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Rituals for the dead span much of the natural world, seen in practices from humans and elephants to bees, dolphins and beyond. With charm and playful insight, animal behaviorist Kaeli Swift delves into the life (and death) habits of crows and shares what their responses could reveal about our own relationship to mortality.
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crows will avoid an area or thing that is deemed dangerous to their own species. In other words, they know what death is and know to fear it.
“Linda” will definitely be the feature star of a nightmare of mine in the near future…
If a group of crows are loitering they get charged with murder.
You caw that a joke?
This quacked me up
I might be an old bird but back in my day we didn’t take this death talk so lightly. Now show some respect and quit them jokes.
You will be eating crow for falsely calling them a bunch of murderers.
@tmc che ?? You don’t get it do you
Any Ologies fans know if she was the guest on the podcast that covered corvids? p.s. Hello fellow ologists!!
What about geese…I live on a migratory route Wich is also close to a main road…when one who is mated is hit,the grievance party will stay for days, trying to move it from the road…I have seen this multiple times throughout my time living here…I also had a house rat,she was smashed by the kids in the door,my 90lb dog mourned for days,licking the floor where she dies and guarding this spot for about 3days…even after cleaning she still visits this spot to this day…
This is a little of the subject, but I had an interesting encounter with a dying crow although I did not know it was dying for about two days until it died,,, the story begins , one afternoon I was sitting in my garden when a crow came at sat next to me as if it was lonely so I thought, it stayed with me that day and all day the next day as if it needed me or was feeling insecure or something I did not really know, then it died , and I understood ,I think it knew it was dying and was frightend and needed company for it’s last moments on Earth, I was honoured that it chose me,,
Amazing story, thank you for sharing.
Did you bury it?
Was it tasty?
Hmm… That’s very interesting Sarah. I live in the U’K. and invariably if I walk near a butterfly it flies away. This Summer though a rare butterfly was flying very close to me, in a way that it was obvious to me, that something was not quite right, in that it kept flying very close in front of me. The next morning I stepped out into my garden and it lay dead, exactly where it had been flying. I came to the conclusion that it was so near death, that it just didn’t care about the presence of a human. As if, for it, it’s fight for life was all consuming.
Typical male @Pragun Ahuja
I once buried a raven in a graveyard under a full moon. You should try it.
That sounds lit
Ive seen many times, a crow eating a dead crow
Burials were done long before that in the neanderthals. Guess where we learned it???
She looks like captain americas girlfriend
Peggy
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Keep the faith, hold on. Things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.
Thanatophiliac crows are something strange, to be honest I was not expecting that
There is a lesson in everything.
When feeding birds they leave gifts in return- buttons, colorful stones and small items
It’s true they’re mentioned in the Quran, when Caän killed Able he didn’t know what to do so Allah sent a crow to berry another crow so he could watch and learn what to do … . Very interesting look it up you never know what may become of you after you learn more about this subject …
All that and she didn’t mention Ted Hughes once, not sure if I’m impressed or sad.
Most depressing TED talk ever.
_”You’re basically seeing a confluence of three behaviors…”_
Desecration, cannibalism and necrophilia?
What do you say to the judge when you’ve been charged with animal necrophilia?
I didn’t know the crow was dead?!