The bird not only used the wire, but when that failed, he actually fashioned a HOOK to finish the task! That's not just smart; that is SCARY smart!!!!
crows and ravens are infact intellegent once my uncle bobby had a crow friend and it say hello and stuff it can learn speech like the raven and also use tools and ideas to get food
i keep a bowl of hard cat biscuits for my cat on my back deck, i have seen magpie birds pick up a few cat biscuits in their beak and then drop the biscuits in to the bowl of water and wait for the biscuits to swell and become soft,then they feed the soft biscuits to the young magpies.
And scientist are marveling about finding the oldest axe known, about 35,000. If the first human couldn't figure out how to make an axe then humans never were at the top of the evolutionary heap and never will be. Pride cometh before a fall, Einstein.
Crows and Ravens are super smart and bold. I work on a drilling rig, in the middle of nowhere. One day a couple years ago I had a raven grab a chicken wrap from my moving truck doing about 30kph; drop it off then come around to grab another one. The Ravens learned what time we went for lunch, and how we transported the food back to the Rig.
also, just lately, I had a crow get into a garbage bag full of my stuff, including GNC vitamins mixed with other medication. He ate only Vitamins.
In Australia, crows have figured out how to eat Cane Toads, which are a very, very poisonous species of toad. They've learned to avoid the poison glands by first flipping the toad over, THEN attacking the soft underbelly. Crows are up there with parrots as far as intelligence goes, don't underestimate them.
I think that the fact the bird fished it out counts, or do you want the bird to use a knife and fork to eat that food to be completely sure of its intelligence?
Yes they often are smarter "in their own environment" And if you think about it making technology and houses are creations/creativity not being smart, its our ability to create that sets us appart.
Oh, yes. A crow managed to accomplish a basic task that your average 4 year old would manage in a few seconds. Clearly this means that animals are smarter than humans. Yep, that makes perfect sense, sonofhendrix; that's not an incredibly idiotic and totally illogical thing to say, not at all.
That was sarcasm, just in case you didn't manage to figure it out on your own. Which is likely, I imagine, given your idiocy with other topics.
you are wrong - the average 4 year old will stick their hand in there and their hand will most likely get stuck and then there will be lots of screaming and crying for mommy..
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@Ptichka24: The average 4 year old AMERICAN. Very important detail. (Really, here it’s getting worse every day too.) That’s what one gets for investing all the money in wars for private companies, and none for education. And making it not OK to call an idiot an idiot, but totally OK to insult and hate smart people.
he has a point, i mean really, humans created stuff that can kil millions of their own kind including themselves. animals on the other hand just have to eat, sleep, mate and very rarely, fight. sounds like a good life to me!
The crow is a New Caledonian crow named Betty. She had a hook and a straight piece of wire and they were testing to see if she would use the hook or the wire. When a male crow called Abel took the hook, the researchers were amazed to see Betty make her own from the straight wire. She repeated this in 9/10 experiments.
Lol both ravens and crows are smart and are very related. crows are alot more common then ravens now though because of how much bigger they are then they used to be.
i had a "pet" crow once... or maybe it was a raven, it was huge! i got him before his eyes had opened and i hand raised him and released him back into the wild.
I doubt that was the first time he did it, but it's still remarkable. If he was trained to do it that's less interesting but we are supposed to assume he worked it out for himself.
As far as I understand the experiment, it was the first time SHE (honestly, it's a female) did do the task. Although, she had seen another crow complete the same task with a hook that was already made. This crow had to figure out how to make the hook herself.
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crows are so damn smart.. thats why its so fun to blow them out of the sky with a Shotty.. and pick em off the tree tops with the Deuce-Deuce.. BANG BANG BANG!!
I saw a crow in Germany once that these punk rockers had, it had a clipped tongue and could talk like a parrot, it seemed to respond to what they said in german (no idea what it was saying)
This bird is more intelligent than a lot of religious people and Africans.
poonaani1 3 days ago
This isn't simply tool use, it's INVENTING and CREATING a tool. On the spot. Improvising. This is pretty darn intelligent.
Flutix 3 weeks ago
The bird not only used the wire, but when that failed, he actually fashioned a HOOK to finish the task! That's not just smart; that is SCARY smart!!!!
CombineWizard 2 months ago 4
crows and ravens are infact intellegent once my uncle bobby had a crow friend and it say hello and stuff it can learn speech like the raven and also use tools and ideas to get food
cheyleew 2 months ago
Wow
50122318 3 months ago
wow and bird brain is supposed to be an insult
SphereMaster001 5 months ago 2
wow and bird brain is supposed to be an insult
SphereMaster001 5 months ago
Crows are highly intelligent relative for animals. Don't fuck with 'em! lol
lukejaden1 7 months ago
Like a fucking boss
NedimHusic 7 months ago
kind of amazed that every comment on this video isn't just variations on "holy shit!"
tezcatbus 11 months ago
Most ADULTS aren't that smart. They'll just keep on trying to use the rod straight.
CarolineandEmmaShow 1 year ago 5
@CarolineandEmmaShow Or they'd try breaking it or use their hands to turn it over. ^_^
CalicoVall 10 months ago
i keep a bowl of hard cat biscuits for my cat on my back deck, i have seen magpie birds pick up a few cat biscuits in their beak and then drop the biscuits in to the bowl of water and wait for the biscuits to swell and become soft,then they feed the soft biscuits to the young magpies.
betaman2003 1 year ago
Wow
Traxxasboy25 1 year ago
incredible
cosmolucy2121 1 year ago
And scientist are marveling about finding the oldest axe known, about 35,000. If the first human couldn't figure out how to make an axe then humans never were at the top of the evolutionary heap and never will be. Pride cometh before a fall, Einstein.
cusanusnicolas 1 year ago
@cusanusnicolas that's not true. the oldest axes are acheulian choppers that are about a million years old.
Redsrevenge 1 year ago
This crow is cleverer than my girlfriend!
skotoyob 1 year ago
A raven stole my girlfriend
Ravengaurd6 1 year ago
...I actually expect when I go back to work, this raven will be bulky with more muscle, lol.
walperstyle 1 year ago
...I actually expect when I go back to work, this raven will be bulky with more muscle, lol.
walperstyle 1 year ago
Crows and Ravens are super smart and bold. I work on a drilling rig, in the middle of nowhere. One day a couple years ago I had a raven grab a chicken wrap from my moving truck doing about 30kph; drop it off then come around to grab another one. The Ravens learned what time we went for lunch, and how we transported the food back to the Rig.
also, just lately, I had a crow get into a garbage bag full of my stuff, including GNC vitamins mixed with other medication. He ate only Vitamins.
walperstyle 1 year ago 2
This thing seems more intelligent than the people I have to deal with on a daily basis.
SpontaneousPlay 2 years ago 10
@SpontaneousPlay people make great tools also.
gabydewilde 1 year ago
@SpontaneousPlay because it probably is
watch this music video
/watch?v=m8fm3Z7jgWM
1245678987 1 year ago
This looks like it was from that series of experiments at Oxford. If so I believe this crow's name is Betty :3
Redsrevenge 2 years ago
In Australia, crows have figured out how to eat Cane Toads, which are a very, very poisonous species of toad. They've learned to avoid the poison glands by first flipping the toad over, THEN attacking the soft underbelly. Crows are up there with parrots as far as intelligence goes, don't underestimate them.
Darthbelal 2 years ago 3
my friend that was awesome. I have seen them do things with twigs, but bending it on purpose is an entirely different league. thanks for sharing
sloppymantis 2 years ago 5
these crows are from patagonia, in nature they use twigs to fish out grubs from trees
MrPaulzorz 2 years ago 2
No, they aren't, actually. They are New Caledonian crows. Look it up.
CZroe 2 years ago
Cool Vid - much like the Raven in England only nastier,
joeysn7hvn 2 years ago
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A Raven *IS* a crow.
CZroe 2 years ago
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he was f****ng trained
jessekarate08 2 years ago
Nope. It had never observed the behavior and it repeated it many times. Many crows can use hooks, New Caledonian crows can make hooks.
CZroe 2 years ago
you try it. what are you going to do, hold the bird and shove a hook in his beak and then force his head over the hole and show it how?
morgushong 2 years ago 2
This reminded me of the movie The Birds =/
BlueSilence1985 2 years ago
Yep !!! I see'em in and around my trash cans all the time they are smart indeed, and they also have a good memory too..
LadySierraSays 2 years ago
oh my god, i lost it when it bent it, that was awesome,
sadly, we are gonna have to erradicate them so they dont kill us
i dont want no planet of the crows shit
hybridluis 2 years ago 4
My favorite part is where crow makes tools
TKAA64 2 years ago 5
lol thats hillarious
wildernesswikiup14 2 years ago
most animlas are smarter than humans "in their own environment". I don't find this suprising.
sonofhendrix 3 years ago 2
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yea, but he totally dropped it at the end. stupid bird.
spawlik 3 years ago
I think that the fact the bird fished it out counts, or do you want the bird to use a knife and fork to eat that food to be completely sure of its intelligence?
Ptichka24 3 years ago 41
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Sonofhendrix, animals are clearly not smarter than humans, look at us, and than animals. We live in houses and have technology.
I mean, have you ever seen a Grocery Store which animals built for themselves?
MrMcPuggy 3 years ago
Yes they often are smarter "in their own environment" And if you think about it making technology and houses are creations/creativity not being smart, its our ability to create that sets us appart.
sonofhendrix 3 years ago
You defiantly need brains to make bombs and create guns. If they required no brains, we'd be at nuclear warfare with pigeons most likely.
And cows and chickens would be machinegunning us not wanting to be eaten.
Top that.
MrMcPuggy 3 years ago 3
Maybe they have such good brains that they are not so stupid, as to build nuclear bombs and guns and blow each other to peices.
STUPID HUMANS!
sonofhendrix 3 years ago 6
They'd still make guns to defend themselves from humans that kill crows.
Heck, they'd eradicate us, considering we are "JUST A BAD INFLUENCE ON THEM" since "HUMANS ARE SO STUPID"...
Self Hater, much?
MrMcPuggy 3 years ago
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Oh, yes. A crow managed to accomplish a basic task that your average 4 year old would manage in a few seconds. Clearly this means that animals are smarter than humans. Yep, that makes perfect sense, sonofhendrix; that's not an incredibly idiotic and totally illogical thing to say, not at all.
That was sarcasm, just in case you didn't manage to figure it out on your own. Which is likely, I imagine, given your idiocy with other topics.
Otox 3 years ago
you are wrong - the average 4 year old will stick their hand in there and their hand will most likely get stuck and then there will be lots of screaming and crying for mommy..
Ptichka24 3 years ago 48
@Ptichka24 What 4-year-old are you talking about? You gotta be crazy. my daughter would have be able to solve this problem at 4 no sweat.
8DX 1 year ago
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@Ptichka24: The average 4 year old AMERICAN. Very important detail. (Really, here it’s getting worse every day too.) That’s what one gets for investing all the money in wars for private companies, and none for education. And making it not OK to call an idiot an idiot, but totally OK to insult and hate smart people.
Evi1M4chine 9 months ago
he has a point, i mean really, humans created stuff that can kil millions of their own kind including themselves. animals on the other hand just have to eat, sleep, mate and very rarely, fight. sounds like a good life to me!
Kreacher3 3 years ago 3
Yeah, I agree with Ptichka and Kreacher. In my opinion, human beings will finally get along the day Cannabis is legalized world wide.
Jink5 2 years ago
this is an abstract environment.
utkua 3 years ago
I, for one, welcome our new crowverlords.
mynameisdom 3 years ago 3
no way ! :O AMAZING
masicklazik 3 years ago
amazing how SMART birds and ALL animals are!!That was just the cutest thing!!
trelovesanimals 4 years ago 2
where did you get "all" animals from? i only saw a crow in this video.
jason3351 3 years ago
I saw my 1st raven at the Grand Canyon. Holy moly, they are huge.
janetlw 4 years ago
he's fucking clever
ircluzar 4 years ago
My macaw figures out stuff in two seconds.
vigwig 4 years ago
that's my reincarnated uncle
jj313 4 years ago
ale trvalo mu to než pochopil system hacku :o)
matesakoid 4 years ago
The crow is a New Caledonian crow named Betty. She had a hook and a straight piece of wire and they were testing to see if she would use the hook or the wire. When a male crow called Abel took the hook, the researchers were amazed to see Betty make her own from the straight wire. She repeated this in 9/10 experiments.
chicharraj 4 years ago 6
Lol both ravens and crows are smart and are very related. crows are alot more common then ravens now though because of how much bigger they are then they used to be.
Deatonis 4 years ago
I think this is a raven, not a crow. Ravens are larger and considered the world's smartest birds.
Dirtfire 4 years ago
it is a crow(a Caledonian crow), its called betty.
metaltagger 4 years ago
i had a "pet" crow once... or maybe it was a raven, it was huge! i got him before his eyes had opened and i hand raised him and released him back into the wild.
babyfrootloops 4 years ago
Ravens are bigger than crows.
Dirtfire 4 years ago
i can do that
Slekkevet 4 years ago
i didnt know you were a bird... silly comment
raptros 4 years ago
Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows
A. A. S. Weir, J. Chappell, A. Kacelnik
Science 297, 981 (2002)
invigiator 5 years ago
I doubt that was the first time he did it, but it's still remarkable. If he was trained to do it that's less interesting but we are supposed to assume he worked it out for himself.
invigiator 5 years ago
As far as I understand the experiment, it was the first time SHE (honestly, it's a female) did do the task. Although, she had seen another crow complete the same task with a hook that was already made. This crow had to figure out how to make the hook herself.
Jesehall 5 years ago 2
lol, that was awesome!
SKPhoton 5 years ago
i dont get it... how did birds learned how to use tools?? i think they watched us using tools and tryed to do the same
raptros 5 years ago
you did
mmtosInkster 5 years ago
I did not just see what I saw.
eluxjose 5 years ago
that's not a worm, it's the curved handle of a small bucket inside the tube. i'm guessing there's bird feed in the bucket
Everfalling 5 years ago
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crows are so damn smart.. thats why its so fun to blow them out of the sky with a Shotty.. and pick em off the tree tops with the Deuce-Deuce.. BANG BANG BANG!!
iicampoii 5 years ago
*idiot*
ansperyper 3 years ago
I saw a crow in Germany once that these punk rockers had, it had a clipped tongue and could talk like a parrot, it seemed to respond to what they said in german (no idea what it was saying)
BigDummy23 5 years ago
Well, here's the thing: German sounds like crows squawking, so it only sounded like it was speaking German in the context of actual Germans.
mrpenbrook 5 years ago
That is creepy. No trial and error, just make a hook and get the treat.
ptupper72 5 years ago
That's almost creepy... They done a horror movie with super-intelligent crows yet?
SungHero 5 years ago
Um... Alfred Hitchcock, "The Birds".
I don't know if they were super-intelligent crows, but they had a secret, and somethin' was up with 'em, lol. :)
ansperyper 3 years ago
amazing!
ephemerol 5 years ago