moniquill:

spacedyke:

fangirling-so-hard-rn:

nowyoukno:

Now You Know (Source)

Crows are scary
They

• use tools
• Can be taught to speak (like parrots)
• Have huge brains for birds
• like seriously their brain-to-body size ratio is equal to that of a chimpanzee
• They vocalize anger, sadness, or happiness in response to things
• they are scary smart at solving puzzles
• some ravens stay with their mates until one of them dies
• they can remember faces
• SIDENOTE HERE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT.  They did an experiment where these guys wore masks and some of them fucked with crows.  Pretty soon the crows recognized the masks = douchebag.  But the nice guys with masks they left alone.  THEN, OH WE’RE NOT DONE, NO SIR crows that WEREN’T EVEN IN THE EXPERIMENT AND NEVER SAW THE MASK BEFORE knew about mask-dudes and attacked them on sight.  THEY PASSED ON THE FUCKING INFORMATION TO THEIR CROW BUDDIES.
• They remember places where crows were killed by farmers and change their migration patterns.

Guys I’m really scared of crows now.
(q) 

The experiment goes further than that – the KIDS of the PARENTS WHO SAW THE CREEPY DOUCHEBAG MASKED GUY

THE KIDS

FLIPPED THEIR SHIT

AT THE MASKED DUDE. BUT NOT WHEN HE WASN’T LOOKING LIKE MASKED CREEPY DUDE. 

THEY FUCKING PASSED THAT INFORMATION ON TO THEIR CHILDREN

What I don’t understand is why so many people express -fear- at the fact that animals are, in some ways, possibly just as intelligent as humans (intelligence being a thing that humans invented to describe ourselves, funny that…)

Crows are amazing. I’d argue that people express fear regarding highly intelligent animals because – humans are scary.