r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pichipichipoco • 6d ago

Crows plucking ticks off wallabies like they're fat juicy grapes off the vine Video

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u/Blestyr 6d ago

Watched these videos a while back. Somewhere in their comment section I read some crows are learning to be gentler when removing ticks from the wallabies, so they become less stressed, allowing them to eat more. Corvids are just geniuses.

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u/Fun_in_Space 6d ago edited 5d ago

Crows have been observed using their beaks to carve twigs so that they can fish grubs out of the holes in trees. That's tool-making behavior. It blows my mind.

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u/Foxasaurusfox 6d ago

"observed using your beaks"

So you've already concluded we're on the internet, huh? Clever human.

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u/googleHelicopterman 6d ago

Pretty sure crows are beating my ass in online games all the time

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u/QueefBuscemi 6d ago

They do get away with murder.

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u/k3ttch 5d ago

And conspiracies.

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u/GregoryGoose 5d ago

not crows, but we have created chicken-guided bombs.

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u/rwarimaursus 5d ago

Pidgeons, Harold! Pidgeons!!!

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u/bobnla14 5d ago

Only when in a group.

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u/SleepyMastodon 6d ago

You should see us play Wordle.

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u/l0zandd0g 6d ago

Nooo thats Gibbons.

When your on the internet, no one knows your a Gibbon.

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u/MistaRekt 6d ago

Shhh... Stop saying that...

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u/SixK1ng 5d ago

PvE games as well, thanks to Elden Ring!

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u/propaganda_manda 6d ago

SCRAAAAAAWWWW!!!! THE BIRDS KNOW, BROTHER!!! CAW CAW CAW CAW!!! I FOLLOWED A FLOCK OF CROWS YESTERDAY AND THEY LED ME STRAIGHT TO AN OLD TREE!!! IT FELT LIKE THEY WERE SENDING A MESSAGE!!! WE’RE CLOSE TO THE TRUTH!!!!!!! SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY FREE!!!!! CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW 🦅🦅

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u/Consistent_Phone3193 6d ago

Ah, there it is. A piece of Reddit history.

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u/WillTwerk4Rent 6d ago

Clicked on this, scrolled down a bit to see someone mistake the sub for something else and the responses are great. Thank you.

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u/BabaGnu 5d ago

"The bird is cruel!"

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u/Dull_Sale 6d ago

That’s an Eagle 🦅 N O T a crow 🐦‍⬛

And to be more technical…those are Ravens, not crows 😬

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u/tiomao 6d ago

Clever girl

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u/Academic_Wafer5293 5d ago

They learn DIY from YouTube just like us!

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u/rwarimaursus 5d ago

We Birdpeople have been here for millenia!!! KACAAAAAAW!!!!!!