True Facts: Crows That Hunt With Sticks

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Featuring the work of:
Dr Natalie Uomini, Max Planck Institute
Dr Anne B. Clark, SUNY Binghamton
Dr Michael Griesser, University of Konstanz
Dr Kaeli Swift, University of Washington
Dr Alex Kacelnik, University of Oxford
Dr Jolyon Troscianko, University of Exeter
Dr Christian Rutz, University of St Andrews
Dr Diana Liao, University of Tübingen
Dr Gavin Hunt, University of Auckland
Dr Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge
Dr Sonja Hillemacher, University of Bonn
Zita Fülöp
Neil Smith
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@zefrank 9 месяцев назад

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@jjbruno2486 9 месяцев назад

I might

@jjbruno2486 9 месяцев назад

Probably

@Iamrightyouarewrong 9 месяцев назад

What about dogs?

@John-X 9 месяцев назад

i liked u better when ur name was zefrank instead of "Ze Frank"

@graciliraptor3990 9 месяцев назад

Can I also get a ticket to New Caledonia?

@themorebeer3072 9 месяцев назад

The crows aren't holding a funeral for the unknown dead crow, they're gathering together for a ... murder investigation.

@LindaC616 9 месяцев назад

I see what you did there

@AbsentWithoutLeaving 9 месяцев назад

😆😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣😯😵⚰🪦👻👻👻👻

@saber2802 7 месяцев назад

I mean to be fair, even humans if coming across a dead body wouldn't be like "boohoo..." at first, they'd be like "holy shit, who did this?!"

@gargoyles9999 5 месяцев назад

Crowlumbo: just one more question

@gloriamontgomery6900 5 месяцев назад

……groan…..

@purplehaze2358 9 месяцев назад

What I’m gathering from this video is that crows can fill literally any bird niche if they’re clever enough.

@poppedweasel 9 месяцев назад

Definitely! I remember watching a documentary on puffin like auklets being hunted from their nesting site. They showed a peregrine falcon fail, where a raven succeeded in catching these little island auks.

@CDCI3 9 месяцев назад

And they are clever enough.

@LindaC616 9 месяцев назад

" *because* they are smart enough". There, fixed it for you.

@PvtPartzz 9 месяцев назад

It’s a wonder they’re not the dominant bird species on the planet… or are they? They are on just about every continent, right? The only birds I see more of are robins.

@BigBrotherMateyka 9 месяцев назад

And they're clever enough, too. 👀

@YochevedDesigns 9 месяцев назад

A friend of mine took in a crow with a wounded wing, and nursed it back to health. She released it from her apartment window when it could fly around again. A few months later the same crow showed up with a friend, who had a wounded wing. Word got out among the crows, and her apartment turned into a crow ER. One time a pigeon even showed up! The next year the pigeon brought her babies over to show off. She always had at least 3 or 4 birds in recovery at her place on any given day.

@jasondashney 9 месяцев назад

That's the cutest story ever!

@tybronx2446 9 месяцев назад

Magic is real in stories like these 😭♥️

@StoicVeR 9 месяцев назад

Birds can sometimes get a good read on people and their habits. We've had dove parents bring their babies to our porch while we sit outside, and just leave them by us on the wall to "baby sit" while mom/dad dove goes off to do dove business. Im sure birds keep track of what hunts and preys on animals in the neighborhood, and who is friendly or dismissive of birds/animals. This sort of thing can give them massive advantages, especially when someone takes on bird mending or is chill with hanging out with babies while the parents go forage.

@Baldoxxx4000 8 месяцев назад

Need proof, some birds are forgetful

@rondickinson1907 8 месяцев назад

Nurse Birdwell

@LaBelleTinker 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact: I took behavioral ecology with Kaeli Swift back in 2008. She, of course, studied crow behavior. Specifically, whether they could learn to recognize people who fed them. To eliminate confounding variables, her volunteer feeders had to wear masks-of either Barack Obama (who fed them) or John McCain (who didn't).

@dassemultor6940 9 месяцев назад

John McCain does come off as someone who wouldn't feed crows.

@chrispharmd2077 8 месяцев назад

I went to school with a kid who had a crow he was feeding. That crow came to school with us and sat down at an empty desk. The crow went on to graduate and somehow ended up in Medical School. Me nor my friend passed 8th grade.

@ObservantPiratePlus 9 месяцев назад

So now, because we know how crows can mob together to unalive another certain crow they don't like, we know why a flock of crows is called "A murder of crows". Makes sense.

@casualsleepingdragon8501 6 месяцев назад

8:15 i would 100% fall for the distraction stick

@LukeMcGuireoides 2 месяца назад

Damn, those science hippies are smart af

@kelleyrios5897 6 месяцев назад

These little guys are smarter than some people!

@spercwolf2985 9 месяцев назад

It's cool to see the crows work but as you said at about the 10 or 11 minute mark, "these crows are trained." So it's not like the crows know how to solve these puzzles from the get-go, nor do the crows learn solely on their own. They are trained what exactly to do to get the food.

@Lambda_Ovine 9 месяцев назад

with these last two couple videos, It's like you decided to make videos about the favorite animals of my friends lol

@rhov-anion 9 месяцев назад

I had a neighbor who shot a crow with a BB gun. The crows all went Mafia on the kid. He could no longer go into his backyard or ride his bike, or the crows would attack. One day I went over to his house (I was friends with his brother) the crows saw me in the backyard with the kid. They began to go after me, thinking I was "in on it." So I took to feeding the crows at my house (same block) and after a few days they forgave me and stopped attacking. Crows REMEMBER!

@corvidsRcool 9 месяцев назад

I hope that kid learned a lesson about wanton cruelty to animals.

@GreebleClown 9 месяцев назад

If you think about it that’s the same as what humans and other apes do; if there’s a dangerous animal near where we live we tend to gang up and kill or chase it off so it’s not a threat anymore.

@thefinalboss4471 9 месяцев назад

Wait so crows will let you kill their family so long as you pay them off?

@exidy-yt 9 месяцев назад

@@thefinalboss4471 no, they didn't forgive the kid who shot the crow, just the kid they associated with the kid who shot the crow.

@chazdomingo475 9 месяцев назад

A wretch! Said they, that bird to slay

@sevenandthelittlestmew 9 месяцев назад

My husband goes on walks and takes peanuts for the crows. He lures them back to our house (he has been using the same call for them every time) so they know where we live. This is beneficial to us, because we have chickens, and the crows will attack any hawks that get near our house. Crows are excellent neighbors. We provide seed for them in addition to the evening peanut treats.

@spamandjamjamandspam8669 9 месяцев назад

do they ever interact with the chickens? There's a bunch of videos of them messing with cats

@ctrlaltdelete200390 9 месяцев назад

What about the crow poop

@squiddwizzard8850 9 месяцев назад

@@ctrlaltdelete200390they're already dealing with chicken poop. Though there is some potential for bird diseases.

@impulsivecrafting 9 месяцев назад

That's all well and good, but crows eat chicken eggs and chicks. You don't want crows around if you intend to let eggs hatch...

@ominous-omnipresent-they 9 месяцев назад

@@ctrlaltdelete200390 You can actually make friends with crows.

@mamacrochets 9 месяцев назад

To add a story about the ingenuity of crows.... My kids and I went to the bird show at our zoo. The presenter was sharing a story about how they trained crows to pick up trash like plastic straws by rewarding the crows every time they would deposit a straw in a collection device. However, the crows figured out that if they cut the straw into smaller pieces, they would get more treats for each straw deposit they made. 😂😂 The devices had to be changed to a weight-based rewards system to keep the birds from gaming the system. 😜

@jasondashney 9 месяцев назад

That story makes my day. I love when adults get outsmarted.

@treymarcum 9 месяцев назад

To give a comparison great apes in zoos are trained to hand objects to keepers for rewards and they came up with a similar result. Break the object into pieces to get more treats

@tranquilthoughts7233 9 месяцев назад

@@treymarcum Which at times can get a bit problematic. Like for example if the object in question is a smartphone that some visitor dropped into the enclosure. Or rather horrifying if the object is a child that fell into the enclosure...

@flandersme 9 месяцев назад

That is truly a testament to how smart they are.

@Ricca_Day 8 месяцев назад

@@tranquilthoughts7233 Dude. Dark. Maybe reconsider your screen name?

@jacforswear18 9 месяцев назад

The researcher who sacrificed their standing and reputation in crow society for the scientific greater good is a true hero. I would never be strong enough to live knowing a crow thought I was a swindler 😢

@somethingwolfish1872 9 месяцев назад

That is exactly what I was thinking! I would be so upset!

@borealernadelwald 9 месяцев назад

Yes, exactly my thought! I feel horrible just thinking about doing that.

@starchb0mb 9 месяцев назад

Same! I would hate to be the person they remembered as not an honest trader!

@yellowcatmonkey 9 месяцев назад

that's ok crows are smart that's the whole point of the vid😸some games are won and some are just lessons to be prepared☝️😸 if i did this to you and then laughed and fed you snacks unconditionally anyway and took care of you then you would understand that i tricked you and it's for fun no harm was done so no record 💖they are very social and can pick up cues etc just like we do ✨but i love what you have said anyways it is lovely and i agree i wouldn't want that too unless it's a crow bro that knows me already all too well 🌻😁

@timwoods2852 9 месяцев назад

Not only that, but they'll tell all the other crows in the area, and you'll never be able to show your face in nature without all the crows dive-bombing your swindling face!

@TaylorMaurandbhangra 8 месяцев назад

Crows seriously need an hour-long special. This was not enough

@WestSydeThuugg 7 месяцев назад

100% agreed. They are insanely amazing animals

@crowgrabber_former_er5bb8yb2t 5 месяцев назад

200% agreed!

@davidowen4816 Месяц назад

300% agreed.

@justaninkling 9 месяцев назад

My favourite crow/raven experiment goes like this: Scientists wanted to stop crows from eating an endangered species eggs, so they coated look alike eggs with something to make them sick. The crows that were sick later were seen avoiding these nests of eggs and even ones not in the experiment were starting to as well. They decided to repeat it again with ravens, hoping for similar results. This time, however, the sick ravens went out and destroyed these nests or hid the eggs, so other birds wouldn't get sick from the eggs. Just showing how smart and social these birds really are.

@orchdork775 3 месяца назад

Huh, that's interesting how they responded differently!

@Frosty_tha_Snowman 9 месяцев назад

Crows are crazy smart. My mom started feeding one bird seed alongside the other birds (gave him his own dish) before long, he brought a friend, and then started bringing presents and putting them in the dish. He's brought pennies, smooth rocks, and pieces of glass - it's very cool. He's just named "Crow" or "Mr. Crow" and he comes and waits on his branch as soon as either one of us calls his name. She has a cup full of his presents lol

@Blynat 9 месяцев назад

There is a flower shop that I delivery to once a week. They have a bowl of peanut out for the local squirrel and random little piles of string and threat spools thimbles started showing up in and around the bowl. So either squirrels are starting to do this too. Or there is a crow that lives near a tailor that swings by.

@morganseppy5180 9 месяцев назад

I need to become a witch.

@Blacknight6577 9 месяцев назад

Bro was paying for his food 😂

@daviddroescher 9 месяцев назад

Even better he was negotiating a contract for futuredeliveries. I give you this now and you give me more that later.

@syrenet 9 месяцев назад

Facts, i know guy who instigated war between cocatoos and crows by feeding the crows, and same guy were really annoyed with the cocatoos ripping apart all the plastic's on his yard, so he started chasinga round the cocatoos and the crows took notice, soon the crows started to gang up on the moderately larger birds and each time buddy saw them chasing off these white pests, he game the crows more treats. few years later his property were cocatoo free.

@tretower57 9 месяцев назад

During lockdown, from an upstairs window, I started feeding in-the-shell peanuts to a crow I named“Corvid-19”. He has such good eyesight that he could be in a tall tree in the far distance (he would be like 1/2” tall in the distance) and I could hold up a peanut in the window and he would come bombing up to a nearby tree and then come and land on the window (which opens out), and claim his peanut. He would also keep tabs on me, perching on the gutter outside the bathroom as I got dressed, watching me in the kitchen, or perching on the gutter that was right in my eyeline when I was sitting in the family room. The next year, he took a wife, “Branch du Bois”, and they sit in a tree in our back yard waiting for me to throw them grapes or nuts. Once in awhile, he and 40 or 50 of his associates gather in a big oak tree across the way, cackle up a storm, and then explosively disperse.

@tiacat11 9 месяцев назад

Losing my mind at Corvid-19, objectively the greatest name of all time

@monkeybusiness1039 9 месяцев назад

Disco Elysium fan?

@squiddwizzard8850 9 месяцев назад

Years later, a man with a knife tries to mug you. The crows, understanding you're the Peanut Man attack the man. You run the hell out of there. Later on the news "A local man, wanted for an armed robbery was found pecked to death by crows. What does this mean for you? More at 11."

@adamhalcyon3393 9 месяцев назад

@@squiddwizzard8850 now I gotta wait till 11 to find out what's gonna happen to us!?!

@ominous-omnipresent-they 9 месяцев назад

"Corvid-19" Noice.

@iangarcia9104 8 месяцев назад

My family did rescues of crows and ravens. My dad used to yell at us for eating all of the pistachios. Turns out the birds figured out how to open their cage, eat the nuts, and then close the cage when they were done. Never did I get the apology for eating the nuts.

@fluffysheap 3 месяца назад

I've never seen a crow apologize to anyone

@LauraHorrorshow 9 месяцев назад

I have always absolutely adored crows. I recently moved to the city and I was so sad thinking I wouldn’t see any. Silly me, a murder showed up this autumn and started eating the nuts I was leaving out for squirrels. I bought some realistic decoy crows, a crow call, a heated bird bath, and tons of peanuts and now the crows are my buds. Every morning at 9am I am greeted by a fleet of crows outside my window pecking at the glass asking to be fed. This is only a recent development, in the last couple of weeks. I hope someday they’ll leave me presents like the crows did at my childhood home in the country. Another fun crow story from my youth; I always fed them because I loved them, so they knew me, but never let me get too close. One day I hear an unfamiliar call coming from the crows. I’d never heard them make this sound before and it sounded panicked. I look outside and I see a few acres down the property, a bunch of crows huddled around a wooden lawn chair. I go outside to see what’s up and they all fly up into the trees to watch from a safe distance. As I approached the chair, I saw that a crow had somehow gotten its head stuck between two slats in the back of the chair and was unable to free himself. He had worn a ring around his neck where the feathers had been rubbed off and his skin was raw and splintered from the weather-worn wood of the chair. He was tired and clearly had been there for hours. He let me pick him up and bring him into the house where I removed the splinters and tried to treat any wounds as best as I could. Poor baby was so exhausted. I gave him water and offered him nuts. After about 24 hours, he seemed like he was feeling much better and I released him back into a safe spot in the yard where he rejoined his family. For almost a year after that, I could always spot him from the missing ring of feathers around his neck. We named him Chairy. 😂 But he must have known I was trying to help him because from that point on until I moved, they would frequently bring me trinkets when they came to get their food which they had never done before that. They left keys, buttons, legos, paper clips, hair ties, marbles, the list goes on. I miss them every day but I’m so glad I’m finally making new crow friends again here. 🐦‍⬛💕

@ckl9390 9 месяцев назад

I wonder who's keys, and for what, they brought to you?

@thewiseturtle 9 месяцев назад

Chairy's story would make a lovely little children's book!

@LauraHorrorshow 9 месяцев назад

@@ckl9390 Haha! 😂 That’s a good point! Watch, they were actually gifting me a car. Somewhere in Northern Maryland a 2002 Ford Focus is rotting away and the crows who bought it are all sitting around it saying, “Where the hell is she?? Did you give her the keys, Craig??” 🤣

@LauraHorrorshow 9 месяцев назад

@@thewiseturtle Oh my gosh, I’ve never thought of that! That is such a good idea! Thank you! 🥰 I think I may do just that! Maybe work in some kind of message about how the negative stereotypes about crows being harbingers of bad luck are wrong and we should never judge or refuse to help someone in need just because they look a certain way.

@TwoHeadedMeerkat 9 месяцев назад

Honestly, as useless as those gifts are to everyday human-life, they sound like the kinds you'd be really happy to receive, if not solely for the emotional weight behind them. They don't know what's useful, they just think they're pretty, and I think that's really sweet! I love crows, definitely my favorite animals, as well as other corvids! ^-^

@Crustdaddii 9 месяцев назад

A couple years ago, I went to the beach in Ocean Shores Washington. There was a crow sitting on one of the poles near the bathroom. I know crows are familiar with faces so I politely said “sup?” And that crow responded “Sup?”. After that, I have forever respected crows because I’m pretty sure I’m now in an alliance.

@shadypixel4478 9 месяцев назад

Maleficent origin story

@prettylittlegamers1394 5 месяцев назад

Okay, having experienced a crow responding Sup in that exact place, I no longer feel as crazy 😂 I genuinely thought I was being messed with

@Grnvolpe 9 месяцев назад

Not only are crows smart, they like to solve puzzles and problem solve. My mom started feeding one by the porch and little by little she started giving him little puzzles to solve. Remove the lid or pull the twigs at first but then she got more elaborate and made these little puzzle boxes for him. At one point my dad got upset she was putting so much time into the crow but my mom didn’t care. Anyway, 2 years later and my mom left my dad for the crow and they’ll be getting married in May. The crow is my stepdad

@Weeaboogod_ 8 месяцев назад

Based

@maybemablemaples2144 8 месяцев назад

Honestly, good for her 👏🏿

@DanHarkins-jk9mi 8 месяцев назад

I paid a crow to repair my carburetor last Tuesday. 80 bucks, parts + labor. He had buddies, just like in the video. Took them eight minutes.

@ekathe85 8 месяцев назад

You had me on the first half, not gonna lie

@wendytube28 8 месяцев назад

Genius!!😂🥰🤣😍😂

@pigbenis8366 9 месяцев назад

Saw a story a couple years ago about a lady and her daughter and they would feed a couple of crows on their back porch. Of course, the crows started bringing them gifts. The mom was a photographer and had gone to a photoshoot many many miles away from home. When she got home she realized that she left her lens cover where the photoshoot was. A couple of days later, the crow had brought the actual lens cover and left it on her porch.

@Shrooblord 9 месяцев назад

what!! that's... amazing??

@helenl3193 9 месяцев назад

I remember that too! I think they were in Australia or NZ, but I could be conflating with another story of a girl and her mum that befriended the local crows. They are amazing animals, and I'd love to be friends with the ones in my neighbourhood, but unfortunately I have cats and the two DO NOT mix! Initially I hoped if they associated the cats with me, maybe they'd be classed as safe, but apparently they will try to 'defend' the humans they're friends with from other people and sometimes their own pets, so for everyone's safety I had to stop feeding them 😕

@mojofier1909 9 месяцев назад

oh yeah! I heard of that through some old MrBallen video. I love corvids and parrots omg

@AbsentWithoutLeaving 9 месяцев назад

Whoa! Here's us, worried about the government tracking us, meanwhile crows know who we are, where we live, where we work and what we do, and apparently keep (mental) files on us.

@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 9 месяцев назад

Haa! That's friggin awesome. 😄👍

@DaringDid 9 месяцев назад

I love how complex some of these trials got. Oh to meet the researchers who specialize in making Crow Escape rooms, i bet they love their job...

@The1nvisibleJeevas 9 месяцев назад

Probably the same people who make minecraft modded puzzle games.

@LindaC616 9 месяцев назад

I have seen grants awarded to people who wanted to determine if dogs favor their left front paw or their right the way people do....thatssome spinning...

@anonperson3972 9 месяцев назад

You would be surprised, wildlife research can be really fucking frustrating 🤣

@martincolvill5453 9 месяцев назад

Helps if you're a hippie.

@kindlin 9 месяцев назад

@@LindaC616 Some spinning? You mean, deceptively phrasing or presenting information to lead someone to think a way they otherwise wouldn't? No, I believe the board knew exactly how that money was going to be used. It's an interesting question worth investigating. It could lead to better understanding in human brains, and a lot of other things.

@JonNeimeister 9 месяцев назад

You'd think by now the butt/but joke would be old, but it isn't. Still catches me off guard, every time. Please never stop. 😂

@Smokinjoewhite 9 месяцев назад

I just can't unhear crowsdicks.

@Heroesflorian 8 месяцев назад

Even if it would be old butt... never underestimate old butts! I mean, never underestimate old, but experienced people.

@svgwsmsvgwsm 7 месяцев назад

Even at 44 years old I rewind to hear it again 😂

@FulcanMal 7 месяцев назад

It's been a few years since I've watched a Zefrank video, and that buttbrain bit had me rolling.

@Kizapawn 7 месяцев назад

Can’t stop laughing at it 😂

@sunderzilla 9 месяцев назад

that crow was so flabbergasted when the human didn't give the cheese reward

@saber2802 7 месяцев назад

I can just hear it go "You ass!"

@mangaanimefan3089 7 месяцев назад

They looked like the definition of the WTF meme! 😂

@myinnermagpie 5 месяцев назад

It really looked astonished that the human could be such an a-hole. 😂

@RWZiggy 3 месяца назад

I heard the Dominant Female put out a contract on them; her goons are gonna Alfred Hitchcock their ass

@PanzerMan332 8 месяцев назад

Nature's cruelest irony is that crows will never get the chance to absolutely crush every single Breath of the Wild shrine puzzle.

@anoriginalusername1088 8 месяцев назад

I mean, if we hook up the game to some sort of food dispenser maybe we will.

@Virjunior01 7 месяцев назад

Fuck, man 😥

@oldsoulrathael 7 месяцев назад

All they need is access to some good glue.

@Makaponpon 7 месяцев назад

not with that attitude

@fuzzydude64 6 месяцев назад

so we made a mod that randomizes...

@joyfullydreaded1371 9 месяцев назад

There are crows on Prince Edward Island in Canada that have all learned to say "hello". The science hippies believe that stems from one crow that befriended a hooman and it learned hello as that was said to the crow every time he saw said hooman. Crows and ravens are fascinating birds! 🖤🖤🖤

@OriginalCreatorSama 8 месяцев назад

Concept: Teach crows to say "human! there's a human here!" every time it sees a person and then release it back into the wild and wait.

@12crows 9 месяцев назад

As an american crow, this was very informative! I'll definitely be teaching my buddies about this.

@trublgrl 9 месяцев назад

Well, as a New Caledonian Crow, I want to say if you come here, leave your politics where you came from.

@TheRealSkeletor 9 месяцев назад

Claims to be "an" American crow, but name is actually 12crows. You are now a murder suspect.

@trublgrl 9 месяцев назад

@@TheRealSkeletor I see what you did there.

@craven5328 9 месяцев назад

As a Canadian raven, I concurr!

@DavidCruickshank 9 месяцев назад

As a British raven it's always interesting to hear about our cousins.

@lisielie1927 9 месяцев назад

Fun Fact! The bird featured in the video clip at 11:42 is Mischief the white-necked raven. Mischief was a inhabitant of the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri and their social media has quite a few videos of him if you're interested in seeing more! He unfortunately passed a few years ago, I believe from old age, but the sanctuary has many other birds- you might also know them for Murphy, the male bald eagle who went viral this year for "hatching" his rock.

@deathmetalpotato 9 месяцев назад

who gives a shit, tell me more about the woman

@Cheshieruu 9 месяцев назад

@@deathmetalpotato down boy.

@julybliss4440 9 месяцев назад

Few states away, I remember them showing murrray and the rock on news.

@chengkailiu4631 9 месяцев назад

@@deathmetalpotatobad crow

@tybronx2446 9 месяцев назад

Wait! I didn't know that was the same place with Murray the rock egg guy :D that made me really happy

@PatrickODonnell-y4q 9 месяцев назад

I just wanted to express how thankful I am that this channel exists. Its extensive, credited research on obscure (for the general public) and super interesting topics, the clear and fresh communication, and obviously the comedy. It's really on another level of quality and there's obviously a great amount of care and talent put into it. I am impressed every time !

@Ricca_Day 8 месяцев назад

Amen 🙏

@myTERAexperience 9 месяцев назад

1 of my fav crow stories is a lady feeding crows every day. One day she goes grocery shopping. Somehow she drops her keys to her home in the parking lot and gets home, frustrated she can't find her keys when she's home she sees a crow fly down to the fountain she has near her door. The crow flies away and she sees a glint in the water. She goes over and it's her keys. The crow brought her keys and washed them off for her.

@cqwiii 9 месяцев назад

the transition from wood peckers to crow sticks is absolute gold 👍

@84rinne_moo 9 месяцев назад

I think I replayed that 15 bazillion times before actually letting the rest of the video play lol

@CarrotUK 9 месяцев назад

It was brilliant

@OKBoomer2k 9 месяцев назад

"Crows' sticks" 😂

@metalmamasue3680 9 месяцев назад

I was laughing so hard I had to watch it a few times to hear it over my laughing 🤣

@planguy9575 8 месяцев назад

"That crow won't make anymore cheese deals with that person. And neither should you." That was really good.

@bilboes6634 9 месяцев назад

I like your disclaimer: "True Facts is not appropriate for children, nor adults who don't act like children", made me laugh

@norseexpansion8076 9 месяцев назад

I fed a family of 3 crows in front of my window this year, the behavior of the baby crow with its parents and how it developed was so interesting to watch. The little one is still super scared of everything, and doesnt understand snow at all. If food lands directly in front of him but in a tiny layer of snow, its just magically gone and he searches confused. The crows also like to drag sticks through the snow and shuffle through it upside-down

@edwardlulofs444 9 месяцев назад

Wow! Thanks for sharing. 😊

@Willy_Tepes 9 месяцев назад

I used to hunt crows but noticed that after a while they would all avoid me, even if I hunted in a different area. I think they told their kids.

@custos3249 9 месяцев назад

Why did you feed a family of 3 crows? A lot of work for such little meat.

@TheKoistar 9 месяцев назад

Crows playing in the snow... ❤

@edwardlulofs444 9 месяцев назад

@@TheKoistar perhaps intelligence can be measured through play. Intelligence seems to be correlated with play.

@BigBass-xf5yi 9 месяцев назад

Another ZeFrank masterpiece. I’m so glad(and entertained) that he finally did one on crows. I’ve always been mesmerized by the intellect of these amazing birds. Thanks Frank👍🏻

@chihauhaun 9 месяцев назад

I just learned about the decoy crows nests that crows started making to confuse people in Japan who were trying to get rid of them. I've heard about decoy nests with other birds but never with humans. Crazy stuff. I befriended a crow myself that used to great me on my walk home from uni. I would say hello and I swear it sounded very much like "hello" in response. I even took a friend with me to prove to her I wasn't lying because she didn't believe me. They're so cool :)

@CZ350tuner 9 месяцев назад

We had a blinded, adult carrion crow live with us for just over 10 years. She was very intelligent and used to mime out things whilst demonstrating the crow noise for it. Crows have a whole vocabulary of quieter noises and sounds other than the usual loud broadcast caws that are more familiar to everybody. She interacted with the wild crows and humans. She understood a lot of English words, phrases and questions, but never spoke, preferring to mime or use crow language noises and sounds. As a companion, crows love to be petted and made a fuss of. They can be fussy eaters. Ours also loved routine and rituals, especially around being put to bed, where she'd express her status over her subservient human servants. Ours also used to marinate cooked pork, in a bowl of water flavoured with chocolate hoop cereal leaving it for an hour or so in her hutch and then return to eat the now chocolate flavoured pork. She would meticulously prepare this recipe, after asking for some chocolate hoop cereal. She also experimented with other meats, but cooked pork was her favourite for marinating.

@SuperPrettyPink101 9 месяцев назад

That's incredible and hilarious. Chocolate marinated pork, I love it.

@pauldeddens5349 9 месяцев назад

I wonder if a chocolate fondue fountain would have blown her mind.

@Unkn0wn1133 9 месяцев назад

How does a crow mime? Can you describe this please

@timwoods2852 9 месяцев назад

Must not have been any cocoa in that cereal, otherwise she'd have lasted only 10 days, if that. PSA: Cocoa is poisonous to pretty much every animal. If you love your pet, do NOT feed them chocolate!

@Shrooblord 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this story. I love it so very much.

@jeremyvettech5562 8 месяцев назад

"They may not have suitable peckers, but what they do have is crow sticks" 😄 You know exactly what you did there, Frank

@littleman6950 8 месяцев назад

He was doing it for a while too. So many stick jokes.

@kierstengreen2122 6 месяцев назад

He does! And I KNOW he is not say "sticks" as often as we're thinking! 😂

@MaryLuCrafts 4 месяца назад

Did y'all miss aaaalll the other double entendres?

@stalhein62 9 месяцев назад

I know the term is crow stick, but that's not what I'm hearing every single time. And the ending confirms that this was deliberate. Well played.

@sallyrutledge4726 9 месяцев назад

I know.........🤣

@Blues2Dark 9 месяцев назад

🤣

@DanKaschel 9 месяцев назад

Was there ever any doubt

@Olli-kay 9 месяцев назад

That's the joke lol

@morganseppy5180 9 месяцев назад

I'm at the beginning.... yes

@danielled8665 9 месяцев назад

Had a raven here learn that when my husband called for me in a certain way, I went inside to see what he wanted. Raven made that call when I was eating lunch outside. I went in, he said he hadn't called me. I went back out, bird was on the table helping himself to my lunch. 😂

@danielled8665 9 месяцев назад

@SanityTV_Last_Sane_Man_Alive it is just so character consistent for Corvids to figure out how to make human sounds and then just immediately go "Ah yes. I do a little trolling."

@jeremytitus9519 3 месяца назад

@@danielled8665such whimsical little guys

@nemo-x 9 месяцев назад

11:10 You can literally see the "What. But... the cheese. I can't believe you've done this." in its motions. It's brilliant.

@dh7109 9 месяцев назад

I just wanted to say that this is quite possibly my favorite RU-vid channel. I have watched just about every true facts video that has come out. I love nature. And I love humor. This is the perfect place for my brainmeats. Thank you for doing what you do. You're really appreciated.

@lstockley99 9 месяцев назад

Zefrank has mastered the art of blending humor with scientific fact. It’s delightful.

@RD9_Designs 9 месяцев назад

You wrote 'thank you for COMING what you do'.... ya might want to consider correcting that.

@dh7109 9 месяцев назад

@@RD9_Designs I fixed the coming bit, but I'm sure he smiled if he read it. Autocorrect hates me. Thanks for playing!!!

@LateNightTableCo 9 месяцев назад

“Honey, wake up. Ze Frank just dropped a video about crows.” Actually did this as my wife was napping and crows are her favorite animal. Thanks Ze Frank for helping me live out my -dreams- memes

@VultureSkins 9 месяцев назад

I sent it to my s/o, knowing that he’ll wake up to it, too! Something about crow facts really bonds people together

@morganseppy5180 9 месяцев назад

You're a good partner.....if you know she's OK going back to sleep.

@morganseppy5180 9 месяцев назад

@@VultureSkinsyou're the best

@krugerstan 9 месяцев назад

You've now inspired me to do the same for my wife, who is interested in neither Ze Frank nor in crows, but is very interested in napping. If I don't report back, you may assume the worst has happened.

@MrDasfried 9 месяцев назад

@@krugerstanhow's it going over there? You still alive? 😶

@AVToth 9 месяцев назад

I live on a ranch in Texas. I'm not sure if these are crows or ravens. Granted the old folks, I'm 64 so I mean the really old folks always called them "them big ol' meat eatin' crows" because there are small birds that look similar but are regular crows. The non-buzzard big black birds here, raven, crow, craven whatever, are comedy fans. When we first moved here, I was cutting cedar which gets boring, so while cutting I started trying to imitate their call, caw. I got fairly good and by that I mean it impressed my grandkids but the crows weren't fooled. Now when I go out in the morning, there will be one or two who will follow me while cawing. They won't stop until I call back. All I'm doing is repeating the pitch and rhythm, which are different, depending, like most animals. Once I finally call back, they make me do this at least twice, then they go on about their business. Sometimes I've finished my performance for one crow, it takes off and within about 5 minutes, it comes back with another and they pester me for another performance. I always imagine them saying "You gotta see this! It thinks it can speak and it's hysterical. Of course it isn't saying anything, just mimicking but I wonder if it thinks it's really talking?!" Somedays I'm exhausted from performance after performance and just want a quiet morning. Usually when they fly you can't hear them, they flap their wings taking off or flying over and it's silent. However, if I refuse to do my tricks ot if I did but when they brought a buddy, I refuse, they show their displeasure. When the fly away, they will make a pass over my head, not close or aggressive but enough that I can hear them flapping. I hear their feathers sort of rubbing together and their flapping looks like someone stomping their feet, kinda. All in all, they are amazing.

@DanGamingFan2406 9 месяцев назад

I've been hoping for this one, crows are one of my favorite birds. It's incredible just how intelligent and creative they are. Using tools is one thing, but the way they make them is really impressive. Also, I love the way you pronounce "crow stick." I can't unhear it and it's hilarious.

@watershipup7101 9 месяцев назад

Very much agreed.

@waterbullstudios9195 9 месяцев назад

I can't not pronounce it that way either.

@LindaC616 9 месяцев назад

@waterbullstudios9195 there's a linguistic explanation for it, and ZeFrank knows it! He's exploded, er, exploited it here, as per usual

@icallmysugarcandy 9 месяцев назад

With all the talk about peckers, shafts and holes, I just want to congratulate Jerry on his restraint. Well done Jerry. You did much better than me on this one. 👍🏼❤️

@360.Tapestry 9 месяцев назад

not to mention crow sticks and straight up dongs

@colinyandon6137 9 месяцев назад

Not to mention the clear ne crow philia set up at the end.

@freyashipley6556 9 месяцев назад

I was intrigued to learn that even the females have crowsticks.

@videorocketzmillar007milla5 5 месяцев назад

Love crows. After working graveyard, we come outside and our cars covered in crow stuff. I tell the crowd, hey! Stop pooping on my car and i will bring u bread tomorrow. Then i gave em whats left of my 3 a.m. lunch. Next morning everyones xar covered in crow poop. Not mine! Not one splat!! Hey good guys! Here is your bread..everyone eating and happy. Same for the rest of the months 🎉

@thesuburbanmorrigan 9 месяцев назад

Oh, also, I appreciate the shout-out to Dr. Kaeli Swift. She's a great resource on all things corvids, not just "funerals", and I've learned a lot from her.

@CommonCentrist82 9 месяцев назад

Crows are very smart animals. I started feeding one every morning. Then one day I went to work, and by the time I came home it packed up all my belongings, convinced my wife to get a restraining order against me, and moved into my house. I thought we had a mutual respect for eachother, but it was just trying to get with my wife.

@skeetsmcgrew3282 9 месяцев назад

A tale as old as time

@jackprier7727 9 месяцев назад

Fun read, thanks!-

@ulflyng 9 месяцев назад

Does that mean you're a crowckold.....

@davidmitnick868 9 месяцев назад

Common issue in my country. They charm their way into your life and then you end up the one sleeping in a tree.

@christhefish11 9 месяцев назад

He had us in the first half y’all 😂

@ftd888 9 месяцев назад

“But they might just be using trial and error without a real understanding.” They’re learning about the object (or whatever the new thing is) through the trial and error process. You’d see similar “mixed results” with humans … sometimes we can intuitively solve a problem, and sometimes we have to futz around until we figure out the correct solution. Crows seem to be smarter than most small children.

@eldritchbeauty 5 месяцев назад

Right. Seems very much how many humans tackle a problem - if you don't get it right away, you go through trial and error until you figure it out. Honestly seems like an extremely high level of intelligence to me, as most of the greatest technological breakthroughs are done through trial and error.

@kR-qj7rw 5 месяцев назад

Let's be fair to the kids out the crows on ipad ylurbe for hours on end to have the internet rot their brains

@rogerjacobs5240 9 месяцев назад

I live in the Pacific Northwest, a stones throw from Puget Sound. The local crows will fly down to the beach at low tide looking for small clams, and mussels. the shells are to hard for them to peck through so they've learned to fly about 50 feet in the air and drop them on the sidewalk or parking lot breaking them open to get at the meat inside. Smart little critters! Love your stuff Ze Frank! 👍

@julietardos5044 9 месяцев назад

Reminds me of a similar story. These crows lived in a city where there were nut trees growing. The crows would take the nuts and drop them in a crosswalk. When the signal turned green, cars would drive over the nuts and crack their shells. When the signal turned red and the cars stopped, the crows would fly down to the crosswalk and eat the nut meats out of the cracked shells.

@markgarin6355 9 месяцев назад

Check out my posting, I saw yours afterwards. Happened in Olympia

@BonaparteBardithion 9 месяцев назад

I've seen crows in the same general area walk across streets using the marked crosswalks. Drivers don't always respect that, but I figure that if crows learned pedestrians are safe there they deserve the same right of way.

@deathmetalpotato 9 месяцев назад

seagulls do that too, so it’s definitely not a sign of intelligence

@Dreamcass 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, those were jungle crows in Japan. But several times I've seen American crows do the very same at a certain intersection in Aloha, Oregon. I think they were dropping sweetgum fruit.@@julietardos5044

@ObservantPiratePlus 9 месяцев назад

I did an experiment as a wildlife rehabber with our local crows, where I put out a container with an assortment of party favor "jeweled" rings, with plastic stones of various colors, to find that the crows arranged them near to each other by color.

@diestormlie 6 месяцев назад

Conclusion: At least some Crows are Autistic.

@ArmandoCastillo8070 22 дня назад

i doubt u did that experiment

@velvetmagnetta3074 9 месяцев назад

The crow family dynamics was fascinating to watch! The parents really shared teaching responsibilities and worked very harmoniously together to teach their chick how to dipstick! Just absolutely adorable! 🐦 🐥 🐦

@metalmamasue3680 9 месяцев назад

I love my birds and critters, and I watch them. Some are more confident than others. It's very entertaining to keep feeders and suet cakes out. I aIso feed the resident chipmunks who have their own bowl of seeds/nuts by my back porch on the opposite side of the house from the feeders which can be bird grand central Station at times. They know I'm no threat and are comfortable feeding a few feet away while I enjoy my coffee on the back porch. They stuff their cheeks and are off to stash them for winter, then back again for more. The cardinals are the first/last birds to show up before daylight and feed before full dark. I hear them from inside lol. My favorites would have to be the red belly woodpeckers, the males are so loud and proud, they crack me up and also aren't afraid, I've seen them on the ground, put their head down and charge at some grackles, running them off. I adore the wrens, the little brown birds who don't know they're little brown birds. They seem to have staken their claim over the outside area of our property. My son got me a small birdhouse last mother's day and when they are nesting they are very protective. They will scold me before I even go outside when I peek out the glass pane in the door 🤣. And they have sat on the ground a few feet away from my son when he was working on the car, letting him know exactly how displeased they were about that. One even dive bombed him, he was so surprised at how bold they are but amused at the same time. He messaged me inside the house and said I think I just met your birds you've told me about 😅 but I could hear them from inside lol It's hilarious and they make big noise for little birds. They have no fear apparently 😂😂 I can go onto my back porch and one will be watching from 50 yards away in a tree and as soon as I go out it starts, my scolding, then it flies closer and even will set a few feet away and scold me. I love them, so feisty and bold. Anyone who doesn't think animals are smart, with a mind of their own and distinct personalities, knows little about them. That goes from reptiles to birds and mammals too, we've kept many different ones and people would impulse buy a reptile and then have no idea how to care for them so we would end up with them. My profile picture is of a baby snapping turtle who showed up and my door a few years back, lost on his way to wherever he was going. It was dark so I kept him until he was a bit larger and could fend for himself, then released him back into his wild home. In the picture, I had just fed him an hour before and he was giving me that "feed me Seymour" look 🤣 it's my favorite picture of him. They're now saying bears are on par with primates for intelligence. If that doesn't make you a little scared, idk what will. I've been fascinated by and alternately terrified of the power of grizzIy/bIack bears since I was a child. I would love to see some zefrank videos about more birds and bears too. But I enjoy them all and laugh out loud the whole way through 😅 Animals make life so much more interesting and I love watching these videos to learn exactly how smart they are. Corvids are so smart. If I see one in my rural area, I'm going to have to befriend one. I'm also planning on getting some meal worms for the wrens as a peace offering so we can continue to live in their world 😂😂

@jonpatchmodular 9 месяцев назад

Also young adult crows will often help their parents raise the newer generations! They even celebrate family gatherings once in a while. These birds are deeply fascinating.

@RD9_Designs 9 месяцев назад

Male wrens scold anyone in "their" territory like redheaded stepchildren! We had a mated pair raise several generations inside our screened in porch, where I sit all hours of the day and night. Mama didn't mind me being there at all, but at the Crack of dawn, papa came in to trill his territory at the amazingly loud top of his tiny lungs! Sadly, last year, Mama bird flew into a glass door and died. I was really sad about that.... but regularly, the babies come back to inspect the nest, but can never remember how to get back out, and are severely alarmed when I get up to open the door, thus never coming back to nest... but it is good to see them! I still heard papa bird scolding around his territory (our back yard) up until earlier this year, but, no more. We have several huge owls in the area that keep down the squirrel population, as well as the birds. I'm guessing that's what happened to papa bird. :-( But listening to the owls is amazing! They're huge, and make a sound like who who WHO who-who... when they're ready to mate, the male and female's calls devolve into a cackling laughter! I love it, and I love listening to them! I don't really mind that they keep the squirrel population down, because in years where there were too many and they were starving, I've seen them kill and eat baby birds. And no, we don't feed any of the wildlife, because that just draws the raccoons and opossums to our yard, which we don't want!

@SarahJSweetheart 9 месяцев назад

I've NEVER understood the expression "bird brain" as birds can be some of the most intelligent animals on the planet. In fact, the only animal on record to ask an existential question was an African grey parrot called Alex. His mom taught him colours, shapes, numbers, objects and other manor of things,, but not the word for grey - so one day, completely unprompted, he turned around and asked "What color Alex?"😮 EDIT: Since then, his mom expressed regret teaching him his color because whenever someone who come round wearing grey he would scream "Grey! Grey like Alex! Grey friend!" 😂

@darrennew8211 9 месяцев назад

I can't imagine regretting that reaction. :-)

@trustmeits610pm2 9 месяцев назад

I think it's because no matter how clever some of the cleverer animals may be, they never go beyond the level of a human toddler. Which is still very dumb by human standards.

@darrennew8211 9 месяцев назад

@@trustmeits610pm2 And *most* birds are pretty dumb. A few, like the crow, have evolved to interact with other animals. (They'll lead predators to prey so the crows can feast on the remains afterwards, for example.) The thing other animals don't do is build tools whose only purpose is to make other tools. They'll make hooks, but they won't make something that makes creating hooks easier. Nothing but humans will build a CNC machine, or even an anvil.

@shadowdroid776 9 месяцев назад

@@trustmeits610pm2That's not exactly true, corvids are on par of problem solving at the level of a 7 year old. However, that's problem solving skills, it's not the end all of observing intelligence (and we also can't say how smart an animal is by comparing them to humans because it isn't an efficient way to do so, different evolutionary paths and forms of communication and what not). A good amount of animals we know as highly intelligent are genuinely as smart as humans. I think what we get it mixed up with is maybe emotional intelligence? I dunno on that part though.

@trustmeits610pm2 9 месяцев назад

@@shadowdroid776 As smart as humans? I don't buy that. Animals are, if we're being unbelievably generous, cavemen. At best. They bang sticks and stones together. That's not as impressive as anything humans have done. Not even close.

@AnnaThibault-d9d 9 месяцев назад

@timber72 9 месяцев назад

Ten glorious years of True Facts, teaching adults who act like children about the natural world around us. Here's to 100 more!

@YochevedDesigns 9 месяцев назад

This channel and Casual Geographic are my absolute favorites!

@SigFigNewton 9 месяцев назад

100 more worlds! One can dream

@Allie-w1l 9 месяцев назад

@@SigFigNewton I think timber72 meant "100 more years".

@SigFigNewton 9 месяцев назад

@@Allie-w1l nah

@Pete_Finch 9 месяцев назад

If you haven't befriended a corvid yet, do it. It's not hard - they're among the smartest animals on the planet and will recognize your good nature as well as your face very quickly. I managed to get an entire extended family making specific calls to me to get me to come outside after feeding them for a few weeks (blueberries, grapes, peanuts). I'd sometimes take a run and encounter them many blocks away from my house, and the brave among them would come down and hop beside me to see if I had any food for them while making those same specific calls (not just general caws, new and unique sounds they came up with on their own which I reciprocated). The experiment I'm doing now is wearing a blue baseball cap while on a run to see how well they recognize me. So far, it seems they're not phased at all by the changed appearance and know it's me regardless. Family members of mine that they don't recognize cause them to fly away in short order, it's so wild

@ShiraCheshire 9 месяцев назад

My crows can recognize me no matter what I'm wearing as well, I don't know how they do it! I'm usually wearing a mask, so it's not like they recognize my face in detail. Maybe they associate the mask itself with me? But tons of people wear the same kind of mask here. They recognize me if my hair is up or down, if I'm in a T-Shirt or coat or hoodie with the hood up, even if I'm under an umbrella! (They don't like the umbrella though, even when they do recognize me. The sound it makes when it opens startles them, so they're wary around it.)

@NaGosteDiste 9 месяцев назад

Once i was driving down a road and i saw a raven in the road with something in his beak and shortly before i reached him, he laid what it looked like a nut in the way of my right tire and the raven flew to the side of the road . I proceed to crush the nut and i see him very excited through my rear view mirror. I shared the same joy.

@alfredsupersauce 9 месяцев назад

The “but” vs “butt” joke never fails to get me😂

@ethanhermsey 9 месяцев назад

Thank your butt brain

@lilyhempt1144 9 месяцев назад

Buts are funny.

@empressmarowynn 9 месяцев назад

My city has become a stopover location for migrating crows. Every year we get thousands upon thousands of them. One year it was a lot colder and wetter than usual. Those evil geniuses managed to pry off the vent cover from my garage attic space and used it as a place to hang out during bad weather. Took me forever to realize it because they were quiet when I would go in or out of the garage. But now I purposely check the vent every migration season just in case those same crows return to my house.

@dejEtack 9 месяцев назад

Your ability to be intelligent and immature simultaneously is awe-inspiring.

@LindaC616 9 месяцев назад

Isn't it!?

@3ffrige 9 месяцев назад

That is freaking amazing! I just learned that New Caledonian crows are the only birds that CREATE and USE their own tools! These are amazingly smart corvids!

@midoriya-shonen 9 месяцев назад

New Caledonian Crows are some of the most fascinating animals on the planet. Thanks for covering them!

@metalmamasue3680 9 месяцев назад

New Caledonia is also the native home for Crested Geckos, very popular in the pet trade 😊

@CraftyF0X 9 месяцев назад

The old ones were idiots though xD

@4RILDIGITAL 9 месяцев назад

Fascinating to learn more about the intelligence of the New Caledonian crows, and their ability to use tools and work together to solve problems.

@amandaclemente7068 9 месяцев назад

Thank you Frank for promoting science with such an amazing humor and precious data and also thank you to all the scientists who dedicate their lives to studying our world so we can be amazed with how it works ❤

@tangojuli209 9 месяцев назад

Amazing and entertaining Frank. Can't wait to share this when its public.

@zefrank 9 месяцев назад

thanks :)

@amethystdragon1070 9 месяцев назад

what did you do to get such early access?

@brianmcgarry1632 9 месяцев назад

@@amethystdragon1070memeber... i mean member

@amethystdragon1070 9 месяцев назад

I wanna be a memeber@@brianmcgarry1632

@SuziQ. 9 месяцев назад

@@zefrank, How do we become members? Do you mean Patreon, or is this a new thing?

@CrownofMischief 9 месяцев назад

12:30 just don't be caught around a dead crow. The rest of the murder will think you did it and freak out whenever they recognize you. Apparently there was a guy who tried to help an injured crow chick, but it ended up dying before he could save it. The crowd thought he killed it and now they swoop at him whenever they see him

@TheAgamidaex 9 месяцев назад

oh noo

@jc4jax 9 месяцев назад

And now his watch is ended

@scottimusgarrett15 9 месяцев назад

Jeebus, dude, yet another hilarious creation! I had two crows who would come by my work every day for five years, and I would share my breakfast muffin with them. Brilliant little animals!✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦

@ricklotter 9 месяцев назад

Wow, Ze's comments were on fire today... I was laughing to hard I was having trouble being amazed by how smart crows are!

@jeffreyrumbold9363 9 месяцев назад

Oh, yeah! I had to watch it twice; the first time for the laughs, and the second time to ensure I learned the lesson!

@dinchy12 9 месяцев назад

Have you seen last scene? They got from most intelligent bird to Holywood pretty quick...

@thepatshowonwp 9 месяцев назад

Tool-making in animals is a sign of high intelligence. Crows are very very smart, which is why I love them😊

@wintergreen9949 8 месяцев назад

if only they had thumbs

@thepatshowonwp 8 месяцев назад

@@wintergreen9949 they would be breaking and entering if they had thumbs😂😂

@staceyhollerauer6712 9 месяцев назад

I started watching these when they first came out, and my introduction to them was quite possibly the only good thing my ex ever did for me. Ze Frank, you have given us all something truly timeless. All of the episodes of this series have been not only things I circle back to when I need a break, but something I can introduce to my coming of age family that they love just as much as I do.

@biggadigittydee7607 9 месяцев назад

I once watched a Corvid use the lid to a plastic cup as a snowboard. Love these little guys.

@ArmandoCastillo8070 22 дня назад

u watched that video on RU-vid 🤦🏽‍♂️ ..liar

@BionicAir 9 месяцев назад

I thoroughly enjoyed learning about crows di...sticks...yes crows sticks. Another amazing true facts, keep them coming!

@Banana-hammock. 8 месяцев назад

As a Crow, you have no idea what we are thinking, your tiny buckets are ours, thank you and Happy New Year!

@victor9 9 месяцев назад

12:58 yould be surprised, but funerals are actually some of the best places to get laid ☠️

@mstone8001 9 месяцев назад

OMG, the world is a better place because ZeFrank is in it. We have birds so this was extra appealing. Fascinating stuff and a huge belly laugh at the end. BLESS YOU!!❤

@alanfordyce7256 9 месяцев назад

Cool love ze frank 😅😅😅

@brianbrian1769 9 месяцев назад

@mrstone8001 You had a belly laugh watching birds in the act of Necrowphilia AND Necrowphagia? Suddenly I've lost my appetite and my stick.

@VultureSkins 9 месяцев назад

I came across a few articles about New Caledonians while looking for an essay topic last semester. I had trouble understanding them because you know, academic language and my own burnout, etc. I _knew_ it was interesting, just didn’t have the brain juice to keep all the pieces together. So it’s really cool to see some of those articles used here in a way that’s easy to digest!

@TheKoistar 9 месяцев назад

You know that scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where the monkeys learn to use tools? Feels like we're witnessing the evolutionary rise of Crows in the same fashion. ❤

@knuckles543 9 месяцев назад

well monkeys just got preferential observation because we are somewhat genetically linked. mr crow has been doing it out of the limelight....UNTIL NOW......

@AbsentWithoutLeaving 9 месяцев назад

@TheKoistar - If I remember the movie correctly, that little evolutionary step ended with one ape taking the leap from tool to weapon and slaughtering a member of the competing tribe. That whole crow mafia thing creeped me out! Better keep a sharp eye on exactly what tools those crafty corvids have under development. 😱

@QuantumElectricians 9 месяцев назад

There's an obelisk in a tree somewhere.

@_shadow_1 8 месяцев назад

The thing that makes them intelligent isn't just that they can solve a puzzle, lots of animals can do that. It's that they can visualize a solution to it, make a plan, and use tools in their environment to carry out that plan.

@amethystdragon1070 9 месяцев назад

No matter how much i think i know about animals you always manage to teach me something new.

@edwardlulofs444 9 месяцев назад

Yes, I knew a little of this but I learned a lot. He makes it fun to even hear what I know

@daveswinfield 9 месяцев назад

I've said ot before and I'll say it again... If I was taught like this in school, I would have remembered/learned more.

@edwardlulofs444 9 месяцев назад

@@daveswinfield yep. We need to hire more teachers like Ze Frank. Might have to bleep some things. But really, kids know all this stuff. It’s adult hypocrisy and self deception that thinks they don’t. The bleeps just get people attention to figure out what you are trying to keep from them.

@WillyOrca 9 месяцев назад

When I was in college my calculus professor would leave half finished advanced mathematical equations on his chalkboard for us to start working on when we came in the next morning. Well at one point we started having this recurring issue where we'd come in and the equation would already be solved on the board. Turns out a crow was coming into the room after everyone was gone and solving any mathematical equations it saw on the board. Nobody suspected him either because he worked at the school as a night janitor.

@laneyking2044 9 месяцев назад

That janitor's name? Crow Williams

@englishatheart 9 месяцев назад

I think I saw a movie about that. Wasn't it called "Good Crow Hunting"?

@ateammate223 9 месяцев назад

This is real I was the chalkboard

@legendofnone3037 9 месяцев назад

Best comment😂

@jerikeeley1361 9 месяцев назад

🤣🤣🤣

@johnmorris7815 9 месяцев назад

Crows are so clever and they play like kids, my wife and I were walking along a cliff top walk, the crows were jumping into the rising air current and landing just a few metres in front of us, they could’ve gone behind us at any time but they chose not to as they were clearly having a great time and probably thought these humans might be impressed enough to give them some food? They were right.

@ArmandoCastillo8070 22 дня назад

liar

@derrickhennessey7722 9 месяцев назад

“May not have suitable peckers, but what they do have is crows’ sticks”. This is some top tier word play.

@XSaebaYRyoZ 9 месяцев назад

Damn, I'd really like to see how far these crows evolve in the future. I love seeing intelligence in other things than humans.

@sallyrutledge4726 9 месяцев назад

And they are not waiting for natural selection to do it.... They watch and LEARN and then PASS it on to the Bebes !

@ReiseLukas 9 месяцев назад

Gonna be a crazy world when Dolphins and Crows gain Human levels of intelligence

@edwardlulofs444 9 месяцев назад

Wait until you meet my AI. Is that ai or al?

@SuziQ. 9 месяцев назад

Not me. I’ve seen crows stealing behbeh birds from their nests. Crows can be as brutal as humans, and as far as I know, they’re one of the only non human animals that hold grudges.

@XSaebaYRyoZ 9 месяцев назад

@@SuziQ. And that's bad because? Are we the only ones worthy enough to be brutal and to hold grudges?

@gatsby85749 9 месяцев назад

I have watched a lot, and I mean A LOT, of RU-vid videos. Your content is once again, the most entertaining, well written, interesting, and hilarious on the internet. Thank you for the years of enjoyment ☺️

@diyeana 9 месяцев назад

I didn't know I'd learn about crow _sticks_ today and their many uses, butt man, I mean, but man, this was eye-opening. 😂 Thanks, Ze'Frank!

@clray123 9 месяцев назад

He kept saying crow sticks but we kept hearing something else.

@NEPAAlchey 9 месяцев назад

I saw a raven at a zoo. I gave it a feather from another bird I found earlier. He took it, went back into his habitat and brought me a flower. Blew my mind that he felt the need to reciprocate

@ArmandoCastillo8070 22 дня назад

i highly doubt it

@knyte_ 8 месяцев назад

7:20 I would totally be down for a escape room/restaurant

@jwhitely7 9 месяцев назад

My wife and I love your content! I surprised her by getting her a Mantittees hoodie for Christmas but she shocked me by getting me a Mantittees coffee mug!

@icallmysugarcandy 9 месяцев назад

Awesome 😂❤

@LindaC616 9 месяцев назад

Awww.... a story only O Henry could appreciate!

@MythicMagus 9 месяцев назад

I went to a wildlife refuge (rescue? I dun remember which) and they had a crow there who was trained to accept donations. You'd pass 'em a dollar and the bird would put it in the same container with the rest of the money. Definitely one of the smartest animals out there.

@sarahcoletti6946 9 месяцев назад

It's been well over a decade that I've been watching Ze's videos. Somehow without fail, the content NEVER gets rusty and is always the best of what the internet should be! Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones, Ze! Thank you for the infinite laughs you've given me through some of my hardest moments. (i.e. My dog had a stroke and ended up at the Emergency Vet and the Animal Psychology videos were the only thing that could lighten my mood and help keep my sanity intact.) (Exploded Tofu - "Is that relevant?").

@StopWhining491 9 месяцев назад

Thanks, Ze, for your New Year gift of new content. You're the best!

@corvuscorax7451 9 месяцев назад

Amazed to have followed Dr. Swift on Twitter for years, only to see her contributions show up in another place I've followed for years! Crossover episode!

@kurjao5933 9 месяцев назад

12:50 Then in that case it becomes a murder investigation.

@dybcreations 9 месяцев назад

Ravens and Crows are my favorite animals! They’re one of the four animals that display a certain high intelligence I forgot the exact term of that we humans have; octopuses, apes, bees, and crows. They also are observed to tease and prank other animals and play in the snow!!! Thanks for showing them some love, and maybe in another video Ze can talk about the difference between Crows and Ravens

@br.m 9 месяцев назад

Why discriminate? All animals are intelligent. The only difference is humans are images of God other than that animals are just like us with souls, spirit, thoughts feelings made from the same dust.

@CoconutJewce 9 месяцев назад

Self-awareness?

@englishatheart 9 месяцев назад

@@br.m God more than likely doesn't have an "image." If he's real, he's probably made up of energy. God and/or Jesus, depending on if you see them as one and the same or as individuals, didn't have anything to do with the Bible, so it's silly to take what the Bible says as fact. Otherwise I agree. Other animals have souls, personalities, and sentience. The only thing that truly makes us different is our ability to choose.

@br.m 9 месяцев назад

@@englishatheart Super weird opinions you have. Jesus had nothing to do with the Bible? Do I look like a fool to you? Jesus is the main character in the Bible. Don't give me this b,s wtf. I disagree with what you seem to be suggesting an "image of God" is. It is more like a position, not a physical, observable form. Why is it silly to take the Bible as facts? Trust me you don't know what you are saying.

@FHL-Devils 9 месяцев назад

@@br.m "All animals are intelligent ... God, blah, blah, blah" ^ Found the exception to your first statement. And because the bible is the greatest selling work of fiction of all time. Definitely NOT facts.

@touremuhammad5983 9 месяцев назад

Crows are crazy smart, & might I add, vengeful. Seriously, my dog chased a few crows off our front lawn once, & since then, a flock of up to 10 of them are perched outside our front door every morning, waiting for one of us to take our dog on his morning walk, and as soon as they see him, they all dive-bomb him in shifts, going for his head & his tail every time. This has been going on for 6 years now & hasn’t stopped since.

@obsessionmine 9 месяцев назад

Wow 6 years? Time to get them some nice food and make a formal apology and peace gesture lol. They win

@leyrua 9 месяцев назад

@@obsessionmine Put the food outside the back door a few minutes before going outside with the dog. Eventually they can probably figure out how to teach the crows that dive bombing the dog means no treats.

@touremuhammad5983 9 месяцев назад

@@obsessionmineYeah, my backyard has a pitbull that regularly chews up anything smaller than him like a chew toy, including anything that moves. Soooo,… 😐

@Victoria-dh9vb 9 месяцев назад

@touremuhammad5983 Yeeeah, I'd put out the peace offering before going for your walks, and make a covered catio style enclosure in the back yard to establish a de-milatarized zone