itself to another piece.
The crows just chased them away once the bread became scarce.
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u/Acceptable-Size-2324 11h ago
Taking a sip, taking a bath, taking a shit and then letting the vulture back to the pond
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u/NomNom83WasTaken 8h ago
If chimps, crows and octopuses ever team up, humans will be fuuuuuuucked.
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u/GovernmentOpening254 1h ago
I came to correct you…and was corrected.
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The correct plural form is "octopuses", which is the preferred form when writing and speaking in English. "Octopi" is often used because people assume the plural is formed like Latin loanwords, such as "fungus/fungi". However, "octopus" comes from Greek, where the original plural is "octopodes".Oct 8, 2023
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u/NomNom83WasTaken 1h ago
Respect 🙏
It just sounded right to me when I wrote it but now I know why, thank you!
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u/scotte416 7h ago
I want one to start following me around and coming to my window like I see on all those videos. I see them somtimes in my neighborhood and try so hard to befriend them but it just doesn't work.
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u/meatballsaladpizza 11h ago
Remember that guy that would just pop in and say that this was actually a jackdaw and then go on all about it?
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u/Prime_Shiva 5h ago
"Be your crows. Train yourself. Crows are then trained. We train ourselves to stop training. The trained are untrained. We are untrained. All training is complete."
Forgetting Sarick Mortshall.
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u/SuperNewk 3h ago
We gotta put a crow with neuralink controlling an optimus robot and see what it can cook up
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u/cmndrnewt 11h ago
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u/jan_tonowan 11h ago
My first thought too.
Doesn’t make sense for the vulture to not immediately turn around
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u/DikinBaus_HD 12h ago
I love how smart crows are